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1. 0:00Hello, a very warm welcome. So,
2. 0:01Argentina fans are celebrating, England
3. 0:03supporters are mourning after the South
4. 0:06Americans beat England 2-1 to book a
5. 0:09place in football's World Cup final.
6. 0:17So, the scene there in the Argentine
7. 0:19capital, Buenos Aires, as tens of
8. 0:21thousands of fans took to the streets to
9. 0:24collectively celebrate their team's
10. 0:26victory. Many were painted in blue and
11. 0:28white national colors. The celebrations
12. 0:31lasted long into the night. Argentina
13. 0:33will now play Spain in the final on
14. 0:35Sunday. Captain Lionel Messi called the
15. 0:38semi-final victory over England quite a
16. 0:41special one. That's an understatement.
17. 0:44Well, these were the faces of some of
18. 0:45the disappointed English supporters at a
19. 0:48fan zone in London.
20. 0:50England's 60-year wait to reach a World
21. 0:52Cup final goes on. They had taken the
22. 0:55lead, but the holders overturned with
23. 0:57two late goals, one in stoppage time.
24. 1:00Lots of reaction to come, but first,
25. 1:02let's get this report from our sports
26. 1:04editor, Dan Roan, who watched the match
27. 1:06in Atlanta.
28. 1:08>> So, Argentina it is then who now have
29. 1:09the opportunity to become only the third
30. 1:12team in the history of the World Cup to
31. 1:14defend their title when they take on the
32. 1:15European champions, Spain, on Sunday in
33. 1:18New Jersey. England, meanwhile, have to
34. 1:21somehow lick their wounds, dust
35. 1:22themselves down, and prepare for the
36. 1:23match nobody wants to be part of, the
37. 1:26third-fourth playoff in Miami. There'll
38. 1:28be a question now over Thomas Tuchel and
39. 1:30his future. The FA brought him in
40. 1:32because he was seen as a knockout
41. 1:33specialist, had pedigree when it came to
42. 1:36the Champions League. He was meant to
43. 1:37take on the progress that had been
44. 1:39achieved by his predecessor, Gareth
45. 1:41Southgate, and get England over the
46. 1:43final hurdle, but in truth, they're
47. 1:45right where they were in 2018 when they
48. 1:47lost the World Cup semi-final to
49. 1:49Croatia. They got the Euros in a couple
50. 1:50of years time. Uh but the FA will need
51. 1:52to make a decision now on whether they
52. 1:55keep faith with Tuchel. They've had
53. 1:57fantastic memories during this campaign,
54. 1:59most obviously that win over Mexico at
55. 2:02the Azteca.
56. 2:03But in the final reckoning, once again,
57. 2:05they are the nearly men of international
58. 2:07football. And Argentina can now prepare
59. 2:11for the final.
60. 2:12>> Well, this was the reaction of the
61. 2:14Argentina captain Lionel Messi on making
62. 2:16it into the World Cup final.
63. 2:21>> It's crazy what this group has achieved
64. 2:23once again, reaching the World Cup
65. 2:25final. We come from being world
66. 2:27champions, and we've been the best over
67. 2:29the last 4 years. No matter who it hurts
68. 2:32or what they say, today once again we've
69. 2:35placed ourselves among the two best
70. 2:36teams in the world, and that shows that
71. 2:38everything we did is not by chance, and
72. 2:41no one gave us anything. Reaching two
73. 2:43world finals in a row is no small feat,
74. 2:46and this group achieved it.
75. 2:49>> It certainly isn't, you've got to hand
76. 2:50it to them. Well, the England captain
77. 2:51Harry Kane and the manager Thomas Tuchel
78. 2:53spoke to the media after the match.
79. 2:56>> For now, you everyone has to process
80. 2:58what's just happened. Everyone's gutted,
81. 2:59I'm gutted for
82. 3:01all the boys, all the staff, everyone
83. 3:02behind the scenes, because we know how
84. 3:04much everyone puts in to to being a a
85. 3:06successful
86. 3:07national team.
87. 3:08Um and when you're so close, when you're
88. 3:1010 plus minutes away, and and it it
89. 3:12slips out your hands like that,
90. 3:14um yeah, obviously the lads are
91. 3:16devastated. For now, we just have to
92. 3:19to take it on the chin. There's nothing
93. 3:20we can do. We can congratulate
94. 3:21Argentina,
95. 3:23um and then we go away and try and
96. 3:24improve.
