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We need to talk about Raheem. The England winger seems to be coming in for quite a lot of criticism on social media because he missed two decent chances against Sweden. Depressingly, he is currently the lowest-scoring player out of England’s starters in both ours and the BBC’s player ratings systems.
This seems remarkable, not least because Sterling wreaked havoc with his direct running at Sweden’s defence, causing them all sorts of problems throughout. Without his speed, gumption and creativity, England would have struggled badly to stretch and break down Sweden. Anyone with half a brain would realise he contributed significantly more than quite a few of his team-mates and certainly didn’t contribute significantly less.
But hey, the dunderheaded majority seem to think that as he didn’t score a goal when he should have, it’s open season again. It’s difficult not to conclude that the Daily Mail and Sun have a lot to answer for on the back of their relentless hounding of the player in recent years. It seems he’s still paying the price for buying his mum a nice house, shopping at Greggs, driving a dirty car, flying with a budget airline and getting a tattoo.
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More England reaction: Happy, drunk man in charge of Barbecue sings song.
Get in @England semi final here we come #itsComingHomeRussia2018 pic.twitter.com/DY2xqncoY8
— Ray Parlour (@RealRomfordPele) July 7, 2018
Meanwhile in Sochi: Russia are taking on Croatia for the privilege of being beaten by England in next Wednesday’s semi-final. Scott Murray is manning the minute-by-minute report for that particular contest and would love you to join him.
Fun fact: No fewer than 17 of the 23 players in England’s World Cup squad were not born on the previous occasion they reached the semifinals (1 July 1990).
Among those who were still mischievous gleams in their fathers’ eyes – today’s goalscorers Harry Maguire and Dele Alli. Danny Rose was born one day after England’s 3-2 quarterfinal victory over Cameroon in 1990.
Guardian match report: Sweden 0-2 England
Daniel Taylor, our chief football correspondent, was at the Samara Arena to watch England see off a fairly feeble Sweden challenge and advance to the World Cup semi-finals. Here’s how he saw events unfold.
Gareth Southgate speaks: ““We knew we would have the majority of the ball, the question was whether we could break them down,” says England’s manager in an interview with the BBC. “We’d identified a few areas where we might do that and we got the goals from both of them.
“We scored from set plays because we got into good areas on the pitch. Sweden are well-organised, they make things tough and over the years we’ve underestimated them. Today, our spirit was as good as theirs but our quality was a little bit better.”
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Sweden’s manager speaks: “What went wrong?” says Janne Andersson. “I am not sure anything went wrong as such. We didn’t get to our best. We had things under control until they had that corner.”
Fabian Delph speaks: In an interview with the BBC’s Gabby Logan, the midfielder has just spoken about the weirdness of being at the World Cup, then going home to attend the home birth of his third daughter, the fans he met on the school run while on his mini-break from the England camp. He ends his interview by saying that he and his wife can’t decide on a name for the new born baby that the whole family agree on and finishes up by describing his other half as “a machine”. Hmmm ...
Kyle Walker tweets ...
And it’s a belter ...
Yeah so a good header doesn’t hurt. I mean the moment you head it proper, you feel it’s a good one. Know what I mean love? pic.twitter.com/a5b8UqDjv2
— Kyle Walker (@kylewalker2) July 7, 2018
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Jordan Pickford speaks
“It’s a great result,” says England’s goalkeeper to the Beeb. “We knew it was going to be difficult against Sweden. We know what they were going to bring to the part and we knew what he had to bring our A-game.”
On the atmosphere: “It was quality,” he says. “England fans are different class. We really enjoy playing and when the fans are like that it makes us very relaxed. I think the last time England were in a semi-final was 1990 and I wasn’t born then. We can go and create our own history, but now it’s all about rest and recovery.”
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Dele Alli speaks ...
“It’s a great achievement for the team,” says the scorer of England’s second goal in an interview with the BBC. “We owed it to the fans back home because we’ve seen how they’re supporting us.”
On his goal: “It’s always nice to score, espeically on an occasion like this but personally I didn’t think it was one of my better games. It was a real graft out there. It was important we had belief in our game plan, dominating possession. It was important that we stuck to what we were doing and moved the ball quickly.”
He finishes up with a few kind words for England’s goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who was outstanding today.
