Kane’s World Cup rallying cry

England captain Harry Kane has said his England side deserve to be in the World Cup semi-finals and ‘have been fantastic’ at the tournament in Russia.

The tournament top scorer led the line superbly in the 2-0 quarter-final victory over Sweden on Saturday to seal a place in the final four for the first time since 1990.

And Kane insists his teammates always believed they could do something special in Russia.

“It’s been amazing,”:Kane admitted after the game in Samara.”I said before the tournament, we have to believe.You go into any competition trying to go all the way – otherwise there is no point entering it.

Kane added: “Obviously not many people thought we would get to this stage but, look, we deserved it.”

And ahead of a semi final clash with Croatia, Kane was more than happy to simply revel in victory on Saturday.

He added: “We’ve been fantastic and under such pressure (obviously the whole nation watching, the whole world watching on) I thought we controlled the game really well.We was [sic] composed and we took our chances when we needed to and a clean sheet is vital at this stage.”

Keep up to date with all the latest Tottenham news and opinion by following SpursWeb’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.

Related Topics

Have something to tell us about this article? Let us know