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The first thing Southgate needs to change is his employment status

He needs to change the management team completely. If he quits his job I think he will be doing what's best for the team.

When the whole country is calling for your resignation, it’s time listen

He needs to change, the problem isn't the team it's the man in charge

Southgate makes me feel sick

The best change for the team sadly would be the manager

The only change that needs to happen is Southgate

He should play Kobbie Mainoo with Rice and Bellingham 🔥🔥🔥

Still need to ask what to be changed? Southgate is the answer

Bellingham goes next to Rice, Foden goes to 10, Gordon out on left and Watkins up top 👌

What can Gareth Southgate do? How about 'resign'? NO, I said resign, not 're-sign' a new contract for another 5 years. 😁

Southgate could resign to improve Englamd.

Kane's tap in described as "a great finish" - really where do they get these clowns from...

Soon as you said Sun had to turn off.

Bro cant stop blinking.

He needs to do all England fans a favour and resign.

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If England are to win anything out of this tournament this is what they have to do. Watkins Ivan Toney Gordon Bellingham Rice Saka Tripper Guehi Stones Walker. After 60mints, Kane for Toney, Foden for Saka, and Palmer for Gordon. Simple football 😊 England need two strikers. Stop the fixation with Kane, he's old now and can't press on his own!

Sack himself thats the best move for outhgate.

Foden to #10, Bellingham replaces TAA alongside Rice & Gordon LW!!!

Why not play the player who played the most games at lb in the prem this season in lb? Gomes > trip

Can't believe he is still experimenting. He has been up and down England looking at players and still doesn't know what system to play!!

Why is it 2 games in we are already complaining about players not being match fit? WTF

Start Palmer the Chelsea player

Simple. Don't switch off after you score

Don’t pick players that are unfit or haven’t played regularly, having a tournament at the end of a long season will always go against the English side.

The first change should be Southgate as he's sabotaged England's progression in Tournaments !

When stars not preform play the second team.

This the man supposedly linked to Man Utd lol. I'd rather give ETH another season. Lesser of 2 evils.

The only cup England are winning is a cup of tea at the airport.

You've had years to prepare and you go to a major tournament experimenting with the line up and no coherent style of play and you call yourself a coach.

I think he's got to change the formation a bit 3-3-2-2 Pickford Walker-Guehi-Stones Trent-Rice-Gordon Bellingham-Foden Kane-Watkins Back-3 will be strong. Rice as the DM. Trent and Gordon as wing backs who can drop back to midfield if needed to defend. Bellingham and Foden just behind the 2 penalty-box strikers. Kane and Watkins up front. Watkins' pace up front will be a huge bonus because Kane does not stretch defenses. Trent and Gordon can beat players and fire in crosses to 2 target men.

Everyone keeps saying how good England were in the first 30 mins against Serbia. The reality is Sebia sat back and allowed England space. After the goal Serbia came out to attack and then England struggled. All the talk before the tournament was about how to break down defensive teams. Other teams have looked at England's recent, pre-tournament games, and are taking advantage. Slow, negative. They desperately need to up the pace. If certain players are unfit, drop them. That-s whybwe have a squad. Maybe some.later sub action if possible.

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Watkins start instead of Kane. Palmer play as no. 10. Gordon on the left. Foden on the right. Mainoo play as no. 6 alongside Rice. Formation remains as 4-2-3-1. 🤔.

England should try three strikers try Kane, Saka, Watkins or Toney in Midfielders Bellingham, Rice,Foden

Can I just say (as a west ham fan).. for the whole season you have all been saying we should keep moyes. These england performances are exactly, EXACTLY what we've been seeing week in week out. If I was being mean I would say "Southgate got us to the first final in 30 years! be careful what you wish for!" Not trying to stir the pot, just saying... imagine you had that every week, would you keep him?

