Smith: "England will be seriously disappointed if they don't make the final now. It's Ukraine in the next round, then Czechs or Denmark in the semi-finals at Wembley with major backing from your home fans in that game. By the time they get to that point, England will be disappointed if they don't win a final on their own patch.
If they beat Germany in the style that they beat them, with the control at times, they've matched up to some absolute legends - four of the players in that team won the World Cup. These are top players in that Germany side and England have matched them and beaten them. England fans will now expect their team to go all the way and this is what big teams do, they go up against teams they're expected to beat and they beat them.
That's what England have got to go and do on Saturday. Dorsett: "A lot of England fans, including myself, had these exact feelings in Russia. Remember that dead rubber against Belgium and we said 'great, we've lost that, we finished second in the group, we've got a much easier route through now'.
But by the time England got to the semi-final against Croatia, they looked absolutely exhausted. So that's my one concern. We're all championing this and quite rightly, but this is an away match for England in Rome, in very hot, energy-sapping conditions, with a much quicker turnaround than they had for the previous game against Germany. Smith: "Looking back on that draw in Russia, even getting Croatia in the semi-final, England couldn't have had a better draw, but we just didn't have the quality.
You don't know if they're going to finish first, second or third in the group or who they'd meet in the last If they came up against Germany and they played really well and England had valiantly been defeated, you'd take that in its context.
Actually, beating Germany in the last 16, we now say they've got to go all the way. Dorsett: "I don't think he will unleash those players against Ukraine in the quarter-final. England will know they cannot take them lightly. Log In. Contact us Sign up for newsletters. Log In Register now My account. Who will England play after beating Ukraine? By Katherine Lucas. All three games took place at Wembley. They lost to West Germany in h, a and against Portugal and Italy , both on penalties.
Their last visit to Rome was a draw against Italy in October , a result that booked their place at the following year's World Cup. His first Premier League goal for the club came in a defeat away to Southgate's Middlesbrough on 23 August ; that was Southgate's first win as a manager. The first goal in that game was also scored by a Ukrainian, Hennadiy Lytovchenko. He has yet to start a game for his country.
They are now the country's joint top scorers at the EURO finals alongside current head coach Andriy Shevchenko, on two apiece. Zubkov was injured early on in the EURO opener against the Netherlands and has not played since, while Sudakov and Popov are still awaiting their tournament debut. He has been ruled out of the remainder of the tournament. No team has ever kept clean sheets in their first five matches at the tournament, although Spain managed five in a row en route to winning UEFA EURO — a run they extended to a record seven successive games without conceding four years later.
Pickford has now gone minutes without conceding an international goal — minutes shy of Banks's all-time England record that incorporated that triumph. They lost three successive penalty shoot-outs — against Germany in , Portugal in and Italy in — before going down to Iceland in the round of 16 five years ago.
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