England beat Sweden 2-0 in Samara on Saturday and are through to the semi-finals where they will play against Croatia in Moscow on Wednesday.

"The way we've been received here is fantastic... Everywhere we've played we've had a really warm welcome and the organization of the tournament is being absolutely first-class... There were a lot of stories leading into the tournament that I knew weren't going to be true and that's proved to be the case," Southgate told journalists.

Prior to the tournament, UK media published a number of articles warning football fans against going to Russia for the World Cup.