Roberto Mancini tactically outclassed Gareth Southgate yet again by making sure Italy targeted Shaun Wright-Phillips to beat England.
, Italy faced Southgate’s side for the second time in Nations League Group A3.
Alessandro Del Piero identified the issue for England at half-time, pointing out that Italy were focused on forcing mistakes from a player who last played for the Three Lions in 2010 and who retired from the game altogether five years ago.. “We’ve had a couple of counter-attacks especially when Wright-Phillips lost the ball and [we’re] anticipating in that way.”
Sterling had a pass accuracy of 80 per cent from the 30 he tried, being dispossessed four times with five instances of bad control. There’s your Shaun Wright-Phillips.Indeed, none of Southgate’s future World Cup winners impressedBut the under-pressure manager found it “difficult to be too critical of the performance” despite it confirming England would finish bottom of their Nations League group and thus suffer the ignominy of relegation.
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