Ollie Watkins pleased to make tournament debut

Ollie Watkins was delighted to make his major tournament debut against Denmark at EURO 2024 on Thursday.

The Aston Villa striker was introduced as a second-half substitute and came close to putting the Three Lions in front, only to be denied by Kasper Schmeichel in the Danish goal.

Watkins praised England's opponents for their resilience and stressed that emerging unbeaten from the first two games of their campaign is a positive place to be.

He said: "It was a great atmosphere, I loved every minute of it. I like to run in behind, cause defenders some problems. I feel like I did that but it was difficult. Denmark made it very difficult for us with their back five on not a great pitch. It was tough.

"Another point and unbeaten in two now."

Captain Harry Kane had given England the lead after 18 minutes before Morten Hjulmand struck back with a long-range effort before half time.

Watkins added: "Sometimes you've got to hold your hands up. I was sat behind it on the bench and it was a great strike, fair play. We played well at times and so did they, the main thing is that we're still unbeaten.

"We're England and people want to beat us so they're going to make it very difficult for us. We can't just steamroller teams four or five because we've got world-class players, it's not going to be that easy."