Euro 2024: Gareth Southgate sends message to critics after England beat Slovakia in last-16
England performance is example of ‘cup football’, says SouthgateSource: UEFA 2024/Reuters
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00:00Jon Stones has just said in a flash interview that he feels we can take the
00:04handbrake off now and show ourselves. Do you sense there's still a bit of
00:09inhibition maybe within the players and if so can a comeback win like that
00:13sort of free them from it?
00:15Well tonight was an example of cup football you know
00:20sometimes cup football is about character, is about heart, is about the
00:25spirit. We didn't defend well at the start and and as I've said we didn't
00:34play through their press which was really well organized and we struggled
00:39to break that first line of pressure so that that wasn't a handbrake that was we
00:44had a problem that we couldn't solve getting the ball into the second line of
00:47the pitch and there's a big difference so yeah I think that the game against
00:59the Swiss will throw completely different tactical problems just as
01:04difficult just as complex and a different solution to solve.