Watching England is like watching Norwich atm,we go one up and immediately sit deep and invite teams onto us.Southgate is a defender at heart and it shows in his tactics.
Matt, you're completely right! Southgate is playing for percentages Similar to snooker players who play percentages in snooker with defence in mind first. Southgate is making sure he has as many players as possible behind the ball while relying on our attackers to do their thing, whether it's snooker or football it's boring to watch.
I don't agree entirely. Southgate understands international football, but is overthinking. The 2 mistakes we made were first in the Serbia game, we did one attack where Saka beat his man crossed and Bellingham scored. If we had done that many times crosses in the box we would have been 3 or 4 goals up by 36 minutes and an easy match. Instead we did all this passing back and sideways. Then for the group stages everyone would have been more content??? The second mistake was he instructed players not to do hopeful crosses into the box, but then corrected himself by saying when we did that we scored, but then Slovakia was tired???? Southgate is so close to doing really well, we have the blue print just needs to be implemented. Just it seems Southgate doesn't know how close we are to being really good???? Small margins can make, big difference!
@@bernardm2528 I don't think Southgate is that sophisticated. The fact he hasn't beaten any of the big football nations when it matters proves his limitations. And the matter of those defeats tells me he is very defence minded. I think the way we played in the second half against our last opponent and scored in injury time was not planned. I think the team was forced to play that way out of desperation. The realisation of going out or near tournament death provoked the survival instincts in our players to play more naturally. The urgency was visible to see that was absent in all our games previously. It's a good positive. It proves we will be hard to beat or at least have the ability to fight.
How refreshing to hear an ex footballer telling it like it is. He should have been a pundit for the Euros but the BBC and ITV would rather tick boxes and ruin my experience in watching the analysis before and after the game.
Any team mirrors the manager's personality. England mirror Southgate's, and as such no surprise they are so defensive and dull. I will be staggered if we actually won this thing.
Southgate first and foremost is frightening he is always thinking what can go wrong. Sitting back against Italy 4 years ago after going 1 up? What has changed? Losing to Iceland and with ten minutes to go and Southgate is telling them to calm down 😂😂. Any decent manager would be telling them push forward or you are dropped. Southgate is an idiot when it comes to tactics.
Matt is a legend. I feel for the next England manager. No doubt they'll get drawn against France in the groups or even qualifiers and decent teams in the knockouts. Southgate is incredibly lucky. Look at who he's played. It's crazy. Whenever we play a top team we lose. Maybe we'll hit form now.
This is a Real English Gentle man. I always Loved this man ,what an amazingly gifted Football player and a man of the highest integrity . Best wishes from rainy Ireland.
Inflexibility in managers drives me crazy. If something isn't working, try something else. Don't keep picking the same players with the same tactics and expect anything to change. England fans can tolerate defeats,it's the nature of sport,but they are sick of seeing spineless,boring lacklustre displays.
182 goals, 51 assists, 49 yellow cards and 1 red in 481 games in all competitions. 8 games for country not really picked as he was considered a "luxury" player. Absolute BS.
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funny how all the 'luxury' players where never picked for England and the national team never getting anywhere in the competitions.
We just seem frightened to press forward which would indicate a lack of confidence from our back line. No creativity, imagination or focus. Can't see us progressing passed the knock outs..
@@bluesEvanskro Pythagoreanism was a philosophy and a cult based on the beliefs of the famous mathematician Pythagoras. The Pythagoreans worshiped numbers, believed in reincarnation, and practiced vegetarianism. I just googled cult and copy pasted it in order to look clever.
Southgate has no ability as a manager at all but when it comes to arranging who England are drawn against he is an absolute genius.Unfortunately you will eventually come up against a good team and he has never beaten such a team.
As someone who played to quite a high level in football many years ago I have a pretty good idea where the problem lies. The creativity is sucked out of you at a young age to fit into the style the English clubs want to play at. Let the ball do the work was always drilled into me at the training grounds. We have top class players who are really performing admirably for their clubs. They do so because they playing with guys from other countries who are providing the creativity needed for our guys to perform at their highest level. When it comes to the England squad we haven't got the players to provide the creativity and flair because that's not what they've been trained to do. So, it becomes dull and lacklustre and painful to watch. This has been going on for many years. The only player that defied this was Gascoigne and they reached the semi finals of the world cup only to go out on penalties to the eventual winners. I don't believe anything will change in the near future so, being English, I don't think I will see any euro or world cups in my life time. England will probably crash out in the quarter finals in this year's euros.
Matt, do us a favour and keep telling it as it is. Too many pundits tow the company line and are only interested in protecting their own self interests rather than pushing the necessary buttons to spark the right conversations.
Well apart from his extreme political views and oh yeah his massive crackpot conspiracy theories about everything, yeah give the strange bloke a massive platform then. Just because he was a brilliant footballer does not mean we want to hear his views on the world.
Great insight and interview. Pity he didn't mention Mainoo as one of the fringe players at that stage that should have been called up. Probably doesn't watch many United games.
Given quality of players only England managers in conversation as worse than Southgate would be Greenwood, Taylor, and Hodgson...Taylor likely would have qualified w fit Shearer and Gazza and there no Carlton Palmer's in this squad
Some very thoughtful comments here, he talks a lot of sense. It's a pity he wasn't playing in Euro 1996 SF v Germany, England may have won that penalty shootout! Anyway, the bottom line is, if England continue playing the way they are, they ain't going to win this tournament. I really hope tomorrow is not another Iceland 2016.
