The Newcastle defender feels that his aerial presence could be useful for the Three Lions when they take on the challenge of the prolific Manchester City striker in Miami on Saturday (11.07.26), particularly as Haaland has only scored once in past encounters between the two players.

Burn said: "Yeah, I don't want to jinx it. But, yeah, one goal. I do enjoy playing against Erling purely just from a physical point of view.

"I quite like that sort of physical battle, and I get on well with him on the pitch. We do get on quite well, although you'd have to ask him if he thinks the same thing.

"If I'm asked to do that, I'll be more than ready and more than happy to do that.

"But obviously I also know that we've got sort of four other centre halves here who are also top-quality players and have played this whole tournament because of that too."

Burn made his first apperance of the World Cup as 10-man England performed a heroic rearguard action to defeat Mexico in their last 16 tie but feels that the team must improve considerably if they are to get the better of Norway in the last eight.

He said: "It is one of them where we're going to have to be top level all over the pitch and put in probably a lot better performance than we did against Mexico to get through, but it's something that we're prepared for.

"The manager had a meeting and sort of said like, 'Mexico is done now.'

"We've sort of sat and took the praise and everything for it, but it means nothing really if we don't beat Norway. Now it's focusing on that. It'll be different conditions - we'll not have the altitude, but we'll have the heat - and you know with Erling he only needs one touch in the box to score, so everyone's going to have to be on it."