The echoes of what happens on Sunday's Euro 2024 final will resonate for a long time, but in the bigger picture, England have more to lose than Spain.
's collection of wonderkids, comeback kids and kids-at-heart, under the watchful eye of everyone's favorite substitute teacher, coach Luis de la Fuente, will have delivered the country, having already made the transition from tragicomic self-destructors to nearly men will take that final step into the history books and win a major tournament, something they haven't achieved since 1966 to the Berlin Wall that cleaved it in half, in an act of wanton self-harm.
Then, there's the eye-test and here it gets even grimmer for Gareth Southgate's crew. Apart from the first half against Netherlands , England simply haven't played well. It's not just Southgate's conservatism and determination to play in transition. That's a strategy like any other. It's that they haven't executed it well at all: shaky defensively and relying on individual moments to nick goals at the other end.
The old trope of defending in numbers and waiting for one of your individual matchwinners to do something special works in one-off games, because this a low-scoring sport. England, for all the ugly performances seen thus far, are resilient and they have an array of individuals who can turn games in an instant: from.
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