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Raheem Sterling<\/strong><\/p>\n Raheem Sterling has said England\u2019s players must take responsibility for their poor form ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, adding the team are in the right hands under manager Gareth Southgate.<\/p>\n England were relegated to the second tier of the UEFA Nations League on Friday as they slumped to a 1-0 defeat against Italy \u2014 a loss that summed up the team\u2019s struggles in a repeat of the Euro 2020 final as their winless run stretched to five games, without a single open-play goal scored in that time.<\/p>\n Sterling, who played a crucial part in England\u2019s runs to the semifinal of the 2018 World Cup and final of Euro 2020, said it is not time to panic despite the World Cup starting in less than two months.<\/p>\n \u201cSince the manager has come in he\u2019s always tried to protect us,\u201d Sterling said. \u201cHe\u2019s always tried to make the environment really calm for us so that we can go out there and do what we need to do on the football field.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the summer, we all had to come away and look at ourselves. None of us were proud of those performances, and I don\u2019t think it is for Gareth to shoulder all of that blame.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got players in our squad that have played at the highest level, and we need to take some of that responsibility and start to put some of these performances right, and win football matches.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is what we are here for. We are not a country here to just take part, we want to win things. We\u2019ve spoken as a collective and I think we are in the right state to put things right.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Raheem Sterling Raheem Sterling has said England\u2019s players must take responsibility for their poor form ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, adding the team are in the right hands under manager Gareth Southgate. England were relegated to the second tier of the UEFA Nations League on Friday as they slumped to a 1-0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[441,190,184,18994,2210,9162],"class_list":["post-1211794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-blame","tag-players","tag-poor","tag-raheem","tag-show","tag-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}