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Greetings all. Get up to much last night? I’m sure you did, particularly if “sitting on the sofa, fretting” constitutes “much”. So, England and Sarina Wiegman are in yet another final. How they got there I don’t know, how they got there I don’t care etc, as the song goes. Yep, it was another nailbiter, where persistence and pressure in the end overcame Italy’s tactical nous and canny gameplan.
Were England lucky? Possibly, but they didn’t burgle the win in quite the way they did against a demonstrably superior Sweden, and a personal view is that Wiegman’s side just about deserved it, for persistence and composure as well as a couple of properly enterprising spells of pressure at the start of each normal-time half. Jonathan Liew, someone with whom I rarely disagree about anything, has a more critical (and knowledgable) perspective, mind.
Anyway, this blog won’t only be looking back on last night but looking ahead to tonight’s intriguing second semi-final between tournament favourites Spain and a Germany whose progress has not been dissimilar to England’s. Another rearguard looms against the best possession-based passing side in the world.
Anyway, feel free to mail in thoughts, predictions, tactical insights and more.
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