serbia and england fans have been staying here with a limited number of hotels are available in gelsenkirchen. are at gathering in the square behind me, a lot of fans will be gathering here to watch the game later. there is a big screen over my shoulder. two fan parks the area, one for the serbian fans and one for the england fans travelling without tickets, but some will be in the stadium later. england will start the tournament as one of the favourites, they lost to italy in the last tournament on penalties but with some of the very talented players that they manager karen southgate has at its disposal, no wonder that will start as one of the favourites. but he has said himself thatis favourites. but he has said himself that is sent to my will have to be exceptional but the message to the fans has been to enjoy themselves and for those ready here, they ve been doing that. we ll top the group. then we ll just fly through the tournament and just win it, it ll be great. it s h
while scotland s first opponents at the euros, czech republic, finished their warm up campaign with a 3 1win over albania in prague. german sixth seed alexander zverev is through to the semi finals of the french open after a comfortable straight sets victory over alejandro davidovich fokina. the 24 year old was a 6 4, 6 1, 6 1winner, and has now won 15 sets in a row since coming from two sets down in the opening round as he looks to claim a first ever grand slam title. and with a somewhat unusual finish in the late match, it means zverev will play stefanos tsitipas after the greek fifth seed accounted for second seeded russian daniil medvedev, making it a second successive appearance in the last four at roland garros. we ve had two marathon quarterfinals in the women s singles in paris with slovenian tamara zidansek beating paula badosa 8 6 in the final set. she ll play the 31st seed anastasia pavlyuchenkova for a place in the final. the russian came through 9 7 in