Gareth Southgate is set to go back to the future and revert to a three-man defence for England’s European Championships last-16 tie against Germany at Wembley tonight.
England manager Southgate has told his players they can create an iconic moment in the country’s football history that “lives forever” by beating the Germans on home soil and winning a knockout game in the Euros for only the second time to reach the quarter-finals.
England are yet to concede a goal in the tournament, but, barring a late change of heart, manager Southgate wants to match up the Germans and play with a similar formation to the one his team beat Belgium with in October last year and reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup with.
England will line up against Joachim Löw’s Germany in front of around 40,000 spectators at Wembley for a fixture full of drama and steeped in history.
From the Geoff Hurst hat-trick in England’s 1966 World Cup final victory to the Gerd Muller strike which ended their reign four years later and the Frank Lampard goal-that-never-was in South Africa in 2010, this…
