Thomas Tuchel’s England reign spans five games, but there hasn’t yet been a statement result or performance to pin to it.

A deeply uninspiring win over Andorra on Saturday continued a theme of insipid displays against the continent’s minnows.

Facing Serbia on Tuesday night, with players from Juventus, Nottingham Forest and AC Milan, rather than Santa Coloma, Rot-Weiss Waldorf and Tabor Sezan, in front of a baying Belgrade crowd, will provide a different test entirely.

“We feel that we are ready to step up to the atmosphere, the physicality and it will be an emotional, very important game in the group,” he acknowledged. “We will be prepared for that.”

Here are five problems for Tuchel to solve ahead of the toughest fixture of his tenure so far:

The defensive headache

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