Post by account_disabled on Jan 10, 2024 4:01:19 GMT -5
Two goals from Harry Maguire and Dele Alli meant that, twenty-eight years later, England was once again playing in a World Cup semi-final, after defeating Sweden in the quarterfinals this Saturday (0-2), in Samara, where the team of the Three Lions was reunited with his story.
England, world champion in 1966, almost always a candidate for everything and deserving of nothing, has returned, perhaps at the least expected moment, with a very young and inexperienced team, to the elite of world football. And next Wednesday they will play, at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, the same one that will host the decisive match, on July 15, the semifinal against the winner of Russia-Croatia.
Football 's coming home . Just as the anthem Binance App Users Data of the '96 Euro Cup said, which England organized with the meager spoils of a semi-final in which they lost to Germany on penalties. In which the decisive shot was missed by his current coach, Gareth Southgate, absolutely redeemed from that error with what he has already achieved, thanks to a group with room for improvement.
Without playing spectacular football, they defeated the sober and compact Sweden; He went on to the semi-final and unleashed delirium in England, where the beer flows in some pubs whose televisions will repeat a thousand times the black and white images of Bobby Moore lifting the Jules Rimet trophy at Wembley 52 years ago.
Emil Krafth, for the suspended Mikael Lustig, and Sebastian Larsson, back after his suspension match against Switzerland in the round of 16 (1-0), were the new additions for Sweden, with their centre-back duo, Victor Lindelöf and captain Andreas Granqvist, a spinal line of four; and their two usual forwards, Marcus Berg and Ola Toivonen.
Southgate repeated the eleven he took against Colombia, eliminated on penalties: Ian Walker, John Stones and Harry Maguire forming a central trio; with Kieran Trippier and Ashley Young as wingers; midfield for Jordan Henderson, Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard; and Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane, the tournament's top scorer, in attack.
It was Kane, Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham star, who gave the first (timid) warning, in the 18th minute, with a shot that went from the right of Olsen's goal. In an unspectacular first act in which England was the one that proposed the most, to go ahead at half an hour, thanks to a great header from the 'giant' Maguire (1.93 meters) that made them taste their own aerial game syrup to the Swedes, after a corner from the left taken by Young.
England, world champion in 1966, almost always a candidate for everything and deserving of nothing, has returned, perhaps at the least expected moment, with a very young and inexperienced team, to the elite of world football. And next Wednesday they will play, at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, the same one that will host the decisive match, on July 15, the semifinal against the winner of Russia-Croatia.
Football 's coming home . Just as the anthem Binance App Users Data of the '96 Euro Cup said, which England organized with the meager spoils of a semi-final in which they lost to Germany on penalties. In which the decisive shot was missed by his current coach, Gareth Southgate, absolutely redeemed from that error with what he has already achieved, thanks to a group with room for improvement.
Without playing spectacular football, they defeated the sober and compact Sweden; He went on to the semi-final and unleashed delirium in England, where the beer flows in some pubs whose televisions will repeat a thousand times the black and white images of Bobby Moore lifting the Jules Rimet trophy at Wembley 52 years ago.
Emil Krafth, for the suspended Mikael Lustig, and Sebastian Larsson, back after his suspension match against Switzerland in the round of 16 (1-0), were the new additions for Sweden, with their centre-back duo, Victor Lindelöf and captain Andreas Granqvist, a spinal line of four; and their two usual forwards, Marcus Berg and Ola Toivonen.
Southgate repeated the eleven he took against Colombia, eliminated on penalties: Ian Walker, John Stones and Harry Maguire forming a central trio; with Kieran Trippier and Ashley Young as wingers; midfield for Jordan Henderson, Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard; and Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane, the tournament's top scorer, in attack.
It was Kane, Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham star, who gave the first (timid) warning, in the 18th minute, with a shot that went from the right of Olsen's goal. In an unspectacular first act in which England was the one that proposed the most, to go ahead at half an hour, thanks to a great header from the 'giant' Maguire (1.93 meters) that made them taste their own aerial game syrup to the Swedes, after a corner from the left taken by Young.