Gareth Southgate says England will have to be 'perfect' to beat Spain in Sunday’s Euro 2024 final in Berlin.

The manager stressed that the resilient manner of the squad’s progress through the tournament has created a ‘togetherness’ and ‘spirit’ but that will be essential as the team ‘will have to find everything that we have got from within’, reports UK-based the Independent.

England have a chance to make up for their Euro 2020 final defeat to Italy at Wembley, as they prepare to compete in their first tournament final on foreign soil. Southgate said that experience will help preparation due to the knowledge of how “different” a final is. He played down the idea that would give England any advantage, stating that Spain rightly go into the game as favourites. Luis De La Fuente’s side have won all six games so far, most of them in convincing fashion.

‘They would be rightly favourites for what they have done this tournament,’ Southgate said. ‘They have been the best team. They have got a day longer and in the last three finals, maybe more, it has been quite significant so we have got to get our recovery spot on. Tactically we will have to be perfect as they are such a good side’. He nevertheless pointed to the emotional momentum that England had developed.