England’s footballers advanced to the EURO 2020 semifinals.
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Photo: SITA/AP, Ettore Ferrari
English captain Harry Kane celebrates a goal in the match against Ukraine.
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In Saturday’s final quarter-final match in Rome, they outclassed Ukraine 4-0 and on Wednesday, July 7, they fought in the home Wembley for the final against the Danes (21.00 CET). They eliminated the Czech Republic after a 2: 1 triumph in Baku.
In the first semifinal, the Italians will meet the Spaniards on Tuesday at 21.00 CET.
English captain Harry Kane opened the scoring at the Olympic Stadium in the 4th minute, the goal was his second in the final tournament.
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Right at the beginning of the second half, Kane also raised Harry Maguire’s heads, and Jordan Henderson added another goal again.
As the English defense worked again at zero and still did not collect at the European Championships, the selection of coach Gareth Southgate passed smoothly into the elite quartet after the second-half collapse of the opponent.
Quarterfinals
Rome
Ukraine – England 0: 4 (0: 1)
Goals: 4. and 50. Kane, 46. Maguire, 63. Henderson, no cards. Judges: Brych – Borsch, Lupp (all German), 11,880 spectators.
Ukraine: Bushchan – Zabarniy, Krivtsov (35th Gypsy), Matviyenko – Karavayev, Sidorchuk (64th Makarenko), Zinchenko, Mikolenko – Shaparenko – Yaremchuk, Yarmolenko
England: Pickford – Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw
(65. Trippier) – Phillips (65. Bellingham), Rice (57. Henderson) –
Sancho, Mount, Sterling (65. Rashford) – Kane (73. Calvert-Lewin)
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Favorit started well, in the 4th minute he took the lead. Sterling made a perfect pass to the end of Captain Kane, who did not hesitate in his favorite position. The English calmed down and even Ukraine did not change any of its game focused mainly on good defense.
In the 17th minute, the action of the Ukrainians came out for the first time, Yaremchuk got to the end, but Pickford hit his corner. After half an hour, he got into position after a rebounded ball Rice, but his hard bomb went to Buščan.
ME semifinal program
Tuesday, 21.00 CEST: Italy – Spain.
Wednesday, 21.00 CEST: England – Denmark.
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Albion’s players were waiting for their next chance, controlling the course and although their opponent increased the possession of the ball, the defense of England did not let him into anything more serious. Only Šaparenka’s shot from the second wave brought a little excitement to the break, but since she had the opposite fake, she missed the goal.
The English had an entry into the second half even better than the first. A free kick just outside of the visitors’ penalty area after 46 minutes could have resulted in another goal, but Maguire got a hand out and tipped the ball over the bar.
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That was far from everything, in the 50th minute Sterling put a foot on the wing with Shaw and his center head Kane cleared between the legs of the goalkeeper into the net – 3: 0. It wasn’t enough to save him, Hetrik could have reduced the lead after 62 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park.
After him, however, the Ukrainian players again failed after the standard and Mount’s center sent Henderson uncovered into the net, he was the first in his most valuable jersey. The dominant English did not allow the opponent an honorary goal and did not collect in the championship even in the fifth duel in the series.
Harry Kane, forward of England: “It’s about showing up at the right time. It was a fantastic evening, we have to go match after match. We were a favorite, there was a lot of pressure on us and expectations to do it.
And we did great. We have another clean sheet and we scored four goals, perfect evening. It will be huge in front of our fans at Wembley, we have a chance and we have to take it with both hands. “
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