England 1-3 Senegal: Thomas Tuchel suffers from his first defeat while three lions are booed after a terrible display

Thomas Tuchel it insists that he is the pressure and investigation of the England Job and the questions that go with it.

It may be just as good because the fall-out of four gloomy and desperate days of international football will now follow him throughout the summer.

If England was terrible in beating the Minnows of Andorra 1-0 in Barcelona On Saturday evening they were worse to lose here. In Spain, Tuchel took at least a World Cup -qualifying victory to bed with him for comfort.

This time there was nothing of that. The mistakes here were different in the city ground, but they still walked deep and wide and clear. England as potential world cup winners in a year in a year? That just sounds like a very bad joke indeed.

Porous and unorganized at the back, England was again unable to dictate the direction and rhythm of this game in midfield.

England has long forgotten how to control football matches. It is a problem that far back to the end days of the Gareth Southgate era. They have become a team that depends on big moments instead of large versions and at the highest level that you will not bring anywhere.

Senegal, in 19th place in the world, are the best team that England has confronted in ten games since the last defeat of last summer against Spain and sometimes they ashamed of Tuchel with the quality and understanding of their football in the areas that matter. Sometimes the African team was fun to watch.

Regarding Tuchel and its attacking options, then the verdict on Ivan Toney now seems to be inside. It is already clear that the following summer will be Harry Kane or Bust in America.

Toney was overlooked during the weekend and only got a handful of minutes at the end of this game. Indeed for periods of the second half, with Kane, England played with Morgan Rogers and Ebereechi Eze in front. Remarkable.

In the meantime, at the end, when the angry arrived of a crowd that had previously arrived in Sunshine Smiles, Jude Bellingham – the assumed golden child of English football – Jewed a fourth official to the tunnel and then taken out with his foot on a case of water bottles.

Great referee crime? To not allow a Bellingham equalizer to be with five minutes to go.

However, the handball of Levi Colwill that preceded VAR. Bellingham just just has to grow up. He is not a leader. Similarly, he is the least of the problems of England at the moment. It is the football that kills them and Tuchel is already a shortage of answers.

During the weekend the manager complained about the attitude of his team. He was also angry about the way his players fell from the pace by the end of each half. It all sounded deeply disturbing. Tuchel is only in work for a few months. What hope is if his players are not willing to run for him?

Here, with ten changes from the weekend, there was early improvement. England did indeed take an early lead. Then, on 2-1 in the second half, they produced twenty minutes better football and would have been leveled if it had not been for two very good saves from former Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.

But that was about it. Memed about the rest of the game was the Senegal -Dominance, either in possession or on the counter. There were too often that England did not have the answers. If they can’t find them for their own fans on a cool late spring night in the midlands, what hope will they have in the heat and humidity of America next summer?

With Toney on the couch, Harry Kane started in advance with Eze in a 4-4-2. Local favorite Morgan Gibbs-White did not get his expected start. Senegal could have scored early via Nicolas Jackson – Dean Henderson rescue with his legs – and then England broke through in the seventh minute.

Eze won the ball and fed Conor Gallagher and he was able to switch him to Anthony Gordon on the left. The shot of the Newcastle player was straight to Mendy, but the goalkeeper made a mess of it and Kane walked in the ball from four meters.

For a while, England was comfortable and Gordon should have only double the lead to scoop a low Kyle Walkruiskruis wide from the distant pole. But Senegal had remained dangerous everywhere – Henderson saved from Crystal Palace teammate Ismaila Sarr and then low on his right side of Idrissa Gueye – and when England fell asleep five minutes before the break, they were punished.

Trevoh Chalobah should have played Jackson offside while he was over and then had not stopped the crocheted room. In the meantime, Walker had not expected the danger and stood on his heels while Sarr stole for him to score.

The half-time score was fair, but Senegal had the initiative and after Habib Diarra had rejected an excellent chance in the 50th minute, the Africans made their growing superiority with another counter-punch goal.

Gibbs-white-op as a replacement was not alert when Diarra walked to a broken pass to the right and cut to score through Henderson’s legs when the goalkeeper should have done better.

England was now in desperate problems and the fear of shame woke them up. Mendy saved Van Gibbs-White after a sublime Eze film and then did so low from Bukayo Saka on his right side.

With six minutes to go, Bellingham thought he had saved his team, volleyantly from Colwill’s Knock -Down. But VAR indicated that the handball and referee Stephanie Frappart corresponded after a look at the screen.

England was cooked and followed worse when Senegal replacement Cheikh Sabaly scored the third of his team on the break in extra time. There was a pattern on their three goals and if the players of England had seen it, they would not have worked to stop.

In the media room, a group of Senegal journalists then celebrated the first loss of England ever for an African nation. “It’s not coming home” was the message. Nobody felt forced to argue from a distance.