England defender Harry Maguire enjoyed helping the nation smile again by delivering the historic 2-0 win over Germany in the last 16 at Euro 2020.

Goals from Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane in the final 15 minutes gave the Three Lions their first major tournament knockout victory over Germany since 1966, sending them through to a quarter-finals against Ukraine in Rome.

It came in front of 41,973 raucous fans at Wembley, as life returned to something like normal in the biggest attendance for a football match in this country since the coronavirus pandemic struck 15 months ago.

Maguire says that counts for nothing and the Three Lions cannot allow complacency to creep in.

“I think before the game you could hear people talking about the side of the draw,” he said. “The side of the draw means absolutely nothing, you have seen in recent matches in this tournament, if you don’t play to a level you will get punished because every team that is left in this tournament at this stage is an excellent team and has quality players.

“We are fully focused on ourselves, we don’t get carried away, if we don’t perform, we’ll lose the football match and if we do we will give ourselves the best opportunity of winning the match.

“Every game is big, it doesn’t matter who you play at this level, every game is big and means something.”