Euro 2024: Spain, France, England and Netherlands prepare for semi-finals – as it happened

Euro 2024: Spain, France, England and Netherlands prepare for semi-finals – as it happened

as saying by ESPN.

Is it probably fair to have Spain as the favourites now? I, despite what the last few weeks have been telling us, still have France as more likely to get to the final, just because of their recent tournament record compared to the Spanish.

England, made his only first-team appearance for the Blues in the FA Cup against Preston North End last season.Netherlands semi-final will be the first contest at a major tournament between the two sides since this …

Switzerland.

England manager is getting right.

While he may be fortunate to have a gifted generation to coach, he is at least partly responsible for that generation thanks to his work with the England DNA programme and at under-21 level. He is perhaps rather better at the management side of football management than the football.

his penalty technique but here’s the original no-look king.

England it feels as if everything they’ve done can only be justified by winning the whole thing.Switzerland reached a peak audience of 16.8 million people on BBC One, with 8.9 million streams on iPlayer.England fans after victory in Dusseldorf.

Six arrests were made on Saturday evening, five for trying to enter the stadium without a ticket and one for letting off a flare in the city centre, where 1000 fans without tickets gathered to watch the game.

England future beyond this tournament remains unconfirmed. Yes, it’s a brilliant record he’s put together … BUT you just know that some will forever hold it against him if he doesn’t win a final.

Netherlands won 3-1 in extra-time. England’s starting line-up that day?

Pickford, Walker, Stones, Maguire, Chilwell, Rice, Delph, Barkley, Sancho, Rashford, Sterling (c).

England were on their way home – just like it was against Slovakia – until Bukayo Saka decided enough was enough. Cue the most unEnglish display in a penalty shootout: they were ice-cold.

The real entertainment, though, was in that humdinger between the Netherlands and Turkey, with end-to-end attacks, terrific last-ditch blocks from the eventual victors, and a particularly electric display from Cody Gakpo. The Dutch are going to cause England some serious problems.

I’m here all day so drop me a line with your thoughts, queries, pleas to Gareth, semi-final plans, whatever you fancy. Cheers!

Source: theguardian.com