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Quietly, without the noise of previous occasions the teams of David Beckham, Michael Owen and Paul Scholes in 1998, or Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney in South Africa 2010, England arrived in Russia 2018, under the guidance of coach Gareth Southgate, who wanted to take away a burden 1996.
Four years ago, in Brazil, they were eliminated in the first round, where they scored only one point in the Group that are Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica. Two years ago, in France, in the European Championship, they took leave in the round of 16 against a modest Iceland.
Nobody dared to bet on them, especially with recent history and the youth of their training. But Harry Maguire, Kieran Trippier, Dele Alli, Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane have dared to dream and today they wake up, for the third time in their history, in the semifinals of a World Cup, on traces of Bobby Moore's generation. The 52-year-old has lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy at Wembley and Gary Lineker, who finished fourth in Italy 28 years ago.
He saves nothing but minimizes his weaknesses and exploits his strengths. England 2 Sweden 0, sums up what is the cast of the "three lions".
A solid team in defense, which gives some advantages, but for that the goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, immense to guarantee zero against the Swedes. A solid team in the midfield and with an imbalance and strength in the attack, with Sterling and Kane, the World Cup scorer with six celebrations.
A powerful team in the air game, which thanks to this road submitted an opponent he was without offensive arguments, when he had planned a defensive plan.
Harry Maguire (30 &) and Dele Alli (59 ont) spread their wings to fly high and leave England among the top four teams in the world.
The weight that Gareth Southgate bears, no doubt, is now lower. In the European Championship in 1996, in which England was the organizer, he failed the decisive penalty against Germany, which deprived the football inventors of the time. to be in the final.
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