Need to play the 4-1-2-3.. give trent the ability like he had at liverpool to run up the wing and play into midfield.. rice needs to be like a fabinho or fernandinho type of cdm and help the back two when ever trent or trippier go forward so you have a 2 stable at back from counter attacks until wingbacks get back... and we need players who can make runs into the box and past the others teams defenders.. harry kane cant even run and is useless unless hes getting balls into the box from the wings but with southgates style of play that isnt happening Walker. Stones Trent Rice. Trippier Bellingham Foden Saka Watkins Palmer/Gordon

The worse thing is we all know what changes he is likely to make.. it will be trent for gallagher or mainoo. And if that is the case, no wonder we are so easy to play against. The opposition know what we are going to do before gareth does

Southgate needs to drop himself as head coach, bring in an emergency coach to complete the Euros, Jurgen Klopp is free right now !

Besides getting the manager changed, the players must change their mentality. Believe in your own ability and play with guts, even arrogance. Such act will spread across the entire field and then the negative will be out. Confident restore will see the best of England. Oh，in case Southgate see this, Palmer will be that player to show England how to play with guts. No fear.

Triple Durex pratgate has "got to go" in the immortal words of claude. Bring in hoddle, Big sam or rednapp. Worked for ivory coast

The Sun ? NO THANKS !

Play the players he has where they play. The England squad is unreal but the bloke dosnt know what hes doing. Midfielders need to be Rice, Kobbie and Bellingham. That makes the back 4 safe and players playing forward, playing forward and not dropping into midfield and defence

pickford; Stones, guehi, walker, trippier; wharton, mainoo, foden; saka, Watkins and Gordon 👍

Toney, Palmer Gordon and Watkins upront and Mainoo with Rice and Bellingham in midfield. Stat them

Southgate seems up himself to me you dont want foreign management plenty brits can do job

Bring in more Crystal Palace players should do it lol

Improvement tell him to give up england job .that will be a start .get klopp in

Southgate is the man for the job! I believe in him

What changes? He needs to grow a spine and a set. He needs to stop playing people based on reputation and pundit BS, and start playing those who are fit, performing, and able to play the setup and tactics he wants to play.

We need to change Southgate ffs not his useless tactics we have known since 2018 against Croatia he is clueless first sign of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result why are people even surprised

See below for variations on my feelings

343 is the way to solve this it allows us to play Trent give foden a free role and stops kane dropping deep

For the record, Southgate is England's second most successful manager after Sir Alf Ramsey. England always have a reasonable squad (at worst) and sometimes an excellent squad, but despite various golden generations over the years, between World Cups and Euros England have only got as far as the semis six times, and only twice out of those six have they got to the final. Ransey has one semi and one final, so does Southgate, Robson and Venables have one semi each. People are disappointed because England haven't won a tournament under Southgate. The reason they're disappointed is because England have come close, because they COULD have won under Soutjgate, especially against Italy, but it's Southgate who has got them close - and it isn't normal for them to get close. Having said that, his comment about Phillips is bs imo. If he's worried about replacing Phillips then he should repkace him with Bellingham, Gallagher, Mainoo or Wharton. Don't replace him with Trent and rhen bemoan the fact that you're missing him.

There is no Fitness excuse. Leave it. Stop making excuses for them. It's bad management tactics.

4-4-2 Simple’s

Southgate took over in 2016 after the all time low of England losing to Iceland. After years of Southgate selection and tactics, he has brought them forward in “leaps and bounds” according to all the media and pundits, so far forward that he has come FULL CIRCLE to a defeat by Iceland at Wembley on the eve of these championships, and woeful performances since !! What a complete waste of 8 years and a wonderful generation of players …..😢 GONE ! Who’s next for the FA ? Sam ? Ron ?

At the moment Albania look more organised and cohesive than England.

How bad a manager do you have to be to not make a good midfield out of Rice, Wharton, Mainoo, Gallagher and Bellingham? England FANS have never been behind Southgate, we have wanted him out since 2018, it is just ex players and the media who talk him up with the ''oh he has made players want to play for England again... good relationship with the press... got to a final...''.

