"I think it's as good as we've ever had. I think when you look at the starting XI, you look at the players coming off the bench, we're going to go into the tournament as one of the favourites. We have to accept that. We've been like that now for the last few tournaments, and that's part and parcel of it."
"So we've been building, we've had a great year together with the new coach, and now we look forward to obviously a big 2026. I think we've set the standard now, especially in the last few camps, and we carried it on into this camp. It was an important win. You don't want to finish with a loss at the end of the year and then have to wait until March to play again. We can go away and enjoy this now."
England completed a flawless World Cup qualifying campaign with a 2-0 win over Albania, recording eight wins from eight matches in Group K. Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane scored both goals. The squad scored 22 goals and conceded none across the campaign, becoming only the second European side to win every qualifying game without conceding, after Yugoslavia in 1954. The team regards itself as one of its best-ever squads and enters the 2026 tournament among the favourites. Recent camps and work under a new coach have helped set standards that were carried into this qualifying cycle.
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