While England’s first game against Croatia is still five days out, players have far from shrunken from the public eye, with Jude Bellingham offering some introspection ahead of the match next Wednesday.
Bellingham sat down with the Lion’s Den to discuss the team’s last major compeition, the Euros 2024, saying the team was among “one of two or three teams that could win”. Reflecting on the competition, he said: “At the Euros I think we got a few things wrong off the pitch, I don’t feel the group connected as well as it could have for a number of reasons.
“When it came to the tournament, we were seen as one of two or three teams that could win it. We weren’t playing well, which doesn’t help, so even when we were winning, we didn’t get the feeling that we were as happy as we should be.”
Bellingham has 48 England caps to his name(Image: Getty Images)