Harry Kane fumes at England decision as Thomas Tuchel's side suffer embarrassing defeat
Harry Kane felt England were cruelly denied an equaliser as Jude Bellingham's late strike was disallowed with the skipper ruthlessly claiming "if you know the rules it's a goal".
The Real Madrid man came off the bench and was looking to help rescue the Three Lions as they trailed to Senegal - eventually falling to defeat. He thought he'd found it with a quick touch and finish from close range, setting up a grandstand finish.
However VAR quickly interjected to highlighted a potential handball to the referee, who then went to the screen for a second look. The initial delivery from the corner hit Levi Colwill on the arm before it headed in Bellingham's direction and that was deemed deliberate.
As Bellingham, the goalscorer, didn't handle the ball the interpretation of the rule can be different, which is what Kane may have been hinting at as he claimed England should've had a second goal.
He told ITV: "If you know the rules it is not handball. It obviously gets us back in the game at 2-2 and maybe we go on and win the game so it is a big moment but its something to discuss with them after."
Bellingham's strike would've given England just over five minutes to find a winning goal at the City Ground in Nottingham. Instead Senegal were able to add a third in stoppage time. Both Ian Wright and Roy Keane agreed that the officials had got the decision wrong.
The loss comes after Andorra had run England close, eventually losing 1-0 having been level at the break. The Three Lions were booed at half-time and needed a response, but were again poor with jeers ringing out at the full-time whistle.
Kane said on the performance: "Again, not really good enough. I think we had moments but with and without the ball aren't quite clicking, the right passes, the right tempo. One-on-one we're losing those duels, lacking that aggressive nature and we got punished. we're playing against a good side.
"We're not going to panic, but for sure we know we need to be better. There's some ideas that are new, we have new players in the team who don't haven't international experience. Its a mixture of things but it is no excuse. We need to find it quick, obviously we won't meet again for a few months but the World Cup is going to come around fast."
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