{"id":114197,"date":"2019-10-12T00:55:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/12\/a-lot-of-work-to-be-done-southgate-says-englands-czech-defeat-is-wake-up-call\/"},"modified":"2019-10-12T00:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:55:55","slug":"a-lot-of-work-to-be-done-southgate-says-englands-czech-defeat-is-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114197","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A lot of work to be done\u2019: Southgate says England\u2019s Czech defeat is wake-up call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England suffer their first defeat in 44 qualifiers\u2022 \u2018Football is all about responding to setbacks,\u2019 says managerGareth Southgate suggested that England had been handed a Euro 2020 wake-up call after they were beaten 2-1 by the Czech Republic \u2013 the nation\u2019s first defeat in 44 World Cup and European Championship qualifiers; a run that stretches back 10 years.The result dented England\u2019s pristine record en route to the finals next summer but more worryingly, as Southgate admitted, it raised a slew of questions. The team were poor with and without the ball, while defensive frailties remain a concern. England now travel to Sofia where they will face Bulgaria on Monday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/oct\/11\/gareth-southgate-england-czech-republic-wake-up-call\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018A lot of work to be done\u2019: Southgate says England\u2019s Czech defeat is wake-up call<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England suffer their first defeat in 44 qualifiers\u2022 \u2018Football is all about responding to setbacks,\u2019 says managerGareth Southgate suggested that England had been handed a Euro 2020 wake-up call after they were beaten 2-1 by the Czech Republic \u2013 the nation\u2019s first defeat in 44 World Cup and European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}