GLENN HODDLE: It has been wonderful to enjoy England again at a major tournament. And to see them playing out from the back restoring our faith in the fact that English teams can do so. We know that back home they restored a lot of pride and brought some unity to the country. They have changed the way the players are viewed and have given everyone some hope in the national team. Gareth Southgate should take immense credit for all of the above, and partly for devising a system that suited these players. We don’t really have the kind of midfielder who controls the tempo of a game or who threads through little creative passes, like Philippe Coutinho or Luka Modric. So he had to make the best use of our running strengths from midfield with Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard. ...read
How England can take the next step: Luka Modric showed a need to tweak Gareth Southgate's back three
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