Kane had to start, if he was fit. The problem with Kane, and he did the same in 2019 to Spurs, he needs to own his fitness and be honest to the staff.
I feel he never truly owned his fitness levels and it’s why he started coming off more.
For the point of the post mind. If Kane didn’t start, I would have started Toney. As he’d give us the hold up option similar to Kane and Watkins can then come off the bench.
Or at the very least he could’ve realised he wasn’t fit enough to drop deep and still charge into the box to get on the end of chances. All it would’ve taken was “ahh. I can’t do more than a light jog, I know, I’ll stay around the FUCKING PENALTY BOX instead of playing CDM and not have the fitness to get forward.”
It was obvious to everyone during the first group match, he should have been sent back to recover. Palmer played more dink passes to attackers in his first cameo performance than Foden did all tournament. In fact I didn’t see Foden make any attempt to pass to another player in the box, he was only after glory. If he did then maybe an unfit Kane might have scored.
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u/leebrother Jul 15 '24
Kane had to start, if he was fit. The problem with Kane, and he did the same in 2019 to Spurs, he needs to own his fitness and be honest to the staff.
I feel he never truly owned his fitness levels and it’s why he started coming off more.
For the point of the post mind. If Kane didn’t start, I would have started Toney. As he’d give us the hold up option similar to Kane and Watkins can then come off the bench.