Paul Robinson

He's pivotal to England, both on and off the field.

He's one of those players you look at in the dressing room and you know you've got a chance when he's playing.

Yeah, understandably so.

I mean, it's the first game of a World Cup.

The nerves are there.

There's pressure, there's expectation, there's anticipation, and footballers aren't immune from nerves.

Having been in that situation myself, I know exactly what it's like.

We had a nervy 1-0 win against Paraguay in our first game of the World Cup, and it wasn't a great performance.

Whereas the performance there, at times England will learn from that.

You know, early on in the game, there's a time and a place to start playing out from the back.

The risk and reward, the reward you get as far as the risk you take, sometimes isn't worth it.

It's not worth playing out the back in those situations.

But Thomas Tuchel was so animated down there on the touchline the whole game.

He wanted the players to get wider.

He wanted them to spread out.

He wanted them to play and play through the lines.

And one of their outlets was actually Harry Kane dropping in.

When Harry Kane dropped in, the two wide players, Anthony Gordon and Madaweke,

They hit the line and, you know, we came in right footed.

It was nine times out of ten the ball was coming to this near side to Maduweki.