Is It Finally Coming Home?
Kwesi Otoo
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After four weeks of thrilling action, tactical showdowns, and penalty shootout drama, the Euro 2024 journey is reaching its climax. It's a showdown between the tournament's top team and one of the bookies' favorites to lift the trophy in Germany.
The Spanish, the young team assembled by Luis de la Fuente, have been flying high in Germany since the group stage. Topping their group by winning all their group matches. Scoring 13 goals so far and just three goals conceded, became the first team in European Championship history to win six games in a single tournament. With two young mercurial wingers in the form of Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal, the Spaniards will be brimming with confidence to go all out to win their fourth European Championship title in Berlin.
On the other side, the Three Lions have yet to truly roar from the group stage to the quarter-finals, struggling to live up to their "pre-tournament favorite" tag. The matches against the Swiss and the Dutch revealed a different side of Gareth Southgate's squad—a team of superstars finally clicking together, hungry for a trophy. Southgate showcased his tactical brilliance in the semis against the Flying Dutchmen, with substitutes combining to score the crucial winner that propelled England to a consecutive European Championship final in Germany.
England is within touching distance of breaking their duck in a final tournament in World Football, but they'll have to stop the tournament's highest scorers, Spain, first to get to the Holy Grail.
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Why Gareth Southgate deserves the final glory tonight?
He’s won more tournament knockout games than all other England managers since 1966 combined. He’s secured back-to-back Euros finals, leading them to a major final outside of London for the first time in their nation’s history. Maybe that’s the “silver lining” they need to lift their first trophy in 58 years finally.
Whatever goes down in Berlin tonight will have a ripple effect for the next 24 months. A young Spanish team is clawing its way out of obscurity, while an English squad, meticulously crafted by their gaffer over the past eight years, aims to etch their names in the annals of history. Is Sunday the day it finally comes home? Can Gareth Southgate lead the Three Lions to victory in Berlin?