Wales manager Chris Coleman is wary of the threat Jamie Vardy will pose in their Euro 2016 showdown with England.
Coleman said in March that England would offer no tactical surprises when the two countries meet in Lens on June 16.
But the quicksilver Vardy has since scored in England's last three games and Coleman accepts that Leicester's 24-goal Premier League winner has provided his opposite manager Roy Hodgson with another attacking dimension.
"Vardy is a good player,'' said Coleman. "I was a defender myself and you don't want to be running back to your own goal the whole time. He's like Craig Bellamy, all he wanted to do was run in behind.
"I don't care if you are the best defender on the planet and are quick, you don't want him [Vardy] running behind you all the time.
"But where he comes from [non-league], and how he plays his football, he is very much old school. It's hard not to like him.''
Coleman ended speculation over his post-Euro 2016 future on Monday week when he signed a two-year contract extension to take in the 2018 World Cup campaign.
Hodgson's own future will be resolved after the Euros, with the 68-year-old's chances of a new contract depending largely on how England play.
And Coleman feels the weight of expectation on England puts Hodgson under greater pressure than his fellow managers of Group B rivals Slovakia, Russia and Wales.
"England will be thinking quarterfinals and semifinals,'' said Coleman.
"If he doesn't get there...Roy is a realistic man. The pressure on Roy is different to the pressure on us, Russia or Slovakia.
"Look at England as a team and they have strength in every department, they have strength in depth. Yes, they'll be fancied, but there is great pressure on them.
"Roy is perfect for it with his experience, his personality. He is very calm, that will work well for the players. He doesn't get excited, he's been to tournaments and that will stand him in him in good stead.''
Coleman has taken his squad to a pre-Euros training camp in Portugal this week.
The 29-man party are without star striker Gareth Bale, who is preparing for Real Madrid's Champions League final against Atletico Madrid in Milan on Saturday night, and much of the attention will focus on Joe Ledley and his recovery from a fractured leg.
The initial prognosis suggested Ledley could be fit for the final group game against Russia in Toulouse on June 20, and Coleman says the Crystal Palace midfielder has to be fit by that date to have any chance of making his final 23-man squad.
"Maybe if you're Spain or Germany and you're used to being in semifinals and finals, you can think like that,'' Coleman said about the idea of naming Ledley in his squad even if he was not fit until the knock-out stages of the tournament. "We've got to think 'how are we going to get out of the group?' and we can't think beyond that.
"I've got a duty to put a squad of players together to give us that best chance of getting out of that group.
"It's so disappointing for Joe that we're in this position because he's done as much as anybody to get us there.
"He's important to us on the pitch and off it he's a top lad.
"It's the biggest decision I'm going to have to make in the 23."