Phil Foden has stated 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 group choice and ways all through the match as England unconvincingly topped Group C earlier than scraping by their round-of-16 conflict towards Slovakia in additional time.
England face Switzerland within the quarterfinals on Saturday, and Foden stated it’s time for him and his teammates to step up.
“The gamers have gotten to take a number of the blame,” Foden stated. “There needs to be some leaders to get collectively and discover out an answer to why it isn’t working.
“There may be solely a lot the supervisor can do. He units you up in a system and tells you how you can press. If it isn’t going like that, you must [work it out].”
Foden stated England’s fashion of play has not matched up with their coaching directions, including 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.
“Now we have to be leaders. In video games we may have gotten collectively slightly bit extra and labored out an answer.
“So sure, we have now spoken about it extra. If it occurs once more in a recreation, we are able to get collectively and discover a resolution, see the place it’s going fallacious and adapt our press.”
