That's how I see it. I'm not anti Southgate, after Roy Hodgsons awful stint as manager and Big Sam's debacle he was just what we needed at the time and has done a good job on the whole.My balanced and honest view on Gareth Southgate is that his original brief was to overachieve with the squad at his disposal, and to his credit he did that in Russia in 2018. But as the squad has improved, he hasn’t adapted. He was the right man when we were somewhat of an underdog, but he isn’t the right man now that we’ve got arguably the best squad in the world.
He's just lacked that conviction and killer instinct needed to get a trophy in the cabinet. The Italy and Croatia games proved that.