Luke Shaw confident young guns are primed to fire England to Euro 2024 glory

Luke Shaw insists England’s young guns are primed to fire the nation to Euro 2024 glory.

Gareth Southgate’s side face Spain in Sunday’s final at Berlin’s Olympiastadion, looking to end a 58-year wait for a major men’s trophy.

Having lost the Euro 2020 final on penalties to Italy, Southgate has already taken England closer than anyone else to emulating Alf Ramsey’s 1966 World Cup winners.

However, he switched things up for the finals in Germany, calling up 12 players who had no major tournament experience, while half of his 26-man squad had not been included in his 2022 World Cup selection.

At an average age of 26.1, England had the third-youngest squad at Euro 2024 but Shaw, who opened the scoring in the final against Italy last time out, is clearly a believer in the mantra of ‘if you’re old enough, you’re good enough’.

“To be honest I don’t think they need too much,” he said. “There’s a lot of young heads but I think with a massive amount of experience.

“I think the young heads here have been involved in a lot of big games and are in very big teams that are used to playing in big games and fighting for trophies, so I think they don’t need too much.

“It’s more about giving them the confidence and the belief and that’s what all of us have to have.

“We have to have confidence and belief that we can go into this game tomorrow and win it because Spain will have that and they have always had that.

“For us it’s about bringing the confidence into the younger lads to express themselves in what will be one of the biggest games of their lives.

“The experience of going through one before has definitely helped. I think everyone feels a lot more calm.

“We know the situation that the game we’re going into, the occasion, we’ve been