\n The 21-year-old has played an important role in helping Lee Carsley’s men set up a quarter-final\u00a0clash with Spain\u00a0on Sunday (8pm) – a rematch of the 2023 final, which the Young Lions won 1-0.\n<\/p>\n
\n The winners of that match\u00a0will then take on Denmark or France in the semi-finals next\u00a0Wednesday, with the final following on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
\n Hutchinson shone as a starter in England’s opening group win against Czechia<\/a>, had a cameo in a frustrating 0-0 draw<\/a> against hosts Slovakia, then stepped off the bench to bag an impressive assist<\/a> in\u00a0last night’s 2-1 defeat to Germany.\n<\/p>\n \n On facing Spain next, Hutchinson said: “They’re very good on the ball, so we’re going to have to try to take that away from them. We can be physically better than them. We\u2019ve just got to physically outrun them and take them to the final whistle.\n<\/p>\n \n “It’s probably my biggest game for England so I’m looking forward to it.”\n<\/p>\n \n Asked if he would take a penalty if it went to a shootout, Hutchinson replied: “Yeah, 100%. At Ipswich I wasn’t the penalty taker,\u00a0but I’m going to\u00a0start practicing in training now (ahead of this game).”\n<\/p>\n \n On the defeat to Germany, in which England were much improved after the break, he reflected: “We kept going. (I produced) a\u00a0little bit of skill and luckily Alex (Scott) put it away.\u00a0Cars backs me to dominate my opponent and that’s what I try to do at my best.\n<\/p>\n \n “He (Carsley)\u00a0spoke to us all in the half-time and said that we we all needed to wake up.\u00a0It was a very poor performance in the first half. It was very lax.\u00a0We were losing our duels, our second balls and that’s the one thing that he’s big on.\n<\/p>\n \n “I don’t know why (it was). Sometimes it’s how it is. Sometimes you need a wake-up call and second half we could have gotten another two goals. It was very unfortunate but we’re through so we just have to improve for the next one.”\n<\/p>\n \n On his own performances, he said:\u00a0“I’ve been getting a lot of the ball around the edge of the box.\u00a0hat’s one thing I need to work on being able to get a clearer shot off on target. I’ll go and look at it again and try my best.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 21-year-old has played an important role in helping Lee Carsley’s men set up a quarter-final\u00a0clash with Spain\u00a0on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-197573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114710984961940406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}