England can do well at major football tournaments, feels Lingard

London March 26 (IANS) The England football team has not won an international tournament for more than half a century but Manchester United forward Jesse Lingard is confident that the present squad has the ability to turn things around.

Now we start from scratch. We ve got a young squad a young manager Lingard was quoted as saying by the Guardian on Sunday.

For us as a young group we ve got to pull together with the talent we ve got and make the most of it he added.

The England team has shown promise since Gareth Southgate took over as interim manager on September 27 last year.

They earned a 2-2 draw in an international friendly with former World Cup champions Spain in November last year.

They have also defeated Slovenia Malta and Scotland in World Cup qualifiers apart from playing well during a 0-1 loss to reigning World Cup champions Germany in an international friendly earlier this week.

Lingard asserted that the England players need to be more confident and bring out their best when the next major tournament comes around.

We played well against Spain we competed against Germany and we beat France so we re up there now and when it comes to a tournament we ll be on it the 24-year-old said.

With the talent we ve got in the squad we can do damage in the game.

--IANS
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