Marcus Rashford insists he will volunteer to take a penalty here at the World Cup despite being racially abused after missing at last year's European Championship final.
The Manchester United striker, along with Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho, agonisingly missed from the spot in a tense shoot-out which saw Italy crowned European champions.
Rashford, Saka and Sancho not only had to contend with the heartache of missing and losing the final, but the trio were also targeted with sickening online racial abuse in the aftermath of the defeat.
But striker Rashford is adamant he will step up again if England are involved in another penalty competition during the knockout rounds.
'I have no doubts about taking a penalty. I've missed a penalty before,' said the 25-year-old.
'You never want to miss a penalty. I feel like it's a great opportunity for forwards, especially, to score goals and obviously they are big moments and as an individual I've always been comfortable and I enjoy being in big moments so, you know, for me, I'm hoping that we get to take another penalty in the tournament.'
Rashford also spoke of the huge improvements that have been made within the England set-up since Gareth Southgate's appointment.
The striker was part of the national team under Roy Hodgson and said yesterday: 'Training's been good for the lads who haven't been getting as many minutes. But I feel for this squad it's never been an issue, especially since Gareth's been managing.
'Maybe before it was a bit of an issue in terms of quality of training and people's dedication to training. But since he's been manager of England it's been good, it's been intense, it's been challenging.
'I was only there for a short period of time (during Hodgson's reign) before but the standard of training wasn't as high.
'For players it's black and white, if you aren't training well you can't expect to play well or go into games and win just because you think you are better players.
'You have to put the work in and earn the right to win matches. For me it's two different sides of a coin. It's simple as that.'
England were booed off against the USA on Friday night - and Rashford added: 'It's not a nice feeling but we don't need fans to boo us to know we've not played as well as we could have.
'It was a feeling that was mutual in that we could have done better. It's not just the players that started, it's the full group. It's all of us. You do sometimes question whether you would have changed things in the lead up to a game but that's natural because as players you want to win as many games as you can.
'So when you don't win it's disappointing but we can't be so negative about, we are in a good position in the group and we just need to go and win that game.'