Match report: Sweden 0-2 England
Here’s our snap report on England’s quarter-final win at the Samara Arena. We’ll have a more detailed report, along with post-match reaction, quotes and comment from the Guardian posse at the Samara Arena shortly.
Some men named Harry speak ...
Harry Kane: “Probably not,” says England’s skipper upon being asked if this win has sunk in yet by the BBC. “There was so much preparation for this game. I thought we were fantastic. Sweden made it tough ... long balls from the back ... lots of crosses ... we’re buzzing! We’re buzzing! We know there’s still a big game ahead – the semi-final. We just have to go again. We’re enjoying it. We’ve got to keep doing what we’re doing.”
Harry Maguire: “We felt like we could dominate the ball today,” said the scorer of England’s first goal. “We could control the play. It was a bit sloppy towards the end of the second half when it was too open.”
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Easy for England: Their players embrace each other and salute the travelling England fans as the camera cuts occasionally to assorted Swedes sobbing in the crowd. Jordan Pickford made some excellent saves today, but despite the goalkeeper being called upon on three different occasions, the outcome of this game never looked in any doubt.
Sweden were poor; abject at times, but created enough chances to win the game nonetheless. If they’d taken those chances, the result going their way would have been a complete travesty. One suspects England had plenty more left in the tank if they’d needed it.
Full time: Sweden 0-2 England
Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeep! It’s all over. England are through to the World Cup semi-final, where they will face Russia or Croatia. Harry Maguire and Dele Alli got the goals as they overcame a Sweden side that made life rather easy for their English opponents in Samara.
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90+3 min: England’s serene procession to the semi-final is almost complete. They’ve had it pretty easy today, against a Sweden side that can be pleased with making it this far in the competition, taking some notably high profile scalps along the way. For all that, they haven’t done themselves justice today.
90+1 min: England substitution: Raheem Sterling off after a good performance. Marcus Rashford on.
90 min: Ludwig Augustinsson takes the free-kick and sends it screaming high over the bar. That is an awful effort.
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89 min: Sweden win a free-kick just outside the England penalty area, right of centre.
88 min: Sterling gets in behind Lindelof and tries to get a cross in from the left. It’s blocked and the ball breaks back into the square yard of no-mans land between Delph and Sterling. They both leave it to each other to do something with it and it spins it out of play. This is the kind of telepathy they’ve developed during their time together at Manchester City.
87 min: Harry Maguire gets booked for kicking the ball away in frustration after being penalised for a foul on John Guidetti. The two players exchange unpleasantries and Guidetti is booked too.
86 min: Another free-kick for England wide on the right after a foul on Lingard. Trippier whips in a good delivery, but Sweden clear.
85 min: England substitution: Eric Dier on for Jordan Henderson. Sweden substitution: Pontus Jansson on for Emil Krafth.
84 min: England win a free-kick wide on the right. Trippier’s delivery is uncharacteristically poor and goes straight out of play.
84 min: Lingard tries his luck with a curling effort from distance, but it’s intercepted.
81 min: Jordan Pickford and John Stones both eff and jeff liberally and in the strongest possible terms in the face of Sweden’s Marcus Berg after England’s goalkeeper was forced off his line to pluck a ball towards the Swedish forward from the sky. I am not sure what exactly Berg done to displease them, but they seem very cross with him. Chill out, lads.
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80 min: There’s a break in play as Krafth has to receive treatment for an injury. England’s players take the opportunity to get some fluids on board.
77 min: Another wonderful knee-height cross from Trippier that Sterling hopes to poke home at the far post. Krafth makes a crucial interception.
75 min: England substitution: Fabian Delph on for goalscoring’s Dele Alli. Referee Bjorn Kuipers is forced to intervene when Alli turns his back to the technical area and pretends he doesn’t know it’s him who is making way in a bid to waste time. Expect this exhibition of amateur theatrics to be cited as further evidence of the new, more “streetwise” England in the post-match coverage.
72 min: Another good save from Pickford, who palms over the bar from Berg’s shot on the turn from 12 yards or so. The Swede should have scored their after being teed up by Guidetti’s pass from the left. A dreadful miss, but Pickford’s playing a goalkeeper who just isn’t going to concede today.
