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Yeah, so about England having a favourable passage to the final. If Gareth Southgate’s side manage to navigate their way past Slovakia in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday - and the if is doing some heavy lifting there - then Switzerland will lie in wait in the quarter-finals and anyone thinking that will be straight forward has evidently not been paying attention here in Germany.]]>