Аргентины шигшээд хожигдсон 2026 оны хагас шигшээ тоглолт Английн шигшээ багийн хувьд Дэлхийн аварга шалгаруулах тэмцээний хамгийн гашуун дурсамжуудын нэг болж үлдлээ.
Английн шигшээ баг 1966 оны түрүүгээс хойш Дэлхийн аваргын финалд шалгарч чадаагүй хэвээр байна. Тэдний түүхэн дэх хамгийн хүндхэн тоглолтуудын жагсаалтыг 1990 оны хагас шигшээд Баруун Германд торгуулийн цохилтоор хожигдсон тоглолт тэргүүлдэг бол 2026 оны хагас шигшээд Аргентинд 1-2 харьцаагаар хожигдсон нь удаалж байна. Тоглогч Томас Тухелийн удирдлага дор тоглолтын 85 дахь минутад 1-0-ээр тэргүүлж байсан ч 92 дахь минутад гоол алдан хожигдсон нь багийн хувьд тактикийн томоохон алдаа болсон юм.
Түүхийн хуудсыг сөхвөл, 1998 оны шөвгийн 16-д Аргентины эсрэг Дэвид Бекхэм улаан хуудас авч, торгуулийн цохилтоор хожигдсон нь, мөн 1986 оны шөвгийн наймд Диего Марадонагийн “Бурхны гар” хэмээх алдарт гоолын улмаас хожигдсон нь Английн хөгжөөн дэмжигчдийн сэтгэлийг хамгийн ихээр гонсойлгосон үйл явдлуудад тооцогддог. Түүнчлэн 1970 оны шөвгийн наймд Баруун Германы эсрэг 2-0-ээр тэргүүлж байгаад 2-3-аар хожигдсон нь хамгаалалтын тактикаас үүдэлтэй том уналт байлаа.
Сүүлийн жилүүдийн тухайд 2006 онд Португалд торгуулийн цохилтоор, 2018 онд Хорватад нэмэлт цагт, 2022 онд Францад шөвгийн наймд тус тус хожигдсон нь Английн шигшээ багийн ДАШТ-ий “хагацал”-ын үргэлжлэл болов. 2014 оны хэсгийн шатны бүтэлгүйтэл нь тус багийн түүхэн дэх хамгийн сул үзүүлэлтүүдийн нэгд тооцогддог.
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Sixty years of hurt… and counting.
England’s most recent and sole World Cup final appearance will remain their 1966 victory on home soil until at least 2030 and, let’s be honest, probably a while beyond that too. Not even when they are 1-0 up in the 85th minute of a semi-final can England break their six-decade-long drought.
Their last-gasp 2-1 defeat against Argentina was heartbreaking/gut-wrenching/all Thomas Tuchel’s fault/fantastic news because I’m Argentine or Scottish (delete as applicable). But on the pain-o-meter, where does this stand in the list of England’s World Cup exits?
There’s plenty of competition.
12. 1982 (second group stage)
It was England’s first World Cup for 12 years and they would have needed to beat hosts Spain 2-0 to progress from the second group stage (don’t ask) and reach the semi-finals at West Germany’s expense.
An unfit Kevin Keegan was wheeled out for a final England hurrah but he headed a big chance wide (his perm probably didn’t help his direction) as Ron Greenwood’s team bowed out in a 0-0 draw.
11. 2014 (group stage)
Roy Hodgson’s England finished bottom of a group containing Italy (fair enough), Uruguay (they were pretty good) and Costa Rica (sorry, what?) in what ranks as their worst World Cup performance of all time.
The post-‘golden generation’ era featured Daniel Sturridge as the main striker with a defence containing Glen Johnson, Leighton Baines and Phil Jagielka. It didn’t go well. The overriding emotions were of annoyance (at Luis Suarez) and acceptance (at England’s incompetence) rather than heartache.
England, a team in transition with Phil Jagielka in defence and Roy Hodgson in the dugout, slipped meekly out of the World Cup in 2014 (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
10. 2010 (last 16, England 1-4 Germany)
England couldn’t win their EASY (England, Algeria, Slovenia, Yanks, as a famous tabloid headline stated after the draw) group and landed Germany in the first knockout round.
Yes, they were robbed of an equaliser at 2-1 down when Frank Lampard’s shot bounced approximately 17ft over the line. But in truth, Germany were by far the better side and most England fans were just grateful not to lose on penalties this time.
9. 2022 (quarter-final, England 1-2 France)
This was undoubtedly a tough one to take given England’s realistic prospects of winning the tournament, having reached the final of the European Championship a year earlier. Harry Kane’s wildly off-target late penalty could have taken the holders to extra time but there was a sense England gave their all.
They rattled an exceptional French team and pushed them all the way, coming up slightly short against high-quality opponents.
8. 2018 (semi-final, England 1-2 Croatia after extra time)
That a World Cup semi-final defeat is only eighth on this list means you should get the tissues ready for the heartbreak still to follow.
