Italy train at Molineux, which will have a greatly reduced attendance of around 3,000 for the game. Mount is another player who some fans do not always appreciate. The Grealish thing is back on the agenda, the Manchester City winger having shone after coming on for Mason Mount against Germany.
Maybe having the balance of that hasn’t been where it might have been.” “Maybe we’ve talked for years about why we haven’t got there. “That balance of the team to get to a semi-final and final has been pretty good,” Southgate said. He mentioned the man on the street and how he totally understood his desire to see “a Grealish with a Sterling, with a Saka” but it had to be about balance, however unglamorous that might sound. Don’t take all that for granted, he seemed to want to scream, only screaming is not his style. Southgate wanted to engage, he wanted to push his side of things, his approach, which before the final against Italy had got England to a World Cup semi-final in 2018. He has said it before but he was saying it now, which in the context of the moment, with theincessant moaning about why he does not prefer certain players (namely, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Grealish), why he shows loyalty to others (especially Harry Maguire), why he does not always use an extra attacking midfielder, felt startling. “I won’t outstay my welcome,” Southgate added. Which is where we are after the flat 1-0 defeat to Hungary in Budapest last Saturday and, to a lesser but still tangible extent, the 1-1 draw against Germany in Munich on Tuesday, when an encouraging Jack Grealish-driven push in the final 20 minutes papered over the cracks of the previous 70. “I sense where the room is with it,” he said, as he addressed a group of newspaper journalists at St George’s Park and, surely, a much wider digital audience, who are rarely slow to pile in whenever he and his team stumble. They’re the games that matter.”įor Southgate, the subject was appreciation and it came to focus on that for his near six-year England tenure and, yes, himself. In the overall context of anything, getting to finals is where you want to be. I think sometimes players feel they’ve almost got to be seen to be doing that. “I’ve never received a medal and not cherished it for what it is because to get medals means you’ve got to finals and to get to finals is an incredible achievement.
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