Kosovo tonight faces England for EURO 2020

Kosovo's national team will continue its journey towards the qualification at the 2020 European Championship with today's match against England, which starts at 20:45 at Southampton Stadium, “St. Marys.

This match will be valid for the A qualifying Group in the EURO dealt with by the Czech Republic, Montenegro and Bulgaria. Advancing to win this group is England, but Kosovo will be able to secure a European country even by ranking second in the group.

Although it entered this group from the vase of weaker teams, Kosovo has proved it is likely to secure the qualifications, eventually defeating its second-place direct opponent, Czechia. After a good performance that “Dardians” have reached with coach Bernard Challandes, England coach Gareth Southgate, has considered Kosovo the hardest test for “Three Lions”.

No doubt it's the hardest test. Tactical, soul, and passion shown by this relatively new country is wonderful. Kosovo has impressed me. They will be aggressive in the attack and have high speed”, “Three Lions coach declared yesterday.

Meanwhile, while Challandes is aware of the level of the National of England, which ranks fourth in the FIFA ranking, while Kosovo is 120th he says he does not fear the English team.

“Fric is not the right word to use, but we have to be realistic, their latest results are 5-0, 1-5, 4-0. We are Kosovo, the smallest team in the group, of course we should have respect for”, Chalandes said.

We never thought that after four matches in this group, we would play against England to discuss first place”.

The “is clearly going to be a difficult match, but it's a good opportunity for our team to see which is the European football elite”.

For this match, the same as for him against Czechia, Coach Challandes is missing from the team five footballers who usually play in the first formation, Milot Rasica, Arben Zeneli, Heroid Shala, Hekuran Kryeziu and Benjamin Colol.

Currently, England leads Group A with nine points won by three events. The victory tonight will continue the 100 per cent record on the road to EURO 2020, while the defeat would lead Kosovo to take over the leader of the group.

On the other hand, Kosovo ranks second in the group, with eight points collected from four developed matches. The victory would continue Kosovo's extraordinary performance of 15 games without defeat, while defeat would give the Czech Republic the opportunity to take second place again, as Czechs face Montenegro today.

This is the first time Kosovo is facing England, while this year another match will be held against “The Three Lions” November 17th at the “Fadil Vorkri” Stadium.