Gareth Southgate to wait on making decision on future as England manager after World Cup quarter-final exit | Football News

Gareth Southgate will take time to take into account his future as the England manager offers with conflicting ideas after what he admits has been an typically troublesome final 18 months in cost.

Harry Kane scored one penalty and missed one other towards reigning champions France on Saturday evening as their World Cup desires ended with a 2-1 quarter-final defeat in Qatar.

England’s wait to emulate Sir Alf Ramsey’s 1966 heroes goes on as consideration turns to Southgate as he processes the last-eight loss on the again of final summer season’s European Championship remaining loss to Italy.

The 52-year-old has a contract till the following Euros in 2024 however desires to guarantee he has the power required to go once more and that the decision is correct for the staff.

“When I’ve been through the past few tournaments my emotions have been difficult to really think through properly in those following few weeks,” Southgate mentioned.

“It took a lot power out of you and you’ve got a lot going by way of your thoughts.

“I would like to make the appropriate decision both manner as a result of it has to be the appropriate one to go once more, or the appropriate one not to go once more and I do not assume tonight is the time to make a decision like that.

“Neither are the next few days really.”

Put to him that the future seems to be vibrant for England, he added: “Yeah, look, I’ve found large parts of the last 18 months difficult.

“For all the pieces that I’ve cherished about the previous couple of weeks, I nonetheless have how issues have been for 18 months.

“What’s been said and what’s been written, the night at Wolves.

“There’s a lot of issues in my head that is actually conflicted for the time being, so what I would like to make certain, if it is the appropriate factor to say, is that I’ve undoubtedly bought the power to do this.

“I don’t want to be four, five months down the line thinking I’ve made the wrong call. It’s too important for everybody to get that wrong.”

Southgate was broadly criticised throughout England’s six-game winless run main up to Qatar, which led to relegation from the Nations League high tier.

June’s 4-0 Molineux defeat by the hands of Hungary was the bottom level and a few followers turned on the England boss, simply as they did after September’s 1-0 loss to Italy in Milan.

England head again to Italy to kick off European Championship qualifying in simply 14 weeks and Southgate will sit down with the Football Association earlier than then to speak “things through logically”.

The former defender has gone by way of the identical course of after the runs to the World Cup semi-finals 4 years in the past and final summer season’s Euros remaining – a penalty shoot-out loss to Italy.

“I don’t think I have got over the last one, but this feels a little bit different because, when we reflect on what we’ve done, I’m not sure what more we could have done or given,” mentioned Southgate.

“I think we’ve given a really good performance against a top team, which I think was a significant psychological step for those players.

“There are some younger gamers in there particularly, the place the step now we have to make is to have that perception and that confidence in these massive video games.

“I have been involved in nights where we have played top teams and been on the back foot for the majority of the game and dominated.

“I do know France are a bit extra counter-attacking so it’s a little bit totally different from a possession staff who can pin you again.

“We wanted to be bold in the tournament and I think we went toe-to-toe with them and, yeah, the players should be really proud of what they have done.”

Southgate believes England have “restored credibility” by reaching the quarter-final stage in three successive tournaments, which they final achieved underneath Sven-Goran Eriksson between 2002 and 2006.

The former defender will not be certain if he’ll watch the remainder of the World Cup after he returned dwelling on Sunday following an abrupt halt to what was shaping up to be a particular match.

“It’s a really strange feeling because the end of the tournament is so stark,” he mentioned earlier than departing their Qatar base.

“Everybody’s packing everything up and you go through years of preparation, really, and then there’s that feeling.

“There’s the sensation that we have been so shut and the extent of efficiency I used to be so proud of.

“There’s the disappointment that we feel we could have gone on and done more and yet I really have very few regrets about the whole thing. So, yeah, emotionally it’s a rollercoaster, really.”