What’s Hot and What’s Not from England’s international break

NOT – ‘Same old story’ in Germany loss

Although the Lithuania game was the most important clash of the international break, it would have given the whole England squad a huge boost if they had got a result in Germany last week.

And, although Southgate’s men performed well in their 1-0 defeat in Dortmund, it was a case of ‘same old, same old’ as far as the result was concerned.

The Three Lions dominated much of the first half, but both Adam Lallana and Dele Alli were guilty of missing golden opportunities to give the visitors a deserved lead.

England were also good in the second period and got into several goal-scoring positions, yet didn’t get the crucial goal, and the longer it went on, the more you knew that Germany would score.

And they did (admittedly it was a stunner from Lukas Podolski!), in what was probably the most predictable of outcomes.

Turning those sorts of performances into results against the best in the world will be one of Southgate’s biggest tests as England boss.