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Gareth Southgate says his ambition is for England to be ranked No 1 in the world.
His side looked a long way from that level during a laboured win over a Malta side who sit 171st in the standings at Wembley on Friday night.
However, the 2-0 victory meant England have won Euro 2024 qualifying Group C and are all but assured of a place in Pot 1 for the tournament draw next month.
Southgate is now calling on his side to raise their standards away to North Macedonia on Monday evening. It may be a dead rubber but the England boss wants to see consistent high-level performances for his team to be considered the best side on the planet.
“Qualification’s done,” said Southgate, whose England team were ranked fourth in the latest edition of the FIFA standings.
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27 Comments
How can this be your goal? Your goal should be to win titles like the upcoming Euros. Ranking means nothing, just look at the example of Belgium…
“The level of performance has got to be spot on everytime”? I would settle for ONCE! England are so boring to watch.
Southgate might have build an incredible England team but keeping players such as Jordan Henderson is what leads to lack of trophies and not get the no.1 rank .
Well they can be ranked number 1 for not winning anything like Belgium 💁🏾♂️
Lol why? Does he know you dont get a "We ranked number 1" Trophy?? His ambition should be to win a major tournament. No one gives afuq about rankings. Its trophies that count.
Belgium ranked #1 before and won nothing. In rugby Ireland ranked #1 before the RWC and won nothing.
End of the day focus on winning a physical trophy as opposed to a virtual ranking.
The FA's ambition is to have a diverse team. Thats more important the FA than success.
Forget about it 😅😅😢 with that racism of yours you will not get anywhere..and you will not even win any trophy if you continue with that choices of yours, you don't choose your squad according to the performances but you choose who you love, so football it's not about people you like but players who can help you to achieve the goal
There are positives that Southgate has made, squad togetherness, young players getting chances, but also bthe end of the day, the football is lame and the mentality to win is definitely not there.
He bottled it against italy, in a tournament where we played the final in our own packed stadium,and Italy where there for the taking. He choked against croatia, and even though kane missed a penalty, he didnt do anything that would make us look like we would beat france in wc semi.
Hes too boring and defensive.
Gareth Southgate should quit if he want them to be #1. Since, he's the only thing not 'world class' about the current setup and is holding England back.
To win World Cup or Euro, Southgate should use Guardiola's dynamic 3-2-4-1 tactic
what a trophy 😂
resign then🤷
He’s non sense
ur gunna have to win something Gareth for that. not a lucky 1-1 draw with Macedonian. get pep in at end of season let him take us to Germany
The rankings mean nothing, trophies are all that matter in international football. Says it all about Southgate, you need to be a great tactician to win trophies, he knows he isnt.
😂😂😂😂
Anyone who cares for "rankings" doesn't know football
Just prove it on the pitch!
When Guadiola coaches in your country and you don't win anything internationally then it's the manager..
England will never be number one in the world, quite simply because their top flight league is "money oriented". The actual football in England's football system constitutes of only 30% of the entire system
England won nothing if Gareth Southgate still head coach
As long as garth Southgate is manger England will never win a major tournament garth Southgate isn't the right manger fact.
England will win nothing for the next 20 years unless they get a coach who will not listen to those who selects the team coz for sure Southgate receives orders from someone.
They must win World Cup First and Euros before they talk about being ranked number1
Not with him as Coach no game plan no tactics only plan is to play Maguire
France laughing in the corner