England game

[51Magpie]

You don't have to throw caution ot the wind and leave the back door open. There's a balance to be struck. I agree with BC... Southgate's approach to being 1-0 up seems to result in losing the initiative. You can breed confidence, but I don't think you do it by sitting back nervously on a one-nil lead. We were a whisker away from snatching a draw from what should have been a nailed on win.

[BCnotts18]

You don't have to throw caution ot the wind and leave the back door open. There's a balance to be struck. I agree with BC... Southgate's approach to being 1-0 up seems to result in losing the initiative. You can breed confidence, but I don't think you do it by sitting back nervously on a one-nil lead. We were a whisker away from snatching a draw from what should have been a nailed on win.

Like don't get me wrong, we probably did deserve to win. While we sat back far too much and let Serbia dominate the play for whatever reason, we did also limit them to basically no decent chances, and despite the fact we were so negative, we did also create enough chances to win comfortably on another day.

But, nonetheless, I find Southgate's approach so incredibly frustrating. We all know the defence is the weakest area of the squad, yet Gareth seems determined to try and win the Euros by emulating Greece in 2004, and that simply is not going to happen.

Alexander-Arnold is such an enigma to me too. He isn't defensively competent enough to play at right back and after yesterday's showing, as well as previous escapades, he is also below par as a midfielder and absolutely cannot start against Denmark. I cannot see Southgate doing it but dropping Bellingham back alongside Rice, moving Foden to his favoured position and moving Gordon to the left flank seems a good bet to me.