Ingenuity absent for turgid England as they fail to break down Ghana’s yellow wall | Jacob Steinberg

Thomas Tuchel experiences an England tradition – a difficult second game at a major tournamentThere were times when this looked like the goalless draw with the USA at the 2022 World Cup, or the misshapen stalemate with Denmark in Frankfurt two years ago. For Thomas Tuchel, the worry was that the more passive patterns from the Gareth Southgate era had not quite been driven out of this team yet. The German was watching an England tradition, the difficult second tournament game, and as the hour app...