The captain is too good a passer to be left up front, too good a poacher to be a No 10 and not fit enough to do both
Around 48 minutes into this musty, vaguely icky game – a game that felt like it was a few weeks past its sell-by date, a game that came coated in a thin, unidentifiable layer of mildew – Bukayo Saka got the ball in England’s right channel and played a simple short pass into Harry Kane.
For all his current travails, the vagaries of form and fitness, Kane is nothing if not a fearsome striker of a football. When he really connects, as he did here, the ball simply explodes off his boot: all gunpowder and venom and pure, coiled power. Two problems. First, Kane was facing away from goal. Second, he wasn’t actually attempting a shot but, in fact, trying to bring the ball under control.
Written by Jonathan Liew at Cologne Stadium
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/25/struggling-harry-kane-not-fit-enough-to-create-or-score-for-england under the title “Harry Kane paradox leaves England talisman grasping to find his former self”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
