• ‘John will get horrible criticism for that mistake’
• England to continue playing from the back
Gareth Southgate has thrown his support behind John Stones and Ross Barkley and insisted his team will continue to play the ball out short from the back after dreadful errors in extra time condemned England to their latest semi-final defeat to the Netherlands.
Sloppy mistakes in the added half-hour, with England still struggling to recover from the VAR ruling out a potential winner from Jesse Lingard for offside, cost Southgate’s team a Nations League defeat that bore similarities to the outcome against Croatia in the last four at the 2018 World Cup. A half-time lead had been surrendered again, with the Dutch dominating the ball and eventually capitalising on cataclysmic defensive mistakes.
Written by Dominic Fifield at Estádio D Afonso Henriques
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jun/06/gareth-southgate-backs-stones-barkley-errors-netherlands under the title “Gareth Southgate backs Stones and Barkley after errors against Netherlands”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
