In England’s first Nations League match since the resignation of Gareth Southgate, the team won 2-0 in Dublin on Saturday thanks to goals from Declan Rice and Jack Grealish.
Carsley, who typically oversees the England Under-21 team, was appointed interim manager for Tuesday’s matches at Wembley between Finland and the Irish.
From 2012 to 2017, he only had brief interim leadership positions at Coventry, Brentford, and Birmingham in his senior managerial career.
You constantly have this thought in the back of your mind: “You know, managing England isn’t that hard when you’re seated in the team.
There have been moments when I’ve wondered if I could pull it off.
However, the Dublin victory has given me and the rest of the staff more confidence that, in reality, everything will work out.
Under Carsley, Morgan Gibbs-White of Nottingham Forest won the European Under-21 Championship the previous year.
And on Saturday, the former Everton player gave him his senior debut.
“I’d say he’s a bit more serious now [than when he was Under-21 boss], which is a good thing,” Gibbs-White added.
