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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Essential Football England Special: Super Saka, Southgate's marvellous Maddison and a perfect Three Lions weekend?

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports News, Sports, News, Soccer

4.0760 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On an England special edition of Essential Football after Gareth Southgate's side begin Euro 2024 qualification with a perfect double of wins over Italy and Ukraine, Oliver Yew and Nick Wright reflect on the positives from Wembley as the Three Lions sign off until June in style.

Sky Sports News senior reporter Rob Dorsett also joins Ron Walker to discuss a perfect weekend for Southgate, the conscious changes the manager has made to his approach since the World Cup and some positive lessons about England's squad depth - despite the raft of withdrawals from his squad.

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0:00.0

The Sky Sports Football Podcast is brought to you by Bet365.

0:04.3

Bet365 wants to help you make every moment extraordinary.

0:08.4

That's why they make it easy to change things up.

0:11.1

You can take a time out, set up reality checks and set your limits.

0:15.2

Because when you make the most of the moments without Bet365,

0:18.6

it means you can enjoy the moments with them.

0:23.6

When you play, play safe with Bet365. Hello and welcome to an England special edition of Essential Football from Sky Sports.

0:39.3

After a perfect start to qualifying for Euro 2024, a debut for Ivan Tony and the small matter of a record 55th England goal for the three Lions all-time top goal scorer Harry Kane.

0:49.3

We'll be looking back at wins over Italy and Ukraine as England bounced back from their World Cup heartbreak in the best possible style.

0:56.6

Let's start off at Wembley where digital football journalists Oliver U and Nick Wright were in place to see England's 2-0 win over Ukraine earlier on Sunday.

1:04.8

Here we are at Wembley, a couple of hours after full-time.

1:08.3

You may hear the hum of the lawnmower, but a pretty convincing win for

1:13.4

England against Ukraine as they sit top of Group C of the Euro qualifiers after two wins. They'll be

1:20.2

Italy last Thursday. Nick, just a few reflections on the game, Bacayas Saka's season just continues to get better.

1:29.6

Yeah, absolutely.

1:30.7

Just, yeah, continues to hit new heights, doesn't he?

1:33.3

Outstanding goal from him.

1:34.5

We were fortunate enough to be right in front of it as well here in the press box at Wembley.

1:38.9

And a great cross for Kane's opening goal as well.

1:41.9

I think he was one of several players who performed

1:44.5

really, really well, but most satisfying for Southgate is probably the fact that it was just

1:47.8

a really assured team performance, wasn't it?

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