Ukraine 0-4 England: Euro 2020 quarter-final – as it happened

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Harry Kane scored twice as England made the semi-finals in style with a comprehensive defeat of Ukraine

So yes, it was only a quarter-final; yes, semi-final opponents Denmark won at Wembley just last October; and yes, possible finalists Italy and Spain are Italy and Spain. But if England fans aren’t allowed to get excited and dream dreamy dreams after that four-goal performance, there really is no point in watching sport. Congratulations to England, commiserations to Ukraine, and here’s to a couple of cracking semi-finals next week. David Hytner’s report is in, so get clicking. Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night!

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The BBC talk to Gareth Southgate, who begins by thanking the fringe players in his squad. “I’m thinking about the lads we didn’t get on the pitch; the likes of Conor Coady, Ben Chilwell, Sam Johnstone, Aaron Ramsdale, they are the ones making this team successful, because the spirit of the group is phenomenal. Whoever comes in does the job, whoever I leave out, the mentality has been fantastic. So looking after those guys is uppermost in my mind. None of them deserve to be left out. But we have to make the right call for the right game and the system. We’re in another semi-final, three in three years. But we want to go a step further, two steps further. It’s lovely to send everyone out on a Saturday night, beer in hand or in the air, wherever it is! I’m chuffed the two performances we’ve put on have given so much enjoyment and happiness to people.”

Jordan Henderson, who finally scored for England after 62 appearances, speaks to the BBC: “It was a very good night. We’re so pleased with the performance level. We defended really well and scored some great goals. We have to be very pleased, but we can’t dwell on it too long. We need to prepare well and give it absolutely everything on Wednesday.” As for ending the longest wait for a first international goal an England goalscorer has ever endured? “It’s about time! It’s been a long time coming. Thankfully I’m on the scoresheet. I always felt a goal would come eventually but I always just try to contribute the best I can on the pitch. Of course I’d have liked to score more goals over the last few years, but I can’t complain! I’m here, and I’m contributing.”

Harry Kane’s turn for a chat with the Beeb. “What a great performance in a big game. Of course we were favourites to win this game, but there was a lot of pressure. So to perform like we did was top drawer. Another clean sheet, four goals, it was a perfect night for us. We have a great unit from front to back working for the team. We’ll keep working hard and recover well, and look forward to the semi-final. We’re knocking it off, step by step. The World Cup was great but we fell short. We had a good run in the Nations League, and now it’s about getting over the line, and that’s what we have got to do on Wednesday. A lot of us have been playing in big games, so we’re looking confident out there. Hopefully I can lead this team to a European final.”

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Harry Maguire talks to the BBC. “It’s a great feeling. Back to back semi-finals at a major tournament is a great achievement, but, I don’t want to be a party pooper, but we don’t stop here. We’ve got a big game coming up and we want to go further this time than we did at the World Cup. It’s a great feeling to win here, and the way we’ve done it shows how we’ve progressed as a country. Long may the improvement continue! We have great belief in the dressing room. The first half was tough, we got the early goal but they caused us a few problems after changing it a few times. The second goal settled us down a lot and from then on we controlled the game. It was an impressive performance. It’s hard to soak it all in when you’ve got another big one coming up. The dressing room will be a great atmosphere tonight, but when we wake up we’ll be focused again. This group of players aren’t settling for a semi-final, we want to go further.”

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A view from the England fans in Rome. “There’s a real buzz at the Olimpico seeing England turning on the style,” reports Colum Fordham. “The England fans near me are chanting Southgate is great and a version of Che sarà sarà, interspersed with Football’s Coming Home. Only the second time I’ve watched England live. Last England v Cameroon in 1990.”

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A grim-faced Andriy Shevchenko, who knows a thing or two about leading the line, makes an immediate beeline for Harry Kane, embracing England’s two-goal hero. England celebrate, but not in any conspicuous manner; you suspect their minds are already on Wednesday’s semi-final with Denmark. Model professionals, you see. But the fans can party long into the night: that was England’s biggest victory at a European Championship finals, bettering their 4-1 thumping of the Netherlands at Euro 96. Ukraine depart the scene of their defeat, but only after thanking their fans with a poignant last performance of an Iceland-via-Motherwell-inspired HUH chant.

