England can win Euro 2016, says captain Rooney

“I believe we are better than that”.

Manager Roy Hodgson’s men are aiming for their first major global title since the 1966 World Cup, but will have to find a way past an inspired Iceland in the round of 16 game on Monday.

“It’s not down to us – it’s not our decision to make”, added Kane.

If everything goes according to plan, England will certainly have more challenging assignments to follow, with France potentially waiting in the quarter-finals and Hodgson’s team now in the section of the draw that features Spain, Italy and Germany. It makes it hard, but I also know that if the goalkeeper can’t save it, despite knowing which way I am going to shoot, there are no worries for me taking them properly.

“We’re doing all we can to put the ball in the back of the net and we’ve scored a few goals – it isn’t like we’ve scored no goals at all”.

“We fancy ourselves against anyone and we’re very confident in our ability”.

Hodgson admitted that England needed to be more clinical after the goalless draw against Slovakia that condemned them to finishing second in group B earlier this week, but there was no immediate improvement yesterday. “The gap to get to those teams is not as big”. It’s a bit more psychological in a tournament.

Jamie Vardy is most effective when he is running at defences that are playing a high line, with his place and drive a real handful for any team on the front foot. “We have five or six match winners in our team and I can not say we have always had that”, he said. “I have always felt a lot of pressure before”, he said.

Tottenham striker Kane deserved to head into this tournament as England’s lead striker after a fine season of scoring form in the Premier League and I don’t buy into the idea that he should now be sidelined because he was not at his best in his first 150 minutes of football in the competition.

Yet, once the dust settled on that extraordinary finale, the England coaching team had to get to work quickly to refocus their players away from thinking they had been offered an easy route into the quarter-finals.

Glenn made no comment about Hodgson’s long-term future but said: “We want to just see progress, that is all we have said all along”. We want to win it. That’s the aim.

“As far as I’m concerned, I will prepare the team for Iceland, we will do the best we can to win the game and then after the game we will either be heavily criticised as we haven’t won it or, with any luck, if we played well and won the game people will maybe say we did well”. “We are here and we want to win it”.