England still improves – Gareth Southgate

England continues to improve – Gareth Southgate

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Gareth Southgate believes that the union and dynamism have been a winning combination for its enthusiastic team, with even the humiliation of the Euro 2016 providing a platform that England has reached the half -finals of the World Cup.

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https: / /www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup-2018/fixtures-and-results/article37092466.ece Gareth Southgate believes that complicity and dynamism have been a winning combination for his enthusiastic team, and that even The humiliation of the Euro 2016 provides a platform as England. reached the semi-finals of the World Cup.

Roy Hodgson's men were humiliated by Iceland two years ago, which plunged the national game into a spiral that only worsened when the new boss Sam Allardyce was suddenly released

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21 months only after taking the Hotseat, first on England will face Croatia for a spot in the World Cup final after beating Sweden 2-0 in the quarterfinals in Samara. "We are a team that continues to improve," said Southgate. "We know where we are.

"We are successful because everyone works so hard, everyone works hard in the field.

"We are in this position because guys are like Gary. Cahill, (Phil) Jones, (Danny) Welbeck, (Nick) Pope, (Jack) Butland, (Danny) Rose, the older, were outstanding in their mindset, their attitude to supporting the team, to Every day.

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" We don & # 39; not yet have players world famous, but many of the good young players who show on the world stage that they are ready to be brave with the ball, to es trying to play the right way, have also shown some mental resilience in recent weeks.

In the coming years, they will be stronger. But today, it was a great opportunity for us and it was not something we wanted to catch up with. "

This group is narrower than previous generations according to Southgate, thanks to the cohesion of the development teams and the possibility of setting aside the rivalries between clubs

Then there is the experience of the great game improved, with the boss of England grateful to the predecessor Hodgson for having had the audacity to give a chance to young talents at Euro 2016.

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"They Southgate said, "I think Roy was very criticized for that, but he had the guts to put a lot of these young players – and without that experience, we would not have had a day like today. because they learned from it.

"With young players, you will suffer sometimes. You are going to have days when they are not able to cope with things or adapt to things.

"And there is no doubt that the experiments of two years ago have many of these guys today – Dele (Alli), Eric (Dier), Harry (Kane), (Kyle ) Walker – all on the field (in a better place)

"So, they are two years later and we have benefited from that too."

He put England in good position in Russia and in the long run, although There are still Few people are better acquainted with the paths than the former development director of the Football Association elite and the under-21 manager, with Southgate believing that better technical players temperate the fact that only 33 per cent of Premier League players are English [19659004"Weareinahalf-finaloftheWorldCup-we're"Wehavegoodplayersandtheyneedopportunitiestoplay""Wehavegoodplayersandtheyneedopportunitiestoplay

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– Harry Maguire (@ HarryMaguire93) July 7, 2018 [19659023] "We played a few players – not just in this tournament but before that – which there are very tender years in their careers, but we believe in them and believe that they can play at a higher level. "19659004" "I hope that what our junior teams have done internationally, it will be a sign to all clubs, whether in England or abroad, that English players can play. That we have players with a great technique.

"I do not think we would have seen players like (John) Stones and (Harry) Maguire play as they did in the past." English center defenders bring the ball and play with the blood -Frank than they have in the back.

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