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FULL TIME: Ukraine 0-4 England

The referee Felix Brych blows the whistle after four seconds of extra time, and England have made the semi-finals of Euro 2020 in style!

90 min: There will be ... no added minutes.

88 min: It’s Ukraine’s turn to pass it around the back, but their mood is not quite so joyous. What they’d give to hear the final whistle now ... though we could have probably said that the best part of 40 minutes ago.

86 min: Henderson puts a stop to a Ukraine attack with a calm backheeled pass out of his own box. It’s been one of those evenings.

84 min: As their team pass the ball around the back in the clock-management style, England fans entertain themselves with a few olés. Any old excuse.

83 min: Sancho shows Mykolenko a clean pair of heels and barrels down the right. The Ukrainian defender recovers excellently to force him off the ball just as he enters the box. For a second, a fifth looked on the cards.

81 min: England are happy to sit back, keeping a clean sheet their main focus now.

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79 min: Yarmolenko grooves his way down the right, enters the box, and earns a corner with a deflected shot. Calvert-Lewin heads the corner clear.

77 min: Pickford gets away with another loose clearance. His slightly skittish kicking is perhaps England’s only minus point this evening. It’s not the worst place to be.

75 min: Makarenko has a dig from 25 yards. He aims for the top right and gives it a good old belt, but Pickford punches it clear.

73 min: There’ll be no hat-trick for Kane this evening. He makes way for Calvert-Lewin, and goes off to be wrapped in cotton wool.

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72 min: Yaremchuk comes through the back of Henderson in the frustrated style. He’s given a good ticking off by the referee, but no booking.

70 min: Some slapstick shenanigans as Pickford comes out of his goal to clear a long ball. He slices his kick, and the ball drops to Yaremchuk, who tries to find the empty net with a low drive from 40 yards. It’s easily blocked. A high looper would have been the better option, but no Patrik Schick he.

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68 min: Of course, anyone who gets themselves sent off would also miss the game, but surely nobody will be that daft.

67 min: Rashford’s first act is to tear down the left and win a corner. It’s hit long for Maguire, who heads harmlessly wide right. Incidentally, with the departure of Phillips, Maguire is now the only England player left on the field in danger of missing the semi - I think we can safely say England are there - should he pick up a booking.

65 min: England make a triple change: Bellingham, Rashford and Trippier come on for Shaw, Sterling and Phillips.

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64 min: Ukraine replace Sydorchuk with Makarenko.

GOAL! Ukraine 0-4 England (Henderson 63)

Mount curls the resulting corner towards Henderson, who glances a header across the keeper and into the bottom left! His first ever goal for England, at long last!

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62 min: Kane is denied a spectacular hat-trick goal by Bushchan. He latches onto a poor headed clearance by screeching a volley from 25 yards towards the top right. The keeper turns it away at full stretch! But it’s all in vain, because ...

60 min: On the touchline, Shevchenko is already in thousand-yard-stare mode. He’ll have delivered better half-time talks.

59 min: Mount is this close to releasing Kane through the middle with a forensic pass. Matviyenko intercepts in the nick of time.

57 min: England make their first change, Henderson coming on in place of Rice.

56 min: Ukraine look thoroughly shaken by that double whammy. They’ve not managed to summon any sort of response yet.

54 min: England have three players out there who are one booking away from missing any semi-final they might reach: Maguire, Phillips and Rice. A fair chance now that these lads won’t see the evening out.

52 min: Luke Shaw, huh? That’s two quickfire assists of the highest quality. Maguire and Kane couldn’t miss! Whisper it, but England are an extremely good side.

GOAL! Ukraine 0-3 England (Kane 50)

The semi-final is so close now! Mount drives down the inside left. He slips the ball to Sterling, who backflicks towards Shaw. The full back reaches the touchline, and stands one up into the centre. Kane is on point to head down and in, and England are in total control!

