England, The Most Expensive And Minimized Team Of Goal Productivity At Euro 2024

JAKARTA - England can indeed step into the knockout stages of Euro 2024. They even appeared as winners of Group C with a collection of five points from three matches (one win and two draws).

However, England's performance in the group stage has drawn criticism. Favoriteism towards the Three Lions to become the Euro champion in 2024 is shrinking.

Gareth Southgate's men are considered to have qualified for the last 16 with luck, not convincing abilities.

Just look at the Three Lions goal from three group matches. They only scored two goals.

The score became the second least in the group stage after Serbia only collected one goal. The number of goals from England and Hungary, Scotland, and Ukraine was eliminated from the group stage.

Scotland and Ukraine are at the bottom of their respective group standings, while Hungary is in third place.

In fact, the caretakers of the standings in several groups who have made sure not to qualify for the knockout stages, such as Albania, Poland, and the Republic of Ceska, have a collection of goals better than England, which is three goals.

England's goal record in the Euro 2024 group phase repeats minor achievements in the 1988 and 2020 editions throughout the history of participation.

However, that achievement was still better than the Euro 1992 edition when England scored only one goal in the group round.

However, for now, the UK's minimal productivity is clearly in the spotlight considering they had a reliable goalbreaker at their respective clubs last season.

Call it Jude Bellingham (23 goals), Phil Foden (27 goals), Bukayo Saka (20 goals), Harry Kane (44 goals), and Eberechi Eze (11 goals).

Not to mention the total value of the England squad. Gareth Southgate is equipped with the most expensive luxury team of the entire team at Euro 2024.

According to The Sun, the England squad is worth 1.2 trillion pounds with the most expensive player Jude Belingham for 165 million pounds.

With this value, England can make 16 Romanian teams that only have a total value of 74 million pounds.

It is only natural that England is bombarded with criticism because the value of the squad and the composition of the players are not in line with the results in the Euro 2024 group stage.

Improvements in the final settlement and creation of opportunities need to be done by Soutgate. Anthony Gordon, who is part of the Three Lions squad, is already aware of the weakness.

"I think our goal is to make statements and correct our performance."

"I still think we are in that position. I think we still have to do better. I just think we can do much better. That's the problem."

"We have good players. In training, we are very good every day. We do everything right. However, the results are not appropriate."

"Hopefully in the upcoming match this will not happen. We have to start with a team that really attacks and dominates the game," said Gordon.

Euro Team 2024 Squad Value List