'A tracksuit manager' - three things from Carsley's England bow

BBC Radio 5 Live's John Murray and Ian Dennis were successful Dublin to watch England hit nan Republic of Ireland 2-0 successful Lee Carsley's first crippled arsenic interim boss.

Declan Rice and Jack Grealish scored nan goals successful nan Nations League opener.

Murray and Dennis talk done what they saw...

Ian Dennis

Even earlier we had gone unrecorded connected aerial for 5 Live, it was noticeable really progressive Lee Carsley was pinch nan warm-up.

The interim caput coach moreover placed nan reddish and achromatic cones retired successful nan England half of nan field.

He was waiting connected nan transportation arsenic a solitary fig earlier nan players came retired to lukewarm up.

Carsley was actively progressive on pinch his assistants Ashley Cole and Joleon Lescott. It's a important alteration successful attack to that of Gareth Southgate aliases erstwhile managers.

I moreover retrieve Fabio Capello, erstwhile he was England caput coach, watching intently from nan sidelines on pinch his adjunct Franco Baldini - but they would study and show nan opposition.

Carsley was purely focused connected his England players and looked comfortable arsenic a tracksuit manager.

John Murray

If you were looking for a different attack from Lee Carsley, it was location correct from nan start. There was an first mis-step erstwhile he turned correct to nan location dugout erstwhile he first walked down nan tunnel, but it was a tracksuited Carsley who laid retired nan balls and nan cones and oversaw nan full of nan warm-up.

It served to underline really he wishes to beryllium seen very overmuch arsenic nan caput coach. And if England replicate nan first-half performance, he will not beryllium interim for excessively overmuch longer.

Ian Dennis

I said pinch Harry Kane astatine nan squad edifice connected Friday evening and he revealed Lee Carsley had conscionable tried to instrumentality a fewer things successful his first week. I fishy he will beryllium satisfied pinch those tweaks. He was looking for a greater control, particularly pinch nan ball, keeping possession amended and playing pinch a precocious tempo.

I said successful commentary I couldn’t callback nan past clip Jack Grealish played centrally for England. He was awesome arsenic he roamed and linked up good pinch Anthony Gordon. There was a bully equilibrium down nan near broadside pinch Levi Colwill astatine left-back.

Both Grealish and Gordon played arsenic if they had a constituent to beryllium - and while successful nan 2nd half England played wrong themselves, they were pleasing connected nan oculus successful nan first half.

John Murray

Football teams request equilibrium and Colwill astatine left-back pinch Gordon connected nan near helping brought conscionable that to England and surely helped pinch nan fluidity of nan first half performance. But what was striking astir it was nan simplicity that was champion illustrated by nan Grealish goal.

It should beryllium added though, that nether Gareth Southgate, England besides produced galore exciting, front-foot, high-scoring performances against teams languishing down nan world rankings. But there’s nary uncertainty it was nan positivity that provided Carsley pinch his biggest tick for his first match.