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England vs Netherlands at Euro 2024: kick-off time, prediction and where to watch
England will face the Netherlands in today’s semi-final after both teams got through in contrasting fashion.
Jordan Pickford was the shoot-out hero for England as they beat Switzerland on penalties to reach the semi-finals.
The Dutch got here by fighting back from a goal down and surviving late pressure to beat Turkey 2-1.
The winner of England vs Netherlands will play Spain in the final.
When is England’s next game?
England play in the semi-finals of Euro 2024 today, at 8pm UK time.
Where is England’s next game being played?
The match will be played in Dortmund at the BV Stadion, home of the famous “yellow wall”. The ground is usually home to Borussia Dortmund.
What TV channel is it on?
It will be broadcast live on ITV.
What is the latest England news?
Netherlands have been handed a potential advantage with the Westfalenstadion’s Yellow Wall set to turn orange for the game.
The 25,000-capacity southern terrace of Borussia Dortmund’s home ground is one of the most famous stands in world football and rivals Anfield’s equally iconic Kop for the atmosphere fans there generate.
Europe’s largest freestanding grandstand looks poised to become a sea of orange rather than white tonight thanks to the Netherlands being notionally designated the home team for the fixture.
That has seen Uefa hand the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) 8,000 tickets in the stand for its supporters, with its English counterpart given tickets at the opposite end of the ground.
Although England fans could still get their hands on many of the remaining seats in the southern terrace, they are likely to be competing against other Dutch supporters, who are expected to dominate that section of the stadium.
Dortmund is staging the joint most matches at Euro 2024, with today’s the sixth and last to be played there.
The previous five have all seen the notional home team take over the southern terrace, with Turkey twice turning it into a Red Wall during the group stages. It was predominantly blue for Italy and France’s group games there, while it became white for Germany’s dramatic last-16 victory over Denmark. Indeed, the stadium has become something of a fortress for the Germans down the years.
The fortunes of other teams whose fans have colonised the southern stand at Euro 2024 have been decidedly mixed. Turkey lost against Portugal there before beating Georgia, Italy struggled to see off Albania, and France were held 1-1 by Poland.
How big a part any Orange Wall will play today, therefore, remains to be seen.
What is the latest Netherlands news?
Netherlands’ preparations for their European Championship semi-final against England have been thrown into disarray after their train journey to Dortmund was caught up in the latest travel chaos to engulf the tournament.
Ronald Koeman’s team were forced to cancel their planned pre-match press conference at the Westfalenstadion because of “a blockage on the track” between their Wolfsburg headquarters and the venue for tonight’s game.
The Dutch resorted to arranging a Tuesday night flight to Dortmund and were “looking for other options” in respect of their obligation to speak to the media before their biggest match since the 2014 World Cup.
They trained earlier in the day at their Wolfsburg base and Koeman and Manchester City defender Nathan Ake had been due to speak at a press conference at 7.45pm local time.
Telegraph Sport chronicled at the start of Euro 2024 how fans planning to travel by train at this summer’s tournament were being warned to expect major delays.
Having once put Britain’s creaking railways to shame, Germany’s own network has been plunged into similar chaos in what is an embarrassing blow to the country’s reputation for efficiency.
Detleff Neuss, chair of Germany’s rail passenger lobby group Pro Bahn, warned such a mass influx would simply lead to “more problems with delayed trains and trains cancelled”.
Neuss told Telegraph Sport: “I would say if you want to visit a football game, you take [a train] one or two trains before [the scheduled train] to be on time.”
Admitting Germany’s railways had become a source of national embarrassment, he added: “Many years ago, the German train system was a very good system. But, just now, the German train system is very bad.”
Neuss’s forecast immediately proved prophetic for England fans caught up in the travel chaos that left many stranded in Gelsenkirchen and facing “dangerous levels of overcrowding” after their opening game against Serbia.
So bad have the railways been that the Deutsche Bahn board member responsible for long-distance travel, Michael Peterson, was eventually forced to issue an apology in Germany’s top-selling newspaper.
“We understand the dissatisfaction and criticism from fans,” Peterson told Bild. “Deutsche Bahn is not currently offering the quality that everyone deserves. But, at the same time, we are doing everything possible to bring passengers reliably to their destinations.”
How do I buy England tickets?
Fans can apply for tickets for any team via the Uefa Euro 2024 ticket portal.
England’s route to the semi-finals
England narrowly beat Serbia 1-0 in their opening match of the group stage, thanks to Jude Bellingham’s early header, and then drew with Denmark with a performance that drew plenty of criticism. Performance-wise, the 0-0 draw with Slovenia was little better.
In the first knockout match, against Slovakia, England were indebted to Kane’s close-range header which won the game after Bellingham scored an overhead kick to equalise little more than a minute before the final whistle.
In the quarter-finals, Trent Alexander-Arnold slammed home the decisive kick to give them a shoot-out victory over Switzerland after the teams had drawn 1-1 after extra time.
What are the latest odds?
England to win: 13/8
Netherlands to win: 23/10
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