Maya Le Tissier and Grace Clinton must be wondering what else they have to do to impress the England manager

A common theme across Sarina Wiegman’s tenure has been a notion that she would only pick players who were performing for their clubs. Friday’s team selection at Wembley was truly at odds with that principle, and in a chastening half an hour’s chaos against European women’s football’s most decorated nation, the England head coach’s decisions backfired in spectacular fashion.

As England’s back four were repeatedly torn open with ease by the Germans, the Manchester United centre-back Maya Le Tissier, who has been in inspired form at the heart of a Manchester United defence that has conceded only one goal in five games in all competitions this season, must have been wondering what she would have to do at club level to earn herself an international game.