That's how I see it. Sosuthgate deserves huge credit for the unity he has created and for blooding young players. Many better managers before him have failed to do both and just played the big names without creating a cohesive team.
However, he showed against Italy in the final that he will always be too cautious. We were 1-0 up early on and had a bench full of players that could have looked to counter their experienced but old back line. Instead we dropped deeper and deeper and fell into a rut. Their goal was coming for ages. Even at 1-1 there was no ambition to win the game. And when he wanted to make his subs for the shootout he waited and waited and waited because he feared bringing those players on earlier could have lost us the game.
A home final, with a home crowd at Wembley and we should have been playing with more intent and freedom. Against the big sides, Southgate will always fear what they can do rather than allow us to do what we can unfortunately. But he's still doing better with this team than any previous manager since Ramsay has so can we really complain too much. Top of the group, 5 wins from 5. About all you can ask for really. To win the world cup, I think we need Bellingham to really establish over the next year or so in order to have a Rice/Philipps and Bellingham central midfield rather than the two former players. It would give us a lot more drive in the middle.