After being given a severe interrogation for 35 minutes, wilting under the intensity of Senegal’s press, England changed tack, got their midfield more involved and scored three exceptionally good team goals.
England go through to play France in the quarter-final on Saturday at 7pm. The first time they have faced France at a World Cup since 1982, Bryan Robson and all that.
Pickford is trying to put a rocket up his team-mate’s backsides for a lack of intensity since the wholesale substitutions. Maguire gets his head to a left-wing corner and the ref blows time’s up.
Dieng fires a free-kick into the wall after Rice’s high boot hurts the substitute. We’ll have two more minutes.
Very impressive again from England. Yes, we have not played a ‘major’ team yet, but who else is doing this to the so-called lesser nations?
You can only beat what is in front of you, but we are doing it extremely well. There is only one team I have seen that has impressed me more than England in this World Cup. Unfortunately, that team is France.