England are better off beating Belgium
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
After pummelling Panama in record-breaking fashion, England’s attention now turns to the knock-out stages of the World Cup. But with a game to come against Group G rivals Belgium, Natalie Sawyer asks Paul Joyce and Matt Hughes whether Gareth Southgate’s side should seek to finish 2nd and navigate a potentially easier path to the final.
Harry Kane is England’s hat-trick hero and the top scorer in Russia but have we seen Tottenham’s Harry Kane at this tournament yet? Oliver Kay suggests maybe not.
And Alyson Rudd reports from Group H where Colombia eliminate Poland to keep their hopes of a last 16 date (potentially with England) alive as the Colombians turn Kazan into a sea of yellow.
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game World Cup Daily from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and |
| 0:36.5 | thank you for joining us. We're here every match day of the World Cup |
| 0:39.7 | podcasting after 10 o'clock UK time every night. It is match day 11 and still broadcasting after and Rud in Kazan after Colombia knocked Poland out of the World Cup. Japan and Senegal |
| 0:55.5 | shared the spoils in a tool draw as Group H remains wide open, but the big story today is of |
| 1:01.0 | course England progressing to the last 16 with a record-breaking win |
| 1:04.7 | over Panama in the studio with me having washed away the England face paint it is |
| 1:09.1 | Matt Hughes. Paul Joyce is in Nizhny Novgorod having watched the three lines and joins us now. |
| 1:15.6 | So England, Thrash Panama 6-1. |
| 1:18.4 | It's the biggest win for an England team at any major tournament. |
| 1:21.8 | Captain Harry Kane becomes the third England player to |
| 1:24.4 | score a World Cup hat trick after Sir Jeff Hurst and Gary Linnaker. |
| 1:28.3 | Before we get the thoughts of Paul and Matt we caught up with Oliver Kaye earlier today for his reaction. |
| 1:34.0 | It was the complete opposite of what I was expecting to be honest. |
| 1:38.0 | I think having watched the Belgium game against Panama, I thought it was going to be an exercise in patients. |
| 1:44.7 | Just felt like a very normal experience. |
| 1:46.9 | I was to watch an England match and I saw a tournament to just enjoy it and as if they were just had their feet up in the second half and |
| 1:56.5 | we're just sort of strolling and concerning their energies for the next match. |
| 2:00.0 | How often have we had that luxury washing the toilets? |
| 2:03.8 | Everything they hit went in, you know, |
| 2:07.0 | every time they got a corner, |
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