Qatar tribune DPA Gelsenkirchen (Germany) England are into the Euro 2024 quarter-finals after Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane came to the rescue in a dramatic 2-1 comeback win against Slovakia on Sunday. Bellingham’s overhead kick in the fifth minute of added time cancelled out Ivan Schranz’s opener to take the game to extra time. And within the first minute, Kane headed in England’s winner.
“You’re 30 seconds away from going home, feeling like you’ve let your nation down, and one kick of the ball and everything’s great. It’s a feeling I don’t want to be in, but when it comes, it’s a great feeling,” Man of the Match Bellingham said. Slovakia dominated the game in the first half, but got too comfortable after the break, giving England the space they needed to pressure and eventually find a goal.
Slovakia were the Euro 1976 winners as part of then Czechoslovakia, but were looking to advance to the quarter-finals for the first time as an independent nation. “I feel proud, we played a great game against a world-class team and one of the favourites. We allowed England very little, we almost advanced.
Unfortunately, we didn’t make it. In extra time, we spent half the time in our opponents’ half. I am very proud of my team,” coach Francesco Calzona said.
England, the Euro 2020 runners-up, will now face Switzerland in Dusseldorf on July 6 after the Swiss knocked-out defending champions Italy 2-0 on Saturday. “We know we’ll do whatever it takes. If it�.
