As you read this, Tottenham Hotspur is in a serious mess. They’re 30 points away from the Premier League summit and nine points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea. With a title dream gone with Mauricio Pochettino, Spurs’ ambition of finishing among the top four took a serious hit when it was revealed Harry Kane might not […]
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]]>As you read this, Tottenham Hotspur is in a serious mess. They’re 30 points away from the Premier League summit and nine points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea. With a title dream gone with Mauricio Pochettino, Spurs’ ambition of finishing among the top four took a serious hit when it was revealed Harry Kane might not feature again this season due to injury. You can buy England vs Croatia Tickets from our website, around the world to enjoy its terrific performances.
Spurs’ problems might soon become England’s when the campaign concludes. The Three Lions are due to challenge for a European title this year. But they risk doing that without their skipper and talisman. The English goal-machine is likely to still be recovering when the Euro 2020 commences in June.
Towards 2019’s end, Abraham had to make a major decision regarding his international career. The Chelsea striker was sought after by Nigeria [his fatherland], but he opted to represent England instead.
So far, Abraham had carried Chelsea’s scoring responsibilities with grace and efficiency. The 22-year-old has plundered 15 goals in all competitions to help Frank Lampard’s young side remain in contention for a top-four finish.
Without a doubt, Abraham has done well for himself and for his club. Importantly, Chelsea is reaping the fruits of their academy graduate. Compared to Alvaro Morata, on whom the West London club spent upwards of £60 million to sign from Real Madrid, Abraham has done brilliantly. The Spaniard managed 15 goals in 48 appearances in his first season [2017/18], Abraham has scored that many in 29 games.
Odds against
Bringing that form to the England squad is another matter; Southgate would be well wary of that. Experience has taught everyone that club form is usually scarcely reproduced with the national team. Someone like Lionel Messi will concur.
Abraham can also be considered a newbie in the English senior team. The Three Lions are blessed with a handful of truly impressive center-forwards. Surprisingly, Kane isn’t even the most prolific English striker in the league this season; Jamie Vardy is, with 17 goals. The Leicester hero simply can no longer be ignored by Southgate.
Marcus Rashford
Marcus Rashford has found some consistency in front of goal for Manchester United – the 22-year-old is already on 14 for the campaign. An outsider who’s pushing for inclusion in the England squad is Southampton’s Danny Ings. The former Liverpool man has as many League goals as Rashford.
On paper Abraham can be placed third on the strikers pecking order for England, considering Kane’s absence. Rashford and Vardy will battle for first and second.
It must be clearly stated that Kane isn’t completely ruled out for Euro 2020 just yet. If he eventually gets fit enough to compete it raises the question on which strikers can get on the plane to the Euros.
If Vardy, Rashford, and Ings, continue their rich vein of form the table would seriously shake if Kane returns to full fitness in April like is widely being anticipated. In that case, some of these strikers may not even get an invite to Euro 2020. Abraham would be related to getting an invite. Someone like Callum Wilson is out to of reckoning whether or not Kane makes it back on time.
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]]>The 3-Lions will face the Czech Republic and Croatia and the winner of the Path C play-off in the group stages at Wembley. England will face the Czech Republic, Croatia and the winner of the Path C play-off group, which features Scotland, Israel, Norway, and Serbia, in the Euro 2020 group stage. You can buy […]
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]]>The 3-Lions will face the Czech Republic and Croatia and the winner of the Path C play-off in the group stages at Wembley.
England will face the Czech Republic, Croatia and the winner of the Path C play-off group, which features Scotland, Israel, Norway, and Serbia, in the Euro 2020 group stage. You can buy England vs Croatia Tickets from our website, around the world to enjoy its terrific performances.
The Three Lions are the top seeds in Group D, meaning they will play all their fixtures at Wembley – the remaining fixtures in the group will take place at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
Gareth Southgate’s side will start their campaign with a tense fixture against Croatia, hoping to shed the scars of their World Cup semi-final defeat. They will then face the winner of Path C, before finishing the group stage against the Czech Republic, who England thrashed 5-0 at Wembley during qualifying before suffering defeat in the reverse fixture.
