However, Southgate feels his players are comfortable with their position as one of the favourites - but acknowledges far tougher tests are on the horizon.
He said: 'I think the team have belief, you can see the confidence.
'They don't come into these matches worrying about what might go wrong, they've got the confidence to control games with possession, and they know they're going to score goals.
'What we don't know, because we haven't had those tests more recently against the top eight or ten, is exactly how we're going to cope in those moments.
"And to win the European Championship is, at the moment, no easier than the World Cup. The final four were all European, and you've got to add Spain, Germany, Portugal and all the others into that, so it's areally high-level tournament.'
