Supervisor Thomas Tuchel mentioned England’s commanding efficiency towards Serbia has set “the bar” as they took a step nearer to qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.

The Three Lions had confronted criticism for lacklustre performances on this qualifying marketing campaign, regardless of having gained all 5 of their Group Ok matches.

However a 5-0 thrashing of Serbia in Belgrade on Tuesday is probably the eye-catching efficiency Tuchel’s England wanted.

“We had a wonderful week from begin to end. We have simply proved what I’ve seen on daily basis on this camp and this makes me very completely happy,” mentioned German boss Tuchel.

“This camp was the benchmark.”

England now want 5 factors from their remaining three video games to achieve subsequent summer season’s World Cup in Canada, Mexico and america.

Sitting seven factors clear on the high of the group, Tuchel’s facet will face Latvia in October earlier than taking up Serbia then Albania in November.

“This week was wonderful. The perspective, the way in which we performed in each matches. Right this moment is an announcement victory towards a troublesome opponent in a troublesome setting,” Tuchel mentioned.

England stifled Serbia and the hosts didn’t get any of their three photographs on course, leaving Jordan Pickford with out a single save to make.

England had 24 photographs and 12 on course whereas they’d 42 touches within the opposition field as Serbia recorded simply 4.

Harry Kane and Noni Madueke gave England a deserved half-time lead earlier than Ezri Konsa, Marc Guehi and Marcus Rashford wrapped up a formidable victory.

“There was no unfavorable perspective on the pitch, no frustration on the pitch. For me, it was teamwork in it is purest kind. Then we performed soccer to a excessive degree and bought a deserved win,” Tuchel mentioned.

“We had a little bit of a stop-start sport towards Andorra and the end result was perhaps not the end result that everybody anticipated from us. I stored the idea however in some unspecified time in the future it’s essential show it additionally as a participant, that it is not simply solely phrases out of your coach.

“They stored on doing and I feel they stored on believing, and so they felt themselves that that is the spirit that we’d like in camp and that may give us the additional degree of high quality.”