HARRY KANE should be DROPPED from the England team, according to former defender Stuart Pearce.
Skipper Kane scored in the 1-1 draw with Denmark but looked off the pace and was subbed by Gareth Southgate.
Ex-England left-back Pearce was asked on talkSPORT whether he would axe Kane and he said: "I think I would.
"To get more energy in the team, to get someone to run in behind the opposition's defence and then you review it again when you get to the knockout stage.
"Where he (Southgate) goes from here, I don't know.
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"This is a tough one for Gareth and his coaching staff.
"It might be making some tough calls, it might be leaving the captain out. It might well be, 'How do I solve the left-back issue?'
"How do we get more delivery from the left-hand side with no natural left-back? Potentially put Bukayo Saka there."
Kane was replaced by Ollie Watkins for the final 20 minutes against Denmark as part of a bold triple sub that saw Southgate change his entire front three.
The manager admitted his team were lethargic against the Danes - and admitted Kane is not operating at 100 per cent right now.
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Southgate said: "Harry’s only had one 90 minutes in five or six weeks.
“We are not pressing well enough, with enough intensity.
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“We have limitations in how we can do that with the physical condition.
“We cannot press as high up the pitch as we might have done in the qualifiers, for example, and not keeping the ball well enough. It is as simple as that.
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"We have to keep the ball better and build with more control.
“Then we will be defending less and we’ll have more confidence.”
The players took part in a yoga session hosted by Dr Rebekah Jade at their Blankenhain base.
And now the under-fire Three Lions boss is considering a change of personnel and a change of shape for England's final Group C game against Slovenia on Tuesday.
Southgate added: "We’ll have a look at everything.
“We’ll look at the performance and look at the next opponent and find the best solutions for the next game.
“We felt the right thing to do against Denmark was to give confidence to the players we picked in the first game. We had won the previous game.”
