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Lions. England will play Portugal, Switzerland and Holland or France in the finals next summer. Delph said: “We’ve come a long way and we’re really looking forward to that semi-final.

“In the dressing room the energy was electric. We’re glad we can do ourselves proud and to bring the nation together. “It was an absolutely amazing day. We’ve come a long way in 12 months. We came up short in the World Cup but we wanted to put it right and we’ve done that today. They are a good team.”

England’s success and evolution has seduced an initially sceptical nation into falling in love with the inaugural Nations League.

Delph (left) added: “The performance was really good. We should have put it to bed in the first half. We’re a young team but we have old heads on our shoulders. The chances came and we managed to take them.

“It showed a lot of character and there’s a lot of character in the dressing room. The togetherness has been there for 18 months now. We didn’t panic.”