However, a similar situation to the World Cup could arise with England set to meet the runners up in Group F if they top the group themselves. That would mean a round-of-16 tie against one of France, Germany or Portugal, which Southgate will be keen to avoid.
Group
England, Croatia, Czech Republic, Scotland/Israel/Serbia/Norway
Fixtures schedule
Group
14 June 2020 – England vs Croatia (Wembley)
19 June 2020 – Scotland, Serbia or Israel (Wembley), England vs Norway
23 June 2020 – the Czech Republic vs England (Wembley)
Knockout stages
Round of 16
30 June 2020 – Group F runners-up Group D vs Winner of Group F runners-up (match 41) – Dublin
29 June 2020 – Group D runners-up vs Group E runners-up (match 43) – Copenhagen
Quarter-finals
July 3 – Winner match 41 vs Winner match 42 (match 45) – St Petersburg
July 3 – Winner match 39 vs Winner match 37 (match 46) – Munich
Semi-finals
July 7 – Winner match 45 vs Winner match 46 – London
July 8 – Winner match 48 vs Winner match 47 – London
Final
July 12 – London
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]]>Danny is the utmost in-form striker in the country and must be careful about a place in England’s Euro 2020 squad, insists ex-Three Lions striker Darren Bent. Football fans around the world can buy England vs Croatia Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances. He has been in spectacular scoring form this season and continued […]
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]]>Danny is the utmost in-form striker in the country and must be careful about a place in England’s Euro 2020 squad, insists ex-Three Lions striker Darren Bent. Football fans around the world can buy England vs Croatia Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances.
He has been in spectacular scoring form this season and continued his run with a fine winning goal in Southampton’s surprise 1-0 win over Tottenham on New Year’s Day.
That strike, sending Toby Alderweireld back into 2019 with a flick over the defender’s head before finishing into the bottom corner, was Ings’ 13th in the league this season – outscoring some of the world’s best forwards including Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane, and Mohamed Salah, while he is level with Lionel Messi.
The striker also played under Gareth Southgate at the Under-21 level, scoring four goals in 13 appearances, so there is a chance the Three Lions boss may consider him for upcoming pre-tournament friendlies against Italy and Denmark in March, and Austria and Romania in June.
Darren Bent talk
“I understand there are others out there – Tammy Abraham has done well, Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy obviously has retired but there’s talk of him potentially coming back for the Euro cup. But right now, Danny Ings has got to be in the conversation.”
“What I like about Danny Ings is he’s not one of these strikers who when your team has won 4-0 or 5-0 you score the fourth and fifth goals, which don’t mean anything, they’re irrelevant.”
“The hardest goal in football is the first once, and Danny Ings always seems to score them.”
“When games are tight, you need a striker who can just get something out of nothing, and his goal against Tottenham was absolute quality. He’ll always get that important first goal when games are tight and, for me, the way he’s playing, he’s not just scoring tap-ins, he’s scoring very good goals.”
“I’ve had a lot of fans laugh that off saying, ‘no chance, no chance’, but I think he HAS to be in the conversation. People are always saying the Premier League is the hardest league, the most competitive league in the world, and he’s already got 13 goals halfway through the season! For me, he’s got to be talked about for England.”
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]]>The UEFA dignitary who appeared on Romanian TV and said it would be great if they qualified for Euro 2020 rather than let the cat out of the bag. Football fans around the world can buy England vs Croatia Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances. The dome-shaped Romeo in Bucharest, fittingly resembling a circus […]
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]]>The UEFA dignitary who appeared on Romanian TV and said it would be great if they qualified for Euro 2020 rather than let the cat out of the bag. Football fans around the world can buy England vs Croatia Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances.
The dome-shaped Romeo in Bucharest, fittingly resembling a circus tent, hosted Saturday night’s draw and the city will also host matches next summer. The good wishes of Europe’s governing body aren’t encouraging news for Iceland, drawn to play the Romanians in a play-off semi-final in March, but does sum up this latest version of the European Championship. An unnecessarily complex and complicated carve-up aimed to please as many nations as possible.
