England qualified for the first time in the final of a Euro, Wednesday night by eliminating Denmark in overtime (2-1 ap).

Great joy for England coach Gareth Southgate, who had "an incredible evening". 

Gareth Soutghate holds his revenge. In the semi-finals of Euro 1996, the former English defender missed the decisive shot on goal which had caused the elimination of his team in the semi-finals, against Germany (1-1, 6 tab to 5 ). Twenty-five years later, the one who is now the coach of the Three Lions broke the curse by winning the first qualification for the final of a Euro in the history of his country. The English, dominating, came to the end of Denmark, Wednesday evening in the semifinals at Wembley (2-1 after). What offer great joy to Gareth Southgate, interviewed after the meeting on the

ITV

channel

"I am so proud of the players. It was an incredible evening, the supporters were incredible all evening," he said.

"It couldn't be easy, the last match in Rome was (quarter-final won 4-0 against Ukraine,

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), but we told the players that they should show resilience and get up afterwards failures, and that's what we did this evening (after being led to the score,

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) ".

"A major performance" according to Sterling

Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling, still very good Wednesday night, also welcomed the qualification for the final on Sunday night against Italy at Wembley.

"It's a major performance. We had to go deep digging, this is the first time we have conceded a goal in the Euro. We were able to equalize and we knew we should be patient," he said. he declared on ITV. 

"With the legs we have in the team, the aggressiveness, the power, we knew we could surpass them and we got the penalty at the end," he continued.

They only have one victory left to enter the legend of English football for good.