wanted to sign off. gareth southgate s team will be amongst the strongest sides in pot i for the finals draw a week on saturday. yet these last two matches against the weakest teams in the group were disappointing. debutant rico lewis was unfortunate to concede a penalty which, although it was saved by pickford, the macedonian captain bardi followed up to score. a headerfrom a corner by harry kane on as a substitute forced an own goal for the equaliser. but otherwise, on a difficult, newly re laid pitch, england struggled to break macedonia down. and so it was far from the uplifting end to the campaign they d been hoping for. i have to be pleased with the progress of the team. if you d said at the start of the campaign that we would be 8 wins, 2 draws at the end of the year, it s a pretty good record, and we can now start to look forward and we ve got these two exciting games in march to look forward to and prepare for. so, yeah, i think we ve done a lot of things well
and the result ensures they ll be among the top seeds when the draw is made. but, as our football correspondentjohn murray says, it wasn t the way they wanted to sign off. gareth southgate s team will be amongst the strongest sides in poti amongst the strongest sides in pot 1 for the finals draw a week on saturday. yet these last two matches against the weakest teams in the group were disappointing. debutant rico lewis was unfortunate to concede a penalty which, although it was saved by pickford, the macedonian captain bardi followed up to score. a headerfrom a corner by harry kane on as a substitute forced an own goal for the equaliser. but otherwise, on a difficult, newly re laid pitch, england struggled to break macedonia down. and so it was far from the uplifting end to the campaign they d been hoping for. i campaign they d been hoping for. ., ., , campaign they d been hoping for. ., , for. i have to be pleased with the progress for. i have to be pleased with the pr
in pot 1 for the finals draw a week on saturday. yet these last two matches against the weakest teams in the group were disappointing. debutant rico lewis was unfortunate to concede a penalty which, although it was saved by pickford, the macedonian captain bardi followed up to score. a headerfrom a corner by harry kane on as a substitute forced an own goal for the equaliser. but otherwise, on a difficult, newly re laid pitch, england struggled to break macedonia down. and so it was far from the uplifting end to the campaign they d been hoping for. i have to be pleased with the progress of the team. if you d said at the start of the campaign that we would be 8 wins, 2 draws at the end of the year, it s a pretty good record, and we can now start to look forward and we ve got these two exciting games in march to look forward to and prepare for. so, yeah, i think we ve done a lot of things well but there s always room for improvement. elsewhere in that group, the team that