England and Germany will face off in a mouth-watering Euro 2020 knockout clash on Tuesday evening, with the buildup to the game inevitably leading to us looking back at some past meetings between the sides at major tournaments.
While the English may have defeated the Germans in the 1966 World Cup final, they haven't managed to come out on top against them since.
Their most recent meeting in such circumstances came in 2010 in South Africa, with Joachim Low's side running out convincing 4-1 winners. Of course, that game is best remembered by many in England for this Frank Lampard goal that was not awarded by the match officials.
While this would have made the game 2-2, it's difficult to argue that it would have made a massive difference on the result. After all, Germany completely dominated proceedings and were in no way flattered by the three-goal winning margin.
However, 11 years on Wayne Rooney still believes that England would have won the game had the goal been given.
Writing in his column for The Times, he recalled how he could not believe that the referee and his assistant missed the ball crossing the line.
Matthew Upson scored, we took the game to them and Frank Lampard hit his famous shot that went a good few feet over Manuel Neuer’s line but was not given as a goal by the Uruguayan referee.
This was just before half-time. Had the goal stood, I believe we would have gone on to win. We were on the front foot, full of confidence and causing them problems.
I was level with Frank on the edge of the area when he lobbed Neuer. I could see the ball had crossed the line, we all could. In the changing room at half-time the analysis guys showed us the “goal” on video but we didn’t need replays to know we had been robbed.
You could actually see daylight between Neuer’s line and the ball as it landed in the goal. I ran off to celebrate and when the ref didn’t signal, my instinct was to look across to the linesman but he was giving nothing either.
It was just baffling. A really strange one. Maybe it was payback for 1966...
I still can’t get my head round those mad couple of minutes after Frank’s shot crossed the line. Losing hurt me — massively. We can sit here and reminisce about it all day, but nothing will ever change that decision. The history books show the score was England 1 Germany 4.
While England may have made a better first of it, you would think that the way they were completely outclassed by Germany would not have changed all that much has Lampard's goal stood.
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