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33 "Young pulls England out of trouble
Ashley Young's super tackle on another dangerous Croatia cross. He snuck on Rebic – again – at the last second, and without clogging, to sweep what would have been a clear blow to Pickford on the run.
32: Collision!
A few seconds later, Rebic He steals himself this time – colliding with Pickford on a high balloon served in the top of the England penalty area. But Cakir calls a foul – they do not like the players who face the goalkeepers – and England is safe
32: Pickford Saves
Rebic meets the Other end with a laser shot after a good job of Modric Deep, but the bullet touches Pickford's chin, and he easily removes it with both hands
30 ": KANE .. . No!
I do not know how one or the other of Kane's two plans stayed there. A superb Lingard ball pushed him behind the offside trap (barely) and his shot from the right foot was ejected. But he controls the rebound at an even tighter angle next to the left post and makes a second attempt. It hits a few things, but neither the back of the net nor turns too high and – safely if you are in Croatia –
27: Sterling hits the gas
Sterling wins a Running with Lovren – well, not a race, since Sterling was always going to win. But Lovren brings him back with one hand to the chest and kicks the shin, and Sterling falls as the smallest porcelain cabinet in the world. Free kick. It's a good one: Subasic has to pick him up. But he strikes a blow to temporarily end the threat.
25: Another chance for England
Jesse Lingard is behind to the right, but his shot in the middle is terrible – he misses two teammates, maybe three.
22: Kane Off-Game
Now Kane is moving away from a few steps too far, and when the turnover of Croatia falls to Sterling, he returns it to the big attacker, has not yet retreated onisde. It did not really matter at the end: Kane was shooting to the left. But he was two yards offside.
21: Lovren Clobbers Kane
Lovren absolutely hits Kane in midfield to stop a breakaway. It was a N.F.L. security tackle there, but he had no choice. Kane looked around him, and it would have been deadly.
20: Sterling Working
England clearly loves the Sterling-Vida match on the right: he keeps trying to get him around the corner. But Vida is standing there.
19: Perisic Fires and Misses
Perisic shoots from far to the left and strikes a shot in the side net of Pickford. He stepped out of Stones' heel, but Cakir did not see that and kick of goal – to the conspicuous consternation of Perisic.
17: Fans Helping Out
Feeling their team needs a lift in a piece "Cro-Ah-C-Yah". But as soon as the team moves upward, it runs out.
14 & # 39 ;: More danger in the turns
A nice game between Ashley Young and Dele Alli ends up making the latter jump to the top of the box. He feeds Trippier on the other side, and his cross is blocked for another turn. He finds Maguire – again – and he gets closer a bit but still sends it wide
12: Maguire Heads High
An English corner, their first. Young to take. No more danger of piece set up. Harry Maguire puts his head on it, but he sends it high up.
11 & # 39 ;: Croatia needs to regroup
Croatia seems a little annoyed, and a little offside, after the goal. Lovren just hit a ball in the midfield stands after a teammate sent him back to the place with England players around. Not smart.
9: Croatia makes a corner
Now it's Croatia with a corner. Modric to take it, but there's a little jostling on the spot so we take a break. England clears – awkwardly – and Kane comes out almost Sterling. But his mark returns to expert poke free with a toe around-reached. Risky game, done beautifully.
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7: Sterling scares Croatia
Raheem Sterling causes two problems to the right, but Subasic is about to smother the second to the left of his goal
6 & # 39 ;: Set Pieces Regulate This Cup
I guess we should not be surprised by another set set goal: it's 70-70 !!!!!! – In this tournament. Or almost half of the total.
5 "GOAL! England leads
Kieran Trippier just took the lead and took it as a pro. Super free shot up and right – and Subasic never had a chance. This goal is the first of Trippier for England
What a success of Kieran Trippier!
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4 Free kick for England
Dele wins a free kick in a dangerous place at the top of the circle in front of the Croatian goal. Trippier and Ashley Young stand on it, and now Maguire arrives with his two cents.
