EURO 2020 | Ep 18 | Southgate Gets Revenge on Germany
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Tom Clarke.
England have broken the curse of playing Germany in tournaments with a 2-0 win at Wembley. Did Gareth Southgate get his tactics spot on and which players stood out? (00:00)
Did Harry Kane find his form again or is there still a long way to go before he’s back to his best - and if so, why? (13:26)
While England celebrate, Germany lick their wounds. What went wrong for them in what was Joachim Löw’s final match in charge? (22:24)
Today’s results:
England 2-0 Germany
Sweden 1-2 Ukraine
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| 1:00.1 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. Today, England |
| 1:04.7 | dispel the ghost of Euro 96 to come past Germany at Wembley and Ukraine join them in the last |
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| 1:35.8 | On this jubilant day, Greg Robertson and I have been looking forward to this one, |
| 1:40.0 | Alison Rudd and Tom Clark joining me because wow, we can celebrate England ending a 55-year |
| 1:47.2 | wait for a knockout win over Germany at a major tournament. It finished England two Germany |
| 1:53.2 | nil as they cruise into the quarter-finals. Gareth Southgate's proud lion's. Yes! |
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