Personal Opinion:
1. Hope the new England manager to be appointed would engage in playing the direct style of attacking football, the combination of styles of play of great teams in EPL, such as Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle etc., not like Southgate's idea of too cautious, defensive, too slow in build-up and shy to attack.
2. Majority of England supporters are actually fed-up with his cautious slow build-up style of play from the day he took over from Big Sam (Sam Aledyle), which time and time again has proven the approach was not effective and not really utilised or exposed the capabilies of the vast talent of England players... In the slow build up game plan, the ball was always end up not been passed completely or robbed in the middle of the field, so what's the different if pass the ball long straight to the midfielders or the wings or the strikers to inititial the attack. The opponent would then be busy to defend and tend to make mistakes.
This was proven when Cole Palmer and on an earlier game when Antony Gordon were substituted in, England's game became more dominating and attacking...
3. Southgate never learned from the past 8 years he in-charged or too egostic with his extreme idea of defensive play... too calculative and cautious as though the opponent couldn't read his game plan....! 😡
4. Seemed England missed the service and talent of Gerlish at the left-midfield. England's game had been focused to the right wing for Saka to initial the assist... but Spain's two goals came from Saka's careless who didn't play to his role as the right wing-back. He didn't return back to help to defend on the right side but left the space for Spain's Nico Williams and later Cucurella to run wild and left it to Walker alone to do the job... So don't really agree with some commentators who blamed Walker for the defeat.
5. Southgate should have replaced Saka with Tripper to do the job of the right wing-back and Forden to be replaced earlier instead of Harry Kane. Forden actually had limited Kane's space to move around the box and opportunity to score... where Forden himself was too eager wanted to score.
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