The goal gave England a tremendous lift and the Dutch barely responded as Shearer added a third just five minutes later in what has gone down in Three Lions lore as one of the best tournament goals scored by the team.The technical ingenuity of McManaman, Gascoigne and Sheringham combined to release Shearer through one on one with Van der Sar and he blasted the ball high into the net to send England cruising towards the last eight of the competition. 1996 was the last time England reached the semi-finals of the European Championships and remains fondly remembered, partly thanks to Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds’ chart-topping anthem Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home).
Series 1 - Episode 3 - England take on the Netherlands at Wembley in Group A. ITV Hub - the home of ITV on demand and live TV. We can see Paul Ince in ahead of the centre backs and the rest of the midfield and attack pushing up:1-0 up at the half thanks to an Alan Shearer penalty, the goals came thick and fast for England in the second half.Firstly, Teddy Sheringham found the tiniest gap and headed in from Paul Gascoigne's corner. Netherlands v England - 6:30pm - ITV4 & ITV Hub. England won the group and advanced to the quarter-finals, along with the Netherlands.
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conversation.“It must be the highlight of my footballing life,” Sheringham later said in an interview with "Everyone talks to me about 1999, winning the Treble, but for me it’s playing for England at Wembley, in a major competition, beating Holland 4-1 the way we did, scoring two goals and being made man of the match.
21 episodes Group A of UEFA Euro 1996 was one of four groups in the final tournament's initial group stage. "In the aftermath of the game, Venables declared that he could now "sleep easily" and perhaps the elation of winning so emphatically against one of the tournament favourites lulled the England boss and his players into a false sense of security - as if the hard work had been done, when it had not.
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Shearer scored in the first two matches and continued the habit as he stepped up to fire England ahead from the spot, burying his penalty kick into the bottom left corner, well beyond Edwin van der Sar's considerable reach.Conceding mid-way through the second half was a blow to the Dutch and it took the wind out of their sails, though they continued to create opportunities, winning eight corners in the first half, while Bergkamp was brilliantly denied by Seaman just before the break. England marched into the quarter finals Euro 96 after a 4-1 destruction of the Netherlands, a game that was shown again on This is the third part of our series, see parts one and two here:The main story of the game statistically was that England created and converted higher quality chances, while the Dutch struggled to turn shot volume into genuine goal threat:After experimenting with formations against Scotland, England changed again, with a nominal 4-1-4-1, with a stark balance between attack and defence.
They topped the group and set up a meeting against Spain in the quarter finals.Come back to see our review of that game on Saturday.If you enjoyed this look at Euro 1996 through a modern lens and want to learn more about how data can evaluate and describe football, you may enjoy our If you give your details below, we will add you to our newsletter mailing list and send you updates about our work. A dysfunctional family strive to cope with everyday life. The flood gates had opened.With Scotland leading 1-0 against the Swiss in the other group match, the Netherlands were facing into a shock elimination due to the negative goal difference brought on by the beating, but substitute Patrick Kluivert pulled one back with just over 10 minutes remaining and it was a crucial consolation goal as they qualified, but only just.The England team that beat the Dutch so convincingly on June 18, 1996 was subsequently heralded as the greatest in generations and hopes were high that they would go on to bring football home by winning a major international tournament.Indeed, there was no shortage of lion-hearted leaders, with Tony Adams and Pearce marshalling the backline, while box-to-box midfielder Ince - excelling in As it turned out, however, that game would be the high point of the tournament for England as they struggled past Spain on penalties in the quarter-final before losing out on penalties to eventual champions Venables made a big tactical change for the semi-final against Germany, departing from the 4-4-2 system that had served him well against the Netherlands in favour of a 3-5-2 system with Platt and Ince together in the midfield.
Modelling probabilities via expected goals allows us to put real numbers onto this likelihood and we grade Shearer's chance at a shade over four out of ten (0.42)--that's still a great chance in terms of shot quality, but we suspect that a premium goalscorer such as Shearer would agree more with his teammate's assertion than our own.Sheringham's second goal made it 4-0 and came after the Dutch keeper Edwin van der Sar could only parry a long range shot from Darren Anderton.
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