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Tom Coley

Arsenal's 'Bukayo Saka to win Ballon d'Or with Reece James' with Chelsea trick Phil Foden misses

For 20 minutes England fans saw the light and the din that had been going around a packed Wembley was replaced by the belief that maybe Gareth Southgate could still be 'The One' after all.

He didn't have to replace the Oracle or Master Yoda, Southgate just made things click in a way that had been missing for matches before hand. "Do or do not, there is no try" Mr Southgate. The pressure ramped up and it took until England had lost everything else to find the spark, belief and confidence that it couldn't get much worse.

The result itself was largely irrelevant, Kai Havertz's late equaliser was more of a smear on Nick Pope's World Cup dreams than it was the squad, and you can pinpoint the moment it all changed.

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