A semi-final in a World Cup is no mean feat.
Starting Trippier at LB may look strange, but it worked.
Southgate is the best England manager we've had since Sven! Some manager just aren't cut out for club football, much like Scolari who was terrible as a club manager but incredible as a international coach.
You think that he's there because the players like him yes? Much like the same excuse the CAF for Ole. The players just don't go out there and play however they like. Does Gareth rely on individual brilliance. No. It's not like he doesn't tell them how to play. Put it this way if he'd won the World Cup he'd be lauded as the greatest England manager ever. Yet because we lost he's somehow tactically inept and should not be listened to because he couldn't make it at Middlesborough. Makes sense.
Two Semi-Finals (WC/Nations League) isn't achieved by just some fluke. He's a great manager.
Wow he definitely isn't a great manager. He is pragmatic and played to set piece specialties (which he's done well with) and had a good draw in the last world cup that meant England avoided any of the big teams the entire tournament. This time around he has a brilliant group of players to pick from, but that doesn't make him a great manager. Is Di Matteo a great manager because he won the CL with Chelsea? Of course not, they rode their luck and won a cup - which a lot of international football is.
Semi finals of the nation's league... come on don't try and bring too much relevance to the tournament that replaced international friendlies, and the semi finals of it is just finishing 1st out of a 3 team group. It's like putting down the International Champions Cup as a trophy that Van Gaal won ffs. And the biggest thing is he lost at the semi finals. Semi finals really isn't some great achievement, or shouldn't be, for England. Just because they take relegation standard managers year after year so constantly flop doesn't mean that Southgate beating the teams he should be beating and failing to win against similar quality teams in the WC is some great achievement. You can only beat what's in front of you so i don't want to use the World Cup semi against him, but its hardly a big plus either. It'd be a flop of Icelandic proportions if they failed against Sweden or Colombia or Tunisia or Panama in the last WC though.
We'll see how England down in the knockout stages this year. A run to the finals would likely be something like Porgual/Spain/Germany or Netherlands before playing a France/Italy/Belgium in the finals, so it's a much tougher draw than that WC.
If Rodgers ever goes and takes over England, especially with this generation of players, they'd be up there as favourites to win. They are top 3 or 4 in terms of talent, and with a good harmony sometimes that's all it takes.