Scores of delegates including Gareth Southgate and Ryan Gigs descended on the Romanian capital on a rainy eastern European evening but there was little of the anticipation you usually associate with a major draw.
Only 11 of the 36 countries represented 20 definite qualifiers and 16 play-off hopefuls didn’t have any idea of which group they would be in. It’s a result of UEFA’s decision to play Euro 2020 across many cities in different countries. Even the obvious ‘group of death’ containing holders Portugal, France and Germany lack normal jeopardy given that the four best third-placed teams will also go through to the knockout stages.
The irony is that England could be the biggest beneficiaries of all. They already knew they’d be playing all three of their Group D games at Wembley and Saturday’s selection of Croatia, Czech Republic, and the play-off winners out of Scotland, Israel, Norway and Serbia won’t fright Harry Kane.
Advantage for England
But this time England will have home benefit, first counter to Croatia on June 14, 2020 match. They beat the Czechs 5-0 at Wembley in March. Southgate’s only concern, being paired with France, was averted by Ruud Gullet pulling out the Croatian ball after some acrobatics and music from the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra which is the hallmark of a good UEFA draw.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the draw is how the group positionings affect the knockout ties. In 2018, England benefited from finishing runners-up in their group to Belgium and had a relatively easy run to the last four as a result. History could repeat itself this time. If England wins Group D as they should, a last-16 tie in Dublin awaits against World Cup winners France or another toughie from their group; Portugal or Germany.
Gareth Southgate talk
“The two teams we see we’ve got (Croatia and Czech Republic), we have decent results and poor results against them, he said. ‘It’s nothing to be complacent about but everyone not in Group F will be pleased about that.”
“Croatia at Wembley is a brilliant opening game for the fans and the players. There is a contrast. They have hugely experienced players throughout the team. We are the other end of the scale. Very young, lots of energy but improving. It is a nice contrast. You can’t make up for losing a World Cup semi-final, unfortunately. We felt like that after beating them in the Nations League. It was nice to win but it didn’t redress it. But this is a really attractive fixture.”
“In the end, we want to win every game we play and have control of our destiny. Fortune will take you wherever it takes you,’ he said. At this stage, he is thinking of nothing but qualifying. ‘You need a strategy of getting out the group. There are three games, not one.”
Croatian coach Zlatko Dalic has lost some key performers like center-forward Mario Mandzukic since the World Cup final but still boasts stellar names Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic and Ivan Perisic, besides Liverpool’s Dejan Lovren.
‘England is now a fantastic team,’ he said. ‘It is not easy to play the first game at Wembley. But we reached the World Cup final so I always believe. I am optimistic. They are very potent in attack. In the next three, four, five years, they will be on top of the European game.’
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]]>5. Zlatan Ibrahimović – 19 goals The Swedish superstar is still going strong at the age of 38, though the former Manchester United man called time on his international career as arguably his country’s greatest ever player back in 2016. Football fans around the world can buy Euro 2020 Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding […]
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]]>5. Zlatan Ibrahimović – 19 goals
The Swedish superstar is still going strong at the age of 38, though the former Manchester United man called time on his international career as arguably his country’s greatest ever player back in 2016. Football fans around the world can buy Euro 2020 Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances.
Comfortably Sweden’s all-time great goal scorer following a 15-year international career that delivered 62 goals in 166 caps, Ibrahimović fired 19 goals during Euro qualifying as Sweden qualified for four successive finals between 2004 and 2016.
One of the greatest forwards of his generation, 11 of Ibrahimović’s qualifying goals would come as Sweden reached the 2016 finals, though, after a disappointing group-stage exit, he would retire from international duty at the conclusion of the tournament.
4. Hakan Sukur – 19 goals
Known as the ‘Bull of Bosporus’, Sukur broke several goalscoring records in a career that spanned more than two decades, including becoming the greatest goal scorer in the history of the Turkish national team during a memorable international career.
Sukur would net seven times as Turkey qualified for the 1996 championships in England, though failed to replicate that form at the finals as his side were eliminated without scoring a single goal.
Capped 112 times, Sukur would score 51 international goals, including a huge 19 in Euro Cup qualifying. His goals would help Turkey once again reach the finals in 2000, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Portugal.
