“Simply horrible”: relegated to the League of Nations, England is lit by the press

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Eliminated at the gates of the last two World Cups, Italy knows a lot about media lynching. The Squadra Azzurra was not kind to England, however, on Friday evening at San-Siro. By knocking down the Three Lions by the smallest gap (1-0), the Italian selection, with one stone, knocked their opponent into League B at the same time as in the popular lion’s den.

“Indigent” (“Down and out”) for the Daily Mail, “No victories, no goals, no ideas” for the Daily Star, “Simply horrible” (“Bloody awful”) for the Sun which s A nice pun is allowed on its front page (“San Zero” rather than San-Siro) to accompany a haggard Gareth Southgate…

‘The weakest, most inconsistent team’ under Southgate

The English, who have not had success for five games (3 losses, 2 draws), made headlines across the Channel. Not spared by a press which does not already need much to get carried away. “Six years after the debut of Gareth (Southgate), it is clear that this team is the weakest, the most incoherent it has ever known”, regrets the editorialist Barney Ronay on the site of the Guardian, who qualified this evening of “Milan malaise” and “night to forget”.

As often this season both with Manchester United and in selection, Harry Maguire crystallized the criticism. It must be said that the left axial of the three-man defense of Southgate was not an all-risk insurance against the Scamacca-Raspadori doublet, although not directly involved in the only goal scored by the second city. The 29-year-old central drags like a ball and chain a terrible statistic that the media of his country did not fail to recall: he lost each of the last nine matches in all competitions in which he started, in club and selection. And when he was not aligned from the start, his team always won…

Feverish behind, England of Kane, Sterling, Foden, Saka or even Grealish is amorphous in front, where she has not managed to score in the game for 450 minutes, plague talkSPORT. “We are in a difficult period, with some disappointing games. It’s part of football. You learn, you move forward, “said Captain Harry Kane on Channel 4, before calling on his nation not to “panic”. Coming to applaud the English supporters who had made the trip to Italy, Southgate was greeted with whistles. “I understand the reaction at the end because of the results we achieved in this competition. It’s an emotional, understandable reaction, ”he said, a little bitterly.

Tuchel claimed by fans

The coach then preferred to play down a performance with which it is “difficult to be too critical of our performance”. As the British media’s growing questions about his possible replacement before the World Cup – the name of Thomas Tuchel, recently sacked by Chelsea, comes back insistently on the side of English fans as recalled by the Daily Mail. “There will be a lot of noise but it will be around me, and that’s fine. It’s my job to take that pressure off for them. »

For many reasons, this relegation to the second zone is a task for a talented selection that we can happily place among the favorites for the next World Cup. Qatar are only one game and two months away from England, hosts Germany on Monday with the aim of trying to reassure themselves a few weeks before the event.

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