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70 min: England win a corner. Trippier sends the ball into the mixer, but Sweden clear.
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69 min: Raheem Sterling attacks down the inside left, then attempts to pick out Harry Kane with a curling delivery across the face of goal. Granqvist intercepts, but his makes a pig’s ear of his clearance. The ball drops kindly for Dele Alli, whose volley goalwards is blocked by the Sweden captain.
67 min: Sweden double-substitution: Martin Olsson and John Guidetti come on for Emil Forsberg and Ola Toivonen.
66 min: The ball pinballs around the Sweden penalty area towards the end of another England attack. It breaks for Harry Maguire in a good position, but he balloons the ball high, wide and out of the stadium.
63 min: With the game completely open and England in control, Sweden had a wonderful opportunity to pull a goal back there. Claesson was on hand to steer a Berg lay-off towards the bottom left-hand corner. Pickford’s save was sensational, but he steered the ball straight back into the path of Claesson. He had a second bite of the cherry, but Henderson blocked.
62 min: Jordan Pickford saves brilliantly again, getting down to his right to save a low Viktor Claesson drive from about 10 yards. Jordan Henderson is on hand to block the follow-up shot when England looked certain to concede.
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61 min: This is shaping up to be a potential massacre as England look totally rampant against a Swedish side that appear clueless in the face of this imperialistic onslaught. Oh, hold on ...
59 min: Completely unmarked at the far post, Dele Alli heads home from about five yards out after leaping to convert a Jesse Lingard cross from the right. In the Samara Arena, It’s Coming Home by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds blares out over the PA System.
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GOAL! Sweden 0-2 England (Alli 58)
Well, that was coming. Dele Alli doubles England’s lead.
#Eng fans celebrate Dele Alli making it 2-0 against #Swe in the #WorldCup quarter-finals pic.twitter.com/YbwWTH34uN
— Guardian sport (@guardian_sport) July 7, 2018
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56 min: England players form a line of six in the Sweden penalty area as they wait for Trippier to send the ball in. His delivery is typically excellent, but Granqvist gets a crucial touch.
56 min: England are almost totally dominant and win a corner as they turn the screw. Lingard tries a shot from distance which goes out of Krafth.
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55 min: Sterling canters down the right flank and sends in a cross. Sweden clear again, but are looking very shaky.
54 min: England win a free-kick wide on the left. The ball’s lofted towards the far post, where Harry Maguire heads it across the face of goal. It hangs in the air and Raheem Sterling tries an acrobatic overhead kick, but fails to trouble Robin Olsen. The ball is hacked up in the air, drops for Maguire again and he heads across the face of goal again – Sweden clear.
1 - England have lost just one of their 22 World Cup games in which they have been leading at half-time before today (W17 D4), with that sole defeat being the 1970 quarter-final against West Germany. Resolute. #ENG #SWEENG #WorldCup
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) July 7, 2018
50 min: Early in this second half and necessity dictates that Sweden are already showing a more attack-minded attitude, throwing men forward in a way they were not inclined towards before the interval.
50 min: Berg and Toivonen combine through the centre, only for the latter to be dispossessed by Kieran Trippier.
48 min: That was an excellent header from Berg, who rose high above Ashley Young to get on the end of a cross from the left and steer his header towards the bottom corner. It took a very strong hand from Pickford to keep it out.
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47 min: SAVE! Jordan Pickford saves brilliantly, diving low to his left to claw away a Marcus Berg downward header that was going in at his near post.
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46 min: Krafth sends a cross in from the right, which loops up into the air off Harry Maguire, with Emil Forsberg lurking with intent at the far post. Sweden win a throw-in deep in England territory.
Second half: Sweden 0-1 England
46 min: Jesse Lingard gets the ball rolling for the second half. There are no changes to either line-up.
Thoughts so far: Going forward, Kieran Trippier and Raheem Sterling have caused Sweden all sorts of problems. Sterling probably should have done better for that chance just before half-time, but was foiled by some excellent goalkeeping as he attempted to take the ball around Robin Olsen after being put clean through by Jordan Henderson. Otherwise, he’s caused all manner of panic with his direct running at the Swedish defence.
Trippier has been England’s standout player, sending in one delivery after another from the right with laser-like precision. An intriguing second half awaits.
