I had to tell Sako it doesn’t normally work like that, beamed Southgate after reaching the final

In football, the home ground is a great advantage and the English took advantage of this when they made it through to the final of the European Championship. It must be said that they deserved it! After all, it was not until the semi-finals that they scored their first goal of the tournament, and that from a direct kick.

For this reason, the final will be very interesting. The Italians’ once perfect defence, with which they conquered the world, is now the domain of the English. But hopefully we will see a similar match to the first semi-final, which showed the world football at its best.

“I had to tell Sako and Bellingham that it doesn’t normally work like that,” Southgate joked after the game. And you can’t disagree. After all, England have made it to a major championship final after 55 years. Now they are back home again, but this time they will face Italy instead of West Germany.

In 1966, 97,000 spectators, including Queen Elizabeth II, came to Wembley for the final match of the World Cup, and together they watched the great victory of the English, who managed to beat the Germans in extra time 4-2. Bobby Moore then captained his teammates to football’s most valuable trophy. And the Albion coach was Alf Ramsey.

Now Gareth Southgate and captain Harry Kane want to build on that great success. However, they will be up against the recently unbeaten Italy, who will definitely be the favourites.

However, at that moment, the English national team coach was not thinking about that! “I am very proud of my players. It’s a great opportunity to be a part of it, especially the fans were unbelievable all night.”

“We have to enjoy the fact that we are in the final, but we have another huge challenge ahead of us. Italy are a very good team, they have fine-tuned their form and they have great defensive warriors. It will be a spectacular game,” Southgate has no doubt about what could be the biggest game of his coaching career.

The final match will be played from 21:00 again at Wembley, where tens of thousands of people will be waiting for the players, who will overwhelmingly drive the Albion players towards a second major trophy.

Source: UEFA