Euro 2024: Southgate wants new crop of Lions to make history

5 months ago

Gareth Southgate is urging this caller harvest of Three Lions to prehend nan opportunity to make history successful Wednesday’s Euro 2024 semi-final against nan Netherlands.

Southgate admitted to BBC Radio 5 Live nan representation of nan heart-breaking punishment shootout conclusion successful nan last of Euro 2020 against Italy astatine Wembley 3 years agone ‘will beryllium fuel’ for immoderate of his players.

“We person besides sewage a batch of players who weren’t pinch america and we are trying to make a spot much history pinch them,” he added.

“One of nan things quality beings want to debar is nationalist embarrassment” 👀

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“We person ne'er been to a last extracurricular of our ain shores. This is simply a chance for this squad to make much history and each tourney we person been to, location person been flimsy differences to nan squad and improvement of nan team.

“Definitely this clip pinch nan squad, for a batch of them, this is their first experience. They don’t request to interest astir nan past arsenic much, but of people those who came truthful adjacent past clip are really, really keen to put that right.”

England and nan Netherlands person played retired immoderate pulsating games down nan years, not slightest England’s 4-1 triumph astatine Wembley successful Euro 96, and Southgate said: “This is why we are successful nan game.

“This is why you are progressive successful world football, these immense matches, large events. It’s going to beryllium a awesome atmosphere; some sets of supporters evidently bring a batch of sound and colour.

“These are 2 outstanding shot nations, truthful we are very overmuch looking guardant to nan game.”

Southgate has a cleanable measure of health, though he has yet to make a determination complete whether to commencement fit-again Luke Shaw and which of Marc Guehi and Ezri Konsa will line-up alongside John Stones successful defence.