If you’re going to quote me, at least have the integrity to do it properly. You’re jumping to your own, inaccurate conclusions based off what I’m saying.
I never said Kane has to improve, but what I did say is that Southgate needs to address the fact that Kane isn’t having many shots. His average is 3 per game and minus the 3 penalties, that’s roughly 2 shots per game. Now, what you’ve done is assume that I’m blaming for Kane for that. Wrong. I’ve been consistent in saying that we as a team are not creating enough chances from open play and that is therefore affecting Kane’s performance.
Your next point, that this is Sterling’s job is pretty silly. Firstly, football is a team game so it’s no one person’s job to create chances for Kane — this is particularly difficult if you’re the furthest player up the pitch as Sterling was. In our system, there’s a few ‘playmakers’. Henderson’s role is a pivot, hitting the wingbacks and putting in balls in behind defences to Lingard, Dele and Sterling (mainly). Lingard’s and Dele’s (to a lesser degree) role in creating chances is working with with their wingbacks and Sterling (see Lingard’s goal v Pananma and Dele’s v Sweden). Our wingbacks are key to our system, these are players who should primarily be getting the balls in for (mainly) Kane, Lingard, Dele and Sterling. Trippier has created the most chances for us (only De Brunye and an other have created more in the whole tournament, last time I checked) and Young has also created his fair share (mainly from setpieces though). Sterling’s job is multifaceted which makes him important to the way Southgate plays. Links up with Dele and Lingard, dribbles with ball from deep (incidently, leading Kane’s shot v Sweden) plays on the last shoulder of the defender — v effective against Sweden. To say it’s mainly Sterling’s job to create chances for Kane just shows a fundamental lack of understanding in the way Southgate has setup the team.
