Only three of the previous nine quarter-finals have gone England’s way with a long and storied history of brave defeats at this tournament turning point. tickerscricket has ranked the lot of them...
Date published: Thursday 8th December 2022 3:05 -On Saturday England will play their 10th World Cup quarter-final, with France joining teams like Uruguay, West Germany, Portugal and of course Argentina in the list of teams standing in the Three Lions’ way.
Back in the days when Cristiano Ronaldo was busier antagonising and disrupting opponents rather than team-mates, The Winker played his part in Wayne Rooney’s sending-off and, although England scrapped and battled their way through a pretty grim encounter to reach penalties, the spot-kicks were a shambles. Portugal won comfortably despite missing two of their own penalties, with Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher all failing from the spot for England.
Nat Lofthouse and Tom Finney scored for an England side driven on by their captain Billy Wright and with a 39-year-old Stanley Matthews – still the oldest outfield player at a World Cup for England – doing bits in a free role as a third prong in a legend-filled England frontline. But Uruguay’s was even better.
Sure enough, a Uwe Seeler header looped over a wrong-footed Bonetti to force extra-time. Geoff Hurst had a goal disallowed, but it all seemed to be heading one inexorable way and the great Gerd Muller smashed home the winner. The end of an era, and it would be 16 years before England reached the last eight again.A game responsible for 71% of the goals scored in the 1990 quarter-finals. You don’t need luck when you’ve got 71% of a tournament’s quarter-final goals.
But a disjointed and nervous England were handed a lifeline seven minutes from time. Gary Lineker’s eighth World Cup goal drew them level from the penalty spot, and he scored the winner – again from 12 yards – in extra-time to set up a semi-final against you know who.What Gareth Southgate did so cleverly in 2018 that he has hubristically failed to repeat four-and-a-half-years on was have the team that should have been in the quarter-final against England knocked out in the group stage.
Of course, such unfussy tournament wins are now very much de rigueur for Southgate’s side. But don’t worry: to replicate the 2018 feeling of surprise and confusion felt at England winning a knockout game in such straightforward manner, our 2022-adjusted eyes have simply to note that one of England’s goalscorers that day was Dele Alli.Not just England’s most famous quarter-final, but perhaps the most famous quarter-final of them all.
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