Euro 2020 - ENG vs DEN

At last another semi-final of a major championship again.

This time England had made it unbeaten in the group stage and this far without conceding a goal.

The Danes had lost two group games and scraped through. They were the lucky recipients of a wrong decision against the Czechs in the quarter-finals when the linesman gave a corner when the ball clearly came off the attacking player. Some complaints at the time but "it's football" was the excuse. This of course will come back to bite our arses.

After some early domination, what we call "huff and puff" England failed to score.

Another dodgy decision gave Denmark a free kick and they scored. Apparently the first goal from a direct free kick of the championship.

England hit back quickly. Kane split the defence and Saka took the ball and crossed low towards Sterling only for the defender to slide it into the goal.

Into extra time. Sterling's run into the box brought a penalty. A slight touch of legs and a hip collision from Jensen and Sterling went down.

Soft yes. Contact yes. VAR agreed.

Kane's penalty was weak and was saved by Schmeichel and the ball rebounded and Kane scored. Phew.

England held on. Denmark used all their subs and were down to ten for the run in to the whistle. 

After the game the usual anti-English tossers clambered from under their rocks to claim "dive". Maybe it was soft. But as I said above, "it's football".   

It's football - some decisions go your way. Some decisions don't.

England will meet Italy in the Final on Sunday.