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The coffee boys get the side they'd have wanted.
Winner plays Sweden/Switzerland.
Winner plays Sweden/Switzerland.
This would be a real england thing to do, as would just getting completely destroyed by Colombia.Prediction: England go through just to get knocked out by Sweden.
England's only chance is if James is injured.
It could be argued, that aside from tournaments held at home, England have never, ever beaten a team better than this Colombia team in a knockout game in the entire history of international tournament football. A couple of comparable teams, yes, but not one clearly better. Here’s the list of teams England have beaten in a knockout away from home.
That’s it. Belgium in 1990 was decent, but far from an A level national side.
- 3-0 v Paraguay, 1986 World Cup
- 1-0 v Belgium AET, 1990 World Cup
- 3-2 v Cameroon AET, 1990 World Cup
- 3-0 v Denmark, 2002 World Cup
- 1-0 v Ecuador, 2006 World Cup
Shame James got injured. James and Quintero are so fun together. Why in the hell don't Porto give Quintero another shot? he's incredible. Hope Colombia pulls an upset, but with James injury, I'm not very confident.