The defining question of Gareth Southgate's final tournament as England manager was how he might jam all four of his top tier attacking midfielders into one team. There is still plenty of time to go until the summer's FIFA World Cup across the United States, Canada and Mexico, but it already seems like Thomas Tuchel's first, and perhaps only, major competition will be about how many he can live without.

England are humming, and while they will face few opponents as accommodating as Wales in the decisive moments of next summer, they might have to beat a few teams on that level to get through. At Wembley Stadium on Friday they did so in exactly the fashion of tournament contenders, blasting their way to a 3-0 lead inside 20 minutes that they never felt compelled to add to in a routine f

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