Keane blasts England with Neville labelling side ‘basic’ after awful first half

ROY KEANE and Gary Neville slammed England’s drab first-half performance against Slovenia.

The Three Lions were yet again lacking inspiration in their final Group C fixture of Euro 2024.

Bukayo Saka did finish off the one good move that Gareth Southgate‘s side put together, however it was ruled offside.

There was another good moment as Jude Belligham put in a dangerous cross but neither Harry Kane or Conor Gallagher could turn it in.

Keane was unimpressed by the performance as he slammed the players at half time.

Speaking on ITV, he said: “It has been too slow and too sloppy.

“The one good moment was offside.

“Pass it in front of somebody, and be brave enough to lose the ball.”

Gary Neville echoed Keane’s sentiments as he labelled the players showing as “basic”.

The retired defender also claimed that the players on the bench could do better.

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He added: “We look really basic and we are better than that and we have players on the bench that are better than that.

“We do look quite basic and that is a problem.”

Thanks to results elsewhere, the Three Lions had already qualified for the round of 16.

Earlier, Keane had hit back at Declan Rice’s comments that slammed the criticism of the players.

He suggested that modern players are more delicate to criticism and that they need to “roll up their sleeves”.

There was little change after the half time break as England managed to qualify top of the group despite the 0-0 draw.

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