"Unspectacular... but getting through!" | Gary Neville reacts to England's QF win over Switzerland 

I thought the back three of kane , stones and konsa played well together for 70 odd minutes

Pundits deffo feeling the heat from their England team criticism of the last game. Yesterday they did a 180 from criticising virtually everything to being subjectively overt cheerleaders, lol. The pens were great ( for once!) but our lack of penetration (with Kane not remotely in position for the in box chances created). For sure our players are better than the tactics Safegate employs - that's where the manager has serious luck.

DROP KANE. Just rest him for one first half. I dare you Southgate 😏 Well done England 👏

Odd how we have to be losing before Toney gets a game…

Sticking with Kane is delusional against the dutch. Crying out for Watkins that game

Harry Kane has no Energy , Slow , Limited Tackles , Minimum Touches . Palmer , Watkins , Bowen . Younger Legs

Kobbie Mainoo is a young midfield GENERAL 🤩

I don't think anyone would call England a neutral's favorite to win the tournament. They're so incredibly boring! They consistently have the best squad in the world and yet play like they're Hull taking on Man City. It could totally work for them, just see Portgual in 2016, but man it's hard to root for, or even stay awake for.

Doesn't matter how great a player you are or have been, if you aren't fully fit you should be on the bench

Gary ‘At this moment in time’ Neville. 🤪

I dont care how we did it, 3 semis in 4 tournament is amazing. I remember the feeling after each and every every embarrassing cup performance in my lifetime- the whole country would agree that the whole structure of the FA and the men's team needed to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Every time, it felt not only thay we failed, but that there was no end in sight. Our performances haven't been fantastic this tournament, its fair to say, but for the first time it feels like the number 1 job of the next England manager will be to maintain, build on and progress the work done by the last guy- not to throw the whole lot out on day 1. Southgate isnt the most talented manager in the world, but he's taken the team to a point where, when he hands it to the next guy, he can be proud of what he's handing over.

Kane should always start, but in no way should he play for more than 65mins. Gordan needs to at least 20mins on the pitch also.

Harry Kane HAS to go

As soon as Switzerland scored, England starting passing quicker, making runs, even sprinting. Where was this in the first 70mins and games prior? Why do we have to go behind before we start to make an effort? Going into extra time again will catch up with England, as there’s not much time to recover and prepare for the Semis.

kane has zero energy

France v portugal was also unspectacular. A wins a win.

Great to see England finally will now have to play top footballing nation, no more easier teams, they will have to beat Holland, Spain or France to win it

Gordon or Shaw (probably not ready) should start at LWB instead of Trippier. Trippier is a great defender. But he kills our attacks on the left.

Kane was absolutely awful

Southgate is the consumate organiser and his work ethic is exemplary, but his game management is atrocious. He surrenders the initiative and fails to see the clearly shifting momentum until it is too late. Probably, like me, millions of England fans were screaming at the tv for him to make changes ten minutes before Switzerland inevitably scored. Like many middle of the road managers he lacks spontaneity, vision and courage. He obviously has the pieces of paper and knows the coaching theory but in practice he is not an elite level coach in terms of game management.

Watkins getting in behind takes this team to a different level

Everything about this England team from the the manager downwards, is reactive, not pro-active.

Drop Kane and play Bellingham as a false 9. Foden @ 10, Saka up top on right side. Keep Rice and Mainoo in CM Shaw and Trent wingbacks. Back 3 of Guehi, Stones and Walker.

The fact you spent half this interview talking about penalties instead of how poor England were says it all. The broadcasters all seem to be gaslighting us.

Drop Kane

Does nobody watch Brentford suddenly? Toney always does that and we’re asking everybody about it like we’ve never seen it before

it won't happen but its getting to the point now where reputations need to be put aside and he has to drop Kane. It was like watching a statue and a statue that played in midfield. Get up the pitch man! We need a striker to stretch defenders (its all too static) so Foden and Bellingham can find him or use the spaces left behind and when Saka gets behind the defence theres someone on the end of it. Just as infuriating as watching Pickford kick long and concede possession when he doesn't need to.

Loved toneys pen

You can tell The Bellingham bicycle kick and the Kane header in the Slovakia game really build up a great momentum for England. The penalties from England were outstanding on Saturday, I hope that will be another momentum-builder for England like the two goals against Slovakia. They will need it as England have bigger fish to fry this week.

The PR behind this Declan Rice is INSANE!!!. England's problem is staring them in the face and no-one wants to recognise it. If it was Rodri, Fabinho even Wharton playing for England in Rice's place you'd see a different much more fluid team team!! Ever since he came into the England midfield and became a regular, the midfield it been static and stiff with no playing through the thirds. One can clearly see that this guy was developed as a CB coz he lacks basics of a modern 6. -He stays hidden behind defenders & can''t open for the ball in build-up, -No passing range, -Cant take the ball on the backfoot and play on the half turn to get forward ball -During buildup he stays in Midfied even when its congested, he doesn't understand when to drop in between the CB's to push the WB's up -When he does get the ball with back facing to goal hes either gonna pass it back to a defender or pass it sideways, no forward pass to speak of Arteta is smart and realised that RIce is no 6 but he had already spent 100mil+ on him so he obviously couldn't bench him. So he decided put a decent but natural 6 in Jorginho there and moved rice to play a box to box 8 where he could use his energy. Ask yourself a question If he was world class in that position why would Arteta move him and put a player that that isnt world class? Imagine Rodri or Busquets being moved to accommodate someone???

