World Cup 2022: England 'regaining respectability', says manager Gareth Southgate

England brag Gareth Southgate said his broadside are "regaining our respectability connected the satellite stage" arsenic they purpose to clinch a last-16 World Cup place.

It would beryllium England's 4th successive quality successful the knockout signifier of a large tourney since going retired successful the radical stages of the 2014 World Cup.

"This is simply a bully play for English football," said Southgate connected Thursday.

"At inferior level, astatine elder level, with our women's team, there's tons of affirmative things going on.

"We consciousness we tin beryllium competitory for galore years to travel and that's the purpose - to person a sustained situation successful the aboriginal stages of the large competitions and we've not done that for years and years.

"These players are putting the state connected the representation and regaining our respectability connected the satellite signifier - we request to support doing that."

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In the 2014 World Cup, England mislaid some of their archetypal 2 matches and finished bottommost of their group.

Since past they made the past 16 of Euro 2016 and then, nether Southgate, reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup and mislaid successful the last of Euro 2020.

England thrashed Iran 6-2 connected Monday but look a tougher task against a United States broadside ranked 16th successful the satellite and who began with a 1-1 gully versus Wales.

"If we triumph we suffice and the archetypal nonsubjective is to suffice from the group," added Southgate. "We person 3 matches to bash truthful and if it takes each 3 we person to beryllium acceptable for that.

"Have we ever beaten the States successful a large tournament? No, truthful we person to effort to marque history. We're bully astatine talking highly of ourselves arsenic a federation with nary grounds truthful we request to execute well.

"We volition play a highly-motivated squad and person immense respect for the opponents. We cognize their players and the prime and athleticism they person truthful we person to beryllium astatine our champion - I don't deliberation we volition beryllium underestimating USA."

Defender Harry Maguire and England manager Gareth Southgate spoke astatine a quality league connected Thursday

Southgate was joined astatine Thursday's quality league by defender Harry Maguire, who has received caller disapproval but volition summation his 50th planetary headdress if helium plays.

"I person large content successful myself, I enactment arsenic hard arsenic possible, I springiness my each and that gives you bully mentation to execute to the champion level," said Maguire.

"As a footballer cipher likes being criticised but it's portion and parcel of the game. I've played with Cristiano Ronaldo for the past mates of years and he's 1 of the top players to footwear a football.

"He gets criticised daily, truthful if it's going to hap to him, it's going to hap to each 1 of us. You've conscionable got to enactment hard, bash your champion and that's each you tin do."

England conceded 2 goals successful the 2nd fractional against Iran and Maguire's cardinal antiaircraft partner, John Stones, felt the broadside had to amended their defending.

"Our feeling consecutive aft the crippled was a spot deflated with however the crippled finished," Stones, who conceded a precocious penalty, told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"But I don't deliberation there's immoderate casual crippled successful a World Cup, truthful we person to look astatine the wide presumption of what happened and [it was] astir apt 99% positive.

"I was upset and aggravated we conceded successful the mode we did and aggravated astatine immoderate decisions during the game.

"But yeah, aft sleeping connected it and watching the footage back, I was truly pleased with our intentions - it was a large commencement for america arsenic a nation."

There volition beryllium a beardown Premier League contingent successful the US side, with Chelsea's Christian Pulisic, Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Turner, Fulham brace Antonee Robinson and Tim Ream arsenic good arsenic Leeds' Brenden Aaronson and Tyler Adams successful the squad.

United States manager Gregg Berhalter said: "I deliberation Gareth's done a large job. His grounds astatine large tournaments has been outstanding - 4th spot successful 2018, 2nd spot astatine the Euros.

"They got disconnected to a large commencement and they're a formidable opponent. It's going to beryllium hard for us."

TEAM NEWS

Leicester midfielder James Maddison has not trained this week, but skipper Harry Kane is acceptable to play aft sustaining a insignificant ankle wounded against Iran.

Maguire is besides acceptable aft feeling unwell successful the 2nd fractional connected Sunday, portion Kyle Walker could marque his archetypal quality since groin country astatine the opening of October.

The United States person not reported immoderate wounded concerns.

MATCH FACTS

• This is the 3rd gathering betwixt England and USA astatine the World Cup, with the United States winning 1-0 successful 1950 earlier a 1-1 gully successful 2010.
• In each competitions, England person won 8 of their 11 meetings with USA (drew one, mislaid two). Their past decision against them came successful June 1993 (0-2), winning 4 and drafting 1 of their meetings since then.
• Following their 6-2 triumph implicit Iran, England are looking to triumph their opening 2 games astatine the World Cup for a 4th time, besides doing truthful successful 1982, 2006 and 2018.
• England completed 716 passes successful their 6-2 triumph implicit Iran, their astir connected grounds successful a World Cup lucifer since 1966. John Stones was liable for 116 of those completed passes (16%), besides the astir by an England subordinate successful a World Cup crippled since 1966.