GARETH SOUTHGATE admits England will have to look at themselves closely in an attempt to find a cure to their attacking ills after firing a blank against Scotland.
The Three Lions have just one goal from their two Group D encounters following the Auld Enemy stalemate on Friday evening that saw Steve Clarke's side boost their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages of the European Championships.
Scotland put up a valiant defensive effort at Wembley and were well worthy of their point as they bounced back superbly from their matchday one defeat to the Czech Republic earlier this week.
Southgate withdrew captain Harry Kane after another lacklustre attacking showing and knows his side need to sharpen up in the final third ahead of their clash with the Czechs on Tuesday.
Southgate said: “I think it was a frustrating night. We know that we can play better and we have got to give Scotland credit, they defended valiantly and played well.
“In the end, we didn’t do enough to win the game. If you are not going to win a game in a tournament then you make sure you don’t lose it.
“We understand it is a disappointment for our supporters especially but we have got to dust ourselves down now and move on with the next game.
“I just felt that we needed a few more runs in behind, felt that Marcus (Rashford) would give us that energy and we have got to try and get the win at that point. We have to make these decisions based on what we see.
“I think the whole team, we can look at ourselves and it starts with me. We have got to be better and we know that we didn’t do enough to win the game.
“We didn’t have enough attempts on goal. That is something that we have got to go away and look at over the next couple of days.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel