Very meh performance from England. We dominated the first 10-15 minutes completely and suffocated Ukraine at first but they did grow into the game. Once we lost that front foot we never got it back, at least to me Ukraine always seemed more dangerous than England. Part of that is the nature of qualification of course, Ukraine had to get something and we did not. If Mudryk was anywhere decent they might have punished us at least once, he wasted multiple chances through sheer ineptitude, Walker covered him very very easily.
Maddison was poor and Henderson was shit, really shit. Putting in those performances and playing in Saudi should have him nowhere near the squad. Accomodating him put the team off balance as it pushed Maddison further forwards, I would drop Henderson now. Bellingham and Chilwell also have no connection at all, must have fucked up at least a dozen basic passes - neither seems to understand the other.
Overall an average performance and a point away to a challenging (ish) opponent isn't too bad. 'Home' crowd were in good voice in Wroclaw which made it more difficult. Qualification for Euros is stupidly easy but with Italy drawing it's done. In that second half Southgate clearly thought playing for the point was better than risking the win, England were very unambitious. Kane remains frustratingly deep but he can create, the ball for the equaliser was superb.
In the grand scheme this result doesn't matter too much, I would still fancy us to challenge in Germany.
Scotland is going to be difficult, and while they definitely care much more than we do about winning it remains a rivalry. They've given us a pretty small away allocation and fancy their chances of finally beating us for the first time in ages I think!
