Southgate has instead dropped established international players he
feels lack the necessary technical ease to enact his plan of attritional possession from back to front. It would have been easier
not to do this, easier not to put Kyle Walker, a player more used to
having the ball at his feet, in his back three.](https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/mar/25/gareth-southgate-england-netherlands)