Sterling starts on the right for England a lot. I think the right side is Sterling - Mount - Sancho for Southgate at the moment.
Agree with this with the exception of the GK position, really should be someone playing regularly for their club, if its Henderson then so be it, if not, then someone else. There is even the option to play Foden instead of Henderson against weaker teams. May even be Sancho for Rashford in certain games depending on form.
This Also works too, is Maddison playing well, I haven’t been keeping up with it tbh.
Just getting back from a big injury but he's on par with Grealish IMO, more a creative passers than a dribbler but with the right set up could work? Maybe too attacking though. As always, England don't have a deep lying playmaker of a high enough standard really. Phillips would be a decent shout to partner Henderson behind Grealish, but not sure if he's good enough.
Not many are looking at the lineups,does make you wonder what it will take for Southgate to see Dier/Pickford aren't first choice though. Personally think it's never a good thing when a manager has his favourites
The Pickford one you can somewhat sympathise with given (a) Pope hasn't exactly looked convincing of late himself, (b) Henderson isn't playing for his club and (c) Pickford seems to be a lot better for country than club.
He needs to be flexible when it comes to the holding midfield situation as well. So in games where we have more of the ball play Henderson/Rice & Winks/Phillips
I get your logic but you cant play Winks he's absolutely shite.
I don't think he's that bad tbh. He's the best deep lying playmaker we have unfortunately and he's put in some class displays before. Look back at the away matches against Germany and Spain at the start of Southgates reign.
I’d probably rather he goes with a solid base of Henderson and Rice and then just gives the front 4 more freedom, I guess a little similar to what Utd are doing at the moment with Fred and McTomminay. He needs to change to a 4-2-3-1 for that to work though and so far Southgate doesn’t seem to fancy it.
Henderson and Rice are absolutely awful together. They've played the last 2/3 matches and done sod all, when Winks came on against Belgium we dominated the game.
Do we need 2 DMs vs most opposition?
Yeah in the games against shit teams bring in Sancho or Rashford for Rice or Henderson. Against good teams I’d start both though. Neither really play like DMs anyway. Plus the pivot allows the front 4 more freedom, which is essential with players like Grealish, Foden & Kane.
No chance. Way too many attacking players. Would get overrun against any good team. Rice/Henderson would be completely hung out to dry. Both have to play, Rashford would have to go on the bench.
