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“Other than the latter stages of the World Cup, this is going to be up there with one of the biggest games,”

The two countries famously met in the 1966 World Cup final, where England triumphed 4-2 against West Germany, but, since then, the Germans have dominated the majority of the crunch games at major tournaments.

Indeed, the sides met at Tuesday's venue, Wembley, in the same competition 25 years ago, with Germany eventually triumphing on penalties after current England manager Gareth Southgate's missed spot-kick in a shoot-out.

But Rashford says that psychological scars from past defeats will have no impact on he and his team-mates – some of whom were not even born in 1996.

“Everybody loves a bit of history but, the fact of the matter is, it’s our moment to create our own history,”

the Academy graduate told the Official England Podcast.