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England’s historic win over Germany attracted greater than 20 million viewers on BBC One.
Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane scored to safe victory within the spherical of 16 at Euro 2020 at Wembley on Tuesday night.
And BBC presenter and former England striker Gary Lineker confirmed the match produced an unlimited tv viewers.
Lineker introduced: “A staggering 20.6 million of you watched England ’s victory on BBC One final night time (you’re staying dwelling, you’re staying dwelling).
“Plus 3.6 million on iplayer and BBC web site, and lordy is aware of what number of at pubs and so forth.. it’s rising!”
That determine additionally accounts for an 80.1 per cent viewers share, whereas the BBC introduced the whole stay streams throughout BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site mixed met 6.5 million.
It ensured unsurprisingly that the sport was probably the most watched Euro 2020 match to date, with the iPlayer setting a brand new stay viewing document with 5.6 million streams.
There could possibly be much more viewers for Saturday’s quarter-final towards Ukraine, who edged out Sweden within the final 16.
The sport is about to kick off at 20:00 BST with the BBC additionally holding the broadcasting rights.
Ought to the Three Lions navigate Andriy Shevchenko’s facet, then a semi-final with Denmark or Czech Republic, again at Wembley, on 7 July awaits.
“I believe the gamers had been immense,” Gareth Southgate stated following the win. “Proper the best way by means of the crew they had been immense.
“They’ve given the followers within the stadium, who had been additionally unimaginable (an ideal day). I’ve been right here with a full home and never heard it wherever close to the degrees that the gang discovered right now.
“However they had been behind each problem, they had been behind each time we pressed the ball, they had been behind each run we had and the vitality was unimaginable within the stadium.
“So, to have the ability to ship them dwelling feeling as they do tonight, to listen to them on the finish … I imply, you may’t beat a little bit of Candy Caroline, are you able to? That’s a belter, actually.
“However to know that so many hundreds of thousands of individuals after such a tough 12 months at dwelling can have that enjoyment that I do know we’d have given them right now may be very particular.”
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