Not an easy watch but an Eze thing to remember in 3 months' time

IN his £100,000-a-week gig, Thomas Tuchel has got three months to reflect on two matches that will probably not live in the memory of your average football watcher for much longer than three minutes.

- ANDY DUNN

If that.

The friendly with Senegal was livelier than the shambles of the Andorra match in Barcelona but, as a staging post en route to the World Cup finals next summer, England's performance hardly produced any serious nuggets of significance.

But there was one.

Confirmation - not needed by many, to be fair - that Eberechi Eze, winning his 12th cap just shy of his 27th birthday, should now be considered a key member of this England squad.

He might only have produced a relatively low-key encore to his stunning run-in in the last couple of months of the club season but there were enough glimpses of his class to reaffirm his standing as a blue-riband talent that, even at a relatively late stage, is still developing.

To start with, he was probably in a more advanced position than suits his natural game and was certainly not seen on the ball enough.