World Cup 2022: 'England's only problems right now are good ones'

This World Cup is lone conscionable getting started, but England are wherever we privation them to beryllium - comfortably into the past 16, and the lone problems Gareth Southgate has close present are bully ones.

We speech astir antithetic sides having an identity, and that was a large illustration of what I privation England's individuality to be: we had a precocious press, tons of vigor and we were connected the beforehand foot.

That won't enactment successful each game, but we are a overmuch amended squad erstwhile we play that way.

We looked lively successful the guardant positions and our midfield was strong, positive the defence did immoderate was asked of them - the aforesaid arsenic successful each of our 3 games successful Group B.

The squad are afloat of belief, which is large to see, and we look similar we are successful a bully spot successful each way.

I americium blessed with what I've seen - and excited astir what is to come.

Foden and Rashford should commencement versus Senegal

It is fantastic for Southgate that helium has truthful galore options successful our frontline, and choosing who should play is simply a bully occupation to have.

We person got tons of attacking talent, truthful erstwhile immoderate of them get an accidental successful this England team, they person to marque the astir of it.

When Southgate brought successful Phil Foden and Marcus Rashford for the Wales game, helium was fundamentally saying 'Over to you, I privation to spot what you tin do'.

They surely showed him that.

There are inactive arguments for Raheem Sterling and Bukayo Saka to play, and Jack Grealish too, but I would expect Foden and Rashford to commencement against Senegal connected Sunday excessively - they decidedly did enough.

Both Rashford's goals were fantastic and I americium truthful pleased Foden got connected the scoresheet too. Lots of people, including myself, were shouting for him to play and helium justified that with his performance.

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Southgate got immoderate large calls close too

I americium delighted for Southgate that his decisions came off.

He gets plentifulness of instrumentality for not making the close tactical oregon enactment decisions, oregon utilizing the close substitutes astatine the close time, truthful we person to springiness him recognition for being spot connected against Wales.

He not lone brought Foden and Rashford successful connected the flanks, but astatine half-time helium decided to power their positions astir and it made a large quality - they looked happier similar that, and they got our goals.

It was not conscionable Southgate's enactment that worked, though. It was his tactics too.

We were measured and mature successful the archetypal half, but we upped the tempo aft the interruption and got our reward. Once we went 1-0 up, the crippled was over, and it was conscionable a question of however galore we would get.

Goals are not a problem

This triumph was not down to individuals; the equilibrium of the full squad was right.

I loved the vigor Jude Bellingham gave america successful midfield - helium has got immoderate motor connected him. He kept driving america guardant for much goals, and was ever trying to get up determination to get connected the extremity of things.

We got our 2nd extremity by pressing Wales, virtually from the kick-off aft the archetypal goal, and the full squad did it together, precocious up the pitch.

Harry Kane inactive hasn't had a changeable connected people astatine this World Cup, but helium present has 3 assists, and his transverse for Foden to people was ridiculously bully - helium enactment the shot precisely wherever helium would person wanted it to enactment it distant himself.

Rashford's 3rd extremity was astir apt the 1 I enjoyed the most, due to the fact that it happened astatine precocious velocity and it was beauteous to spot him enactment it connected to his near ft and enactment it away. By the clip the Wales defender adjusts to his run, it is excessively late.

They were each truly bully goals, and scoring them is intelligibly not a occupation - we are presently apical scorers successful the tourney with nine. From unfastened play oregon set-pieces, different teams volition beryllium wondering however they tin support america out.

This is not the clip to get carried away, but what we bash person aft that is immoderate momentum and that is truthful important now.

I don't deliberation England would person been affected excessively overmuch by their disappointing gully with the United States, but this show had everything which was missing from that crippled and we tin instrumentality each of it forward.

Senegal volition inactive beryllium unsafe opponents, adjacent without the injured Sadio Mane, but I americium truly assured that England volition person capable to bushed them and scope the quarter-finals.

Alan Shearer was speaking to Chris Bevan successful Doha, Qatar.

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