England team trains ahead of clash against Croatia
Tuesday - July 10, 2018 2:36 pm ,
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England team trains ahead of clash against Croatia
Zelenogorsk (Russia) July 10 (IANS) The England squad on Tuesday trained ahead of their World Cup semi-final against Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
At their base in Zelenogorsk near Saint Petersburg coach Gareth Southgate presided over a session in which the players were seen laughing as they tossed around a rubber chicken showing few nerves ahead of England s biggest game in nearly 30 years reports Efe.
Wednesday s semi-final will be only the third ever that the Three Lions have competed in after 1966 when they won the tournament; and 1990 when they lost to West Germany on penalties.
Seventeen of England s 23-man squad were not born the last time the team reached a World Cup semi-final.
Southgate has no fresh injury concerns ahead of his country s ninth meeting with Croatia and is likely to name the same starting 11 which eliminated Sweden 2-0 in the quarter-final.
Croatia versus England will be played on Wednesday at the Luzhniki Stadium in the Russian capital.
--IANS kk/mr
At their base in Zelenogorsk near Saint Petersburg coach Gareth Southgate presided over a session in which the players were seen laughing as they tossed around a rubber chicken showing few nerves ahead of England s biggest game in nearly 30 years reports Efe.
Wednesday s semi-final will be only the third ever that the Three Lions have competed in after 1966 when they won the tournament; and 1990 when they lost to West Germany on penalties.
Seventeen of England s 23-man squad were not born the last time the team reached a World Cup semi-final.
Southgate has no fresh injury concerns ahead of his country s ninth meeting with Croatia and is likely to name the same starting 11 which eliminated Sweden 2-0 in the quarter-final.
Croatia versus England will be played on Wednesday at the Luzhniki Stadium in the Russian capital.
--IANS kk/mr
