Formule of England and Pickford saves the difference: the coach of Sweden

Samara: Sweden made very few mistakes but ran into a better team that day and a superb goalie from England Jordan Pickford missed his first semifinal since 1994, said coach Janne Andersson

England scored once in half to beat The Swedes led 2-0 to Samara and reached their first World Cup semifinal since 1990. They will face now Croatia or Russia, who will play later Saturday.

Harry Maguire opened the scoring in the 30th minute at Arena Samara and Dele Alli doubled the lead after the break with the Swedes who were sometimes struggling to contain the English attacks. "I do not think anything went wrong, we faced a good opponent and we did not reach our best level, margins were low," Andersson told the press

. The first 30 minutes we were under control until the corner and they scored. We then created opportunities early in the second half and if we scored, it would have revived the game. "