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The English team beat Sweden 2-0 on Saturday in Samara, with two goals in the lead, and returned to the semi-finals of a World Cup 28 years later, thanks in large part to his potential in action during a stop-ball. have produced eight of their eleven goals in the tournament.
Against the Nordics, Gareth Southgate's students again took advantage of this strategy with the goal that opened the scoring, a header from defender Harry Maguire after a corner in the Leicester defender took advantage of his height of 194 cm to fly over his Swedish counterparts and double his team in the race.In the second half, another testarazo of Dele Alli at 59
"They are strong and well organized, I would like to congratulate the team and l & # 39; coach, they are a good football team, they do not leave too many places, I think that they are perfectly able to go to the end, "he said. Swedish coach Janne Andersson in front of the press
With Maguire, England scored his fourth corner in Russia-2018, which, added to Harry Kane's three penalties, one free kick and three more this generation in the highest scorer of its history in the competition with 11 goals, equaling its best record reached in 1966 when the champions were consecrated for the first and only time, on their own territory.
The credit in this type of games is for Allan Russell, who worked in the lower grades in Scotland, England and the United States before being hired by Southgate as an badistant for specific training attackers and adapted the strategies used in the NFL and the NBA.
The pieces are very worked, "said Kane on television after the match.
– A complete team –
But England has shown in Russia that it is much more. The Southgate formation, one of the youngest of the tournament, was reinforced by his tactical strength, with a 3-5-2 record in which his defenders were almost unbeatable and their forward, Harry Kane, terrorized the In vain, the Tottenham striker is the top scorer of the competition with six goals.
"To get here, the collective was the key." Being able to control the match and the match against a adversary like that., with the emotional burden and fatigue of having a midweek game, is a sign of the resilience and maturity of this team, "said Southgate at a conference of press after the match
. statistics on their side: in eight official matches between the two, the Nordiques had lost only one.
Moreover, to get to this instance, they had left Holland on their way to qualifying, Italy in the playoffs. "Repechage and Germany in Group F, which led despite a fall (1-2) against the defending champions.
With a game based on his physique and his power over the plays at stake, the men by Janne Andersson handed the ball back to their opponents and they were waiting.
Cashed, waiting to come out in counterattack, Sweden gave in and ended up paying.
Kane tried his luck at the start. first with a distant shot that skimmed the post at 19 minutes and Maguire, shortly thereafter, did not forgive the joy of a country that had been waiting for an opportunity like this for almost three decades
when the break seemed obvious, Raheem Sterling had a heads-up against Robin Olsen who did not know how to define: the Manchester City striker tried to dribble the goalkeeper but fails and his subsequent shot went off. crushes in the leg of a defender.
– Pickford, an impregnable wall – [1 9659002] If in one bow the ball games were stopped decisive, in the other the performances by Jordan Pick The goalkeeper Everton ended the globalist curse in the shootings of his country against Colombia in second round (1-1, 4-3) and, on Saturday, he came back to shine when his team over He needed it.
After crossing the locker room, Sweden came back and Marcus Berg was about to certify the equalizer at 47 from a header that saved Pickford.
Dele Alli then made the 2-0, also with the test (59), and the Nordics were able to cut distances up to twice (62). But they met Pickford twice
The English goalkeeper was an impregnable wall for his rivals, who continued to try and still met their gloves.
Now, England will play in the semi-final on Wednesday in Moscow against Croatia, which eliminated in the infamous shooting of the criminal 4-3 (after the draw with two) to Russia in the last clash quarterfinals of the World Cup.
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