Yakin faced questions about how he would prepare if England do turn out to be Switzerland’s next opponents, but said he was not thinking about that yet.
“If it is England, then one step at a time and we will prepare for that, and we will have the chance [to play] against them – but the same goes for Slovakia,” he explained.
“We are focused on ourselves, we don’t want to be distracted by our opponents.”
He was also asked if, like Austria, his side can be the tournament’s surprise package and should be considered dark horses in the games to come.
“So much can still happen,” he said. “It’s the knockout stage, every game has its own story, every match is decisive, but we have the right shape and we have the right gameplan and we are a good team, we showed that again here.
“But we still need to keep our feet on the ground. We need to make sure that we are humble in our approach, because that has underpinned how we have conducted ourselves so far.”