England routed ideas-dead Wales without ruffling to meet Senegal in round of 16

British rivals with different footballing histories enshrining everything assumed in the previous one. That’s how you might describe winning 3 to 0 from England On Welshteam he left Qatar World Cup without winning a game after 64 years of absence.

With the win, the team led by Gareth Southgate they finished top of Group B with seven points and will face Senegal from Argentina’s 16 next Sunday.

Far from the parity that rugby shows between the two countries, where victories in history are relatively equal, in football it is very different. And in the first World Cup match between the two, it was very clear that one came out as world champion (1966) and is always a candidate to fight in every cup, while the other had come as a surprise, but he left with little taste.

There was talk in the preview that there might be a match of “Premier League“between national teams, by the number of players from one team and the other who are active in the English league. But in this parallelism there is a clash between one of the elite teams of that country and another of the group, of those who they swarm from the center of the table down. So it was.

With the need to win for a miracle, Wales started to try to handle the ball but found an orderly England team, who crowded half the pitch and wouldn’t let them progress. The resource to approach Jordan Pickford It was success, but without receivers and without ideas it never came. Whatever.

After the period of analysis and uncertainty of the first five minutes, England began to monitor the actions to patiently find when to step up.

This is how the first goal play came after 9 minutes of play. Harry Kanewho rotated well everyone who came from behind and touched the goal better from the front, filtered a ball for the appearance of Marcus Rashfordwhich went hand in hand but missed a chance with the Welsh goalkeeper.

Despite control and Wales failing even to cross the half, the English did not accelerate and it took several minutes to generate danger again. He was 37 years old when Phil Foden finished above

Rashford and Foden booked in the first half and stamped in the second half.

Is that what he couldn’t do in the first 45 minutes, England solved it after four of the seconds, now without the rival’s franchise player, Gareth Bale, who retired at halftime. Very out.

Rashford took a free kick at the penalty area gate and pinned it into the left corner of a goalkeeper who reached out but missed the ball. And when the shock still didn’t allow Wales to settle down, the doubling came two minutes later.

The defense of”DragonHaving lost the ball, Kane grabbed it from the right side of the attack, sent a low cross so that Foden appeared, alone, at the far post and pushed with his -deft- left leg.

Had the sensation in the first half been of controlled partythose first shots turned into the ruling of the party.

From then on England flourished, they devoted themselves to tending many of their numbers and there was time for Rashford to double to 23. If so many arrivals didn’t finish in the goal, it was thanks to the goalkeeper Departmentonly recoverable point for the Welsh.

If the English know anything, it is that against Senegal it will be very different than against this Wales who could never endanger them. Those over 40 will remember the clash between Cameroon and England in 1990… Will we see something similar?

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