James Milner vowed there was even more to come from Roy Hodgson’s England at the European Championship after helping them to another hard-fought win in their final warm-up friendly.

Manchester City midfielder Milner appeared to cement his place in the starting line-up for his country’s Euro 2012 opener against France following Saturday’s 1-0 victory over Belgium.

The 26-year-old is the only member of Hodgson’s 23-man squad to have played every minute of the new manager’s first two games in charge but was taking nothing for granted ahead of the June 11 Group D clash in Ukraine.

“That’s the manager’s decision and hopefully I’m in the team,” said Milner, who shrugged off the unconvincing nature of England’s wins over Norway and Belgium, with Hodgson having only begun working with his squad a week and a half ago.

“We haven’t been together for too long with the new manager, so we’re still working on things in training.

“We’re all learning the way that the manager wants us to play, and the more we play together and train together over these next days before that first game, the better we’ll get and the more compact we’ll be, and we’ll put the ideas of the manager into practice.

“We can improve with the ball but I think that’ll come with time together.

“So, I think it’s a positive start to get two wins from two tough games going into the tournament and we'll go into the first game against a strong team in confident mood.”