England captain Harry Kane has fired a warning to his team-mates following Friday evening’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 event.
The Three Lions head to Germany with one among their most proficient squads in current reminiscence and stand a very good likelihood of ending their lengthy 58-year watch for a trophy.
Kane sends warning to England team-mates
England might be seeking to go one higher having misplaced the ultimate of Euro 2020 on penalties to Italy, however it seems like they’re heading to Germany barely underprepared.
Southgate’s facet will come up in opposition to Serbia, Denmark and Slovenia within the group stage, and Kane who scored 36 Bundesliga objectives in his debut season for Bayern Munich feels there’s a lot to enhance upon forward of their opening sport on Sunday.
“In fact there might be some noise about it [losing to Iceland] however I feel there’s a variety of optimism from the followers and rightly so,” Kane mentioned in quotes picked up by BBC Sport.
“This might be a pleasant wake-up name for everybody to understand it’s not going to be as straightforward as individuals suppose, there’s a variety 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 must defend effectively, particularly the longer balls, and with the ball we must be a bit extra affected person, it’s one to look again on.”
Kane additionally insisted the assumption amongst the group stays as sturdy because it’s ever been and that he’s excited for one more main event.
“I’m simply excited for one more main event,” he added.
“I’ve mentioned many occasions to evaluate us on the event kind, on the event soccer.
“Finally it’s all the way down to us to ensure we get it proper on the pitch, now we have a variety of incredible 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 appropriate path.”
“We’ve that mindset that we will obtain it we additionally know there’s a variety of onerous work from now till the ultimate in July.”
