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Hello, I'm Dan Bardell, welcome to the England show on The Athletic.

Couldn't up today, we're looking ahead to England's Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark at Wembley on Wednesday night. I'm

joined by Flo Lloyd Hughes and the Athletics England correspondent Jack Pittbrook and we'll also

be catching up with former Villa and Denmark defender Martin Larson to see how he's feeling ahead of the massive, massive game.

We are better prepared for this semi-final

in that we've lived it before.

For example, after the game in Rome,

the celebrations were at a certain level.

Everybody was quite calm about what was going on

and we knew that we hadn't achieved what we want to achieve yet.

Let's kick off then, Jack, your latest piece on The Athletic,

which asks what happens if England go behind.

I mean, hopefully they don't and they continue to concede zero goals in this tournament. But yeah, talk us through the piece.

So I was just thinking about questions that still remain about this England team, five games

into their Euro's campaign. And the one thing that we haven't seen yet is England having to

chase a game.

You know, that's obviously, if you never can see the goal, you're never going to be behind.

But it probably will happen at some point. And particularly as the games get more and more pressure on them, I was just trying to think

about what would it, what would it be like if England were chasing the game?

They never had to do that.

All the England games have really followed a fairly similar pattern, which is, you know, England have been in control for the most part. The games, I think, have gone more or less in keeping the South Gates plan. Obviously, Scotland is slightly different because England didn't score and it was nil-nil. But I kind of felt, I never felt like the game was out of Southgate's control then. And to be honest, I think Southgate was pretty happy to draw that one-nil-nil in the end. But I'd just be wondering what, you know, it's kind of a huge question. Let's say England concede early on against Denmark on Wednesday night. I wonder how they'd react. Because even going back to say the 2018 World Cup, we don't have that much evidence of how they

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