Don Pacifico That's how stats can mislead people, but Southgate had incredible luck in his tenure.
Venables, Robson, Sven, Hogdson etc all didn't have the luck of luck of draw and often got big teams in KO stages. Went out to teams like Portugal x2, Italy, Germany, France etc. No shame in that.
In Southgate 3 major tournament...
2018 - Should have went out to Colombia, got out played, conceded a last min equaliser and scraped through on penalties. Went out to the first decent team they faced, Croatia
2020 - Credit for beating an out of sort Germany, but then had 2 smaller nations en route to final in Ukraine and Denmark (should have lost to Denmark anyway was lucky on the dive). Lost at home to Italy.
2022 - Beat Senegal which was expected, then lost to the first decent team they faced in France.
2024 - The less said about yesterday the better.
So overall the only decent team they beat in KO stages was Germany. In all 4 tournaments they got piss easy groups as well