Rashford gets England back to winning ways over Switzerland

England manager Gareth Southgate recognised his side have vast room for improvement despite bouncing back from three consecutive defeats as a much-changed team edged past Switzerland for a 1-0 friendly win thanks to Marcus Rashford’s winner. However, the Three Lions again failed to hit the heights from their World Cup campaign, particularly in a poor first 45 minutes that provoked strong words between the players at half-time.

Southgate, though, did at least stave off an unwanted record of becoming the first England boss to oversee four straight defeats and further puncture the feel-good factor of a run to the World Cup semi-finals. “It’s not been a perfect week by any means but we finish with a win, which is important moving forward,” said Southgate. “We had a tactical problem to sort out and so many lads playing their first 45 minutes of the season,” he added of the first-half display.