Half-time: Sweden 0-1 England
England go in for the break with a 1-0 lead following 45 minutes of largely attritional and awful football. Harry Maguire scored with a bullet header from a corner, while Raheem Sterling has missed a glorious opportunity to double England’s lead. Sweden have offered little and look very ponderous, but don’t need to press the panic button just yet. That said, they were in a major panic in the closing moments of that first half.
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45+2 min: England have two corners in a row; nothing comes from either of them. Bjorn Kuipers blows for half-time, with Sweden on the ropes.
45 min: Unbelievable! Sterling is played in on goal again by Henderons, with only Olsen to beat again. He dithers over his shot, allowing Olsen to dive to ground and get a crucial touch to the ball before Sterling can unleash a shot. England continue to threaten, but Sweden eventually scramble enough men back to concede a corner.
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44 min: Sterling is put through one-on-one with Robin Olsen and shoots straight at the goalkeeper from about five yards. He’s later flagged for offside.
43 min: Victor Lindelof performs heroics to cut out a sensational Trippier cross from the right as Sterling threatens to control and shoot from 10 yards out after getting between two defenders.
40 min: Sterling wreaks a little more havoc down the inside left channel and sends a cross towards the near post. He doesn’t get much power on it, but the ball makes its way to Dele Alli, who tries to beat Robin Olsen with an audacious flick. Denied.
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38 min: Albin Ekdal gets past Dele Alli with a soft-shoe shuffle, before running into the comparative brick wall that is Jordan Henderson and losing the ball. England fans won’t care one jot given the scoreline, but on an aesthetic level this is a truly atrocious game of football.
36 min: Watching replays of that Maguire goal, the strength he got on his header was quite remarkable. England’s players had stacked (formed an orderly queue or what Glenn Hoddle endearingly calls a “love train”) as they waited for the ball to come in, with Maguire directly behind Harry Kane.
Nobody picked him up and despite the Swedes marking zonally, nobody could beat the Leicester central defender to the ball. His finish couldn’t have been more emphatic.
34 min: Sterling tries to latch on to a long ball from deep down the inside right channel, but Andreas Granqvist gets a crucial touch to knock the ball out of play.
31 min: Remarkably, England score from another corner, with Harry Maguire bagging his first goal for his country. Ashley Young sent the ball in from the corner flag and Harry rose at the penalty spot to send a powerful header past Robin Olsen and inside the left upright.
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GOAL! Sweden 0-1 England (Maguire 30)
England score from another set piece!!!
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30 min: Kieran Trippier plays a crossin from the right, which Emil Krafth heads behind for a corner. Ashley Young places the ball in the quadrant.
28 min: Raheem Sterling runs at the Sweden defence again, before playing the ball wide to Ashley Young on the left flank. His cross is blocked by Andreas Granqvist.
26 min: Not for the first or second time in this match, Dele Alli gives the ball away and Sweden launch a counter. The ball’s sent long behind a dozing Harry Maguire, with Marcus Berg on the chase. Luckily for England, the Swede is ruled offside. Replays suggest he may have been hard done by.
23 min: On the UK TV coverage, co-comms man Martin Keown likens the opening 22 minutes of this game to a boxing match in which both fighters are too busy sizing each other up to throw any punches.
Kieran Trippier throws a tentative jab, combining with Kyle Walker down the right and attempting to drill a low cross towards Harry Kane. His delivery takes a deflection into the arms of Swedish goalkeeper Robin Olsen at the near post.
Moments previously, England had a half-hearted penalty appeal turned down when a Sterling cross hit the arm of Emil Forsberg.
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21 min: Young sends a delightful cross in from the left, which looks to be heading for Harry Kane. Andreas Granqvist intercepts.
21 min: With a quarter of the game, it’s shaping up to be anything but a classic, but England are starting to show signs of life after looking in danger of being suffocated by their deliberately ponderous opponents.
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19 min: Raheem Sterling instils panic in the Sweden defence as he sprints forward with the ball at his feet. He makes it to the edge of the penalty area and lays off the ball to Harry Kane, who drags a low effort wide from the edge of the penalty area.
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18 min: Sweden lump the ball long down the inside right, with Ola Toivanon – one of four former Sunderland players on the pitch – on the chase. John Stones shepherds the ball out of play for a goal kick.
