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Andy Dunn

Aaron Ramsdale proves worth to Gareth Southgate in England's dull reunion with Italy

Mason Mount hit the bar early on, which, hopefully, is what most of you watching on television did on Saturday night.

With only a couple of thousand children in attendance, this was a school sports day of a football match - it didn’t really feel like it mattered who won. But this was a contest that mattered to Gareth Southgate, this was a contest that gave him one or two nuggets of information ahead of Qatar 2022.

The World Cup might be five months away but it is only three build-up games away. And while the mundane proceedings at Molineux might not have been compelling viewing, they were instructive for Southgate.

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