COLE PALMER is a shy, quiet lad but one of his shrugs speaks a thousand words.
Asked whether or not he was nervous ahead of his tournament debut, there was a quick flick of the shoulders and a 'nah'.
This 20-year-old really is ice cool.
And after the impact he made in his 23 minutes in Cologne, Palmer should be a stone-cold in certainty to start Gelsenkirchen on Sunday.
Surely only blind loyalty to a player who has served Gareth Southgate so well can prevent Palmer from making the line-up in the last 16?
But the England coach has to accept that Bukayo Saka has gone quite seriously off the boil and Palmer is a player who can, quite simply, make things happen.
Palmer is fresh, having not started a football match in almost three weeks.
Palmer is inventive with both feet and, having been educated at the Pep school of passing, can split open a defence with one short stroke of the boot.
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