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Key events
62 minutes: Conor Gallagher is booked for a late challenge on Andreas Christiansen.
61 minutes: Denmark wins a free kick from the left, but Christian Eriksen can’t clear the one-man wall.
60 minutes: Foden sprays the bvall wide to Saka who curls to the line and tries to pull away. Andreas Christiansen intercepted. This is much better than Englandwho play much higher up the pitch.
57 minutes: Denmark double substitution: Alexander Bach and Christian Norgaard come on for Wind and Christiansen.
55 minutes: After good work from Gallagher and Saka, Foden is ready to strike. His feeble effort hits the post. The ball ricochets back in Saka’s direction, but too quickly for the winger to react. He sends his reflexive effort high over the bar.
54 minutes: England Substitution: Conor Gallagher replaces Trent Alexander-Arnold. I have a feeling Liverpool’s experiment of playing a full-back in England’s midfield could be quietly shelved.
53 minutes: Saka runs in behind and challenges a header with Christiansen, who is brought down by his own keeper. Saka wins the header but can only find the side netting with his spinning effort.
52 minutes: Declan Rice tries his luck from distance, but Hoylund deflects his shot away. Kasper Schmeichel saves with minimum fuss.
50 minutes: Trent Alexander-Arnold sneaks through the middle with the ball at his feet before dropping a low pass to Phil Foden, who has to stop his run, backtrack and collect the ball.
49 minutes: “They’re everywhere, it’s slow and lethargic. They’re not going anywhere with the ball because there’s no runners or any movement,” says Alan Shearer, getting two feet into England’s midfield in his role as a BBC co-commentator.
46 minutes: With Rasmus Hoylund lurking nearby, Pickford was called into action to take Wind’s shot, which rose in the air off Stones’ head.
Second half: Denmark 1-1 England
46 minutes: Play restarts with Denmark’s ball and the England captain who scored their goal still on the pitch.
Harry Kane: Screams! Micah Richards and Rio Ferdinand say Gareth Southgate should bring Kane off at half-time. Thomas Frank disagrees. “Think about the optics,” he says, though I may be paraphrasing. See, everything is squared in 1-1 and England we just have to be more aggressive. No need to panic just yet.
Email: “I must protest very strongly against your assertion that these omissions are what we have come to expect England under Gareth Southgate,” writes Nick Parish. “We’ve been expecting them for a lot longer than that and they’ve arrived reliably under Roy Hodgson, Fabio Capello and Sven-Gorman Eriksson. Gareth is just continuing a long tradition, and English football fans love tradition, don’t they?’
Harry Kane: In a really interesting and possibly unprecedented turn of events, BBC presenter Gary Lineker and his English pundits Rio Ferdinand and Micah Richards are really slamming Harry Kane for not pushing Denmark try to play the ball from the back. Alongside them, Brentford’s Danish manager Thomas Frank listens with interest, a visible smile playing across his chops.
Is this the first recorded public criticism of Kane by the Beeb’s famously chauvinistic English pundits? I can’t remember hearing anything before. After criticizing Harry, they spend some time praising Denmark’s performance and then move on to the sorry state of the pitch. “It’s like a bowling alley compared to some of the ones I’ve played on, but it does very poorly,” says Lineker.
Quick summary: After a shaky start, England took control of the game, going ahead after Kyle Walker pounced after a mistake by Victor Christiansen to set up Harry Kane.
Instead of taking the game by the scruff of the neck and scoring a second goal, England retreated into the collective shell and invited Denmark over them. Morten Hülmund didn’t need to be asked twice and, in an acre of space some 25 yards out, unleashed a diving shot that curled into the bottom corner.
Denmark 1-1 England
Half time: All is well on holiday in Frankfurt, but England showing all the familiar flaws we’ve come to expect from them playing in major tournaments under Gareth Southgate.
45 minutes: England are a bit of a ruckus at the moment, with various players repeatedly giving the ball away, then pointing the big O’Blame finger at their teammates for not giving them enough opportunities. Yes, Phil Foden, I’m looking at you. And you, Mr. Rice.
44 minutes: Hoylund rolled the ball into the path of the onrushing Hoiberg, who fired from distance. His shot is on target but does not trouble Pickford.
43 minutes: Joakim Maehle sends a cross into England’s box from the right, trying to clear Jonas Wind. Mark Guehi clears the head.
42 minutes: Foden tried to pick out Saka with a cross from the right of the Danish penalty area. He overstepped his pass and the ball sailed for a goal-out.