At the time it was shattering, but there was an underlying sense that England were an underdog side who probably didn’t have the tools to win it (it’s hard to imagine them laying a glove on France in the final). Plus they were going to win what was effectively a home Euros two years later anyway, weren’t they?
Danny Rose sums up the feelings of a nation as Croatia celebrate progress to the final (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)
7. 2002 (quarter-final, England 1-2 Brazil)
“Take what you need and be on your way and stop crying your heart out.” The strains of Oasis were the soundtrack to England’s cruel exit at the hands of Brazil.
Similarly to what was to come in 2026, England had control at 1-0 up, but they couldn’t stop Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, with the latter lobbing David Seaman from a badly hit cross (or a deliberate shot, as he claimed). At least they lost to the eventual winners. But yeah, it stung.
6. 2006 (quarter-final, England 0-0 Portugal, 1-3 on penalties)
Cristiano Ronaldo the winker or Wayne Rooney the hot-headed idiot copped a lot of the blame as England suffered their sixth major tournament penalty shootout exit since 1990 (and their second in a row against Portugal, who had beaten them at the same stage of Euro 2004).
Rooney was sent off for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho’s groin, but Lampard and Steven Gerrard, penalty experts for their clubs, missed spot kicks in the shootout as a familiar but no less devastating story played out in Gelsenkirchen.
Frank Lampard shoots and Ricardo saves (Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images)
5. 1970 (quarter-final, England 2-3 West Germany after extra time)
Four years after beating West Germany in the final at Wembley, Sir Alf Ramsey arguably had a better team at his disposal in Mexico and they were on track to retain their crown, 2-0 up in Leon with 22 minutes to play in the quarter-final.
However, when Ramsey subbed off record goalscorer Sir Bobby Charlton, who had been man-marking Franz Beckenbauer, it freed up the latter to run riot. Stand-in goalkeeper Peter Bonetti let in a couple of soft efforts (Gordon Banks, one of the best goalkeepers in the world, was sidelined with acute gastroenteritis) and England somehow lost in extra time.
Midfielder Alan Ball later said: “From dominating the game for 75 minutes we went on to lose it. It was spooky. Nothing like that ever happened to me again in my football career.” Great.
4. 1986 (quarter-final, England 1-2 Argentina)
“He said it was the hand of God, I said it was the hand of a rascal.” Sir Bobby Robson’s summary of Diego Maradona’s deliberate handball goal was the PG version of what everyone thought at the time.
His second goal four minutes later was one of the greatest scored at any World Cup, but the fallout was all about the handball, with the recriminations lasting for years. It’s still being talked about and analysed today. Rascal indeed.
Diego Maradona, Peter Shilton and the hand of God (Archivo El Grafico/Getty Images)
3. 1998 (last 16, England 2-2 Argentina, 3-4 on penalties)
An all-time World Cup classic — Diego Simeone later said it was the best international match he played in — at the last-16 stage in France.
It was early in the knockout phase but England, under enterprising manager Glenn Hoddle, had realistic designs on winning the whole thing with 18-year-old Michael Owen and new superstar David Beckham at the forefront.
However, Beckham was sent off for kicking out at Simeone and, despite battling bravely with 10 men (“10 heroic Lions, one stupid boy” was an infamous tabloid headline) and thinking they had won it via Sol Campbell’s disallowed goal, England lost on (you guessed it) penalties. David Batty and Paul Ince were the culprits and it was utterly devastating for a country in the midst of a 1990s football and nationalistic boom.
The history of the England and Argentina rivalry
2. 2026 (semi-final, England 1-2 Argentina)
It’s hard to gauge immediately but this feels like the most frustrating of all World Cup exits, given the match was theirs to shut out and win, at 1-0 up with just five minutes to go.
There’s no penalty villain this time, no red card antagonist, just Tuchel, a manager whose decision to go defensive and sit deep on 70 minutes has been pilloried and castigated across the country. England should have won this.
In terms of heartache, pain, and hurt, it doesn’t get much worse than losing to a 92nd-minute winner against old foes Argentina, who just love breaking English hearts. Ow.
1. 1990 (semi-final, England 1-1 West Germany, 3-4 on penalties)
Still the OG England World Cup defeat. Semi-final? Check. On penalties? Check. Losing to a rival? Check.
This was England’s first penalty shootout and it remains the hardest from which to recover, primarily because they probably would have won the final, which didn’t feel like the case in 2018 or 2026.
Even 36 years on, England’s defeat at Italia 90 still hurts (Allsport/Hulton Archive)
This was the summer that England started to rediscover its love for football again — Paul Gascoigne’s tears, Gary Lineker’s goals, etc — and the pain from Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle’s missed penalties hurt for years to come.
Still, we’re all over it now that England have finally reached a World Cup fina—oh.
