Gareth Southgate calling on experience to help England ride poor form

‘The results haven’t been at the level we want… I’m not hiding from it’: Gareth Southgate admits he’s under pressure amid England’s five-game winless run, as they look to stop the rot against Germany in final game before World Cup

• Gareth Southgate opened up on the criticism he has received as England boss
• The Three Lions are winless in five and were relegated from Nations League A
• But Southgate admitted he is drawing on experience to help get him through
• England face Germany on Monday in their final game before the World Cup
• Click here for all the latest World Cup 2022 news and updates

England manager Gareth Southgate pointed to his years of experience as he was asked if he doubted himself following recent criticism.

The Three Lions boss has seen his side fail to win their last five games, resulting in relegation from Nations League Group A3 and with just one match to go before the World Cup begins in November.

Southgate said: ‘I’m now sadly in my 50s, I have been in football for 30 years and I have gone in one guise or another to 12 tournaments, working with these chaps, scouting – this will be my seventh as player or a coach, so I have seen pretty much everything.

Gareth Southgate pointed to his years of experience as he was asked if he doubted himself

England’s 1-0 loss against Italy on Friday saw them relegated from Nations League A

‘The cycle of war with the media, the love-in – we are somewhere in the middle of that, it is an experience that I knew at some point would probably come with this job so I have to accept that.’

Germany are the visitors to Wembley on Monday night as England look to avert a slump in performances and results which have seen the tide turn on Southgate.

He was hit with jeers and chants of ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ as England were losing 4-0 to Hungary in June and was also booed by the travelling fans following a 1-0 loss in Italy on Friday.

But Southgate insisted the team will keep working as they prepare to face Germany on Monday

‘Look, I’m the manager,’ Southgate added. ‘The results haven’t been at the level we want, that we require, so no matter what job you have in football that would be the case.

‘Of course with the national team that noise is going to be louder and more widespread, I understand that.

‘I’m not hiding from it, we are not enjoying it but we have to keep doing the right things every day to keep improving.’  

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