Hello and welcome to the game World Cup daily from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and

thank you for joining us. We are here every match day of the World Cup

podcasting after 10 o'clock UK time every night. Some podcasts are harder than others, but after another night through the emotional

ringer with England, the Three Lions make history. They have won a World Cup penalty

shootout for the first time ever. I'm sure that still hasn't sunk

in for most of you listening. So it will be England versus Sweden in Samarra

on Saturday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. Later on we'll be joined by

Allison Rudd who watched the Swedes in their one-mill win over Switzerland in

St. Petersburg and will be getting her appraisal of England's next opponents.

In the studio with me it is Matt Hughes and in Moscow it's

Oliver Kaye it was England one Columbia one Columbia one Columbia equalizing in the

93rd minute through Yerem, cancelling out Harry Kane's penalty.

England though, win four, three in the penalty shootout.

Ollie, what an emotional roller coaster to that game was.

It was certainly that. It was so dramatic. We're sitting in the press box we've all had you know almost jealous. We've had some nervous times

anxious times watching and I think in more recent times we just had had deflating depressing times but

that was that was a real thrill. It was a

talking purely as a journalist. It was a nightmare from a

writing point of view. You try to get a thousand words written

right on the final whistle, so it can make our first

edition deadline and then that goal goes in and it just changes everything you know

it changes the whole story it changes the whole tone of the night, and you're then sweating

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