Pressure is on England ahead of Wales game, says Coleman

The England manager now has to decide how best to approach Monday’s match against Slovakia, given a draw would be enough to see his charges progress to the knockout stages.

“It surprises me that people are focusing so much on the talking”, said Hodgson, who has a fully fit squad.

England coach Roy Hodgson said goalkeeper Hart “thought he could have saved that” and that he “apologized in the dressing room but that’s football”.

“We’re perfectly satisfied with the passion we bring to our game and we don’t doubt our desire, our commitment or our wish to do well in the tournament. But it’s not worthy of comment”.

Two Leicester players will go head-to-head for the first time at this year’s European Championships on Thursday when Jamie Vardy and England play a critical match against Andy King and Wales at the Stade Felix Bollaert Delelis in Lens. The truth is England outplayed the Russians, and they should have won the game long before they conceded that late goal.

CHRIS Coleman described England’s last-gasp victor as one of the lowest points of his career but the Wales boss insists his side’s Euro 2016 fate is still in their own hands.

“I don’t think we’ll be surprised particularly by either their lineup or what they try to do when they’ve got the ball or when they don’t have the ball”.

When you consider that three of the biggest nations – Spain, Germany and Italy – barely have a trusted goal scorer between them then you have to ask questions.

Speaking about the world’s most expensive player, he says “it’s not England versus Gareth Bale, it’s England versus Wales”.

And the 32-year-old is not sure who we wants to win.

“When I was playing we had quality in twos and threes with the likes of Gareth Bale and Craig Bellamy but now most of the team are playing in the Premier League”.

“If you’d said to us we’d get through with a result in the last game, we’d have accepted that”.

He added: “We need to move forward as quick as we can”.

“We’ve got to be hard to beat”, he said.

“It was a good performance for 92 minutes [against Russia]”, Hodgson said.

“We’ll be keeping that to ourselves and trying to exploit it on game day”.

“It doesn’t alter the fact that whichever team is going to win is going to have to do it on the field by scoring more goals than the opposition”. I’m satisfied with everything that’s gone on so far. It’s an exciting group because it’s all on the last games. “I think it comes with the way I play the game”. We don’t anticipate any vast changes in their style of play or personnel.

They should have taken the lead in the seventh minute when Harry Kane freed Adam Lallana to cross for Raheem Sterling, but from seven yards out the Manchester City man could only slide the ball over the bar.

“I had a cut on my head and the ref was saying “you’ve got blood on your head” and I was like ‘cheers mate – I don’t know where I got that from!’ and we didn’t get the penalty”.

Group B: England v Wales (2pm) BBC1/S4C.

“There was a lot of hype around the Scotland game, like there is around this one, but this is more special”, Hodgson said.