Declan Rice previews England's Euro 2024 final against Spain
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00:00I think all finals are always tight, always tense.
00:04It's about being locked in for 90 minutes, 120 minutes,
00:07staying focused, sticking to the process.
00:11The lads know that, you know, this is go time.
00:13This is, you know, do or die,
00:14and we don't want to leave anything in the changing room.
00:16We're ready to change, you know, our lives
00:18and change everyone's lives and the country, you know, forever.
00:21So, yeah, we're really hungry for it.
00:24Going into international tournaments,
00:25what I've learned is you need to have that mentality
00:27that you can't go all out all the time.
00:29You know, you can't be front foot all the time
00:31because you're coming up against top teams,
00:33top nations, the country's best players.
00:35In the first couple of games,
00:36that's what people were expecting from us
00:38because of the individuals that we've got to go full throttle,
00:41go out there and try and blitz teams.
00:43And sometimes it's a bit unrealistic
00:44because the opposition have really top players as well.
00:47And, you know, as the tournament's gone on,
00:49I think if you look at tournaments over the years,
00:50when top teams have won,
00:52they've always been defensively solid,
00:54not leaked many goals, not leaked many chances.
00:56In these type of tournaments,
00:57which I've seen from a lot of the top nations
00:59is you get a lot of the ball.
01:00Not a lot of teams are really pressing as much as well
01:02because, you know, no one really wants to be opened up.
01:04Like I said, that is tournament football.