England captain Harry Kane has fired a warning to his team-mates following Friday night time’s defeat to Iceland at Wembley.
Gareth Southgate’s males are one of many favourites for Euro 2024 however they had been booed off following a 1-0 defeat of their closing warm-up sport for the match.
The Three Lions head to Germany with one among their most proficient squads in current reminiscence and stand a extremely good probability of ending their lengthy 58-year await a trophy.
Kane sends warning to England team-mates
England will likely be seeking to go one higher having misplaced the ultimate of Euro 2020 on penalties to Italy, nevertheless it seems like they’re heading to Germany barely underprepared.
Southgate’s facet will come up towards Serbia, Denmark and Slovenia within the group stage, and Kane who scored 36 Bundesliga objectives in his debut season for Bayern Munich feels there may be a lot to enhance upon forward of their opening sport on Sunday.
“After all there will likely be some noise about it [losing to Iceland] however I feel there may be loads of optimism from the followers and rightly so,” Kane mentioned in quotes picked up by BBC Sport.
“This may very well be a pleasant wake-up name for everybody to grasp it’s not going to be as simple as individuals suppose, there may be loads of work to do.”
“There are areas we have to enhance, particularly with our stress.
“The group video games are going to be similar to this, we’re going to should defend nicely, particularly the longer balls, and with the ball we have to be a bit extra affected person, it’s one to look again on.”
Kane additionally insisted the idea amongst the group stays as sturdy because it’s ever been and that he’s excited for an additional main match.
“I’m simply excited for an additional main match,” he added.
“I’ve mentioned many occasions to guage us on the match kind, on the match soccer.
“Finally it’s right down to us to ensure we get it proper on the pitch, we now have loads of implausible gamers, gamers who’ve had actually, actually good seasons, you’ll be able to’t ignore that.
‘Being so shut within the final Euros (overwhelmed in closing), there’s a actual starvation to be again, it comes round fast, if I’m trustworthy.
“We had the World Cup and we’re again right here once more, I really feel like we’re on the correct path.”
“We’ve got that mindset that we will obtain it we additionally know there may be loads of laborious work from now till the ultimate in July.”