England’s Euro 2024 campaign began with a narrow win on Sunday evening as they defeated Serbia 1-0.

England’s Euro 2024 campaign began with a narrow win on Sunday evening as they defeated Serbia 1-0.

It has been a tournament of early goals and it only took Gareth Southgate’s side 13 minutes to open their account, via a brave header from Jude Bellingham — 20 years old but already playing in his third international tournament.The friendly defeat to Iceland was forgotten as England’s short, sharp passing restricted Serbia to only two shots from distance in the opening 45 minutes. But Dragan Stojkovic’s side improved markedly after the break and made England work particularly hard for the three points.

Harry Kane saw a header pushed onto the bar brilliantly by Predrag Rajkovic late on, but in the words of former England manager Sven Goran-Eriksson, “first half good, second half not so good”.