The 22-year-old winger was replaced at half-time during England’s 4-0 victory over Malta on Friday.
He was sent off after scoring the winner for Manchester City at Bournemouth last week and linked with a swap deal for Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez.
“He is a player we have a lot of time for – he’s really ballsy,” said Southgate.
Southgate added it was “difficult” for Sterling to be removed for Marcus Rashford at the interval but he “took it really professionally”.
“It is much harder to be a creative player than the lump that I was because I was just stopping people and that’s much easier,” said former England centre-back Southgate.
“To go and beat people, and to beat people in tight spaces, some days that happens and some days it doesn’t,” said Southgate.
“In the first half, it was the latter for Raheem – but he will bounce back from that.”
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