Adam Lallana is arguably in the form of his life.
The Liverpool midfielder is undoubtedly playing better than he has ever done before at club level, playing an important role in Jürgen Klopp's title-challenging team and finally starting to justify his £25m price tag.
And he has been delivering in an England shirt too, scoring three goals in as many international games after opening his Three Lions account with the winner against Slovakia in August.
He followed up his header against Scotland by opening the scoring from the penalty spot as Gareth Southgate's team welcomed Spain to Wembley.
But then people went and jinxed it. They said things like this:
https://twitter.com/joshfuller94/status/798620771392389120
https://twitter.com/JamieBell97/status/798620427807576067
https://twitter.com/kie356/status/798620803398893568
Even worse, we saw proclamations like this.
https://twitter.com/tjhs/status/798619054248378369
https://twitter.com/ryansingleton01/status/798619723122491392
https://twitter.com/maddog983/status/798620534023995392
Now you can't just tempt fate like that.
And you *especially* can't tempt fate like that during an international break.
International football is a ruiner of hopes. A crusher of dreams. A scourge of fantasy football managers.
So you can probably guess what happened next. Lallana picked up an injury and had to be withdrawn just 25 minutes into the game.
You can probably guess what happened after that, too. That's right...
https://twitter.com/SamleQuel/status/798624196024643584
https://twitter.com/hewings8/status/798623167837179906
https://twitter.com/GerrardsPrime/status/798623452487942144
https://twitter.com/SamleQuel/status/798624196024643584
https://twitter.com/AndyByrne_83/status/798625034436800512
Even in the most uncertain of years, some things just don't ever change.
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