If I remember correctly Southgate has relatively little experience of club management for any length of time, Middlesborough if I recall, before becoming England manager.And so he goes and flukes an easier and kinder draw yet again.
Not that there are any easy games the way they're playing. The 4-4-2 podcast says there were 90 seconds of golden football once Anthony Gordon was on the pitch (last game) and so there's a glimmer of hope I suppose. But then this is the hapless Southgate we're talking about.
That seems to be coming home to roost now!