World Cup 2018 - Day 21: England Cruise, Croatia Manage
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 7 July 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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England ease past Sweden on their way to meet Croatia in the semi-finals, who nearly stumbled to a positive Russia before finishing off the hosts on penalties. The Tifo team gathers to discuss the day's events.
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| 0:29.4 | Okay, well, that was England, 2, Sweden, nil, slightly more comfortable than I think we may |
| 0:36.1 | have anticipated. |
| 0:37.5 | There were some sort of penalties predictions before the game, scrappy 1-0s, |
| 0:42.1 | but England made that look very, very easy. |
| 0:45.2 | And Alex, let's start with you and talk about why that was. |
| 0:48.7 | I mean, England, they look comfortable throughout the game. |
| 0:51.6 | Sweden didn't create too many chances and actually one of the |
| 0:55.9 | things that they did which I don't really understand was they played quite a high line to |
| 1:00.9 | pressurise England's defenders when they were on the ball but as you mentioned they don't |
| 1:06.1 | bring their defence up because the centreback's quite slow and they didn't want to risk them |
| 1:10.1 | having to get in a you know chase with Sterling or Harry Kane if there was too much space in |
| 1:14.6 | behind. |
| 1:15.2 | But what that meant is that there was quite a lot of space between the midfield and the defence. |
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