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Fifa World Cup 2018: What English are doing right & will that be enough?

England have lost just one match on course to their place in the quarter-finals and have displayed both free-flowing and resilient football, as per the need. But will that be enough?

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The consensus is that this England team is "different". Of course, reaching the quarter-finals of the Fifa World Cup without a string of big names helps the cause, but the English team has lost just one game while on course to the quarter-finals. The defeat too came against Belgium who have been prolific in this tournament, and also because the English rested most of their first-team players, having won their passage to the Round of 16. 

Given their good form, expectations are rife and for a good reason, that England might go all the way and achieve something that England's

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