England star Burn makes Haaland as eye-catching record comes to light

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Dan Burn hopes he can be England's lucky charm against

Erling Haaland

. The towering

Newcastle

defender, who is two inches taller (6ft' 7") than the Norwegian powerhouse (6ft' 5"), certainly knows how to keep the prolific

Manchester City

goalscoring powerhouse quiet.

Haaland has struck just once in 10 appearances against the Magpies and while Burn is unlikely to start against

Norway

, he undoubtedly has a clear idea of how to frustrate the 25-year-old assassin.

Burn said when quizzed on his favourable record against Haaland:" Yeah, I don't want to jinx it. Yeah, one goal.

"I do enjoy playing against Erling, purely just from a physical point of view. I quite like that sort of physical battle and I get on well with him on the pitch. We do get on quite well, although you'd have to ask him if he thinks the same thing.

"But yeah, if I'm asked to do that, I'd be more than ready and more than happy to do that. But obviously I also know that we've got four other centre-halves who are also top quality players and have played this whole tournament because of that too."

The 34-year-old centre-back is still revelling in the ecstasy of Sunday's historic triumph over co-hosts

Mexico

at the Azteca Stadium.

Burn made a whopping eight defensive contributions, including two headed clearances that incredibly reached the halfway line.

In his mind, he was simply doing his job despite the enormity of the occasion.

He continued when asked if he had the chance to soak it all in: "Yeah, a little bit, but I think because everything was happening so quickly and the way the game was going.

"It's one of them where I know I've been brought for certain scenarios and I could see already what was coming and sort of just preparing yourself to come on. And I think it's different when you're 34 and have played over 500 games. So it's really just the same game, just a different level.

"Do you know what I mean? So I wasn't nervous coming on. I knew what I was coming on to do and just wanted to get on and help the lads."

For him, only one game trumps last weekend and that was ending Newcastle's 70-year trophy drought.

He added when asked if the win over Mexico can be topped: "Yeah, it's got me top two. I've said that between that and the Cup final at Newcastle. I think it's hard because obviously I'm a Geordie and it was so long since we won something. So that was such a huge thing for Newcastle.

"But as I said, it was hard to even have this dream when I was a kid.

"So it's just something that maybe the last year and a half, it's something that I've always wanted to do. It's nice to say no one could take that away from us now. I've played at the World Cup, so it's special, but I want more. I'd love to do it all."