Gareth Southgate will resist any “knee-jerk reaction” to England’s stuttering start to Euro 2024 as they look to end the group stage with a vastly improved performance against Slovenia. The road to Berlin has begun in unconvincing fashion, with a hard-fought 1-0 win against Serbia followed by a disjointed display in the 1-1 draw with Denmark. Days of criticism and scrutiny have followed but Southgate claims to be “oblivious” to comments from outspoken former England players like Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer.
The 53-year-old has long since learned to block out background noise and is confident things will improve as they go for the win against Slovenia that will see them top Group C. “You can rip everything up and go in a completely different direction but what’s actually going well? We don’t want to lose what’s going well. “Then it’s ‘OK, how can we add to what we’re doing?’ Your best players are still your best players.
“We might not have functioned as a team as we would have liked for a large part of the second game and a half of the first game. “But that doesn’t mean what we’ve been doing for the last two years, in particular, and the period before that..
. we shouldn’t be throwing everything out of the window. “That’s where we have to stay calm, make sensible decisions, make the right calls, keep everybody on track.
“We were pretty certain four points would qualify us and then it’s about winning the group. England sit atop of .