Southgate admits that they need to improve

After

1-0 victory over

Romania

, their manager

Gareth Southgate

has talked about his side’s performance, insisting that they need to perform better.

England was under so much pressure, but Rashford’s second-half penalty secured England’s victory against Romania, who sits 43rd in the FIFA rankings.

"I don't think we were as good as we want to be, or that we need to be,"

he told

. "In the first half we used the ball reasonably well, our best moments were coming down the left, we needed to get the ball from right to left more urgently.

"We were a bit slow moving the ball, and in the final third we didn't quite select the right pass or ran into traffic when we had a chance to create clearer opportunities.

"We didn't do enough without the ball in the first half, especially our pressing from the front. That meant we were stretched, and we have to learn from that. We'll play against better teams who will carve us apart; Romania created more opportunities than we would have liked, and gave our goalkeeper a nice debut in that he had a bit more to do than we wanted to see.

"We had a lot of inexperienced international players, three debuts, a couple of players asked to perform roles that aren't their primary positions, Ben Godfrey especially, and a couple coming back from injuries."

England’s struggles with injuries and their poor performance have worried the fans and even their manager, but they are heading into the Euro 2020 tournament, and they will face Croatia in their first match, so the team must be thinking about their performance there as their boss declares.

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