Speaking on his official YouTube channel about the Euro 2020 final, Rio Ferdinand said: "Roberto Mancini went into half-time and he used that 15 minutes better than Gareth Southgate did.
"He changed the personnel, he allowed his wide player, Federico Chiesa, to come more central in order to link up with Lorenzo Insigne, brought off Ciro Immobile and that's when you need a reaction from our manager.
"That's the moment in the game where you need the manager to go, 'You know what? I've seen this now, let me change things.' He changed the formation, still didn’t change things, didn't alter the running of the game.
"This was a game where he was probably letting himself down in that sense In the biggest game, Southgate seemed like he froze and just thought: 'Let me just get to penalties and hope for the best'."
Southgate and England seemed happy to sit back and defend their lead of going up 1-0 in the second minute of the game against Italy at Wembley.
However, Mancini's men scored an equaliser in the second half through Leonardo Bonucci and won the Euro 2020 final 4-2 on penalties.
