"It's going to penalties!" | Jamie Carragher's England vs Germany verdict | Defence analysed, Henderson's role, why Saka has to start
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Sky Sports pundit joined Peter Smith to examine the clash and explain why these two evenly matched sides may end up only being separated by spot-kicks.
Carragher also dissects England's defence, which has kept three clean sheets, explains the factors Gareth Southgate will be weighing up when he decides to pick Jordan Henderson or not, and discusses whether Mason Mount or Ben Chilwell could still play a role, despite isolating until Monday.
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| 0:23.6 | When you play, play safe with Bet365, it means you can enjoy the moments with them. When you play, play safe with Bet 365. Hello and welcome to the Sky Sports Football Euros podcast, where we're continuing to build up to the big game on Tuesday between England and Germany. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Peter Smith, and I'm delighted to say. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm joined by Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carriger. |
| 0:46.2 | Jamie, huge game at Wembley coming up, isn't it? |
| 0:48.6 | We're all excited. |
| 0:49.8 | How do you think the England players are feeling ahead of this big one? |
| 0:52.6 | We'll be excited. |
| 0:53.8 | I think it was obvious it was going to be a big name nation we were going |
| 0:59.0 | to face because of the situation with the group. It was almost hungry, which, you know, |
| 1:04.2 | you can't, you know, you would have been pleased as an England fan or an England player. |
| 1:07.4 | But the likelihood it was always going to be Germany, Portugal or France. I mean, I think the ones who were going to be France. likelihood it was always going to be Germany, Portugal or France. |
| 1:11.6 | I mean, I think the one to avoid was France, but it was always going to be a tough game. |
| 1:15.6 | So I think it's no way shocked that you look at this and think it's possibly the biggest game of this round of fixtures. |
| 1:22.6 | Absolutely. Just interesting, looking back on England's time in the group stage, obviously |
| 1:28.3 | in fall of tournament, we were praising their attack and saying the defence was a weakness. |
| 1:31.3 | It's not really worked out like that with the three clean sheets and just two goals scored. |
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