Levi Colwill hardly coated himself in glory throughout England’s shock 2-1 defeat to Greece at Wembley on Thursday evening.
The Chelsea defender was caught chilly in a fumbling defensive show that rightly invited a substantial diploma of scrutiny from the ITV studio after the full-time whistle. A pricey outing that noticed Arsenal attacker Bukayo Saka limp off the sphere of play with a suspected harm.
In a 12-second show of defensive slapstick, after initially heading a lofted ball, the Southampton-born ace didn’t clear the ball on a minimum of three events earlier than the guests managed to squeeze in a winner.
Vangelis Pavlidis capitalised on the chaos within the England field, with Colwill seen tripping over Manchester Metropolis’s Rico Lewis immediately earlier than the Benfica centre-forward’s winner.
May Levi Colwill be a fear towards Arne Slot’s Liverpool?
To provide credit score the place credit score is due, the England worldwide did in any other case have a statistically acceptable outing towards the visiting Greek nationwide outfit.
The 21-year-old secured a 7.5/10 ranking from Sofascore after finishing 6/10 duels (air and floor), registering a cross success charge of 89% (81/91) and making six clearances. Colwill did lose possession 12 occasions on the evening, nonetheless, which is able to certainly be a priority for his head coach again within the English capital.
Enzo Maresca will simply must hope that his first-choice centre-back isn’t able to drop one other defensive clanger of epic proportions towards an in-form Liverpool facet in 10 days.
Or, if that certainly happens on the day at Anfield, that Christopher Nkunku (or any of Chelsea’s frontmen) may also help preserve the Blues within the sport.
The Londoners will head as much as the crimson half of Merseyside as a staff to not likewise be trifled with. Nonetheless, the easy reality stays that they will afford no giveaways when developing towards Arne Slot’s defensively resolute Liverpool facet.
It’s truthful to imagine that the Merseysiders – with solely two targets conceded within the league this time period – received’t offer their upcoming opponents any freebies.
You possibly can catch the clip beneath, courtesy of ITV:
?? “Any person cope with this!”
?? “There’s three or 4 gamers out of place!”
The panel on Greece’s last-minute winner #ITVFootball | #NationsLeague pic.twitter.com/BRXTI1Nj6Z
— ITV Soccer (@itvfootball) October 10, 2024