Its easy to say sack the manager when a team are underperforming or underwhelming. The premier league has drained these lads. Two games in & they look knackered. I love the Premier League, but we saw English teams bowing out of the Champions League last season due to the intensity & physical demands of the Premier League. To me, this is no surprise.

somebody get these people a proper mic. such bad audio quality...

How about trying to score goals. Imagine del Bosque playing like this with the Spain team of 2012 and all their quality. Of course, Wyett works for the S*n so nothing further there.

Don’t ever condone the Kelvin Phillips comment. A man who has lost the plot

Bellingham needs to play alongside Rice and Foden as 10. Simple. stop pissing about!

Need to improve, umm how about walking out the exit door.

Stuart Pearce? Didn't he drop David Beckham for Micah Richards in the Olympics? He knows nothing.

I would play mainoo a few

Southgate needs to morph into Jugen Klopp. That's the first change.

The only thing worse than watching England play is listening to ex footballers and columnists giving us the solution.

Biggest change Southgate can make is sacking himself and giving the job to a more capable person

Southgate needs to replace himself....... end of.

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is like Tottenham in the EPL… Always Always brings fans hope up! Only to be crushed!! Last time they won a trophy was bloody 1966 It’s a disgrace….

They're practicing their salah like goal celebrations.

Play bloody Wharton!

Pochettino for England???? Are you lot f*cking tripping??

Play 3-5-2 or 3-4-3

The only thing that's need change is Southgate not players

Southgate needs to sack himself. THE MEDIA NEEDS TO STOP PROTECTING HIM!

Pressure? They says there is too much pressure? It’s unbelievable.. England have won 1 tournament at home since these competitions started.. Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, France, Germany - these teams WIN trophies - THEY have pressure, not the excuse obsessed clowns we have generation after generation.. It’s the psyche of the English footballer… weak minded full stop.

far a team not losing so far an so much pressure, when an if they lose wat y'all going to say that y'all haven't say it already

Drop rice ,that good for nothing. Only point here and there to instruct teammates how to play. He himself do nothing but side pass, back pass. No technical ability at all.

Palmer is the solution

The only changes Southgate has to make is to resign.

Southgate missing Kalvin Philips ha ha, And experime nting with TAA as midfielder. You experiment Before the tournament not during it. The guy has no clue.

