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Three years after the failed semi-final of the 2018 World Cup, England finds Croatia in the first match of the Euro-2021 tournament on Sunday. If not for the sub-world champions favorites with aging executives in this tournament, Gareth Southgate has no shortage of teenage band ambitions to choose from.
Announced as one of the primary teams Euro-2021, The UK’s biggest favorites in Group D. The Three Lions start their match on Sunday, June 13, for the first game of the tournament at Wembley Lawn. The semi-final they lost in 2018 against Croatia.
The cast of this “remake” is aging, but only on the Croatian side. While the vice-world champions 2018 will feature older players like Ballon d’Or Luca Modric, 35, or Ivan Perisic 32, the English team has a youthful and winning face with a strong team. Twelve players under the age of 25.
“We have never won a Euro before, so we’m a hungry team and we want to do that,” 22-year-old Chelsea striker Mason Mount said on Friday. Winner of this season of the Champions League with Chelsea. “We want to write history. No one has written it before. I think we can totally do it with this young team.”
Only three players on the band, composed by Gareth Southgate, are over 30, giving the new generation the pride of place: Bill Foton, Jack Graylish, Mason Mount, Jude Bellingham or Jadon Sancho, holders of major European clubs, thus choosing the first match.
An ambitious team
The location of their three group stage matches at Wembley Football Temple and the structure of their team filled by Scotland and the Czech Republic allow them to be further targeted.
“I would say yes,” the captain said Monday. Harry Kane On an official federation podcast, when asked if the current team is stronger than 2018. “We are probably in a better position,” said the fourth-placed player with England at the last World Cup.
More than half a century after England ‘s own victory at the 1966 World Cup, the Tottenham player believes the team is the best to finally win a second international title. “We have a little more experience, players who have played in huge tournaments with their clubs and of course players who have played in this World Cup and therefore players who have accumulated experience,” Harry Kane continued.
The Gareth Southgate team made a surprise by reaching the last four in Russia three years ago. Today, the first place of their group is against them Croatia fell and conceded eleven defeats From the final against France in Moscow. Far less than the number of its wins: Twelve, only one against a notable choice, Spain in November 2018.
“We expect a more complex game”
As a foreigner, Croatia knew the game would not be easy. “We expect England to play very aggressively and with more power from the kick-off. We expect a more complex game. We will give everything and do whatever we want. We will see what we can do. The competition emerges as we go,” said captain Luca Modric.
However, vice-world champions like to play without complications, says coach Slotko Tolic: “We feel we are going to face a big team, one of the favorites and one of the host teams. , Must play “.
At the transition stage, Croatia will be relying on experienced players who know England well, namely Madio Kovacic (27), who was named in the Champions League with Chelsea, or Dejan Lowren, who was with Liverpool. In 2019. While coach Slotko Talik is trying to calm national confidence for the match, say that “Waltrani” “Three Lions” will regret running in the match, which ends in London on July 11.
With AFP
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