Harry Kane during the match against Wales /
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The British team is confident that Kane will regain his aim and start as a favorite against a rival full of players who are active in the Premier
Today England is playing the pass to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar against Senegal, a team full of players born in Europe, children of emigration, and who are active in the Premier, the English league. Departed. They know what they’re up against. Also England, which is favourite, knows well the physical talent of its rival. The desert World Cup arrives today (8:00 p.m., Al-Bayt stadium) a crossover with a flavor of British football.
England faces the stake after thrashing Wales and Iran, and drawing with the United States in a game that they played with the handbrake. He came out of the first phase with 9 goals for and two against. That scoring ability, however, is not carried out by their great striker, Kane. He has given three assists and has imposed his size every time he has played, but he still hasn’t scored. For now, his selection has not missed that aim. The team led by Gareth Southgate has a sufficient arsenal and, in addition, presents its new pearl in this championship, Bellingham, a young genius for whom the great European teams are bidding.
The English coach seems to have only one question: who will play on the right side? Trippier or Walker? Up front, along with Kane, they have many options Foden and Rashford, brilliant against Wales. After a long period condemned to irrelevance, England raised its hand in the last World Cup, in Russia 2018. It reached the semifinals. And in the last European Championship they played and lost the final against Italy. In Qatar he is one of the candidates that counts the most in forecasts and bets.
Senegal, according to those predictions, is his next victim on the way to the podium. But if there is something that defines football, it is its unpredictable game condition. The African team is a mixture of players born in their country, especially in Dakar, and in European cities, mostly French. In the opposite direction to the famous rally: from Dakar to Paris. Emigration things. After training in the fertile French soccer school, many have made the leap to the Premier. In the English league they play, for example, the goalkeeper Mendy and Koulibaly (Chelsea), the other Mendy (Leicester), Sarr (Watford) and Kouyaté (Nottingham). Also the coach, Liou Cissé, went through Birmingham and Porsmouth. Another infiltrator, Gueye (Everton), protagonist of a controversy for refusing to defend the rights of homosexuals, will not be against England due to the accumulation of cards.
