Pickford has to cut out the showboating

IT WAS a poor goal to concede and a few in England shirts didn’t cover themselves in glory defensively. But, really, Jordan Pickford should have been saving the effort from Jonas Hofmann. The shot was straight at England’s goalkeeper. Pickford seems like someone who is forever out to make his saves look like worldies. Often he manages that — he certainly made a few super stops for Everton towards the end of the season. But he didn’t do that last night. Had Hofmann’s shot been fired at Manuel Neuer, you’d expect it to be saved. Instead it went through a weak left hand from Pickford.