At this point in the blogpost, I should own up and admit that I simply wanted to draw you in for past statistics have proven that any posts I have written about football have been relatively unpopular. My opening paragraph was just a cunning ruse for tonight's post is about football! Ha-ha! Gotcha!
Earlier on this evening, a big football match was played in Dortmund. It was the second semi-final of the European Nations Cup. England were playing The Netherlands and you know what? We won!
In the first half England were dominant even though The Netherlands took the lead with a great strike from Xavi Simons. A few minutes later our captain, Harry Kane smashed home a dubious penalty. In the second half, the pace of the game diminished and became very cagey - sometimes proceeding at walking pace.
As full-time approached. our manager, Gareth Southgate, took off Kane and Phil Foden - replacing them with Aston Villa's Ollie Watkins and Chelsea's Cole Palmer and in the 91st minute, Palmer threaded the ball to Watkins in the penalty area. He swivelled and smashed the ball into the net from a tight angle in spite of the close attentions of a Dutch defender. GOOOOOAL!
Now we will play Spain in the final which will take place in Berlin on Sunday evening. Spain have played brilliantly in the tournament so England are the underdogs - but you never know! Sometimes the underdogs are victorious. COME ON ENGLAND!
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