Kroos takes control but can Loftus-Cheek take his chance?
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A sensational finish in Sochi as a 95th minute winner from Toni Kroos keeps Germany’s World Cup hopes alive with a 2-1 victory over Sweden.
Natalie Sawyer is joined by Matt Dickinson for his verdict on Saturday night’s drama and to preview England’s lunch date with Panama, as Ruben Loftus-Cheek looks to make a place in Gareth Southgate’s team his own.
Martyn Ziegler witnesses the highest scoring game of the World Cup so far as England’s Group G rivals Belgium hammer Tunisia 5-2 in Moscow.
Times photographer Jack Hill has been to Syria and back. He joins us to discuss his 24-hour trip in a train carriage with England fans.
And Giles Smith has been watching football on TV and pays homage to Martin O’Neill while also telling us why Carles Puyol has already been sent home.
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| 0:00.0 | It doesn't matter how neatly you pack them away. |
| 0:03.0 | Christmas lights will always be tangled. |
| 0:06.0 | And a Christmas light tangle is more than a tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a tangle that somehow gets more entangled |
| 0:11.0 | the more you attempt to untangle it. So to the loft I go with just |
| 0:15.6 | my Christmasy coffee for company and if I'm not back by New Year Merry Christmas. |
| 0:21.6 | Our Black Forest Hot Chocolate is now at Costa. That's Christmas. Our Black Forest Hot Chocolate is now at Costa. |
| 0:24.0 | That's Christmas. |
| 0:25.0 | A Costa coffee made a little better. Hello and welcome to the game World Cup Daily from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and |
| 0:46.2 | thank you for joining us. We are here every match day of the World Cup, podcasting after |
| 0:50.8 | 10 o'clock UK time every night. |
| 0:53.2 | In the studio with me, Jahl Smith is back. |
| 0:55.9 | He can't get enough of this tournament. |
| 0:57.8 | I will be chatting about some of the punditary highlights |
| 1:00.1 | off the pitch with Giles later. |
| 1:02.3 | Matt Dickinson is in Nizhny Novgorod ahead of England's clash with Panama on Sunday lunchtime. |
| 1:07.6 | Hello, Matt? |
| 1:08.6 | Hello. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello. |
| 1:10.6 | We're with you just a moment. |
| 1:11.6 | We're also going to be joined by Martin Ziegler for his report on England's Group G rivals Belgium |
| 1:16.3 | as they thrashed Tunisia to reach the knockout stages. Mexico are on the brink of reaching the last 16 |
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