It’s time to sit down and realise what you are expecting from this group of England players, says jbsoutar. As a Scot, he is baffled by the Gareth Southgate 'inquest'. This is not a world-class squad.
World Cup was always a stretch for overrated England squad; don’t blame Southgate for ‘failure’To win the World Cup, you must have several world-class players. Previous winners fit this pattern; England did not in 2018 or 2022 under Gareth Southgate.
And yet defeat against the literal reigning world champions on Saturday has resulted in yet another inquest about Southgate’s future as England boss. Fans forget a major tournament only comes around every two years; there are no Carabao Cups to pick up trinkets when it comes to international football. So the mentality that England should be European champions at worst needs putting in the bin.
Laughable combined XIs and former players saying ‘How many French players get in this England squad?’, for example, is embarrassing. Other countries will be p***ing themselves at Danny Murphy saying this. France are literally world champions. How many England players is Didier Deschamps taking? Maybe Jude Bellingham and probably Harry Kane, even if Olivier Giroud makes everyone around him better.
Look at Morocco. Look at Croatia. Achraf Hakimi, Noussair Mazraoui, Bono, Hakim Ziyech, Youssef En-Nesyri, Nayef Aguerd, Sofyan Amrabat, all have Champions League experience. Croatia of course have Luka Modric , Mateo Kovacic, Marcelo Brozovic and more. The whole starting XI that beat Brazil in the quarter-finals has UCL experience, as did four of their five substitutes in that game.
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