Phil Foden has mentioned England’s gamers should shoulder the blame for his or her shaky performances at Euro 2024, including that he “feels sorry” for supervisor Gareth Southgate.
Southgate has been topic to heavy criticism from followers and media over his crew choice and ways all through the event as England unconvingly topped Group C earlier than scraping via their round-of-16 conflict towards Slovakia in extra-time.
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England face Switzerland within the quarterfinals on Saturday, and Foden mentioned it’s time for him and his teammates to step up.
“The gamers have gotten to take among the blame,” Foden mentioned. “There must be some leaders to get collectively and discover out an answer to why it isn’t working.
“There’s solely a lot the supervisor can do. He units you up in a system and tells you press. If it isn’t going like that, it’s important to [work it out].”
Foden mentioned England’s type of play has not matched up with their coaching directions, saying Southgate has been telling them to press excessive up the pitch.
“I really feel sorry for Gareth,” Foden added. “In coaching, he has been telling us to press and be excessive up on the pitch and I really feel like generally, it has to come back from the gamers.
“We’ve got to be leaders. In video games we might have gotten collectively slightly bit extra and labored out an answer.
“So sure, now we have spoken about it extra. If it occurs once more in a recreation, we will get collectively and discover a resolution, see the place it’s going improper and adapt our press.”