2025-09-10 10:27:57

Harry Kane has urged England to use their 5-0 thrashing of Serbia as the blueprint for their performances at the World Cup.

The Three Lions made light work of their qualifier in Belgrade by demolishing the Serbs on Tuesday (09.09.25) and the England captain thinks that the team should try to replicate the display at the tournament in North America next summer in the likely event of qualification.

Kane told ITV: “There’s been a lot of noise around the outside, but we’ve been happy with what we’ve been doing.

“It’s not always been easy against opposition who are sitting in a block of 11 when we have to break them down and be patient.

“We knew tonight would be a really big test against better opposition and better players, we said we wanted to show what we can do especially without the ball with the high pressure and make it difficult for them.”

The Bayern Munich striker added: “This is the time when the competition starts, the formation and the way we play and the style is going to be set in stone.

“Of course, there might be a few games where we have to change a little bit depending on opposition, but we want to play our way – we want to be on the front foot and win the ball back quick and when we lose the ball, recover well.

“You could say today was the perfect template and we’re going to have difficult games from now until the World Cup but we’ll use this as a starting point and the standard’s been really high.”

England manager Thomas Tuchel was very pleased with his side’s performance, describing it as “teamwork in its purest form”.

The coach said: “We were very strong. I think it was teamwork in its purest form. We helped each other out, we had the right intensity in the right moments.

“We put the work in to not allow one shot on target for a strong home team. If you want to do this, you need to support each other, you need to play disciplined and keep the intensity up.

“This is what we did and the players did excellent, so full credit to the team.

“I told you before, we had a brilliant week from start to finish and this was proof of it.”

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