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#2 Failure to exploit the wide areas
On paper, England play with three central defenders, with two wingbacks providing defensive cover from the wide areas. However, one of the main reasons why Kieran Trippier and Ashley Young play as the wingbacks is their ability to regularly deliver crosses and potent deliveries into the box.
Even Maguire romped ahead to add up as an extra man in attack constantly, which left a whole amount of space on the left-hand side.
Playing as the right-sided centre-back, Kyle Walker to has a tendency to shift a bit wider to send in diagonal long-range balls inside the opposition’s box. Young and Trippier were often stationed in the opposition half, to look for crosses or lobbed balls into the box.
Moreover, Young is often culpable during defensive positioning, and this could have been exploited to a huge extent by Tunisia. Nabil’s men should have stretched the play to send in some crosses, and that could have created some dire frantic inside England’s box.
On the few occasions when Tunisia did attack through the wings, they often found half-spaces and openings on the flank. This shows that they could have further enhanced their chances by passing the ball out wide and then running out ahead in order to send some testing deliveries into the box.
Meanwhile, look how England dominated their right flank!
