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Euro 2020: Ruthless England Rout Ukraine 4-0
By Ekene Dike
England displayed an incredible performance as they soared over Ukraine with a 4-0 thrashing in their European Championship quarter-final at the Stadio Olimpico.
In a game where England dominated from start to finish, Harry Kane struck three minutes in, and then doubling his tally with a poacher’s header from a Luke Shaw cross.
Harry Maguire and Jordan Henderson would add to the team tally with towering headers from set plays; with Shaw again turning provider, feeding his Manchester United colleague with a sumptuous delivery, before the returning Mason Mount whipped in a delicious corner for super-sub Henderson to flick home.
New Manchester United signing, Jadon Sancho impressed on his first start of the tournament replacing Bukayo Saka on the right, and Raheem Sterling was also exceptional as he tormented Oleksandr Karavaev down the Ukrainian right, with Shaw a constant threat on the overlap, freed up by Sterling’s inward bursts drawing away two defending bodies.
The defensive quintet were sound – Jordan Pickford had a mere two saves to make, one each from Roman Yaremchuk and Yevhen Makarenko, as the Ukrainians struggled for scoring opportunities.
Andriy Yarmolenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko couldn’t muster any sort of creativity for the underdogs, but the Three Lions march on relentlessly, doubling their goals tally for the tournament in one game. Denmark are what stands between England and their first final in a major tournament since their epic 1966 World Cup trophy.
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