Jack Wilshere believes England set themselves a good standard of performance in their Euro 2016 opener on Saturday.
The Three Lions were held to a 1-1 draw with Russia in Marseille, with a stoppage time goal from Vasili Berezutski cancelling out Eric Dier’s free-kick.
But despite the initial disappointment of missing out on three points, Arsenal midfielder Wilshere says the squad were pleased with their team display throughout the game.
England v Wales
UEFA Euro 2016
Group B
2pm, Thursday 16 June 2016
Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens
Live on BBC One
"We’re in a good place, you know," revealed Wilshere.
"Naturally I think if you dominate a game like that and don’t win it, you’re going to be disappointed.
"But after sleeping on it and looking back on the performance we’re happy, we played well, we moved the ball around and we kept the ball.
"In the past England teams have been accused of not being technically good enough, not keeping the ball, and we showed that we are good enough and we can keep the ball."
Roy Hodgson’s squad are now back at their Euro base in Chantilly, where attentions have switched to Thursday’s game with Wales.
England midfielder Jack Wilshere in action against Russia in Euro 2016
Following Wales’ 2-1 win over Slovakia on Saturday, it means Chris Coleman’s side go into the second round of fixtures on top of Group B.
But Wilshere believes that England can usurp them in Lens if they can maintain the same level of performance.
"I don’t think it’s about bouncing back, we just need to maintain our standards that we’re setting," he added.
"Against Russia, of course, we need to look at the goal and analyse what went wrong there, but apart from that the performance was brilliant.
"The results obviously put Wales in a good position, but we’ve got to play Wales, so the group’s nice and we know what we’ve got to do.
England begin their build-up to the Wales game in Lens
"We know Wales well, a lot of their players play in the Premier League and we’ve played against them previously.
"So we know them well, we know what their threat is, they want to hit us on the counter attack and we obviously know the threat of Gareth Bale.
"But as I said before, we’ve got to concentrate on ourselves, we’ve got to replicate the performance from Saturday, and we’re confident we can win the game."
