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World Cup 2022 briefing: Business time for England against Senegal

04-Dec-2022 04:00:02 | Guardian

Gareth Southgate still has his critics despite a record group-stage return. Can the Three Lions silence the doubters?

After all that noise – the joy, the triumphalism, the entitlement, the schadenfreude, the self-loathing – England had the best record of any team in the group stage at Qatar 2022. It shows how far they have come under Gareth Southgate that seven points and nine goals, the latter a record for England at a major tournament, was not enough to please Twitter’s finest.