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49 min: The timing of that goal will thoroughly sicken Ukraine, who will have felt good about the manner in which they’d finished the first half. Well, that’s quite the momentum shifter.

47 min: That was one heck of a delivery by Shaw. Maguire, having timed his run and leap to perfection, could hardly miss!

GOAL! Ukraine 0-2 England (Maguire 46)

Yes they can! The free kick’s curled into the mixer by Shaw. Maguire rises highest, on the edge of the six-yard box. He steers a determined header into the left-hand side of the net with Bushchan rooted to the spot!

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46 min: Within 10 seconds of the restart, Sydorchuk stands on Kane’s foot, and it’s a free kick 30 yards out on the right. Can England start the second half even faster than they did the first?

England get the second 45 underway. There have been no half-time changes.

Half-time entertainment. The winner of this tie will play Denmark at Wembley on Wednesday evening. Paul Doyle watched them bounce the Czechs out of the tournament, and you can read his report here. Meanwhile here’s Andy Hunter on a team who are on an emotional mission.

HALF TIME: Ukraine 0-1 England

After some garden-variety shoving, a load of nonsensical yap between Maguire and Yaremchuk brings the half to an end. They’re still arguing with each other as everyone leaves for the dressing rooms. England the happier, obviously, though Ukraine will be buoyed by the way they’ve come back into the game.

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45 min +1: Sancho excites the fans with a supersonic sashay down the left, jinking elegantly through the smallest of gaps. He’s clipped to a standstill, but Manchester United fans can be forgiven for getting quite excited over their new signing.

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45 min: England are sitting very deep. They’ll be happy to hear the half-time whistle and regroup. There will be three added minutes.

43 min: After a brief game of head tennis in the England box, Shaparenko shoots from 25 yards. The ball curls well wide right. This is much better from Ukraine, who have switched to a 4-3-3 after the enforced substitution, and look a lot happier as a result.

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41 min: Yaremchuk busies himself down the left and wins a corner. The set piece is a non-event, but Ukraine are at least asking England the odd question now.

39 min: Sterling slips Shaw clear down the left. Shaw is in acres, racing into the box. He pulls back for Sancho, who spins on the penalty spot and sends a slapshot goalwards. Bushchan shovels clear, then the flag goes up for offside. Not sure why Shaw didn’t go for that himself, one on one with the keeper as he was. Had either he or Sancho scored, VAR would have overturned that offside decision.

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37 min: Ukraine play some lovely triangles down the left and open England up for the first time. Zinchenko then slips a pass down the channel for Yaremchuk, who cuts back for the Manchester City man. However Yarmolenko also goes for the cutback, and gets in Zinchenko’s way. Neither can get a shot off, and Mount steps in to clear.

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35 min: Kryvtsov can’t continue. He’s limping badly. On comes Tsygankov.

34 min: Kryvtsov goes down and requires some treatment. He’s grimacing quite a lot. As the physio comes on, it’s a chance for his defence to regroup.

33 min: Sterling drives down the left and crosses low. It’s half cleared. Rice picks up possession on the edge of the box and creams a venomous shot straight at Bushchan. There’s a brief game of high-speed, high-stakes pinball, before Ukraine eventually clear. England can sense a second goal here.

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31 min: Sancho gets his feet moving down the right and nearly tricks his way past Mykolenko. Not quite, but the Old Trafford bound winger is causing all sorts of problems.

29 min: Sterling is upended near the left touchline, and it’s a chance for England to line up just inside the Ukraine box. Shaw to deliver. Kane rises highest to meet the free kick, but can only head harmlessly over the bar.

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27 min: England’s current confident state of mind is perfectly illustrated when Pickford comes sauntering out of his box to meet a loose ball, and rolls a careful pass to a team-mate between two encroaching Ukrainians. A risky move performed with no little panache.

25 min: Another neat little burst in from the right wing by Sancho. Ukraine aren’t dealing with his runs particularly well. When he’s on one, their nerves are palpable.