We don't make the pitch wide enough and when we do it's like passing to a brick wall. We need ball carriers on the wings like Eze, Gordan and Bowen. Definitely not Saka. He's too lightweight and seemingly terrified at taking on the opposition left back.
@@CountMackulahe just meant it as being irreplaceable. like Gareth said, no replacement for kalvin Phillips 😂 so if rice got injured there was no one to cone in. I believe this was before mainoo cemented his place in the team (Gallagher started in the first knockout game I believe)
This whole tournament has made me realise what a boring game international football is. All sides seem scared of taking risks. T20 cricket and Rugby (both codes) knock spots off it as a spectator sport.
If the team is not performing by moving Harry Bellingham around won’t make any difference their not as good as they say and I hate saying that we need a massive improvement now
Gareth Southgate is a complete joke as a head coach, he’s had zero success even at club football level! He’s also a serious criminal because he’s stealing money from the FA, to the tune of £2,4 million per year! Every one of these comments by Matt, who is one of the most talented English footballers in the last 40 years, is 100% on point!
Tiss is a breath of fresh air. Straightforward, honest and no spin or wokeness. Southgate was lucky in 2018 and 2021 with the teams that England got in the draw. If they scrape past Slovakia (which is far from a given) they will face Switzerland who are playing very well indeed.
When you look at these players week in week out they have flair and like to take a player on, so what has changed when they come to England? The manager and the tactics, plain and simple.
England manager is an impossible job. I wonder if he'd give Southgate credit if they win it.. If they lose, he'll certainly stick the knife in. His idea of not being eligible to play unless you or your parents were born in the country is daft. John Barnes wouldn't be able to play for us. Not would Le Saux or Le Tiss himself. It shocking indictment of our coaching system that if Southgate leaves the job, we'd be looking at Potter or Howe. The last Englishman to lead a club team to success was Howard Wilkinson.
If southgate was in charge of an f1 team the instructions would be, don’t break the gearbox, don’t push the engine too hard, don’t spin off, don’t break down. Imagine telling that to Ayrton Senna, Seve Ballesteros, George Best, Diego Maradona, Michael Jordan….
Yep. Pretty much agree with everything he said, except about Rice. He has been Shite so far. Totally agree to bout the manager shud be from same country.
Clearly the next England manager should be Matt! Or any other ex player that's been throwing Southgate under the bus throughout his tenure. I mean if you listen to what they're saying, any one of them could walk England to their first trophy in 60 years having achieved absolutely nothing as managers themselves 😂
@@alland1241 Southgate has been a manager and involved with the England youth team and has managed at international level for 8 years, getting to a final and a semi final... Remind what Le Tiss has done again?
@@alland1241 Southgates not acting like a bitter jealous ex player, disrespectful or trying to put them down having not been in his shoes once though is he so it's kinda of irrelevant.
The problem is left back - the question should have been - what happens if Trips gets injured - who would you replace him with? That’s not the only problem - playing three players out of their usual position - playing two right footed players on the left - not allowing our full backs to attack ………… and yet pundits question the performance of our forwards - they are as hopeless as Southgate
@@Mark-99999 he has played left back for Liverpool but I am not sure if he did last season did he? - he is another right footed player so he can do the defensive job but offers little threat going forwards - Southgate’s refusal to play Gordon upfront makes the whole team unbalanced - Southgate just isn’t up to the job - full stop - never has been and never will be
That is not the reason he was taken off the TV.. He had been repeatedly warned about spreading false information on a subject he knows nothing about and potentially putting peoples health at risk.. If he'd of just stuck to the football he would of been fine but unfortunately he was too far down the rabbit hole of idiocracy that he couldn't find his way out..
Absolute legend is le tissier. I don’t care if he played for Southampton he was a footballing genius. I bet Matt loves it since he left woke sky sports
To the question, 'what is England's fundamental problem,' one could go even more fundamental than Tiss' reply and say - it's the FA. The FA are the reason managers are appointed on political grounds (i.e. dull conformists) over and above footballing ability. The reason Southgate won't change is that he can't. What you see is the extent of his ability. The playing talent, as usual, is squandered at the hands of stunted coaching ability. They're primed with pedantic monotony where they should be unleashed to play with freedom. FA policy is the root cause - Southgate was hardly likely to turn down the job, was he. Aside from international honours, it's a part-time position which has furnished him with a very comfortable retirement. I could go further and forward a personal character appraisal toward refuting his purported honesty as reported by a cosseting media but I don't want to dwell on it too much. Only to conclude I'd rather we had an international manager who genuinely was that honest. All the great managers have a knack of getting succinctly to the point - it's why they're able to turn a game during the brief intermission while the players are having a slice of orange and a ciggy. Southgate is so uptight and absorbed with PR profiling, he has the knack of beating around the bush like an apprehensive topiarist. I'd at least like to be able to augment a vague interest in international football with a modest fiscal interest in goals or corners. The first corner of the game vs. Slovenia came on the stroke of half-time. Woo-bleedin'-hoo. First half-decent team we meet who express their ability with any semblance of freedom will have us on toast.