16 min: Sweden win a throw-in, deep in their own half ... in a match that so far seems like one endless loop of Sweden winning a throw-0in deep in their own half.
14 min: Kieran Trippier curls a cross in to the Sweden penalty area, which is headed clear. Harry Maguire concedes a free-kick and Sweden have a free-kick not too far outside their own penalty area. It’s been a slow start - England are in the ascendency, but have yet to create a chance of note.
Sweden are content to let them have the ball and try to break down a decidedly stout defence that has only conceded two goals in four matches (both against Germany) thus far. The Swedes are also trying to slow the game down at every opportunity.
12 min: Viktor Claesson tries a shot from distance which sails high and wide of Jordan Pickford’s goal. The England goalkeeper storms out of his goal in a fury, angrily berating his defenders for not closing down the Sweden midfielder.
10 min: Weirdly, Jordan Henderson already seems to have inveigled his way into the bad books of Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers. The England midfielders incessant complaining about a couple of fairly insignificant decisions have already earned him a dressing-down from the referee. Now, if only Mr Kuipers could go and have a word with the members of the England band ...
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8 min: Sweden win a free-kick a long way out and Seb Larsson sends it long towards the far post. It’s too high for Ola Toivonenn to knock down, but Sweden win a throw-in. The ball’s sent into the mixer, where Andreas Granqvist is harshly penalised for handball.
7 min: Emil Krafth loses possession to Dele Alli about 35 yards from his own goal. He attempts to play Harry Kane through on goal with a defence-splitting pass, but his errant delivery is too near Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen.
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6 min: England win a free-kick in midfield and Kyle Walker sends a cross-field pass to Ashley Young straight out of play.
4 min: It’s worth noting that the presence of the Swedish trio didn’t stop Pickford passing his kick-out short.
3 min: England have a goal kick and Sweden position Ola Toivonen, Marcus Berg and Viktor Claesson on the edge of the penalty area in an attempt to stop Pickford playing it out from the back.
2 min: England win possession and several players get an early touch as the ball is pinged around between the midfielders and the back the three. Jordan Pickford gets an early touch too, receiving a backpass and booting it long.
Sweden v England is GO!!!
1 min: Viktor Claesson gets the ball rolling for Sweden as play gets under way in the Samara Arena.
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A pre-match photo op
In a Samara Arena that has plenty of empty seats and a depressing paucity of actual England or Sweden fans, the atmosphere seems a bit flat as the teams mingle for the pre-match anti-racism snap. As well as ther logisitical problems faced by England and Sweden fans who might have wanted to travel, plenty of locals may have stayed away from this game too. The Samara Arena is in the middle of nowhere and Russia play soon after this match has concluded. Very soon, if this one goes to spot-kicks.
Not long now: The tunnel seems tense as the teams line up behind Bjorn Kuipers and his team of match officials. Harry Kane and Andreas Granqvist lead out their respective troops, who stand for the national anthems.
Meanwhile at Sandown: England are playing Sweden, the first stage of the Tour de France just ended and Wimbledon is under way. But this is the sporting event they’re really all talking about ...
A lot of empty seats in Samara, it seems. It seems a shame that so many fans of both teams who would like to be at the game can’t make it for various reasons beyond their control.
Combination of Germans handing back tickets and England/Sweden fans not being able to get flights and the atmosphere with 20 mins to go is more Carling Cup than World Cup
— Daniel McDonnell (@McDonnellDan) July 7, 2018
UK TV coverage: Gary Lineker is in the chair, alongside pundits Rio Ferdinand, Alan Shearer and Jurgen Klinsmann. We’ll be liberally “sampling” their opinions, where applicable. At the moment they’re discussing pre-match rituals and superstitions.
Jurgen Klinsmann used to drink an espresso before the warm-up, Alan Shearer used to eat chicken and beans for his pre-match meal, then refused to take shots on goal in his warm-up. Rio Ferdinand was – quite frankly – bonkers has just listed about 25 different pre-match superstitions of his own, ranging from the weird to the downright extraordinary and selfish.
Perhaps the pick of the bunch from him was a superstition obsessed over by his former team-mate Joe Cole, who didn’t like to touch the ball before warm-ups. “Everyone used to sit in the dressing room rolling balls at his feet and he’d been dancing to get avoid touching them,” says Rio.
