Euro 2022: Can Sarina Wiegman for World Cup and leave Gareth Southgate to fetch drinks?

With England a goal down against Spain and being, at times, comprehensively outplayed, manager Sarina Wiegman pondered her options for three minutes.

Then she took off England’s leading scorer, the talismanic Beth Mead, and brought on Chloe Kelly, the Manchester City winger, with Alessia Russo also coming on for Ellen White. Six minutes later, Ella Toone came on for Fran Kirby. Substitutions are almost always a gamble and managers are happy to take credit for them when they work out, but only rarely ’fess up when they make the situation worse.

Wiegman’s usual policy, it has to be said, is to freshen up the attack at about the hour mark, no matter what the score. So you could argue she was doing nothing out of