Euro 2024: Highlights from England's win over the Netherlands

2nd consecutive time for England

As usual, coach Gareth Southgate's team was behind in this match. And as usual, the England team had a comeback to get the final victory.

However, in this match, Harry Kane and his teammates only needed 90 minutes to finish off the Dutch team. Ollie Watkins' "golden" goal made all of Xavi Simons' efforts go down the drain.

With this victory, the England team has reached the Euro final for the second consecutive time. Hopefully, this second time, they will change the medal color after losing to the Italian team in the Euro 2020 final.

Gareth Southgate makes substitutions like Sir Alex Ferguson

In this tournament, coach Gareth Southgate was heavily criticized for his boring tactics for the England team. However, in the last match, the 53-year-old coach's reasonable substitutions helped the Three Lions win.

Coming on in the 81st minute for Phil Foden and Harry Kane, the duo of Cole Palmer and Ollie Watkins were the ones who created the goal that sealed the 2-1 score. This made many fans think of the top substitution ability of coach Alex Ferguson to help Manchester United win in the extra minutes.

With his second consecutive Euro final appearance, Gareth Southgate is one of the most successful coaches in England's history. And that is also proof to quell criticism directed at the 53-year-old coach.

Sorry for Ronald Koeman and his students

Taking an early lead through Xavi Simons, there were more clear chances in the second half, however, a late goal from Ollie Watkins saw the Netherlands miss out on the Euro final this time.

However, we still have to give praise to coach Ronald Koeman. Because the adjustments of this 61-year-old coach helped the Dutch team have a better game in the second half. The introduction of striker Wout Weghorst created quite a lot of pressure on the England team's defense to create opportunities for his teammates to score. Unfortunately, Van Dijk and Xavi Simons failed to take advantage of the opportunities they had.

With this defeat, the Dutch team could not repeat the achievement they had achieved at Euro 1988. Where they were crowned with the Dutch trio of Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard.

Ollie Watkins - "3 years of army in 10 minutes"

Before this semi-final, Ollie Watkins had played 13 matches for the England team and scored 3 goals. These were mostly qualifiers or friendlies. This is understandable because the England team has a very excellent striker, Harry Kane.

The decision to take Harry Kane off in the 81st minute was a surprise decision by coach Gareth Southgate. And even more surprising was that the person who was put on the field was Ollie Watkins instead of Ivan Toney. Not letting down his coach, Ollie Watkins shone to seal the score 2-1 in the 90+1 minute. This was also his first goal in major tournaments.

If coach Gareth Southgate's team wins Euro 2024, Ollie Watkins will be one of the heroes of the England team at this tournament./.