Caught highlights of England on ITV earlier. I think there's a semblance of a purposeful and decent defence being constructed by Southgate. I think the very least people expect from England is to have an excellent defence that is in the best traditions of Moore, Butcher, Adams, Ferdinand, Campbell etc.
They will need a lot more from those further up the field though - Rashford and Sterling spent half the game running into the Dutch defenders making it easy meat for them most the time. Lingard was probably the most impressive attacker, a far cry from Dele Alli who was absolutely dire when he came on. Hendo decent but still far too conservative. AOO always a danger when he gets in that space between attack and defence as he showed when he played Rose in from the left but given how slow England play out he rarely gets the chance to get to play in that area.
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