3-4-3 & Trent right wing back & England will win 3-0 on Tues - PICK FIT TEAM on FRIDAY at 13.30pm. Unfit front 4 deprived Trent of passing options as forwards sank deeper. He can't pass to corner flags, can he?. He needs Salah & Darwin & Jota, type runs to stretch rivals back 3. Trent was let down by Kane's unfitness/hurt back. Trent created most goal chances in game & most long passes ( in only 54 mins, more than Rice or anyone else did in 90+ minutes ) Are we gonna waste another world-class talent like Hoddle or make it work like Italy did with Pirlo to end 24 years of hurt & win world cup 2006 v/s unstoppable France with Zidane & Thiery. Pundits said Thuram & co wud win easy but Pirlo unlocked thier defence & he didnt run or tackle much but Del Piero & Totti & co ran through walls for Pirlo, giving him good passing lanes. Ask Don Lippi. It's time to go 3-4-3 with Kyle-Dunk-Guehi at the back & Trent on the right & Shaw on the left with Palmer-Watkins-Gordon up front. 3-4-3 with Trent out wide & Kyle at right CB as per Gary Neville & Karne Carney. Gareth should pick the team on Friday at 13.30pm (at Munich time) so that boys can get ready for battle by visualising victory over next 4 sunsets before 4 nice sleeps. Then, after about 9 good nights of sleep, England will have Jude-Saka-Kane & Foden & Stones back to full fitness. With Palmer & Watkins & Gordon ready to come off the bench if energy levels drop again in the KO stages. Don Capello & Didi Hamman are spot on. Watch at 21 mins when Pickford passed the ball to Denmark, leading to 3 mins of pressure in our half. Schmiecal wuda wasted time & calmed his defence down & given them a breather in very humid heavy air. JP did the same in last 3 tournaments & after taking the lead, he becomes too aggressive & he starts giving the ball away. Watch Don Capello's chat on Sky TV after defeat to France in Qatar. Our Italian ex-boss was very frustration at Pickford. 5 - GS made fast good subs but needed to take tired unfit Stones off & go 3-4-3 with Trent out wide & Kyle in a back 3 with Guehi & Dunk (to handle the big Danes). 6 - Harry's bad pass to give goal away was due to a tired brain & body. GS may have to limit him to 30-60 mins a game as he is giving GS the same problem that unfit Jimmy Greaves gave Sir Alf in 1966. Greaves was Englands most clinical finisher & has a better goal per game ratio than Kane, Owen, Shearer & Lineker. Subs were not allowed in 1966 so Sir Alf had to drop Greaves. GS does not need to do that. 7 - Gordon & Palmer have been on 🔥, just like Sir Geoff Hurst was in 1966. As per top pundits Souness & Carra & Shearer. 8 - Messi & Argentina started slowly & lost to low ranked Saudi. Then the old GOAT Messi & thier aging winger & CB all got fit after 3 x OK games. 9 - Carra is spot on, ManC #10 is KDB not nice Foden. Plan B of dropping Jude to 8 may not be as good as Plan A with fully fit Jude Palmer Gordon Watkins giving Trent passing options. Foden & Kane & Saka may have to become impact super subs coming on for the last 30 mins until they get fully fit & catch 🔥 (when they can start) 10 - Don't bash Gareth & the boys. In Qatar the top pundits (possibly Carra & Souness & Pougatch & Sir Kenny D) said Messi will be unstoppable when he gets fully fit & catches fire 🔥. Leo got fit & Did what he Does Best. Get Harry Foden Saka Jude fit by taking the pressure off them in game 3 (as 4 points mean we are in it to win it now. We are in the KO stages). Either rest em in game 3 or use than as super subs in 2nd half. Priority is to peak in the final. Grow game by game. 11 - Calm down. Do yo daily prayers, sleep well, get fully focussed & be brave. As brave Kyle said, tournaments are like the UCL, when the reds ( LFC ) lost 0-3 to Messi Xavi Ineista of Barcelona. 99.9% of pundits wrote off Klopps boys but they still won the cup via that brave corner by Trent. The reds were also losing 0-3 at half time to Don Carlo's AC Milan & still won the trophy via that brave headed goal by Stevie G 🏆. Man U were losing in the 90th minute & still defeated Bayern via that injury time clinical finish by Teddy & Ole. CALM DOWN - PRAY/Meditate WELL - SLEEP WELL - FULLY FOCUSSED - BE BRAVE. Professor AGHaq.

From Southgate to Pochectino. No wonder England never wins anything. These people thinks Poch is a superstar.

The Germans and french and spanish etc are plotting their way to obliterate teams while England are doing yoga. My god.

We are tired of these talks , everytime SOUTHGATE this and that. Stop discussing these tactics and fire southgate

The team surely missed Ben White

Need palmer

I think we should play a 426427 system thingiy bob can pass to wots his name wots his name can cross the the other fella its smiple really x😂

Sorry but that Scottish accent is too strong for a mainstream show

he won't make any changes. that's why he such a poor coach

Cue the clowns

Kane's is coming deep for the ball because there are no crosses coming into the box. There needs to be a recognized left winger, perhaps Gordon. Trippier must overlap or underlap the winger just to give the opposing defence problems. Trent isn't winning the ball back or running the game. Surely Southgate can see that. Are they rehearsing the forward pressing on the training ground?

Put more poor right backs in the team, we only have 3 at the moment 😂😂😂😂😂

resignation by Southgate he was never good enough free passes to finals the man is a plank

Just resign get Klopp in he's free at the moment.😂

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