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World Cup playoff, 7.30pm BST kick-off (first leg: 3-1)
Hello and welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of England v Greece at the King Power Stadium in Leicester. It should be a comfortable night for England, who lead 3-1 from Friday’s first leg in Crete, but the venue for tonight’s game is a reminder that the strangest things can happen in football. Greece are extremely long odds to shock England and win this World Cup playoff, but they’re not 5,000-1. Stranger things have most definitely happened.
The winners of this tie will meet Ukraine – who beat Slovakia 1-0 this afternoon to complete a 4-1 aggregate victory – in a decisive playoff. What England really want, aside from the bleedin’ obvious, is to improve on a mixed performance in the first leg. Sarina Wiegman was constructively critical after the game, saying that England weren’t tight enough and didn’t move the ball as quickly as she would have liked.
