England empathise with Southgate's squad as players and people
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🗓️ 6 July 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Can Southgate’s side see off Sweden in Samara and soar to the semi-finals?
Natalie Sawyer is joined by Henry Winter and Alan Smith to analyse England’s chances in the World Cup quarter-final, as well as examining how the public have learned to fall in love with the national team again.
Belgium best the bookies’ boys Brazil as Roberto Martinez looks to add World Cup glory to his FA Cup triumph with Wigan, thanks to the brilliance of De Bruyne, Hazard and Lukaku.
They will face France in the last 4. Oliver Kay watches the French grind out a quarter-final win over Uruguay in Nizhny Novgorod, as Didier Deschamps’s team prove they can win a match in many different ways.
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| 0:00.0 | The Is it coming home? |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the game World Cup Daily from The Times. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Natalie Sawyer and thank you for joining us. |
| 0:31.0 | A big thanks to our sports editor Alex K Jelski for the musical intro today. |
| 0:36.0 | We are less than 24 hours away from England versus Sweden in the last 8. In the studio with me, it's Alan Smith, and in Samara with the last eight. In the studio with me it's Alan Smith and in Samarra with the |
| 0:44.3 | England squad it is Henry Winter. Hello Henry. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm actually hi Alan. Later I'm going to be joined by Oliver Kaye who witnessed |
| 0:51.2 | France progress into the last war with victory over Uruguay and |
| 0:54.5 | Nizhny Novgorod and will be discussing Belgium, beating the bookie's favorites Brazil to set up a |
| 0:59.7 | semi-final date with the French. |
| 1:02.0 | But first, Henry, England have only ever reached a |
| 1:04.6 | World Cup semi-final once before on foreign soil and they are 90 minutes, |
| 1:09.1 | possibly more away from doing so again. Just how excited are you first and foremost? |
| 1:14.0 | Well the whole country is excited. I was talking to a couple of players over the last couple of |
| 1:20.4 | days and saying are you very aware even |
| 1:23.0 | where you're in this incredible bubble are you aware of what's |
| 1:25.4 | going on back home and they said well yeah this is a social media because |
| 1:28.8 | you're talking to family and friends they've been absolutely catching up with the world scenes all over the country and it's not just in England, it's around the world. |
| 1:37.0 | I got sent a photograph from a friend in a bar, Leeds United, and a bar, absolute packed bar in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:47.0 | Derby fans, Leeds, fans, everyone. |
| 1:49.8 | It's England United at the moment, so it's great. |
| 1:52.2 | Everyone's putting a club affiliations to |
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