playing their own national side. playing at wembley means england will feel the support, one said, but they ll feel the pressure, too. i always celebrate for england. every tournament, i really hope for english win. and every time, they disappoint me so much. so, tonight, i also hope they will disappoint me a little bit because then denmark will go to the final. mike is supporting england from here in copenhagen. his wife and children are supporting the other side. just alone at the moment. i trying to find some english fans| in copenhagen, just to bond a bit and then hopefully we can win the match tonight. euro 2020 has breached the banks of football here and filled this nation s soul. the underdogs who reached the semifinal by working as a team, and theirfans who dream of more. lucy williamson, bbc news, copenhagen. and there s been fighting talk
despite the odds, a victory tonight would give england theirfirst ticket to the final of a major tournament since 1966. the winner will take on italy in the final in london on sunday. a state of emergency has been declared in haiti after the country s president was shot dead at his home. we need a lot more information, but it s very worrisome about the state of haiti. and the evergiven, the giant cargo ship that blocked the suez canal back in march, is finally leaving egyptian waters after a compensation deal was reached. it s the euro 2020 semifinals england are taking on denmark at wembley stadium in london. kick off is in an hour. england are hoping to make it into their first major final
has not been successful for england, its right to say in major tournaments when it comes to semi finals have lost the last four and there s just this hope and expectation that england could get over the line but as we have been hearing you cannot underestimate the challenge denmark will face but theirformer winners of challenge denmark will face but their former winners of the tournament back in 1992 a couple players that played the premier as well who know what it s like to play in the stadium. the fa cup winner here not long ago and he will not be overwrought about the occasion. england tried to change the narrative around the team when it comes to major tournaments, so much disappointment and heartbreak with penalties or going out at the semi final stage and it seems as though gareth southgate has started to do that. and the way that they have achieved landmarks of this term is already winning their opening group game of the european championship and they had not done that before. o
from the danish team. here s the goalkeeper kasper schmeichel, asked about the idea of football coming home to england. what would it mean to you guys to stop it coming home tomorrow night? has it ever been home? i don t know, have you ever won it? in 66, it was home. well, was that not the world cup? yeah, exactly, but i m saying the whole thing about a national tournament finally coming home, finally the actual success this country craves. what would it mean to you to stop that coming home? to be honest, i haven t given any thought to what it would mean to stop england more than what it would do for denmark. to be honest, i ve focused very little on england national team. i think ithinka i think a few england fans will disagree with that. 50 minutes time to kick off. morten glivad is the biographer of the coach.
so a lot of anticipation but the players say the pressure of making their first major final in 55 years is not getting to them. here s england s star striker, harry kane. we have a great opportunity to do it this year. we are not taking denmark lately by any means. we know they are a very tough team, they ve got some great players and obviously a great unit of a team as well. travellers coming from denmark to the uk currently need to isolate for ten days. meaning there wasn t enough time for fans to make it over in time for the game. this was the reaction from the coach after the last match. he told a danish newspaper. we hope borisjohnson wakes up and gives there will be some danish fans in the stadium. here are fans arriving.