Former Manchester United and England star Paul Scholes has slammed Harry Kane for dropping into midfield in the World Cup semi-final defeat against Argentina.
Kane is England’s all-time leading scorer at World Cups, as well as in all competitions in the national team’s history, but he also tends to like dropping deep to dictate play.
On this occasion, it looked like the wrong choice as Scholes felt he was trying to do too much, and it would have annoyed him as a midfielder.
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“If I keep seeing my centre-forward almost coming behind me half the time, I’d hate that. I want my centre-forward to play centre-forward. I think it’s also a leadership thing from midfield,” Scholes said on The Good, The Bad, and The Football Podcast.
“If me or Nicky, or me and Roy [Keane], or whoever it is as a midfield player, we’d say: ‘What the f— are you doing?’ That’s up to Elliot Anderson and Declan Rice; they should be saying: ‘Get out of here, we need you up there.’”
What Harry Kane said about England’s World Cup defeat
Kane himself has addressed the issues in this England squad after the pain of losing 2-1 to Argentina on Wednesday night.
Anthony Gordon had given the Three Lions a 1-0 lead, but two late goals from Enzo Fernandez and Lautaro Martinez turned the game around.
Argentina will now be in the final against Spain, and there’ll likely be plenty of people looking for last minute World Cup final tickets for what should be a great spectacle, even if it’s a shame England won’t be in it.
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Discussing what went wrong, Kane said: “We were close, really close to another final but it wasn’t enough. We’ve given everything over these last seven weeks and to fall short is hard to take!
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