England boss Gareth Southgate filled his bench with youngsters for victory over Bulgaria.

Against Bulgaria, Southgate had the luxury of putting Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho, Leicester's in-form midfielder James Maddison and Liverpool full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold all on the bench.

England were agonisingly beaten in extra-time of the World Cup by Croatia, while they suffered defeat against the Netherlands in the Nations League.

Southgate said: "Have we progressed? Well, I think we have. We didn't sit back after the World Cup.

"I know that you said that the Nations League was a disappointment. Once you are in the semi-final, you want to go on and win the thing. But also with unique circumstances, in that seven players arrived 48 hours before the game.

"I think we are competitive with probably eight teams. I think that, on our day, we can beat those teams, but equally the Dutch showed (in the Nations League) that they are capable of beating us on their day and I think it really is a tight grouping of probably eight teams."