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23 min: Sancho bursts infield from the right, beating a couple of men before slipping wide left for Sterling, who finds Shaw on the overlap. Shaw reaches the byline but his cutback goes to nobody in particular. Zinchenko intercepts and briefly worries his own defenders with a clumsy backpass, but Ukraine eventually clear their lines.

21 min: After the brief application of an icepack to his ankle, Matviyenko is good to go again.

19 min: Ukraine have recovered from their awful start and are now enjoying a fair bit of possession. Then a pause in play as Matviyenko goes down holding his ankle.

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17 min: A loose Walker pass in the midfield is snaffled by Yaremchuk, who dribbles at pace down the left channel. He shoots for the bottom-left corner. Pickford turns the ball around the post. Nothing comes of the corner, but Pickford is beyond livid with his defenders for gifting Ukraine that half-chance.

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15 min: A long ball nearly finds Yarmolenko down the middle. It flies over his head and the danger is gone, but for a split second England’s back line looked uncharacteristically ragged.

13 min: Walker romps into a lot of space down the right. His cross isn’t all that, but England are looking dangerous down this flank, with Sancho perhaps occupying one or two minds, allowing the full-back to make hay.

12 min: A little bit of space for Yarmolenko down the right. He reaches the byline only for his cross to be blocked by Maguire. Better from Ukraine, who will take heart from their first attacking sortie.

10 min: Now it’s England’s turn to sit back and wait to see what Ukraine can do. At the moment, not very much, though at least for the first time in the match, the Ukrainians are enjoying some time on the ball.

8 min: Ukraine load the box, but the free kick isn’t up to much, and England clear with ease. “As an Icelander it’s my duty to mention that we Icelanders got the “huh” chant from Motherwell,” admits Kári Tulinius. “Though if Ukraine want to invoke Iceland, going behind to an early English goal worked out alright for us at the last Euros.”

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7 min: So much for Ukraine’s plan to sit back and soak things up. Nothing like an early goal to shake things up. Karavaev dribbles down the right and is clipped from behind by Sterling. Free kick, and a chance for Ukraine to strike back quickly.

6 min: A lovely finish there by Kane, who was almost totally drained of confidence during the groups, but looks to have been fully restored by that goal against Germany. But what an assist by Sterling, England’s player of the tournament. That threaded pass to release Kane was something else.

GOAL! Ukraine 0-1 England (Kane 4)

The perfect start for England! Ukraine have hardly touched the ball, but now they’re picking it out of their own net. Sterling dribbles down the left, glides inside, cuts back, and plays a sensational reverse pass down the channel, through a gap between four defenders, to find Kane. He’s clear in the box, and whips past Bushchan, into the bottom left!

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3 min: It’s all England in terms of possession; Ukraine are more than happy to line five up across the front of their own box. Mount dribbles into that penalty area from the right, and slips over, but claims a penalty anyway. He’s not getting one.

2 min: There’s a fine atmosphere in the Stadio Olimpico, the 16,000 in attendance trying their best to make the noise of 72,000, and damn near achieving it. The Ukraine fans giving it plenty of HUH in the Icelandic style. Meanwhile on the pitch, England get a good feel of the ball.

Ukraine get the quarter-final underway ... but only after England take the knee. A smattering of boos, but plenty of cheers. We play on.

The teams are out! Ukraine wear their first-choice yellow shirts; England are in white. Pennants have been swapped, and fists bumped. We’ll be off in a minute!

Speaking of bringing nations together, here’s a lovely message of support, from Tinto Brass. “Hello my friend. Please forgive my english, I am from Estonia. I have a very large excite about tonight’s game, I have lived in UK for five year as care assistant and I am supporting England. I think England team are very splendid fellows and I think they will win. I read Guardian website every day, when I first come to UK it helped me improve my English, and it has same political principles that I have, and that we all have in Estonia.” Aitäh, Tinto. Nothing to forgive! In fact, given the Guardian’s long-standing reputation for making ... eh ... the occasional spelling error, may we apologise for any erroneous or misleading information we may given you over the years. Enjoy the game!

