Harry Kane hits back at Alan Shearer after being criticised for Italy performance

Harry Kane has hit back at Alan Shearer after being criticised for England form in the Euro 2020 final defeat to Italy. The Three Lions opened the scoring already in the second minute, thanks to Luke Shaw’s goal. However, Leonardo Bonucci equalised the score in the 67th minute. The winner couldn’t be decided both in the main and extra times so the game headed into the penalty shootout. Italy picked up a 3-2 win on penalties and were crowned EURO 2020 champions for the second time in their history. Kane failed to get a touch in the opposition box throughout, proving just how much the Three Lions struggled to get their talismanic captain into the game. And Shearer believes England did benefit from Kane coming deep initially, but hinted that the Tottenham striker failed to adapt as he had such little impact in the Italian final third. "Harry Kane, there's a balance when you're playing as a forward," Shearer said on BBC post-match. "In the first half he was causing them problems because he was dropping deep, but he didn't have one touch in the 18-yard box for the whole game. "It's been a really tough night for him." While Kane responded: “We’re playing against a very good side. "We got off to the perfect start. Maybe dropped a little bit too deep. Sometimes when you score that early it’s easy to try and soak up the pressure and try hold onto that and that’s probably what happened. "They had a lot of the ball, they had a lot of possession but to be fair we looked fairly in control. "We didn’t create too many chances then obviously they got their breakthrough from the set-piece and then after that it was probably a 50/50. "In extra-time we grew into the game, had a few half-chances then obviously penalties is penalties. We went through our process. The boys did everything they could, it just wasn’t our night.“ Source - Mirror Join us on Telegram!/ Follow us on Twitter!

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