HARRY KANE will deliver a rousing final team-talk tonight as England bid to beat Denmark to reach a first final since 1966.
And boss Gareth Southgate wants his stars to create an iconic England moment at Wembley as there have been few since the stadium was rebuilt in 2007.
Kane said: “Before the game I will give a reminder of what we want to do and what we want to achieve.
“I will feel how the room is, what I feel needs to be said.
“To be honest it is almost whatever comes out of my mouth at the time. I don’t think about it too much.”
Southgate will not speak to the players once they step onto the team bus from their London hotel.
He said: “I always talk to the team before we leave the hotel for the stadium. And then basically I’m able to hand it over to them, which increasingly has required less input from us immediately before kick-off.
“So many of the senior players now have strong voices in the dressing room and are delivering the right messages.”
The England coach also believes the 2-0 win over Germany in the last-16 was the first major sporting moment at the new Wembley, with all the others coming before the old stadium was demolished in 2002.
Southgate, set to play with a four-man defence, said: “Wembley has a fantastic history, of course, but a lot of those memories would be from the old stadium.
“The history of the stadium relies on those iconic moments and if we look historically that’s been in the past.
“The World Cup final, Olympic games, big boxing events and there have been perhaps less of those headline events at the new Wembley whereas this tournament is now one of those moments where we’ve had the chance to have some very high-profile games already and achieve some big moments.
“There’s some sort of pictures on the wall as you drive into the dressing rooms of iconic England moments but some of them aren’t even from finals competitions.
“I’ve not heard the new Wembley have an atmosphere like it did for the Germany game.
“The Croatia Nations League game was a very good one in terms of the atmosphere but Germany was another level and I’m sure Denmark is going to be very special.”
Southgate could make just one change with fit-again Bukayo Saka set to return in place of Jadon Sancho.
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Denmark are strong down their left and Saka would give more protection to the right-back – likely to be Kyle Walker – with England playing four at the back.
Southgate admitted England have had an advantage at Euro 2020 as this will be the team’s fifth game out of six at Wembley.
He added: “There have been a number of hosts in this tournament, and Italy, Denmark, Spain have all benefited from that as well. It should be an advantage.
“We often in our preparations were talking through as a group of staff talking about how it could be a hindrance, but quite often we came around to saying, hang on a second, this should be an advantage, we’ve got to make this an advantage for us, things like the travel.
“We had to make sure we won our group so we had that extra game at Wembley.
“So we’ve done the bits we’ve needed to give ourselves the best possible chance.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
