Alarming stat highlights England’s attacking woes under Southgate after Italy draw

A head-turning statistic, highlighting the woes of the England nationwide group within the attacking third of late, has come to the fore on Saturday night.

The Three Lions, after all, had been again in motion a short while in the past.

After snatching the primary level of their Nations League marketing campaign courtesy of a 1-1 draw at Germany in midweek, Gareth Southgate’s troops confronted off in opposition to one other European heavyweight, on this event within the type of Italy.

England headed into proceedings with one thing of a revenge mission in thoughts, having after all seen their Euro 2020 dream ended by Roberto Mancini’s Azzurri simply shy of twelve months in the past.

When all was stated and accomplished in Wolverhampton, although, the hosts had been finally pressured to accept a share of the spoils.

This got here as an altogether underwhelming 90 minutes, which noticed clear-cut probabilities at a premium, performed out right into a 0-0 stalemate which neither aspect may actually have argued in opposition to.

England wanted Aaron Ramsdale and he answered the decision ?

Two massive saves. Nations League factors shared in a 0-0 draw between England and Italy.

That’s two begins and two clear sheets for Ramsdale in a Three Lions shirt.#OptusSport pic.twitter.com/WOggvg5eR5

— Optus Sport (@OptusSport) June 11, 2022

Italy, in flip, have maintained their spot atop the Nations League Group C desk, boasting 5 factors collected from three video games.

England, then again, are glued to the underside of the desk, having scraped collectively a disappointing haul of two factors from their very own trio of fixtures thus far.

And such struggles on the a part of the Three Lions, as alluded to above, come largely owing to a failure to provide within the attacking third.

As revealed by statisticians Opta, regardless of the array of attacking expertise on the disposal of Gareth Southgate, England have now failed to seek out the web in simply shy of half of the nation’s 15 Nations League outings up to now:

7 – England have failed to attain in seven of their 15 UEFA Nations League video games (47%). Certainly, seven of the final eight instances the Three Lions have failed to seek out the web in all competitions have been on this event. Denied. pic.twitter.com/4qwoVQYFN3

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) June 11, 2022

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