I’M NOT BORING Southgate fights back
FAST TRACK: Southgate has a word with Coady who ( right) scored against Wales last week in the Premier League. So I think we’ve been pretty bold in many of our decisions over a long period of time, really. Others might have a view.”
Southgate did give full debuts to Ainsley Maitland- Niles and Reece James but he also chose two holding midfielders, again, in Rice and Phillips – along with five defenders.
It was a line- up which struggled even before Harry Maguire’s e’s red card forced them to play a man down for an hour – and James mes was then sent off for foul and abusive language at the final whistle.
England stumbled against the Danes after riding their luck to beat Belgium, the world’s top- ranked team, with the e help of a penalty and a deflected goal.
But they have still won n 20 of their past 22 competitive ive home games, scoring 67 goals while conceding only 11.
Southgate said: “The only nly negatives have been the two wo red cards.
“Disciplinary- wise we have to be better than that on the field. ld. We open ourselves up for criticism otherwise and it makes the game much harder. “There were so many positives internally for us as a group in terms of the steps we’ve made in players understanding how we want to play, a lot of new players that we’ve found in terms of their performances.
“In the end I’m so proud of what the players have done and the way they’ve been across the 10 days.” TYRONE MI MINGS is confident Aston Villa team- te mate Jack Grealish can force forc his way back into the Englan England team after his latest snub.
Grealish stayed on the bench fo for Wednesday night’s 1- 0 defeat to Den Denmark but Mings
( i inset) is convinced he will be back in the first team before befo long.
The Villa de defender said: “Jack is a fantastic p player, we all know that, we know w what he can bring to the group.
“I’m sure he will get many more opportunities, opportu but the only way we can c try and force that is to co continue to play well and continue c to be positiv positive.”