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England: Performances in Germany have been laboured but Gareth Southgate’s side must break the shackles and try to enjoy themselves if they are to overcome Switzerland, writes Jacob Steinberg.

Early team news: With Marc Guehi suspended, the word on the word on the straße around England’s training camp is that Gareth Southgate plans to play three at the back, with Ezri Konsa likely to come in alongside Kyle Walker and John Stones in the heart of defence. Despite such a system being ideally suited to Trent Alexander-Arnold, the Liverpool defender is not expected to start and Kieran Trippier and Bukayo Saka will line up as wing-backs.

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Saliba and Camavinga came out from the Portugal game with high marks but the midfield is still not working

By Luke Entwistle for Get French Football News

Once again Didier Deschamps made changes, once again they had a negligible effect, once again France advanced – rinse and repeat. That is the story of Les Bleus’ Euros so far as they played to type in their latest victory, over Portugal, on penalties.

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• Wolves captain reunited with Julen Lopetegui
• ‘He’s a top-class coach I learned from,’ says Kilman

Max Kilman has said West Ham are “a massive club” after completing a £40m move from Wolves and signing a seven-year contract.

The move means that the 27-year-old centre-half is reunited with Julen Lopetegui following the Spaniard’s spell at Molineux last season. The Hammers had a £25m bid rejected earlier in the summer but returned with a higher offer.

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• ‘It feels incredible. I always wanted to play for Chelsea’
• Baltimore spent nine seasons with the French club

Chelsea have signed the Paris St-Germain forward Sandy Baltimore on a four-year contract as the new head coach, Sonia Bompastor, continues her overhaul of the squad.

The former Lyon coach replaced Emma Hayes this summer and Baltimore becomes her second signing following that of the Barcelona midfielder Julia Bartel. Lucy Bronze is expected to join in the coming days.

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• Reaction to Germany and Portugal crashing out
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It was a bit rude to start this blog and not furnish you with match reports from last night’s games. So here they are.

Spain 2-1 Germany

Portugal 0-0 France (3-5 pens)

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Former Arsenal player’s playmaking responsibilities will define his country’s fate against England

Over dinner and a few glasses of wine, Switzerland’s two leaders squared things up. It was late in the winter and things were purring along for Granit Xhaka at Bayer Leverkusen. They were already set fair for the Bundesliga title, thanks in large part to his endeavours since arriving from Arsenal, but the other side of the coin was murkier. The national team had qualified for Euro 2024 but their performances had dropped off a cliff. Xhaka had previously been critical of what he perceived as sloppy training sessions and there was an urgent need to find common ground with the manager, Murat Yakin, when the pair sat down for the latest of several earnest chats.

Now Switzerland are a win away from the European Championship semi-finals and a sleek, confident team have been remoulded firmly in Xhaka’s image. The captain is, Yakin says, “already a player-coach”. His influence is profound and it will be fundamental if the Nati are to dampen England’s new-found ripple of optimism. There could be an extra piquancy in masterminding victory over a country where he ultimately thrived but was, for long periods of his seven years in north London, not entirely understood.

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Canada claimed a 4-3 penalty shootout win over Venezuela on Friday to reach the Copa América semi-finals for the first time after an absorbing contest finished 1-1.

With the teams all square after five attempts each, Wilker Ángel had his spot-kick saved by Maxime Crépeau in the shootout and Ismaël Koné buried the winning penalty to send Canada through.

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As tempted as I am to play the clip of Eric Cartman and the South Park gang that led into Rush playing Tom Sawyer live, I think that’ll be it for the music videos tonight.

But yes – Metric and July Talk. Check them out. With Metric, start with Gimme Sympathy. Best entry point for July Talk is Summer Dress.

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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Philippe Auclair , Archie Rhind-Tutt and Jonathan Fadugba as Spain beat Germany in a thriller and France defeated Portugal on penalties in a less exciting game

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On the podcast today: Spain do it in the last minute of extra-time, Mikel Merino’s brilliant header securing their spot in the semi-finals. Florian Wirtz had earned Germany a deserved late equaliser in normal time, but it wasn’t to be for the host nation.

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