THOMAS CRUCIAL

Serbia game is first real test for 'new' England boss

- JOHN CROSS

THOMAS TUCHEL finally faces a night of reckoning as England boss tonight.

It will be 328 days from when he was unveiled last October to England's World Cup qualifier in Serbia.

Tuchel, who officially started on January 1, has had a pretty easy ride up to now. Five games, four wins, with England yet to be properly tested in a competitive fixture.

Two of those four wins were against Andorra and the only upset was in a friendly against Senegal in June.

But finally we might get an insight into what Tuchel's England are about in the loud, intimidating bear-pit of the Rajko Mitic Stadium here in Belgrade this evening.

England (training, right) have the best World Cup qualifying record in Europe - unbeaten in 35 with 27 wins from those games - but Serbia's is pretty impressive, too.