2 & # 39 ;: The referee exercises control
An interlocutor for Lingard's referee Cakir, just after Dele has one. A lot of nervous energy here, and the referee wants to immediately keep a lid on the extra things.
Croatia manager Zlatko Dalic is a coach. Gareth Southgate is in the shelter, keeping his vest tidy
1: Wrong departure for England
A turnover in England and Henderson commits a fault for stop what could have been a fast counter. Expect a lot of that
1: Kickoff!
It was the loudest roar for the countdown of the coup de send: and we left.
Classy
The end of Croatia unfolds a large banner that says "Thank you Russia" in Cyrillic during its national anthem. That's how you win on neutrals, people
English Cree Rally
Well, it's weird: they play on the speakers inside Luzhniki . Long joke – the song laments the failures of England – it has become the rallying cry of the team. But I would not be delighted with singalong if I was Croatian.
Croatia: The Odds
England is a slight favorite in this game, with the odds of translating into a 60 percent chance of advancing. The over / under is two goals. Harry Kane is the big favorite to score the first goal, at 4-1, followed by his teammate Raheem Sterlin at 9-1. Mario Mandzukic is Croatia's most likely candidate at 11-1.
England vs Croatia: the fans
The two fan bases seem to feel the story inherent in tonight's clash – a first World Cup final for Croatia, a first since 1966 for England – and are in force. The English are already singing, and they roared for their team. But Croats also have numbers and full voices. The atmosphere, at least, will be more electric than France-Belgium was last night. The role of Raheem
Raheem Sterling continues to be a lightning rod when people talk about England, which continues to be confusing, at least for the Southgate manager Gareth. Sterling, Southgate notes (correctly), is an essential part of what England does. His speed destabilizes the opposing defenses, allowing him to attack from deeper positions than some of his teammates. He can work on either side of the field, change sides to unbalance the teams. And his ability to work in tight spaces and to hunt even the most hopeful of long balls makes him dangerous at any time. Yes, he has not scored for England since October 2015, a point that his critics know by heart. But that's not always what Sterling does on the match sheet, which is the most important, really; it's the mere threat that he could do something that increases his value.
"I'm not surprised that Croatia has identified Raheem as a key player," said Southgate this week. "If you look at all of our attack models and how our top four have combined and played, he has played a role in that."
The starting lineup of England
The lineups are out and England does not change thing:
Goalkeeper: 1 Jordan Pickford (Everton)
Defenders: 6 Harry Maguire (Leicester), 5 John Stones (Manchester City), 12 Kieran Trippier (Tottenham), 2 Kyle Walker (Manchester City), 18 Ashley Young (Manchester United)
Midfielder: 20 Dele Alli (Tottenham) , 8 Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), 7 Jesse Lingard (Manchester United)
Before: 9 Harry Kane (Tottenham), 10 Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
And why would they do it, with all that works if well until here. It's the same three-way back line, with Walker, Stones and Maguire, flanked by Trippier and Young, who will again look to advance and help in the attack. Henderson gets solitary duty in the central midfield, and his teammates (Lingard, Dele Alli, Trippier and Young) will have to make sure he will not be overrun by Modric and Rakitic
Croatia & # 39; Starting Lineup
For Croatia, Marcelo Brozovic was chosen ahead of Andrej Kramaric. Brozovic was the choice against Denmark in the round of 16, but Kramaric played in the quarter-final against Russia. Brozovic's choice is a defense-oriented move as he is a deeper midfielder, while Kramaric is playing just behind striker Mario Mandzukic.
