After Kobbie Mainoo’s spectacular first half performance against Switzerland, several commentators, including Rio Ferdinand, were quick to shower accolades on the youngster.

Despite neither team scoring before halftime in Dusseldorf, the young Man United player had a great first half.

Completely completing all of his attempted passes and tackles, Mainoo made his presence felt in the middle of the field.Additionally, the experts on BBC One wasted no time praising the 19-year-old during halftime.

“He simply doesn’t look like a teenager,” Ferdinand remarked. When he’s with the elementary school students, he comes across as quite authoritative and stern, as if he were a school prefect dictating rules and regulations. If you give me the ball, I’ll lend it out all over the place.He plays at a level of maturity that belies his age. The majority of the time, he gets the decision right. His composure is all that’s needed.

His ability to work in tandem and switch roles with Phil Foden is something I really like. He switches between the number 10 and the 6 or the 8, and he’s equally at home in those roles. I’ve adored the rapport he appears to have established with Phil Foden in the first half.

Even Ferdinаnd’s cо-cоmmentаtоr Gаry Lineker cоuldn’t disаgree, sаying: “We’ve seen terrific perfоrmаnce in the first hаlf. оbviоusly yоu cаn mentiоn Sаkа. Bellinghаm hаs been аll оver the plаce… but Kоbbie Mаinоо, I meаn, reаlly?”

He just celebrated his 19th birthday. Among England’s quarterfinal players, the second-youngest has played. Wayne Rooney was the other one.

“We spoke before the game about England looking a little bit rigid, a little bit positional, and that’s the main thing for me,” remarks Frank Lampard, a former England midfielder.

Even though he’s only 19 years old, he knows how to work off of other good players within the system, which gives them balance.