England’s manager speaks: Gareth Southgate sat down for a pow-wow with our chief football correspondent Daniel Taylor following England’s win over Colombia and came across as the kind of guy who’d let you borrow his iPhone charger, even if his handset was running on fumes and down to 1%.
An email: “It seems to me that in this Sweden team England are meeting an alternate history version of themselves, what might have been if Sam Allardyce had continued as England manager,” writes Kári Tulinius.
“Or to quote football journalist Charles Boehm’s tweet: ‘Sweden are organized and smart and rugged and just cynical enough to really have a shot at going all the way. The walking manifestation of that sinking feeling that it’s not going to be your day’.””
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Sweden: Olsen, Krafth, Lindelof, Granqvist, Augustinsson, Claesson, Larsson, Ekdal, Forsberg, Berg, Toivonen.
Subs: Johnsson, Olsson, Guidetti, Svensson, Helander, Hiljemark, Jansson, Rohden, Durmaz, Thelin, Nordfeldt.
England: Pickford, Walker, Stones, Maguire, Trippier, Alli, Henderson, Lingard, Young, Sterling, Kane.
Subs: Butland, Rose, Dier, Vardy, Welbeck, Cahill, Jones, Delph, Rashford, Loftus-Cheek, Alexander-Arnold, Pope.
Referee: Bjorn Kuipers (Holland)
An email: “Praise the Lord, there a neutral doing the MBM!” writes Gareth Rogers. “This Welshman is so pleased he will not have to endure that bloody ‘It’s coming home’ reference every two minutes.”
Yes, a neutral. That’s one word for this Irishman, I suppose. On the subject of Irish neutrality, this very reasoned explainer from today’s Irish Times, (The Least We Owe England is to Keep On Hating to the End), written by my very erudite and amusing friend and colleague Ken Early, is well worth 10 minutes of anyone’s time.
And in the interests of balance, because this minute-by-minute reporter is nothing if not unscrupulously impartial ...
England reassuringly unchanged. Similar feeling to that good period with Test cricket where England just kept picking the same team and each time you though, yeah of course
— Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) July 7, 2018
Krafth in for Lustig: Sweden manager Janne Andersson has plumped for Bologna right-back Emil Krafth to fill in for the suspended Mikael Lustig. Lustig takes over from Seb Larsson on the Fifa-designated Naughty Step and the AIK midfielder returns to the side with Gustav Svensson dropping back to the bench.
Team news: Despite speculation that Gareth Southgate might pick Ruben Loftus-Cheek ahead of Dele Alli, the England manager has stuck with the Tottenham midfielder.
#SWEENG // TEAM NEWS
— FIFA World Cup 🏆 (@FIFAWorldCup) July 7, 2018
Here are your Starting XIs, #SWE and #ENG fans! #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/f0lrHTYfh9
Fun fact: In eight competitive meetings against Sweden, England have won just once, while notching up five draws and two defeats. England’s win came in the group stages of Euro 2012, when Roy Hodgson’s side won by the odd goal of five.
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Early team news: Jamie Vardy suffered a groin strain after coming on against Colombia but may be fit enough to play some part today. Dele Alli (thigh), Ashley Young (ankle) and Kyle Walker (cramp) are all expected to have recovered from their various ailments. Sweden full-back Mikael Lustig is suspended this afternoon, but otherwise the Scandinavian side have a full squad to choose from.
Some pre-match listening: In last night’s World Cup Football Daily podcast, Max Rushden was in the chair as Andy Brassell, Marcela Mora y Araujo and yours truly picked over the bones of Belgium’s win over Brazil and France’s defeat of Uruguay. We were also joined by Eliot Rothwell and our own Dominic Fifield in Russia to preview today’s quarter-finals.
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World Cup quarter-final: Sweden v England
With France and Belgium already through to the semi-finals, Sweden and England go toe-to-toe in Samara today with another place in the last four up for grabs. With supporters of both teams equally delighted to be in the “easy” side of the draw, one set of them is going to end the afternoon crying into their beer, while wondering where and how exactly it all went wrong. You’ll find all the answers here, so stay tuned for team news and build-up ahead of kick-off at 3pm (BST).
