{"id":25961,"date":"2023-09-11T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T09:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/?p=25961"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:30:30","slug":"england-struggle-to-break-down-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/news\/england-struggle-to-break-down-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"England struggle to break down Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Attacking play didn\u2019t quite click &#8211; Southgate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First international goal for Walker<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>England currently among favourites for Euro 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>England manager Gareth Southgate acknowledged that his team struggled to find their rhythm in attack as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Ukraine in a Euro 2024 qualifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match, which took place in Poland due to the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine, saw Oleksandr Zinchenko open the scoring for the hosts. However, England&#8217;s Kyle Walker levelled the score with his first international goal, after a superb ball from Harry Kane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to win every game by fours and sevens,&#8221; Southgate stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That was a really good test &#8211; away from home, very passionate atmosphere, quite a few changes forced from the last game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes, especially with attacking play, it doesn&#8217;t quite click. We know that the patterns that we worked during the week are what we always do, so it&#8217;s not that we approach the game in a different way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Betting\">Betting Implications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This draw marks the end of England&#8217;s perfect record in Group C, having won all four of their previous matches. Despite this, they maintain a strong position at the top of the standings with 13 points, leaving them six points ahead of second-placed Ukraine. This leaves England in a very strong position. At the time of writing most bookies have England at 1\/10 or 1\/12 to win the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southgate\u2019s side are also among the favourites to win the tournament as a whole. At the time of writing bet365 have both England and France at 9\/2 to win Euro 2024. Germany, who have just sacked their manager Hansi Flick are currently 13\/2, with Spain, who scored an emphatic victory over Georgia on Friday 9\/1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England also remain narrow favourites to win when they visit in-form Scotland for the 150th Anniversary Heritage Match on Tuesday. They have a friendly against Australia at the start of the next international break before returning to Euro 2024 action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the links for the best betting sites for Euro 2024 and for the best football betting sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England manager Gareth Southgate acknowledged that his team struggled to find their rhythm in attack as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Ukraine in a Euro 2024 qualifier. The match, which took place in Poland due to the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine, saw Oleksandr Zinchenko open the scoring for the hosts. However,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":25688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[645],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25963,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961\/revisions\/25963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}