97. 3:25>> I think it was a very close match. I was
98. 3:27happy the way we played it. Very close
99. 3:30match, like I said, and and we had the
100. 3:31moment and took it to our advantage,
101. 3:33went 1-0 up. I think that's what happens
102. 3:36in these kind of of matches that are
103. 3:38totally
104. 3:39totally even. I think at that point of
105. 3:41the match that we it was
106. 3:44also deserved, not undeserved, that we
107. 3:46that we take our moment and then go 1-0
108. 3:48up.
109. 3:49Um unfortunately and and strangely
110. 3:52enough, it it marked then a complete
111. 3:55momentum switch in the game. Argentina
112. 3:58played with more risk,
113. 4:00played with more rhythm.
114. 4:02>> Well, with his assessment of what went
115. 4:04wrong for England, here's our sports
116. 4:05reporter, Joe Linsky.
117. 4:07>> Here in the UK, there will be many
118. 4:10England fans waking up with that
119. 4:12all-too-familiar sinking World Cup
120. 4:15feeling. There have been many
121. 4:16heartbreaking moments in the long
122. 4:1960-year wait for England to win this
123. 4:22tournament, but few that feel like such
124. 4:25a wasted opportunity, and one really of
125. 4:28their own making as this match in
126. 4:30Atlanta because the situation with 5
127. 4:32minutes left of normal time was that
128. 4:35England led this World Cup semifinal by
129. 4:38one goal to nil, and yet they managed to
130. 4:40lose it even before extra time. And many
131. 4:43people will see the reason for that as
132. 4:46being the tactical setup when England
133. 4:49scored through Anthony Gordon on 55
134. 4:52minutes. Now, between that point and the
135. 4:5492nd minute when Argentina took the
136. 4:56lead, England had just 12%
137. 5:00possession, 88% to Argentina. They had
138. 5:03wave after wave of attack, and with that
139. 5:05control of the ball and those level of
140. 5:08opportunities as the defending world
141. 5:10champions, that it always felt
142. 5:11inevitable that they were not only going
143. 5:13to just get back into this game, but
144. 5:15actually take a total grip on it as
145. 5:17well. And as the inquest now starts for
146. 5:20England over the next few days, it will
147. 5:22turn, as Dan mentioned there, to Thomas
148. 5:24Tuchel. This coach employed at great
149. 5:26expense to be the successor to Gareth
150. 5:29Southgate. He is employed, he is
151. 5:30contracted through to the Euros, which
152. 5:33England will co-host in 2 years' time.
153. 5:36But that fear, that anxiety that befalls
154. 5:39England at so many major tournaments, it
155. 5:41struck them down here once again. And
156. 5:44Argentina were deserved winners, and
157. 5:46they will now look to become just the
158. 5:47third nation to win the World Cup in
159. 5:50back-to-back editions.
160. 5:52>> Well, Argentina also face the prospect
161. 5:54of disciplinary action from FIFA and as
162. 5:57Joe explains, it's after their players
163. 5:58celebrated the win over England with a
164. 6:00banner in support of their country's
165. 6:03claims to the Falkland Islands.
166. 6:06>> You can see it there. It was unfurled on
167. 6:07the pitch. It translates into English as
168. 6:10the Falklands are Argentina's and this
169. 6:12as we have spoken a lot in the build-up
170. 6:14to this match is all to do with the
171. 6:17Falkland Islands, the
172. 6:19the the the territory that these two
173. 6:21nations fought a war over back in 1982.
174. 6:24There was also a referendum on the
175. 6:26sovereignty of the Falkland Islands back
176. 6:28in 2013 which emphatically showed that
177. 6:31the islanders wanted to remain British,
178. 6:33but this is still a live political issue
179. 6:36in Argentina and it added for a added
180. 6:38for a an extra spice really to the
181. 6:41build-up to this match. Um
182. 6:43the players of Argentina have been
183. 6:45pictured in videos actually singing
184. 6:48about the Falkland Islands and
185. 6:51how much it means to them in terms of
186. 6:53getting one over England having had all
187. 6:56this history with them. So, yes, they
188. 6:58can expect probably a fine from FIFA for
189. 7:00this. There is some precedent actually
190. 7:02for this exact type of incident cuz back
191. 7:05in 2014 Argentina unfurled a banner with
192. 7:08those same words and they were were
193. 7:10given a fine by FIFA. I don't think
194. 7:11England fans can get too excited that
195. 7:13anything more stringent than that will
196. 7:15be placed on Argentina. They're not
197. 7:16going to be kicked out of the World Cup,
198. 7:18but there will be some punishment from
199. 7:20FIFA.
