England's No.1 Jordan Pickford says his form is not far away from the world's best goalkeepers.

Everton's goalie was criticised after letting in Adnan Januzaj's curling shot in a 1-0 group defeat to Belgium but has since proved stellar on goal in the knock-out phase.

Belgium and Chelsea keeper, Thibaut Courtois, made a comment on Pickford's height and technique after being asked to analyse the goal but England keeper pays little attention to it.

"I would not let that affect me," Pickford told reporters. "It is just a game of football. I don't let anything like that [criticism] affect me. I'm just a normal lad. It's only football.

"A lot of people think I am only young, but it is my second season in the Premier League, and I do not feel as if I am far away from guys like that [Courtois].

"I got a lot of games under my belt in the lower leagues, and I don't feel the Premier League or this [England] is that much different. In some way, non-league and League Two was the hard challenge."