If England win this tournament there are many who will claim that we had an easy route to the final and all the other teams in Europe are a shadow of their former selves and Southgate had so much talent at his disposal he should have won the tournament before we were out of the group, and it just demonstrates his tactical naivety that meant we had to actually play all our games.
I'm not criticising Southgate in any way with my comments.
I'm pointing out that Germany aren't that impressive right now and we shouldn't be going in to this match with any fear or feelings of inferiority.
If we beat them, it's still a big achievement as they're a historic powerhouse with some quality players.
If we get knocked out by them, it's not exactly an upset, we've both been in fairly indifferent form in the last few years.
I'm still fully behind Southgate whatever happens tomorrow.
Meaningless tomorrow. It'll be a very difficult match against a top team.
Obviously it's going to be a difficult game.
But you're the one who claimed it was b***ks that they're not that good right now.
They were knocked out of the World Cup by South Korea, relegated from the Nations League straight after that.
They were beaten 6-0 by Spain in November, and beaten 2-1 by North Macedonia a few months back, and they were minutes away from being knocked out by Hungary less than a week ago.
There's a reason Joachim Low is being moved on at the end of the tournament.
On their day, they can still play really well, but they're not the all conquering side that some are building them up to be.