Thing is we used 2 systems through the tournament. I didn't mind Kane playing in that formation BUT its predicated on keeping our wide forwards far enough up the pitch. Kane then drops deep and plays provider. He's done that several times and was also very good at it in the 1st 20 mins of the game, but as soon as the wing backs started dropping deep, it sucked our wide forwards deeper and then Kane was either completely isolated or had to also drop deep to try and get the ball which then meant Italy could squeeze us even more. I mean there were times we had our entire team in our defensive 3rd of the pitch in the 2nd half.
We needed that circuit breaker of adding the extra midfielder far earlier than we did as we were just inviting Italy closer and closer to goal.
I did say to my daughter once both centre halves had been booked, I'd like to see Sancho thrown through the middle and use his pace to run at them knowing that they'd potentially bring him down and get a 2nd yellow or alternatively be reluctant to challenge and his pace could then get him in behind but I think they wanted to keep Kane on in case it did go to pens so Southgate went the easy route there.
