Under-fire Gareth Southgate says it is time to deliver as England attempt to put an underwhelming group stage behind them by making improvements and progressing past Slovakia in the round of 16.The road to Berlin has begun in unconvincing fashion for the Euro 2020 runners-up, with boos greeting the end of the 1-1 draw with Denmark and Tuesday’s goalless stalemate with Slovenia.But England won Group C having started with a hard-fought 1-0 victory against Serbia at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, where they return for their first knockout match on Sunday.Slovakia, who are ranked 45th in the world, stand in England’s way in the round of 16 – a stage they have progressed from in all three previous tournaments under the former defender.SOURCE: PA
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00:00And now you're into that world of it has to happen on the day, you've got to go for it.
00:17We've been here before many times, we know what it entails, I think everybody's excited
00:22now about the challenge and we know we play a very good opponent and so we have to be
00:29right on our game with and without the ball.
00:33And we know that some parts of our game we've executed well and some we need to do better
00:40but I've seen a lot of signs within the game against Slovenia and since then that that's
00:46starting to come so I'm excited about the game tomorrow.