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The national anthems. Whoever you’re supporting tonight, we’re all friends together here, in full agreement both that Ukraine’s glory should be born again, and also it’s for the best if the Queen is saved. No need to be banging out those anthems again, we’ve been there and done that during Euro 2020 already, so instead how about a ditty that embraces both cultures at once? A performance of Ukrainian folk classic Давні Часи by Leeds and England’s Kalvin Phillips finest bar-chord specialists The Wedding Present should do the trick.

This one’s for Matt Tempest.

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Another dip into the pre-match postbag. “Well, this feels odd,” begins Guy Hornsby. “Germany was such a huge game for all sorts of reasons, but we can’t allow tonight to be a hangover. The Ukraine team are no mugs, we’re without the Wembley effect, so I’m hoping we’ll try and just press restart. Southgate will make us tough to beat and in tournament football it’s how it should be. We’re not France or Belgium, and we have such quality up front that we should be confident we can do it. Punditry over, where’s the whisky!”

Hornsby’s house, at around 9.43pm BST this evening.

As previously mentioned, there will be 16,000 spectators in the 72,000-seater Stadio Olimpico tonight. Those supporting England were heard groaning when it was announced that Jack Grealish has again been left on the bench. Ukraine fans are also taking their seats, alongside plenty of Italian representation. A lot of daydreaming about the possibility of an appearance in next Sunday’s final going on. Speaking of which, here’s Mary Waltz: “If football comes home, does it have to isolate for two weeks?” She’s here all week. Try the gelato.

Pre-match postbag. “Do we really think (per your preamble) that the England squad really have fond memories of Rome from Euro 68?” splutters Mike Wilner, who to be fair has a point. “None of the squad was born then, obviously. Neither was the manager - Gareth born in 1970. Now, if Roy Hodgson was still in charge, he might remember a trendy cafe or restaurant.” If Roy Hodgson was still in charge, he’d have spent the week taking in the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain and maybe taking Ray Lewington out to Cinecittà World for a ride on the rollercoasters.

Gareth Southgate talks to the BBC. “Jadon Sancho has been really bright in training. Having a right footer on that side will really stretch the game. It’s been a huge challenge for all our attacking players. We have so much depth, and you can’t keep everybody happy. We’re looking for those moments when they’re really fighting in training, and he’s shown that. And his profile for this game, we need one against one specialists in this sort of fixture, and he has that capability. It’s been good for us to come away from Wembley to have a different preparation and feel to things, but we’ll find out in the next 90 minutes as to whether it’ll be a deciding factor for us. It’s a lovely night for football. Ukraine have had a fantastic run, we know the threat of their dangerous players, and we have to move the ball quickly.”

The winner of this quarter-final will play Denmark in the semis at Wembley on Wednesday night. The Danes have just bounced the Czechs out of the tournament with a 2-1 win in Baku. Their second goal, set up by Joakim Maehle’s outstanding, outside-of-boot cross from the left, and crashed home by Kasper Dolberg at the far post, was a work of special wonder. Barry Glendenning has the details.

England have made two changes from the XI that started against Germany. Jadon Sancho, soon to be of Manchester United, is given his first start of the tournament. He replaces Bukayo Saka, who has picked up a knock and misses out altogether. The other change sees Mason Mount replace Kieran Trippier. That means Gareth Southgate is reverting to a back four, and that Jack Grealish stays on the bench.

Ukraine meanwhile are buoyed by the recovery of their captain Andriy Yarmolenko. He picked up a knock in the last round against Sweden, but has recovered just in time.

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The teams

Ukraine: Bushchan, Zabarnyi, Kryvtsov, Matviyenko, Karavayev, Sydorchuk, Shaparenko, Zinchenko, Mykolenko, Yarmolenko, Yaremchuk.
Subs: Sobol, Sudakov, Stepanenko, Marlos, Pyatov, Makarenko, Tsygankov, Bezus, Zubkov, Trubin, Tymchyk, Dovbyk.

