Southgate admits England are 'falling short' after Denmark draw

Yeah, we we have to accept that. Let's talk about today. We we didn't press the ball with enough intensity and we kept conceding possession too cheaply. And when you do those two things, it it's hard to have control in the game. So it led to an anxious performance the longer the game went on and we understand that that's got to be better if we want to progress to the stages of the tournament that everybody's expecting and delivering what we need to deliver. Next question here, France 2nd row. Hello, Gareth. Sam Wallace from the Telegraph, You, you very rarely take Harry Kane off. I think it was hungry in the World Cup qualifiers the last time you did when you need a goal. Is he fit at the moment? Well, we, we just felt the whole front line put a lot of work into the game the other day. He's not had, he's only had 190 minutes in the last five or six weeks. So the other night took a lot out of him. I mean, we could have stayed with it, but we thought to get speed in the front line at that moment, to get energy to be able to press was was important. So yeah, that's, that was the decision we took with with all of the substitutes, basically. Thank you. I have a question over there, Pierre from Lekip, if we compare to the game to the Serbia, Kane dropped more and Foden play more centrally. So did you give them both more freedom for this game? Yeah, We played more with the 10 today and that meant that when Kane was coming low, we had players running past him a little bit more in in contact with him. We were suppressed slightly differently, which meant that Foden was starting a little bit more infield, but our our press wasn't intense enough and it meant that our back line had a problem with the players dropping either side of our pivots. So that that's something that has to be better. We know with the profile of players that we've got, we don't feel the way to press is really high up the pitch. Don't think that's the physical level of the team at the moment either, but we've got to find a way of and being more compact and more difficult to play against. And we found in the last three halves of football with the question over here before. Thanks from The Athletic. How do you feel the the, the setup has worked and the personnel has worked over the last two games? And is it inevitable there'll be changes for game three anyway? And what, what will sort of dictate those changes? Yeah, we need to look clearly we're disappointed with the level of the two performances we've had. So we've got to go and analyze that in depth and find some solutions to addressing the issues that we have. And yeah, over the next few days, we'll we'll spend a lot of time doing that. We know the level has to be higher. We know the level can be higher. Maybe the biggest thing is we we have to accept the environment that we're in and the expectations that that are around us and we're we're going to have to walk towards that challenge. At the moment we're falling a little bit short of that. Ultimately, that's my responsibility. I'm the manager and I've got to guide this group in the best way possible to achieve extraordinary things. You you have to go through some, some difficult moments to today was a difficult moment without a doubt, towards the end of the game especially. But England have never won back-to-back qualification matches, I was told yesterday, so there's a reason for that and we hoped to write a different story today. We haven't managed that. We understand what that will mean for the next few days, but we have to stay calm inside the group and find good solutions to improving.