Southgate praises the Three Lions fight back character after Germany draw

Gareth Southgate hailed the "tremendous spirit" demonstrated by England, who he feels has come together and grown following their entertaining Nations League draw with Germany. The Three Lion's head coach has come under pressure recently following a difficult spell of form that culminated in relegation from League A after defeating Italy on Friday.
Indeed, England has now gone six matches without a win for the first time since 1993. But they showed brilliant character against Germany on Monday, recovering from 2-0 down to lead 3-2 at Wembley, before Kai Havertz denied them victory.
And Southgate is confident the sticky patch will benefit his players as all eyes turn towards the World Cup, which sees the 1966 winners face Iran in their Group B opener on November 21.
"As a group, they have really come together this week," he told Channel 4. "It has been a tough period for the team, but they have grown.
"To an extent, we are always going to face pressure, so we need to be exposed to pressure. We played a friendly against the Ivory Coast in March and they went down to 10 men, and it became a non-event and we learnt nothing.
"This week, we've learned a huge amount. They've had to step forward and come together. It will benefit us in the long run.
"In the end, a couple of errors have cost us the goals, but I'll focus on the fact they played with tremendous spirit and showed a belief that we haven't shown in the last few games. I thought the crowd saw that and rose to that."

England finished the group stage of the European Nations League, bottoming in Group C with 3 points, to fall to the lowest level in the next season of the tournament.