England, the big tournament favorite, showed a lethargic performance in the draw against strong Denmark. Jude Bellingham was unrecognizable compared to his gala performance in the first game against Serbia – the Three Lions are in crisis.
One should not read too much into the quick TV images shown of the teams warming up before kick-off. But sometimes they seem to be right.
The English and Danish fans in Frankfurt’s Deutsche Bank Park were able to follow the footage on the huge display cube that hung high above the pitch like a huge drone. In a short sequence, the camera captured the face of England’s superstar Jude Bellingham in large format. It showed a face that seemed to anticipate the course of the game from the English perspective. Bellingham’s facial expressions varied somewhere between “extremely annoyed” and “bad-tempered”, the corners of his mouth turned towards the ground.