Phil Foden showed his quality but Reece James looked vulnerable

Foden to the foreIt was 7.23pm when the Stockport Gazza jogged out with the rest of the England squad for the warm-up and immediately veered off to his left.

While others performed shuttle runs, Phil Foden — his blond crop invoking all those comparisons with Paul Gascoigne and Euro ’96 — could not resist the chance to put boot on ball. It is the ability to conjure moments that tend to be seared on the psyche by which we already measure Foden at 21.

There were occasional flashes of that here too. The jinking bursts through the middle that turned defence into attack, the clever switches of play and his eagerness to make runs that ask questions of the opposition. There is a tactical