{"id":38346,"date":"2024-06-21T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-carragher-urges-southgate-to-sacrifice-drop-two-england-players\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T13:00:10","slug":"euro-2024-carragher-urges-southgate-to-sacrifice-drop-two-england-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-carragher-urges-southgate-to-sacrifice-drop-two-england-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: Carragher urges Southgate to sacrifice, drop two England players"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Liverpool legend, Jamie Carragher, has urged England manager Gareth Southgate to \u2018sacrifice\u2019 both Phil Foden and Trent Alexander-Arnold for the Three Lions\u2019 final group game against Slovenia at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after England struggled to play a 1-1 draw against Denmark on Thursday.<br \/>\nEngland will now face Slovenia in their last match in Group C on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They currently top the Group with four points and need a win or a draw against Slovenia to qualify for the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in his column for The Telegraph, Carragher said: \u201cUnfortunately, two of the best Premier League footballers \u2013 Trent Alexander-Arnold and Phil Foden \u2013 will have to be sacrificed now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team\u2019s set-up is not getting the best from them, or their team-mates. Introducing Alexander-Arnold into midfield in a major tournament was always a risk. It has not worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the wingers that should pair with Harry Kane up front, Carragher added, \u201cI would like to see a 4-3-3 with Saka and Anthony Gordon either side of Kane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: Carragher urges Southgate to sacrifice, drop two England players<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool legend, Jamie Carragher, has urged England manager Gareth Southgate to \u2018sacrifice\u2019 both Phil Foden and Trent Alexander-Arnold for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4506,4187,2713,15,2715,160],"tags":[1279,293,16089,2718,2716,180,1032,16791,2723,201,833,448],"class_list":["post-38346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carragher","category-england","category-euro-2024","category-news","category-southgate","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-carragher","tag-drop","tag-england","tag-euro","tag-news","tag-players","tag-sacrifice","tag-southgate","tag-sport","tag-two","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}