Goalkeeper: 23 Danijel Subasic (Monaco)
Defenders: 21 Domagoj Vida (Besiktas), 3 Ivan Strinic (Milan), 6 Dejan Lovren (Liverpool), 2 Sime Vrsaljko (Atletico Madrid)
Midfielder : 10 Luka Modric (Real Madrid), 7 Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona), 11 Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan)
Before: 17 Mario Mandzukic (Juventus), 4 Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan), 18 Ante Rebic (Fiorentina) [19659081] England vs. United States Croatia: history
England has not played against Croatia since it's qualified for the 2010 World Cup. England has won both matches with ease, 5-1 at home and 4-1 away. English stars in such games as Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard. are no longer part of the configuration of the national team. But one of Croatia's two goals was scored by Mario Mandzukic, 22, who scored the winning goal on Denmark in the round of 16.
Representative of the Lone Premier League of Croatia
living in the Premier League, and the league had players scattered throughout the first semifinal on Tuesday, too. But Croatia has only one player who makes a living in England: Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren
Set Piece Trending
Samuel Umtiti's goal against Belgium on Tuesday was the 69th goal of this World Cup, on 158 everything. This is a drastic increase in recent years, and speaks of technical changes (it's easier to draw coins in a short window than flowing attacking moves) and tactical (referees assist the potential faults in the repair area). But Croatia and England are both able to score points, so we can expect the trend to continue today.
• Eight of England's 11 goals in Russia came out of the competition. And Harry Kane are probably a representative collection: three shots on goal, two goals at goal and a shot from someone else who hit him and came in. So, it's not exactly Brazil around 1970 or anything.
Harry's Golden Boot? 19659090] The Englishman Harry Kane is still online to win the Golden Boot as top scorer in the World Cup. Kane has six goals. The Dutchman Romelu Lukaku is fourth in the match for third place and the only active players with three are the French Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé
England Vs. Croatia Top Story Lines
• England played a semi-final World Cup in 1990, when he lost to penalty kicks in West Germany, who won the trophy . Croatia played its only other semifinal of the World Cup in 1998; he lost to France, who won the trophy.
• The stakes of a semifinal World Cup – the mere idea that a team is within 90 minutes of the final – can sometimes undermine the daring and risky outbursts of teams. But fatigue too. Croatia emerged from two consecutive penalty-winning overtime games and finished Saturday's quarter-final by caring for several players through what looked like overwork injuries.
How will Croatia do it? but the fact that many experts still choose them to advance shows the depth of their talent. And England also played an extended game against Colombia last week, and while its quarterfinals against Sweden ended up being a little further, matches and miles added up [19659094] Interactive Feature
Spot the ball: the coup de grace
Messi is gone. Ronaldo is gone. Germany has been gone for a long time. But Spot the Ball survived the knockout round of the World Cup! To celebrate, we shot some photos of the round of 16 and made a very important change – we pulled the ball. See if you can guess where it was.
• The only previous team to win two consecutive shoot-outs in the Round of 16 World Cup was Argentina in 1990. She lost her next game against the # 39, West Germany in the final. Former Argentine player Jorge Valdano has written an ode to Croatia midfielder Luka Modric for The Guardian today. Valdano wrote: "We are not talking about a gift like that of Diego Maradona, but rather of a game that involves completing the game of common sense. He does not do impossible things; When he plays a pass, you see it and you think, "That's what I would have done." There's a beauty in Modric's game – an effortless shine combined with tireless effort – that any fan can respect
Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) and Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) behind striker Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) probably give Croatia its best shot at a World Cup title in a generation, and this since a generation
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The time to stop was filled with goals
23 goals were scored at the 90th minute and in the second half of the World Cup, breaking the previous record of 14 years in Brazil.
Some Preface Readings
• France beat Belgium to win first place in the final, but you still have the feeling, according to Rory Smith in The Times, that they are set back from the best they can be.
• Have you noticed that many players do not seem to drink their energy drinks? That they just seem to move a little and spit out the liquid? Jeré Longman noticed, and he went about what was happening.
• England is struggling to come to terms with the race of its team in Russia, amid a political crisis raging at home. much to reevaluate what it means to be English. "Nobody expected that," said a fan. "We are not used to this kind of success."
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