200. 7:21>> Well, punishment or not, Argentinian
201. 7:23goals were celebrated by jubilant fans
202. 7:26in Buenos Aires and our reporter Imogen
203. 7:28McCarthy joined an Argentina watch party
204. 7:31in South London. She gave us a sense of
205. 7:33the atmosphere there after their win.
206. 7:36>> What a result for Argentina and for
207. 7:40Argentinian fans here in South London.
208. 7:43THIS IS PROBABLY AS CLOSE AS WE going to
209. 7:45get TO BUENOS AIRES OVER THE NEXT FEW
210. 7:48NIGHTS. AFTER ENGLAND scored that first
211. 7:51goal, you could have heard a pin drop.
212. 7:54The mood was so down, was so low. And
213. 7:59then that equalizer, and then within
214. 8:01minutes a second goal. The entire cinema
215. 8:06here in South London where we are
216. 8:08erupted. And the party is just going to
217. 8:11keep going. Everyone is singing and
218. 8:14dancing. And they need to SAVE THEIR
219. 8:17VOICES BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EASY
220. 8:20AGAINST Spain on Sunday. BUT AT THE
221. 8:22MOMENT THEY ARE HOLDING ON TO HOPE THAT
222. 8:24THEY are going to make it two in A ROW
223. 8:28ON SUNDAY IN NEW JERSEY
224. 8:31for Messi and for the entire country of
225. 8:34Argentina. An enormous deal and everyone
226. 8:37here is certainly going to be glued to
227. 8:40that match.
228. 8:41>> Eamon McCarthy there and well done for
229. 8:43her for not losing her voice. There has
230. 8:45been so much reaction on social media to
231. 8:48England's defeat including from Prince
232. 8:50William who posted, "The fight and
233. 8:53belief that you have shown has inspired
234. 8:55us all. The most complete England team
235. 8:58in a tournament, hold your heads high."
236. 9:01And Sir Keir Starmer shared a similar
237. 9:03sense of pride saying, "The passion and
238. 9:06energy that you've shown representing
239. 9:08the badge has made us all proud." It has
240. 9:12indeed. So, despite the heartbreak for
241. 9:16England, obviously a lot of pride in
242. 9:19what they've achieved. Well, my
243. 9:20colleague Nada Feak spent the match with
244. 9:22some England fans in a bar in New York.
245. 9:26>> It was an emotional rollercoaster for
246. 9:28England fans here at Smithfield Hall in
247. 9:30New York. First that heated start to the
248. 9:32match creating so much tension. Then the
249. 9:35excitement believing that England could
250. 9:37be headed to the final against Spain.
251. 9:40And then that gutted feeling, that
252. 9:42realization that their World Cup dreams
253. 9:44were dashed by their heated rivals
254. 9:46Argentina. And you could tell by the
255. 9:48reaction here that this was about so
256. 9:50much more than a football match.
257. 9:52>> In all of the times that I've watched
258. 9:54England and do World Cup campaigns, I
259. 9:56think this was the one where we really
260. 9:58thought we were within touching distance
261. 10:00of a final.
262. 10:01>> 60 years. 60 years it's been since we've
263. 10:04won.
264. 10:04>> Felt like it was right. The team were
265. 10:06playing well.
266. 10:07>> Yeah, absolutely gutted I was.
267. 10:09>> They were holding on and Argentina, the
268. 10:11third time they've done it in this
269. 10:12tournament.
270. 10:13>> I'm a bit shattered right now. Should
271. 10:15have never sat back.
272. 10:17Should have been on the front foot after
273. 10:19that first goal.
274. 10:20>> Watching them, I mean making it this far
275. 10:22to begin with and now playing against
276. 10:23Argentina, I mean
277. 10:26it all shows, the hard work is showing
278. 10:27off.
279. 10:28>> I really, really thought England was
280. 10:29going to get there.
281. 10:31Come on Spain. That's all I say. Come on
282. 10:34Spain.
283. 10:34>> Supporters here wanted to welcome
284. 10:36England to New York for the final
285. 10:38against Spain. Instead, they will go
286. 10:40against France in Miami for third place.
287. 10:43And it will be Argentina against Spain
288. 10:46for the final.