Tottenham striker Harry Kane insists he has no problem being hooked by England coach Gareth Southgate.
Kane was taken off early during the Euros stalemate with Scotland.
Kane said: "Gareth is within his rights to make the changes he thinks are best for the team. What we've learned over past tournaments is about trying to peak at the right time. The best time to be peaking is in the knockout stages and hopefully kick on from there.
"Maybe in Russia [2018] there were times, towards the quarter and semi-final, when I wasn't as sharp as I wanted to be. In the end we didn't quite get to where we wanted to go, maybe partly for that reason. It's about managing the squad, making sure everyone is feeling as fit and sharp as possible. In my case, it was a tough couple of games and it's about making sure I'm right for the rest of them as they come up.'
Asked whether he had any injury issues, he said: "No, no, no. I didn't have any issues. I didn't feel physically I wasn't up to it. I felt going into those games as good as I've felt all season. It's been a strange build-up to a tournament, I guess, in terms of not having as much time to work on things on the training pitch as we normally do.
"We [normally] have maybe four weeks leading up to a camp. We probably only had one or two and a lot of the players had Champions League or Europa League, so it's been a strange camp.
"These first couple of games have almost been for us to work on some things and build on some things and see where we need to improve. The pleasing thing is we've got four points in those two games. We know we can improve. We know we've got a lot more to give but also we're almost qualified, which is the main objective to begin with.
"You don't play as many England games as you do club football. It might take you a game or two to get that little bit more understanding of where each other are going to be on the pitch, the runs players make when I drop deep, people running in behind, or vice-versa. I feel these couple of games have been a bit of that. Everyone is getting used to each other a little bit more. That shows the sign of a good team.
"We've had two great clean sheets and that's what we're going to be going forward."
