Gareth Southgate dismi sed suggestions Englands recent struggles are down to a conservative approach, instead ruing a lack of sharpne s in the final third.England drew 0-0 with Italy on Saturday as the Three Lions were left rooted to the foot of their Nations League group with just two points from three games.Acro s the trio of matches played this month, England have scored just one goal Harry Kanes penalty in the 1-1 Carolina Panthers Home Office draw with Germany.The Three Lions performances have been widely criticised, and while they did create chances against the Azzurri, they were at times second best to a team Brady Christensen Jersey undergoing something of a transformation.A common criticism of England throughout Southgates time in charge has been that they lack an identity beyond their often pragmatic approach, but he did not want to entertain such an idea this time.Asked if he saw the performance as cautious, Southgate told Channel 4: I dont see how you can really.We tried to move the ball through a very good, well-organised team. Weve got the ball into our forward players and weve given all of them a go, tried to refresh it because we Tommy Tremble Jersey know the state of the season were at.So, I think at the moment that little bit of sharpne s in the final third isnt quite there, but I was pleased with the general performance. Tammy Abraham started in place of Kane in attack, with the Roma striker supported by Raheem Sterling, Mason Mount and Jack Grealish.While Sterling and Mount each managed three shots and Grealish laid on a game-high four key pa ses, Abraham mustered only two shots.One was a harmle s off-target header and the other a wasteful finish after robbing Italy of po se sion inside their own area, as he scuffed wide of the right-hand post.Neverthele s, Southgate seemedencouraged by Abrahams display.I said earlier in the week, weve been too reliant on Harry and Raheem for our goals, he continued.Other players have got to step into that phase. A number of them do it for their clubs but Phil Hoskins Jersey at international level theyve not managed to convert that.So weve looked dangerous without getting the goals that are needed in the bigger games.I thought Tammy was fine. I havent seen that chance back from right at the start, but thats probably the Sam Tecklenburg Jersey one England should have taken .We felt we needed to refresh the team when we did it brought Abraham off but I wasnt unhappy with Tammys performance at all.England will hope to finally get their first win of their Nations League campaign on Tuesday when they host Hungary, to whom they lost in Budapest last weekend.