Germany vs England

Minute-by-minute report: Will England improve on their poor showing in Hungary when they head to Germany? Find out with Scott Murray.

The ball finds Mount, just to the side of the German box. England make five changes to the starting XI selected for the Hungary defeat. 3 min: Rudiger flicks the corner on at the near post. We had to get some of the players through the first game and rest some, so they were fully sharp for tonight. Sterling is sent into space down the inside-left channel, and his shot-cum-cross is deflected out for a corner. 11 min: England are down to ten for now, as further checks are run on Phillips. Musiala has a dig from the edge of the box. 7 min: The ball’s worked back to Kane, who lets rip towards the top right. 9 min: Schlotterbeck comes striding out from the back in Beckenbauerian fashion, and clips a pass wide right for Muller. As he does it, he clatters into Phillips. Or perhaps Phillips clatters into him. The whistle goes to stop play. Not sure where the England defenders are, but they can be thankful to Rice, who sticks to the side of Klostermann, ensuring the pass to release Havertz is never on. This is great fun, in the basketball style. 30 min: Trippier stretches to flick a defensive header out of play, then accidentally lands on the nearby Hoffman’s heel.

England travel to Germany for the second group game of their UEFA Nations League campaign on tonight.On Saturday, the Three Lions turned in a tired an.

UEFA Nations League match Germany vs England 07.06.2022. Preview and stats followed by live commentary, video highlights and match report.

Jamal Musiala (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Jamal Musiala (Germany) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Jude Bellingham (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Kyle Walker (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Jonas Hofmann (Germany) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Thomas Müller (Germany) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Attempt blocked.

Southgate's substitutions and Kane's 88th-minute penalty rescued underwhelming England performance.

While Phillips’ issue came through a collision with Nico Scholotterbeck and it can be easy to read too much into a single 90 minutes, the amount of problems England picked up feels at least partly related to the scheduling of these four Nations League games at the end of a gruelling season. That meant the back three was gone, even if it proved successful in that Euro 2020 last-16 tie, and a more open 4-2-3-1 system made for a more open game. This was a case of the England bench seeing problems and fixing them, eventually at least. A taste for experimentation may have led to England’s first 90-minute defeat for 22 games against Hungary at the weekend but Southgate continued to chop and change, mindful that opportunities to do so before Qatar are limited. At one point, it appeared as though they would lose consecutive games for the first time in almost four years and fail to score back-to-back for the first time in five. Southgate’s in-game management has been arguably the most scrutinised element of his time in charge, culpable in both the famous Croatia and Italy defeats, but the introduction of Jack Grealish spurred his side on to take a point they could hardly say they deserved.

It may only be for one game, but England won't want to spend too long at the bottom of their Nations League group after losing their opener to Hungary.

Germany: Germany are undefeated in their last six matches and will hope that playing in their home arena will give them enough of an advantage to see the Three Lions off. Meanwhile, Germany comes off of a hard fought draw with Italy, and if they will need to do better with their possession this time around against England if they want to come away with three points at home. The two teams usually play closely contested matches and this is expected to be no different as Germany enters with a clean bill of health.