Kane has to be dropped he brings nothing to the team

Kudos to Saka, take a bow young man you played a blinder of a game. More shots on goal from England last night than in their entire tournament thus far due to penalties. Helps that Southgate had no option but to let them score.😂

3-4-2-1 Konsa, Stones, Guehi at the back as Walker hasn't looked great. Alexander Arnold Right, Saka Left Wingback's both bombing forward, with Rice & Mainoo in central midfield and Bellingham & Foden behind Watkins. But there's zero chance it will happen as Southgate is very very safe. Kane & Walker will play, no changes.

Gary makes a great point here. When teams win games in the PL whilst not on great form, we say "that's what championship-winning teams do, they grind out results when they're not playing well". Yet somehow, when looking at international tournaments, it's never enough- there's always complaints if we're not playing fluid football and blowing teams away.

Gary: How many shots did England have toward goal....1 shot that resulted in a goal. The Swiss played a better game and had more goal chances! England vs Netherlands...I put my money on NL.

Not true that this is first time England scored 5/5 in a penalty shootout in a major tournament - they scored the first 5 v Germany in 1996. It was Southgate who missed the 6th because Bryan Robson only practiced with 5 penalty takers to his eternal regret and Southgate had only taken one before and missed it.

Men with balls took the penalties yesterday.

The sports anchor said it’s the first time we’ve scored 5 out of 5 in a major tournament but we scored 5 out of 5 against Germany in the semi final of Euro 96. Shearer, Platt, Gascoigne, Pearce and Sheringham all scored. Southgate missed the 6th.

kane needs to be subbed out whenever he gets tired. he had so many chances to cut in the box but he just doesn't do it. it feels like he doesn't know what he is doing

Gary let me keep it simple. No one would care if Kane dropped deep if he could then drive forward or break with pace on the attack. Rooney did this many times and was effective. If you drop then MAKE SURE you get back to where you're most dangerous. The other issue is if he is cramping up then maybe he needs a rest or half a game??? Been our main man since 2018, have to sometimes trust the others. We have the backup and something to give opposition a suprise element (although our teams are being leaked anyway internally). Use the options!!! 😒

The Swiss manager cannot believe Southgate has managed to knock him out.

They can’t keep getting away with this. I really hope Spain wins it all. They truly deserve it with the wonderful football they play.

Why is everyone hating, we played so much better than the previous games, that formation worked a lot better and we attacked more and pressed etc

we scored 5 out of 5 at euro 96 v germany, shearer, sheringham, platt, pearce, gazza

It will be Englands test day on wednesday.

The English team has not yet played a top european team, they will have the first real test against the Dutch

I have to say was might impressed with Saka attacking down the right and defending up the left … no sarcasm

Still no Gordon. Even though he’s played Englands best incisive pass of the tournament even though he’s only played 5 mins.

Kane dropping deep works in other systems. But it isn't working in this system. Maybe he's not fit enough either. Maybe with another pacey winger on the left, like Gordon, it could make a difference for Kane too.

It wasn’t a great performance but it was better, England can build on that. It was good to see England didn’t sit back after their Slovakia defeat and really had a look at their squad to assort their issues. I feel like they have learnt from every game in this Euro’s and they can implement that into the future. They have bigger fish to fry this week. Come on England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

At this moment in time the moment feels momentous

Whats going on with his tongue he sounds like he has a heavy tongue

We can’t continue playing Kane with him scoring no goals in 90 mins. He’s too old and slow to play another game in 4 days after 120 minutes of football yesterday. It was embarrassing watching our “top striker” not even getting in the box for crosses. 50 yrs of watching England we love to show loyalty over performance

If Gary cannot see Englands number 9 regardless of name is playing too deep I don’t not know what to tell you

It's not the first time England have scored 5 out of 5 in a major tournament. We did it against Germany in 96.

Kane likes to drop deep, Saka likes to cut inside, Foden likes to cut inside, Bellingham is playing as a 10 So you have 4 guys all occupying each other's space and the result is a bit of a mess

I can't see england winning like this the tournament

All of the pundits criticising England; Shearer, Lineker, Ferdinand etc. NONE of those guys achieved anything with England. Italia 90 - we got to the semi after squeezing past Belgium, and Cameroon. England have not played anywhere near their capabilities, but they’re getting further - 4 tournaments in a row now - than ANY of those pundits did. I think that needs to be remembered.

