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Summary

  • Bassett own goal as tries to clear cross

  • Defender distraught after full-time whistle

  • Rafferty & Duggan struck Japan crossbar

  • Japan will face USA in final, Monday 00:00 BST

  1. Footballers unitepublished at 22:07 British Summer Time 1 July 2015

    Japan v England (00:00 BST)

    England's Lionesses get the thumbs up Twitter style from three Lions.

  2. 2-1 to the Engerland?published at 22:05

    Japan v England (00:00 BST)

    England started the tournament slowly but have improved throughout, winning their last four matches 2-1 to move into the last four.

    A repeat would do England just fine tonight. A place in the final on Sunday awaits the winners...

  3. Once in a generation...published at 22:00

    Japan v England (00:00 BST)

    Twenty-five years ago this week England came so near, and yet so far, in a World Cup semi-final.

    In a match rendered legendary by the tears of Paul Gascoigne, the goal of Gary Lineker and the penalties of Chris Waddle and Stuart Pearce, Sir Bobby Robson's side were a penalty away from their first final in 24 years.

    Paul gascoigneImage source, Getty Images
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    Will we have a repeat of Gazza's tears tonight?

    Of course, it wasn't to be.

    A small version of myself - enjoying his first World Cup - naively thought that such occasions would happen again soon enough. How wrong I was.

    But here we are. Another continent, another generation, another gender. But 25 years on from that night in Turin we have an evening in Edmonton to savour.

    England's women face Japan for a place in Sunday night's final.

    Can the Lionesses do it?

    Steph HoughtonImage source, Getty Images
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    Will Steph Hougton be the first England captain since Sir Bobby Moore to lead a side out in a World Cup final?