Gareth Southgate's men are practising penalties ahead of the World Cup (Image: GETTY)
Taking the [winning] penalty or saving one, I'll be happy either way
Jordan Pickford
“I’ve never taken one in a shootout but I'm always practising in training.”
Pickford has revealed a lot of work is beind done behind the scenes to cure England of their penalty phobia.
He added: “Behind the scenes we're doing a lot of work to get preparation for how we'd want to go about it.
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"There are a lot of good penalty takers here and we've been practising the last couple of days...it's been hard to save them.
"It's pot luck sometimes isn't it? It's about how the taker's looking at it, body language, where his shoulders or arms are... and sometimes you've just got to pick a side, wait and attack it.
"If you get there you get there and if you don't, get the next one.”