Not the first time we've scored 5 from 5 - we did against Germany in 96

If we do end up winning this then nobody will care what the performances were like, it becomes irrelevant. The result is the main objective and the results are in our favour. It's coming .. 😊

Well said Gary

We really need to lock in now against Holland or whoever we are playin on Wednesday

Unbelievable that we deem it ok to not drop Kane unless he has an injury. We’re quick to criticise Portugal and Ronaldo - this is the same scenario at the moment

Kane offers nothing and Toney does….

England scored 5/5 in Euro 96. The miss was in sudden death.

1:07 Why has it taken this shoot out for Gary to realise that pens are about more than luck? It always baffled me that Hoddle said when he was the manager "we dont practise pens because you can't recreate the pressure" . very odd because in the end the muscle memory CAN be replicated in any circumstance if its practised often enough and if the players have the right mindset.

It'd require a Gareth Southgate personality swap for him to drop Kane. His first team starting 11 have created just the one goal in this competition - but the manager still thinks he's right. Maybe England will touch lucky and get quite a few injuries in the semi finals

Portugal never dropped Ronaldo and paid the price for it. We nearly did as well

Kane's a CF. He just needs one good all into the box and he has a good chance of scoring. Saka needs to take some blame for the useless balls he tried to put into the box, they weren't going to worry anyone. It looks great beating the defender, but what's the point in beating his man, if he can't cross the ball? Teaching Saka how to cross the ball, isn't an easy fix. What is an easy fix, is to stop booting goal kicks away, and don't have our corners going back to the keeper, especially as he will boot the ball to the other team. These things can be fixed right now.

Lisp

Portugal were not great in 2016. IF England win it will be a similar story

Look how we all got excited in the last semi final n final .... what did they do ? Got a goal n parked the bus lets hope this time they wint do that 💩🤞🤞🤞🤞

For years I’ve questioned why England play to the level of the opposition and only step it up when threatened with exiting the tournament or when facing quality opponents. The team has some of the best players in the world and should walk most games but for some reason choose not to.

Harry Kane simply doesn’t fit this system of play, he puts in immense work defensively for an attacking player but he isn’t helping us in the attacking third. Toney & Watkins would be an interesting alternative for the Dutch game which will be a true test. Turkey exposed VVD & Aké are very exposed to pacey attackers, sticking with Kane is giving them a day off almost. I’m keeping the faith though for tactical changes.

bottle job pundits totally irrelevant - Sky, BBC and ITV old media, it's just soft analysis

Get the ball out wide, take on defenders and get the ball crossed. It's not rocket science. We are averaging about one shot on target every game. It's not good enough. Also, drop Kane, bring Toney in and make Bellingham captain.

Answer the question Gary. Would YOU drop Harry Kane? We know Southgate won’t already.

If England can get to semi finals playing like this with 3 goals in 90 mins upto now we could win the World Cup actually play well

England scored 5 out of 5 against Germany in the Euros. What is he talking about? It was Southgate who missed the 6th.

And this is exactly why you DONT play Saka LB. He is one of the best right wingers in the world you play him in his natural position and look what happens. Not even this tournament the last one too. That’s 4 years of consistent performances MOST goals of anyone so what the hatters gonna say now

Wise after the fact Nev 👌

Yes they got through but for the past 3 major tournaments including qualifiers, England have done the bare minimum that was expected of them with all the teams they have faced under Southgate.

Is Neville Hungover?

I thought they played a lot better and will improve even more when they get the right players on as prove when the subs came on we played a lot Quicker we need more attacking players on the pitch

There is a old comic from the 70s that had a character story called Billy's boots a kid changes from a useless player to world beater when he wears the boots,kane seems to have lost his boots because a league 2 forward would have looked better in all 5 games .what's going on with him if it's not injury bayern have now got a turkey.and I was a fan but I can't defend him now he needs to be dropped

England are a "play for pens" team. That's the only way I can explain the absolute dross, no urgency to even shoot games I've had to endure. It's been painful, so much so that Gareth has managed to suck the life out of the games for me and I nowcouldn't care less if they win or lose.

Mr neville.. kane dropping a LITTLE deep aint a problem.. the problem is hes having more touches in the our box than the opponents.. hes a striker if you aint forgot.. if southgate wants a grafter why not play kane as a cdm..

Meanwhile, they were requesting that Southgate drops Saka.

People saying u can't criticise Southgate cos he is winning. He's an awful manager. Keeps playing players who aren't performing such as Kane, Foden and Bellingham. Bellinghams end product is awful, he can't pass. He can't shoot. Palmer should be starting for Foden. Toney for Bellingham. Watkins for Kane.

Strange feeling to not be excited when your country has reached the semi final. I just cant get excited about side wards passing.

A lot of people calling for Kane’s head 🤔 😮

"I played the game"

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is herr Kane a striker or midfielder ?

From gary to gary... neville to southgate

Gary 'do you know something' Neville

Bloody Harry Kane. What a waste. What did he do?

I agree Kane didn't look sharp but don't quite get how he's not getting the supply. Saka seemed to be sending a lot of balls in he wasn't there for?

Drop Kane, we need someone who will push the opposition CBs back for us. Foden's position was miles better this game, he had a much better impact.