Gary Lineker has claimed that a leaked England line-up for the Euro 2020 clash with Germany is too defensive. 

The former striker tweeted to say that he has seen the side with which head coach Gareth Southgate will begin the crunch last-16 tie. 

“Just seen the alleged England team,” Wrote on Twitter.

“Defend! Defend! Defend! Defend! Defend!”

The text was accompanied by a bicep emoji. 

Southgate was last week irritated by the suggestion that his side play too cautiously. 

ITV presenter Mark Pougatch suggested to the former international that it might be time to “take off the handbreak”.

But Southgate responded: “Well, those things are always our ambition.

“I mean we’ve played four attacking players in the matches we’ve played so far.

“We don’t say to the players ‘don’t play the ball forward’, ‘don’t move the ball quickly’, ‘don’t attack’.

“I don’t think you’d have found any of those messages in our preparation for any of the games, so very often the opposition dictate a lot of the things you’re allowed to do in football matches.

“We know that we want to be better with the ball and we want to move the ball more quickly and we’ve got to build on the solidity that we’ve shown already to this point.”

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