Winners of Senegal, Sunday, in the round of 16 (3-0), the partners of Harry Kane will face the Blues, on Saturday, for a place in the last square.
By Clément Martel (Special Envoy in Al-Khor [Qatar])
She bowed in extremis in the final of a euro organized at home. During the following World Cup, she extracted laboriously from the group phase, then increases the tone in the round of 16. For those who remember the journey of the French world champion team in 2018, the scenario recalls some memories. Four years later, he applied to the letter to the opponent of the Blues in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar. Opposed to England, Saturday December 10 (20 hours, metropolitan time), the partners of Kylian Mbappé will endeavor to put an end to the parallel, to rise to the last square of the competition.
The Three Lions only made a bite of the Teranga lions, Sunday December 4, in the round of 16 (3-0) in the Al-Bayt stadium. A meeting that the teammates of a radiant Bellingham Jude in the midfield was able to make themselves easy, despite an introduction to the beating drum of Senegal.
“I do not find that it was an easy match, especially during the first half hour,” said Captain, Harry Kane, after the game. The Tottenham striker, who recognized that his team had “not done much of the ball” at the start of the game despite a broad possession, underlined the good leg of the Senegalese. Although deprived of their star, Sadio Mané, since the start of the competition, the African champions have worried about English defense several times.
“Two ruthless attacks”
On the point of breaking, England has reversed the trend by relying on its strength: a lethal transition game. Two breakthroughs through the defense sanctioned by Jordan Henderson then Harry Kane, two “ruthless attacks”, as the Three Lions captain qualified them, and, at the break, the fate of the match was settled. “We take a goal five minutes from half-time and the second just before we are climbing,” said Senegalese coach Aliou Cissé, welcoming “a team that has put a lot of impact, gained a lot of duels, and we made back “.
With the exception of their entry into matters against Iran, concluded on a more customary brand of Wimbledon lawn than on a football lawn (6-2), the English crossed the group phase of the World Cup Qatar without lifting all the doubts about the real level of their team. But the unhappy finalist of the last euro seems to have started his cruising pace. And where he seemed to grop up, multiplying the changes of starting eleven, Gareth Southgate is now stretched in a solid barreter, like the second period against Senegal, during which his players worsened the brand when it was necessary and managed the end of the game without spending too much energy.
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