In their opening Euros match, England defeated Serbia with a goal by Jude Bellingham.

Trent Alexander-Arnold’s position in the team was a major point of discussion going into the tournament and Roy Keane predicted the player would be “ripped to shreds”, ahead of the Serbia game.

Bellingham shared his thoughts on Trent’s performance against Serbia and shut down his critics.

“Brilliant,” Bellingham told ITV about Alexander-Arnold after the game.

“He makes it so easy for me because he can control the game so well.

“Defensively I think in that position, I know people talk a lot of rubbish, but I think he was so aggressive with the back-to-goal pressure and it really helped me as well because it meant that I got a breather when he went out.

“I think we understand each other well with the ball. He wants to play positive all the time, he wants to play forward all the time. And I think we accept as teammates who have that kind of quality that we’re going to lose the ball and that’s fine.

“We’ll win it back for each other and we’ll keep playing. I thought he was brilliant.”