哈里·凯恩强调，赢得 C 组意味着英格兰已经实现了他们在 2024 年欧洲杯上的第一个目标。三狮军团在周二晚上以 0-0 战平斯洛文尼亚，队长承认他们希望在最后三分之一的比赛中取得更多成绩但他确信，随着周日在盖尔森基兴举行的 16 强比赛之前，球队将继续进步。凯恩说：“比赛开始前的目标是成为小组第一并控制我们的球队这就是我们所做的。

"I thought we played a lot better than the other two games, a lot more energy, better on the ball, we just couldn’t find that final pass, that final finish. All the games are going to be difficult now. That final bit of quality was missing, that final finish, we didn’t quite have it today. We created some half-chances and had one towards the end where we maybe could have done better. But they defended well and made it hard for us."We’ll recover well, we’ll enjoy that we are top of the group and then we’ll look forward to the next one."Kane believes England improved in attack with the introduction of substitutes Kobbie Mainoo, Cole Palmer, Anthony Gordon and Trent Alexander-Arnold.He said: "The boys who came on did really well, they kept the energy high, brought a different type of dimension to the game. That is what we need, all the players chipping in when they get minutes.

"These games are tough, they are really tough. We’ve been here before, we’ve been into the knockouts and stepped it up when we’ve got there in past tournaments. Hopefully we can do the same but whoever we get in the next round, it’s going to be another difficult game. It might take extra-time, it might take penalties, that is the reality of this tournament. "It’s going to be a difficult challenge ahead but we have more than enough ability to keep pushing and we look forward to the next round."