One of sport's old adages is "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" but not for Belgium coach Roberto Martinez, at least not when his team take on England in their final World Cup round-robin match to decide top spot in Group G.

Normally a battle between European neighbours for first place at a World Cup would bring out the win-at-all-cost cliches but with Belgium already assured a spot in the last 16 along with England, Martinez was looking ahead for bigger scalps in the knockout round.

Martinez's thinking, however, ran counter to that of England coach Gareth Southgate who made it clear that his squad will be out for victory on Thursday to build momentum ahead the knockout phase.

"Tomorrow we want to perform well but the priority is not to win," Martinez told a pre-match press conference on Wednesday. "The reality is we put ourselves in this situation we wanted to qualify and we have done that. Place bet on tennis games on NaijaBet

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