3. Jon Dahl Tomasson – 19 goals
The Danish forward couldn’t buy a goal during a disappointing Premier League spell at Newcastle, though Tomasson was a different proposition in the red shirt of his national team.
He would fire six goals as Denmark qualified for the finals in 2000, while another haul of five saw them once again qualify for Euro 2004, where he was named in the team of the tournament.
A deep-lying forward, Tomasson’s best personal haul would be in qualifying for Euro 2008, though Denmark failed to reach the finals despite his eight strikes.
The former AC Milan striker would remarkably never go more than two qualifiers without finding the net, retiring from international duty in 2010 as his country’s joint all-time record goalscorer with 52 goals.
2. Robbie Keane – 23 goals
The talisman for the Irish for virtually the entirety of his international career, Keane would prove prolific at international level scoring 62 times for the Boys in Green. The joint-fifth highest European international goal scorer of all-time, Keane is also the second most prolific player in the history of Euro 2020 qualifying.
Despite the regularity of his cart-wheeling celebration in qualifiers, Keane would reach just two finals, in 2012 and 2016 where a place in the last 16 was Ireland’s best finish. His 23 goals would prove the benchmark, until it was surpassed by one man in September 2019…
1. Cristiano Ronaldo – 31 goals
One of the game’s all-time greats continues to set new records and landmarks, surpassing Keane to become the greatest goal scorer in European Championship qualifiers in September 2019. He achieved the feat in typical Ronaldo fashion, hitting four goals in a thrashing of Lithuania.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner further extended his record by scoring in October’s qualifiers with Luxembourg and Ukraine, the latter being the 700th goal of his illustrious career.
Another four goals over the latest international break mean Portugal’s all-time record goalscorer now has 99 goals in 164 caps for his national side, whilst he is quickly closing in on Iranian Ali Daei’s record of 106 goals as the greatest goal scorer in the history of international football.
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]]>Giroud’s absence of club action exposed no handicap as the Chelsea striker’s penalty made France a 1-0 gone win against Iceland to set Les Bleus nearer to next year’s European Championship battles on Friday. Football fans around the world can buy Euro 2020 Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances. Giroud, who has only played […]
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]]>Giroud’s absence of club action exposed no handicap as the Chelsea striker’s penalty made France a 1-0 gone win against Iceland to set Les Bleus nearer to next year’s European Championship battles on Friday. Football fans around the world can buy Euro 2020 Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances.
Giroud, who has only played 101 minutes in the Premier League this season, converted a second-half spot-kick as injury-hit France continued second in Group H behind Turkey who beat Albania 1-0 thanks to a last-gasp Cenk Tosun goal line.
Third-placed Iceland has 12 points, Albania nine, and Andorra is second to last on three points after beating Moldova 1-0 for their first-ever Euro qualifying points.
Andorra had lost all 56 of their earlier Euro Cup qualifiers but Marc Vales ended that line by scoring with a header in the 63rd minute after Moldova had seen Radu Ginsari sent off for option up a second yellow card.
France was without the injured Kylian Mbappe, Paul Pogba and Hugo Loris and there was more bad news when N’Golo Kante picked up a muscle injury during the warm-up, leaving his place in the starting 11 to Moussa Sissoko.
Antoine Griezmann and Didier Deschamps Talk about Euro 2020
“It was a very hard game but we ground complete and Olivier’s goal did the job,” said forward Griezmann. We had several chances to add to our goal and it would have been nice because they are dangerous on set pieces,” said coach Didier Deschamps.
Both teams wriggled to create chances in a poor first half as Les Bleus unsuccessful to supply Griezmann, who had the best opportunity with a choked shot on the turn three minutes from the break.
The game turned France’s way when Griezmann was brought down in the area by Ari Skulason, with Giroud sending Hannes Halldorsson the wrong way from the spot to score in the 66th minute.
With 37 international goals, Giroud is now four goals shy of Michel Platini’s tally of 41, with only Thierry Henry having scored more for France (51).
France came close to doubling the tally when Blaise Matuidi’s low shot hit the post but Deschamps’s team remained under threat until the final whistle.
