Euro 2024: Tactical breakdown – where England are going wrong and how they can improve

Keeping your width, especially at the start of games, is vital to create the space you want in central areas.

Manchester City are the best example of a team that does that. They always get their wide players to stay high and wide for the first half-hour because if you stretch the pitch, someone has got to go and mark you.

That leaves room in the middle which, with England, is the space Bellingham would move into.

England haven’t been doing that, though. Instead, they’ve been coming into those central areas straight away. I saw examples in all three games where our front four are all within a stone’s throw of each other, with six or seven opposition players all close by ready to pounce.