England have gathered momentum at the World Cup and are happy to bring some succour to their countrymen suffering the winter cold, soaring costs and industrial strikes, midfielder Declan Rice said yesterday.
"It makes me happy seeing the videos of them celebrating us scoring. We're going to try to keep going, keep pushing, keep trying to lift everyone," Rice said at the England training camp in Qatar two days before their last 16 clash with Senegal.
Gareth Southgate's team gave an enormous lift to the nation last summer, after the gloom of the COVID-19 pandemic, in their run to the European Championship final. "We're building really well. We're in a really nice position," Rice said, referring to England's relatively comfortable progress to the knockout stage thanks to wins over Wales and Iran and a draw with the United States.
"We're obviously onto a bigger test, we know Senegal is going to be really tough. They are a really strong athletic team, some really good individual players," Rice said.
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