Redknapp: England will easily qualify from group stages

Harry Redknapp is confident England will qualify for the knockout stages of Euro 2016, despite dropping two points in their opener against Russia.

Eric Dier's impressive free-kick looked as though it sealed all three points for the Three Lions in Saturday's game against Russia, however, Vasili Berezutski's injury-time equaliser saw both sides walk away with a point.

England will now have added pressure to reach the knockout stages, however Redknapp is feeling confident. 

“We'll come out of the group no problem. The Wales game is going to be a big, interesting game,” he told Betsafe.

“I think [Roy] Hodgson will be happy with the way we played – especially during the first half. Harry Kane was quiet, but I think Roy will play him at the start again. If he makes a change, I think he'll replace Sterling.

“[Jamie] Vardy is one that could come off the bench. We need to win. We don't want to be going into the last game against Slovakia needing to win to qualify. I think England will beat Wales.”

The coach then went on to express his disappointment at England's opening game, labelling the Russian team as the 'worst' he had ever seen.

“[It was a] disappointing result in the end. The worst Russian team I've seen, they were so poor it was embarrassing,” he added.

“I don't know where they found some of those players - they wouldn't get in a Vauxhall Conference. The opposition was poor – we made them look poor.

“We could have been three or four up at half time. In the first half we played ever so well – I was very, very pleased with England first half, but we didn't stick our chances away."