APTOPIX England’s Ollie Watkins, middle, celebrates after scoring his facet’s second objective throughout a semifinal match between the Netherlands and England on the Euro 2024 soccer match in Dortmund, Germany, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
England progressed to their second straight Euro remaining with a 2-1 come-from-behind win over the Netherlands as Harry Kane and Watkins discovered the online for Gareth Southgate’s Three Lions.
England reached a second straight European Championship remaining by beating the Netherlands 2-1 due to substitute Ollie Watkins’ stoppage-time winner on Wednesday.
Watkins, who got here on for captain Harry Kane in a daring name by coach Gareth Southgate, turned and smashed a fierce shot into the underside nook within the first minute of added-on time.
England will play Lamine Yamal and Spain in Sunday’s remaining in Berlin. It would be the nation’s first title match on international soil, having received the World Cup in 1966 and misplaced to Italy within the Euro 2020 remaining — each instances at Wembley Stadium.
In an open first half, Harry Kane’s 18th-minute penalty cancelled out Xavi Simons’ brilliantly struck opener for the Dutch within the seventh minute.
Watkins had solely made one earlier look at Euro 2024 — in its place within the group recreation in opposition to Denmark — so it was a shock when he was launched by Southgate in England’s greatest match thus far.
The gamble paid off.
The sea of orange within the large South Stand at Westfalenstadion fell silent. It housed probably the most vocal of the Dutch supporters who dominated the town middle earlier than marching of their hundreds to the stadium forward of the sport. Police reported three separate clashes between followers from each nations within the metropolis.
It gave the event the sensation of a house match for the Dutch and England, which got here from behind to advance within the final 16 and quarterfinals, was up in opposition to it much more after the 21-year-old Simons grew to become the second youngest scorer for the Netherlands at a Euros.
The Paris Saint-Germain midfielder dispossessed Declan Rice about 40 meters (yards) out, drove ahead and unleashed a shot into the far nook from outdoors the realm.
Compared to the 16-year-old Yamal, Spain’s new celebrity, Simons is a soccer veteran however this was one other case of a younger participant shining on the massive stage on the Euros.
Kane has had loads of large moments at main tournaments and he had one other when he slotted house a penalty after Denzel Dumfries’ outstretched leg made contact with Kane’s foot because the England striker tried a shot.
Kane grew to become the sixth participant to be on three targets for the match.
An open first half, which noticed Dumfries and England’s Phil Foden hit the objective body, made means for a good and tense second half the place possibilities had been restricted.
Bukayo Saka had a objective dominated out for a slender offside earlier than Kane departed for Watkins in what would possibly rank as Southgate’s greatest name in his eight-year England tenure.
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