'We worked hard as a team and it paid off'

We played some great football, and in the second half we just made sure of it. It was nice for Michael [Owen] to get his first goal of the competition. Emile needed it because the whole team came in for a bit of stick after the last game. One person described it as awful but we have done a good job today. Denmark are a good team with some good individual players but we worked hard as a team and it paid off.
David Beckham, England captain

I think we deserved it. Maybe we were a little bit lucky. Maybe 3-0 is too much, but we won it and are in the quarter-final. Owen has a groin injury but we do not think it is a bad one. We think he will be OK for the next game. Paul Scholes twisted an ankle but we do not think it is bad. He should be fine, too.
Sven Goran Eriksson, England coach

It was good to score early on and then get another couple more. It's a lot easier for the team and it helped us settle down. I never managed to score [in the group] but being a striker in the England side you are going to be involved in a lot of movement and I played a part in helping the team get through, and thankfully I got off the mark today. I felt something in my groin after a couple of minutes. I could have stayed on but when you're 3-0 up at half-time and looking like winning there is no point in doing anything stupid or risking it in the second half.
Michael Owen, England goalscorer

It was brilliant to get on the scoresheet but it was important that we got through and we managed to do that.
Rio Ferdinand tries to claim England's first goal and save the blushes of Denmark's Sunderland goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen

That's an example of the tough luck you can have as a goalkeeper. I'll hold my hands up, but I've got the character to get over this. I'll take it like a man.
Sorensen owns up

We played a good game but we made a couple of mistakes. After the first goal it was difficult because they have a very good defence, then after a quarter of an hour they are 2-0 in front with a mistake in our defence. We reacted well and we played some good football. But just before half-time we made a mistake and the match is over because to score three goals against England is almost impossible.
Morten Olsen, Denmark's coach

There have been a lot of surprises so I would not put it past Belgium to win. Everyone knows how good Brazil are. It will be a tough game either way.
Owen, on England's next opponents