England: Pickford, Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw, Phillips, Rice, Sancho, Mount, Sterling, Kane.
Subs: Grealish, Henderson, Rashford, Trippier, Ramsdale, Mings, Coady, Calvert-Lewin, Foden, Chilwell, Johnstone, Bellingham.

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany).

Literary Corner. “I wrote this exactly three years ago, when England were about to play Colombia at the World Cup,” begins Nick Asbury. “It’s from a book called Realtime Notes, featured in the Guardian a while back. Still applies today – thought you might enjoy it.”

Three hours now,
give or take a minute,
until England go out
or England stay in it,
until England go home
or are nailed on to win it.
Either way in four hours
the pundits will spin it
as the obvious outcome.
Funny that innit.

So that’s Keats, Betjeman and Larkin efficiently dispatched into a cocked hat. Oh, and while we’re on the subject of the old book-readin’, here’s one last shout for Jonathan O’Brien’s superb Euro Summits: The Story of the Uefa European Championship, which explores every nook and cranny of the finals from 1960 to 2016, and gets the official MBM stamp of approval. Highly recommended.

With travelling to Rome a pipe dream, punters are instead milling around Trafalgar Square in London at the official fanzone. The atmosphere is reported to be relaxed, with fans enjoying the sun and a drop of The Drink, live footage of the Czech Republic v Denmark game playing on big screens. With ten minutes to go, Denmark are 2-1 up and will be heading to Wembley next Wednesday unless the Czechs can do something about it. Barry Glendenning has the latest.

There will be a crowd of 16,000 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome this evening. Chances are, there will be more Ukraine supporters than England fans, on account of differences in travel rules. However, here’s where the location of tonight’s match is in England’s favour: while Ukraine have only played at the Olimpico once, losing a Euro qualifier to Italy in 2006, England have some fond memories of their previous four visits. They beat the USSR in the third-place play-off at Euro 68, and ground out a fine goalless draw against Italy in 1997, a result that took Glenn Hoddle’s fine team to France 98. Overall, they’ve won two, drawn one, and lost one. It’s not a bad record on someone else’s patch.

Preamble

Feeling nervous, England fans? Hey, it’s understandable. Thing is, there’s no point sitting there sweating, chewing your nails and manically drinking/smoking/vaping/eating/swearing until the match starts, so why not drift off into a nice relaxing daydream instead? Just imagine. In eight days time, Harry Kane lifts the Henri Delaunay Trophy at Wembley as England become champions of Europe for the very first time! There. That’s much better, isn’t it? Indulge yourself. Dreaming is free, and there’s not much point in sport if you’re not allowed to do it.

England are three steps away from bringing it all back home. The first looks, on paper, eminently negotiable. Gareth Southgate’s side are confident, competent and on a high after beating Germany in a knockout game for the first time since 1966. Raheem Sterling is in a rich vein of form, captain Kane might have just jump-started himself back into some, and the defence flatly refuses to concede. There’s real hope here, and their record against tonight’s opponents Ukraine is also promising: four wins in seven previous meetings, with only one defeat. They’re the favourites with your local turf accountant.

But nothing’s ever certain. England were favourites to beat Iceland in 2016, too, and look how that turned out. France were expected to see off the Swiss easily enough earlier in the week, as well. Things happen. Also, Ukraine might have only scraped through the groups by the skin of their teeth – a victory over North Macedonia sandwiched by defeats to the Netherlands and Austria – but Andriy Shevchenko’s team were one of only five to navigate the qualifying stage undefeated. Also, any collective that can conjure up an outside-of-boot assist like the one Andriy Yarmolenko set up for Oleksandr Zinchenko against Sweden on Wednesday need to be taken very seriously.

Hence the nerves, you see. English heads say this quarter final should end in victory for the Three Lions; English hearts know through bitter experience that nothing comes easy. Actually the heads know that bit as well. So look, go off and lose yourself in that daydream, there’s no point working yourself up into a state for the next hour. Plenty of time for that after kick-off, which is 8pm BST, 9pm local at the Stadio Olimpico. It’s on!

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Scott Murray

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