After grabbing his first goals for England in spectacular fashion, Jack Wilshere immediately turned the spotlight on his team-mates as they wrapped up an unbeaten season.
Not in Wilshere's lifetime have England gone a whole season without tasting defeat, but his two stunning strikes in Slovenia helped stretch their impressive run to eleven.
And, speaking to FATV after the 3-2 win, the Arsenal midfielder said the result puts the Three Lions one step closer to France 2016.
Slovenia 2-3 England
Euro 2016 Qualifier
Sunday 14 June
Stadion Stozice, Ljubljana
"It's nice to get my first couple of goals for England, but the main thing is that we continued our unbeaten run and put a big marker down to say we are serious about this," said the 23-year-old.
"We're nearly there now, we have a few more points to get but we feel we are in a really, really strong position."
Reflecting on his first goal, Wilshere continued: "I didn't really have much time to think, we were on the attack and I was backing up play as you have to do.
"It fell perfectly to me and I thought 'why not?'.
"The second one was a great team goal, starting at right-back with [Jordan] Henderson and he found Adam [Lallana].
"Not many people have the ability that he has to see the run I was making. He put a lovely flick out and it sat up perfectly for me, I hit it sweetly and thankfully it went in."
Wilshere's goals both arrived in the second half after England went in a goal down at the break, despite enjoy larger spells of possession.
Boss Roy Hodgson was positive during his half-time team-talk, according to Wilshere, and sent his players out ready for a response.
"He was quite happy with our performance - we dominated possession in the first half hour, they hit us on the counter-attack and we knew they could do that.
"After that, maybe they were on top for five more minutes and kept the ball well, but as soon as we came out for the second half I think we won the ball back in dangerous positions and had a few opportunities before we got the goals.
"Overall we were happy with the performance."
He added: "We wanted to answer for last week [in Dublin], it wasn't good enough and at the standard we have set ourselves since the World Cup.
"We knew we could play at a higher intensity and that is when we are at our best, pressing and winning the ball in high positions.
"We have players who can do that and players who can hurt teams."
Wilshere also applauded his skipper, Wayne Rooney, who showed his determination after missing a couple of good chances to grab the all-important winner.
The goal took his England haul to 48, one behind Sir Bobby Charlton's record.
"It seemed like it wasn't going to come for him, he was getting a little frustrated, but that's the sign of a world-class player," he said.
"It wasn't an easy finish, but he sent the goalkeeper the wrong way, it was a big time in the game and he was there for us again tonight."