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]]>Liverpool endured a shocking second-half fall down as Sevilla beat them in the Europa League final by 3-1 to win the tournament for the third season in a row. Jurgen Klopp’s men looked on the way to get the prize of Champions League football – by winning the Europa League – when Daniel Sturridge’s superb […]
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]]>Liverpool endured a shocking second-half fall down as Sevilla beat them in the Europa League final by 3-1 to win the tournament for the third season in a row. Jurgen Klopp’s men looked on the way to get the prize of Champions League football – by winning the Europa League – when Daniel Sturridge’s superb hit with the outside of his left foot provided them the first half lead. The great job was destroyed within the seconds after the break when Kevin Gameiro rotated the cross shot of Mariano Ferreira to put Sevilla level.
Liverpool, who were not given a clear penalty in the first half when Sevilla’s Daniel Carrico plainly held as Roberto Firmino attempted to interlace past him, never recuperated. Andujar Moreno’s (Coke’s) excellent 64th-minute header established Sevilla’s predominance and then after six minutes he added a controversial third from close range, which was refused at first however was then given as Liverpool drooped to their second loss in the final this season after being beaten by Manchester City in the Capital One Cup final.
Klopp has restored Liverpool for a lot of this season – without a doubt some of their supporters were all the while seeking for the kind of rebound that saw them score three goals in the last 20 minutes to catch Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-final – however this loss is a noteworthy obstruction to his summer policy. Liverpool had such a great amount of riding on this match. The bait of Champions League football would have finished an alluring bundle to set before any possible signings.
Now they will not be a part of any kind of European football as they finished well beaten here in one more night of frustration for Klopp, who has now lost five consecutive finals with Dortmund and Liverpool. Liverpool will still attract players of high class, however a significant board in their transfer policy has been expelled by this loss. Klopp’s essence of regenerating papered over a portion of the breaks in the Liverpool squad he acquired however they were mercilessly uncovered by Sevilla’s second half masterclass.
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]]>Jurgen Klopp remains on course for silverware in his first season in charge after Liverpool beat Villarreal in the semi-final by 3-1 to reach the Europa League final. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Spain, the Reds scored three goals in the second leg at Anfield. The hosts levelled the tie on aggregate after […]
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]]>Jurgen Klopp remains on course for silverware in his first season in charge after Liverpool beat Villarreal in the semi-final by 3-1 to reach the Europa League final. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Spain, the Reds scored three goals in the second leg at Anfield. The hosts levelled the tie on aggregate after Bruno Soriano’s early own goal. Daniel Sturridge, left out of the team in Spain, then put the hosts in command with a low finish after good work from the excellent Roberto Firmino. After Villarreal’s Victor Ruiz was sent off, Adam Lallana made the win safe.
Ruiz received a second booking after stepping on Lallana’s foot in a game where Liverpool’s energetic pressing ruffled their opponents. Klopp, who took over from Brendan Rodgers in October and celebrated wildly with supporters after the final whistle, has now taken the Reds to a second final of the season, following defeat by Manchester City in the Capital One Cup final. Liverpool will face Europa League holders Sevilla in the final in Basel on 18 May. Sevilla beat Shakhtar Donetsk by 5-3 on aggregate in the other semi-final.
Despite sitting nine points and 19 goals behind fourth-placed Manchester City in the Premier League, Jurgen Klopp’s side would qualify for next season’s Champions League should they win in Switzerland, representing a fine return for Klopp in such a short spell in charge. On another memorable night at Anfield, Liverpool reached their first European final since losing the 2007 Champions League final to AC Milan.
While it was less dramatic than the quarter-final win over Klopp’s former team Borussia Dortmund, the players seemed galvanised by an electric rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone before kick-off as home fans paid tribute to those who died in the Hillsborough disaster, following last week’s inquest verdict where 96 fans were found to be unlawfully killed at a FA Cup semi-final in 1989. Liverpool fans formed a message which read ‘The Greatest Football Family’ around Anfield after the Hillsborough inquest.
Curated from Liverpool 3-0 Villarreal (agg 3-1) – BBC Sport
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