39 minutes: It was textbook England under Southgate. They play well and go forward, then drop back to create pressure from their opponents. If they are to insist on this approach, it would probably be a good idea not to allow the likes of Hülmund to shoot at goal from distance without defenders within 10 yards of him.
38 minutes: Hülmund is allowed to shoot again, but this effort takes a deflection and goes out for a corner. Eriksen sent the ball to the far post where Joakim Andersson popped up unopposed. His header sent the ball over the bar and into the roof of the net.
36 minutes: This is very bad from England, who gave the ball; on one of their own throws and then gave Hülmund the freedom of the plowed field to pick his spot and shoot from distance. Pickford saw his shot late on but almost certainly wouldn’t have stopped it even if he knew exactly what the Danish midfielder was up to. This is Hülmund’s first goal for Denmark and he will do very well if he scores better.
GOAL! Denmark 1-1 England (Hulmund 34)
Denmark equalized! With no England defenders closed him down, Morten Hulmund tried his luck from 25 yards and sent the ball flicking past Jordan Pickford. It is great purpose.
32 minutes: Within England penalty area, Jonas Wind tries to shoot but Marc Guehi gets a crucial cross. The ball goes up in the air, prompting Jordan Pickford to trigger a red alert, but it bounces over the bar and lands on the roof of the goal.
Danish corner. Some Dane or other is penalized for pulling the shirt as the ball goes in – it could be any number of them and the referee has already given them a talking to.
29 minutes: With his back to goal on the edge of the six-yard box, Hoylund is unable to get his feet together as he tries to control a clearance from Eriksen’s line on a half-turn.
26 minutes: Eriksen runs into traffic on the edge of the England penalty area and moments later Yannick Vestergaard is booked for a foul on Saka as England break into the box on the counter. Before England broke through, Denmark had a penalty appeal rightly turned down for Phil Foden’s ‘foul’ on Hoiberg. The Danish midfielder had a chance for his hand. Nothing came of Foden’s free kick. Mark Guehi was unable to prevent his shot in the box from going offside.
25 minutes: Jordan Pickford gets a rare touch, pressing the ball to his chest under pressure from Jonas Wind.
21 minutes: Despite his best efforts to escape a challenge against Declan Rice, Pierre-Emile Hojberg loses his balance on the unstable turf, slips into England linebacker and turns it over. Rice goes airborne and lands heavily as another giant divot is cut by a pitch that looks increasingly unfit for purpose.
19 minutes: Setting up to send a reverse pass to his goalkeeper from the left touchline, Victor Christiansen falls asleep and is oblivious to the presence of Kyle Walker sneaking up behind him.
Walker steals the ball, cuts inside, whips a low cross into the Danish box and it takes a couple of deflections before it reaches the feet of Harry Kane. The England captain couldn’t believe his luck and took the chance, sending the ball into the bottom corner from six yards.
GOAL! Denmark 0-1 England (Kane 18)
England lead! Harry Kane heads over from around six yards after excellent work by Kyle Walker.
16 minutes: Joakim Anderson gets away quickly to block Harry Kane’s shot from the edge of the goal Denmark penalty zone.
15 minutes: A decisive touch from Pierre-Emile Hoiberg prevents Bukayo Saka from slipping past the Danish midfielder and driving the ball into the box England insert.
13 minutes: Phil Foden finds himself in a pocket of space outside Denmark penalty area and tries to curl one into the top corner. His effort is high and wide, which is no surprise as he was leaning back as he hit the ball.
11 minutes: The situation between the two teams remains very uncertain and at the risk of making matters difficult on the pitch, Mark Guehi slips as he tries to prevent Rasmus Hoylund from moving to a center ball. The Danish striker is flagged for offside.
9 minutes: Kyle Walker slips again, bringing out another big patch of grass. He appears to have injured his ankle and has a short break while he receives treatment, then adjourns to the touchline to change his boots. There are rip holes all over the field, so the problem isn’t just Kyle Walker. Slovakia beat Belgium on this ground on Monday and I can’t say I remember the surface being an issue during that game. Which isn’t to say it wasn’t…
8 minutes: Joakim Maehle takes control of a cross from the right touchline but fouls Kieran Trippier as he tries to cross it. Free kick for England.
6 minutes: Walker receives a pass from John Stones, comes in from the right touchline and kicks a few more piles of grass as he does so. The playing surface doesn’t look ideal…
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