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All-attacking England experiment fails in historic loss to Greece

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England beaten 2 -1 by Greece in UEFA Nations League clash at Wembley .

Vangelis Pavlidis scored a stoppage-time winner to send the Greeks ' corner of Wembley into a sea of blue and white bedlam.

Interim England manager Lee Carsley's ultra-attacking experiment had long since been abandoned.

Carsley says he "didn't think we started the game great and I thought that we were second best".

But there can be little doubt that losing to Greece -- a team that failed to qualify for last summer's Euros -- is a major setback. The result was bad, the performance was worse and the debate about whether England 's array of attacking stars can play together has been put to bed once and for all..