World Cup: Daily update from the quarter-finals

Here, the Independent takes a look at what happened in the Qatar World Cup quarter-finals.

England ultimately go out after a missed penalty from a star, but this wasn’t a shoot-out, and it wasn’t a case of Southgate’s side getting outplayed in midfield. It wasn’t even a player of Mbappe’s class scorching them. They just didn’t have much luck.

Morocco have become Africa’s maiden semi-finalists and Walid Regragui, the manager who encouraged his country to dream, has given them reason to believe the greatest World Cup shock of all is possible.

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