Phil Neville likely to step down as England Women head coach – Sky Sports, Skysports.com

The FA is keen to have a coach in place to be in charge of the revised Euros in and Women’s World Cup in

and Neville is to be part of a team advising on potential coaching candidates .

A decision on whether Neville will lead Team GB at the Olympics will also be announced on Thursday.

He became Lionesses head coach in January , leading the side to the SheBelievesCup title in and a fourth-place finish at the World Cup later that summer.

But a run of seven defeats in their last 24 games has raised question marks about his future.

Neville defended the performance of his side after suffering defeats to USA and Spain in defense of their SheBelievesCup titl e earlier this year.

(Analysis: The players need to start taking responsibility

1: Speaking in March, Rachel Yankey welcomes scrutiny of the England Women’s team and head coach Phil Neville but said their poor form is no reason to panic

Speaking in March, Rachel Yankey welcomes scrutiny of the England Women’s team and head coach Phil Neville but said their poor form is no reason to panic

Former England international Rachel Yankey

“I think it’s good that we are questioning the manager and the players. There has to be that accountability because it is not good enough, “Yankey – who was capped times by her country – told (Sky Sports News) after England’s 1-0 loss to Spain in the SheBelieves Cup in March.

“I don’t think it’s panic stations at this moment in time, but we want the team to be playing better than they are.

” We’ve heard [England] staff and players speak about a World Cup hangover. I think there was disappointment because they truly believed they should have gone on and won the World Cup.

“It’s taking quite a long time to get back into the swing of things. They need to re-energise themselves and do it quickly.

“I don’t think it’s as easy as saying that’s all Phil Neville’s fault. The players need to take responsibility for their performance. “

‘Neville not the problem for England ‘

Martin Samuel explained on Sunday Supplement in March why the England Women’s team have wider problems to solve, rather than replacing manager Phil Neville

The Daily Mail’s chief sports writer Martin Samuel

“The problem is not Phil Neville,” he told the Sunday Supplement in March. “At the World Cup, against Canada we have a pass completion rate of 064 .8 per cent. Blind folded, the national average would be 6 per cent. We are rd out of 036 in pass completion. Our best in that tournament is 81 per cent and our average is 68 per cent, so we are a poor passing team.

“Under Mark” Sampson, we were a long-ball team, but we are better organized and physically, that is England’s strength. But it happened with the men, everyone gets better organized and tactically, and then what comes into it is, how well can you play , pass, keep possession and how many chances can you make?

Phil Neville led the side to the SheBelievesCup title in and a fourth-place finish at the World Cup later that summer

And if you cannot do that, everyone catches up with you and goes past you, that is what has happened over the last five years. And the job of Phil Neville, who is trying to do this, is to get our technical level up so that then, the physicality and organization of the English game means you can beat Spain, Holland and these countries.

“At the moment, we came third in 2021, which was a really good tournament for us, but we were 34 rd out of teams for pass completion, so we were not a good technical team, Just a good team. That is what has had to change and it is really hard to change that.

“And unless you can get that technical level up, we are going to get overtaken, and that is exactly what happened in the men’s team and it will happen all over again because international football is all about technique. And you can only get so far and we are not keeping pace and that is the problem. “

             

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