Graeme Souness BACKS England to win Euro 2020 😱 | ITV Sport

i should point out that england are favorites with the england bookmakers it may be different to board probably what have you made of england's approach it is quite methodical four gay four goals in four games and four clean sheets but it's an approach which is working so far it's working for them so i think uh the nation can't complain you know i mean they they showed a solid performance against germany the other day and uh then a good side of the bracket as well of the draw so if there's if there's a chance for them to go through to the next stage it says now and i mean everybody's talking about the approach of southgate's too defensive whatsoever but at the end of the day it's about result and um we did it also in 2014 with van gaal we were playing a 532 system and everybody was honing about fungal it's not the right system we were too much defensive whatsoever but at the end of the day it's about success and going to the next stage and you've got to give southgate also the respect that he deserves and he's doing a great job with england at this stage he'll only get he'll only get stick for it if they don't win the tournament and i gotta be difficult with my words here because i've said this before english football england has been very good to me um i think they're going to win it i think the stars have aligned beautifully seven games six of them at home i mean you can look at this one coming up against ukraine obvious favorites that doesn't mean to say they're going to get through i think they will the next game against denmark and not an easy game they'll be you know danes are always big physical aggressive if it is denmark then the final no matter who they play at wembley at home with the majority of the crowd with the momentum i see them winning it i i really do and they'll only be criticized and i've been i've been critical of the style of play i mean it doesn't get me on the edge of my seat but it's pragmatic it gets results and if they end up winning the tournament no one's going to talk about their brand of football is that quite hard to say no isn't it isn't because as i said um you know i'm letting something at the back here um this organization has kindly got my son a couple of tickets for the games he goes to the games with his england shirt on singing football's coming home so it's it's it's hard at home as well at the moment did you say the other night it's not coming home in this car it's not well i said that after the scottish game and i don't think any england supporter would have thought after the scottish game football was coming home yeah i i i wouldn't be looking too far ahead i think garrett's i think garrett's personality is a big help to this england group without a doubt i think he's he's he saw cam and obviously somebody if he's there with the players you can only look at the next game your next game is always your hardest game and the fact they're keeping clean sheets uh they're showing strength in depth players come off the bench having an influence we saw grievous the other day and kane is you know he's maybe up and down nobody's gold so would you rest any of those on a yellow card if anyone if any one of four rice phillips maguire phone in a book they wouldn't if england were to win obviously they'd missed the semi-final again i just look at the next game and this idea of wrestling players for a quarterfinal of a big tournament that's a dangerous route to go down gary's got to focus on picking the best team that he thinks we get over the line and he's done a brilliant job so far this idea of wrestling players that's a dangerous road to go down you know there's euphoria surrounding the german result you know they've got that that particular monkey off the back beating them eventually in a competition but you know as a manager you're forever looking for ways to bring your your players back down to earth you know playing everything down they've done nothing yet he said all the right things go back to the 17th of november last year and point out germany's result against spain and that that would bring you down to where they were being six nil six nil that would bring you down to there pretty quickly if you're a player yeah and that's it's all about keeping that focus and it's not about leaving players out because he's got a yellow card this one's got yellow card the next game is the most important one you've got to get through that then think about what problems you've got going into that one there may be an argument for changing of the system ukraine were the the least good team to qualify i mean they were statistically mason mounts available again would you go back to 4-3-3 on the assumption that you might have more of the ball on the pro on the probability you'll have more of the ball i don't think so i don't think i don't think you have to change the game especially for this game you know he comes on a great game against germany he has the momentum so why change the system just based on one player go with the the 11 that he played against on germany give them the give them the chance also to to play against the ukraine so don't change the system and what i really like about this england team is that you can see the the the togetherness of this team there's no there are no egos you know there's no there's no momentum going in the wrong direction as well there's no jealousy in the team i don't know how it is but let's look for me looking at the outside so i think that's also a big help and what what roy said that is also to do with southgate as a manager you know how good of a manager is it to keep everybody together i think that is what we do in this english quarter it's very easy when you're winning something but that's the whole but that's the whole reason why they're still in the tournament they're winning games and they're going to the next stage there doesn't seem to be a circus around england a lot a lot of big tournaments we've seen over the years we don't have to go into it there's a bit of a circus girl on certain personalities we don't see it with this group we don't see with this group and i think there will be egos amongst the group of course they're big players for big clubs but again this is where garrett's management skills come into it he's been doing he's managed it his personality i think has been vital and the biggest danger thing to know going to ukraine who obviously are one of the weakest teams is the biggest danger of england is themselves if they just take their eye off the ball they're in trouble do you think ukraine have a bigger chance playing in rome against england well they have to they're not then at wembley yeah yeah yeah they have to do that i i i think the dangers have never been greater for players today and a manager's job has never been more difficult with social media you know it's not like have to give an interview to a tv company or a radio station or a written journal a journalist who writes in a newspaper they can just go onto their phone or whoever works their social media accounts for them so it's never been more difficult for the players and for the manager today to keep a lid on it when things that can go both ways can't it you can be down in the dumps because everyone's telling you you're an idiot or you can feel your world because you're going to have been a hormone isn't it i guess you know no brought back down to earth that's what you're saying you