Declan Rice made an outstanding effort in today’s encounter versus Slovakia.
120 minutes of play; 109 touchdowns; 90% completion percentage; 100% completion percentage on long passes (7/7) – A 100% probability of victory in duels (6/6) 50% success percentage in aerial combat (2/4) – Ten ball recoveries One bullet strikes the wooden frame.
A contest in which Rice exerted great effort.
In this comeback, Rice is also the member of the England team with the highest Fotmob (8.2) and Sofascore (8.1) scores.
Fans of Arsenal are pleased with you. Declan Rice…
Bukayo Saka took on the role of RW, LB and RWB for England against Slovakia!!
The Arsenal boy is ready to play in any role that coach Gareth Southgate asks…!
After 95 minutes of torturous chaos, England was leaving the Euros in shame.
Then, after only a few minutes of football, Gareth Southgate’s bullet-riddled army have advanced to the quarter-finals against Switzerland in Dusseldorf next Saturday.
Jude Bellingham saved England with a spectacular overhead kick against Slovakia.
Bellingham levelled for the Three Lions with barely seconds left.
His squad was inspired to win by the goal, which sent the game into overtime.
Early in extra time, Harry Kane scored the game-winning goal.
Jude Bellingham’s incredible bicycle-kick equaliser forced extra time, and Harry Kane’s header took the lead 53 seconds later.
This was an attempt to pull triumph out from under the snarl of complete catastrophe.
due to England’s dismal 95-minute performance. Really awful.
They had failed to get off one shot on goal and should have been beaten by a 45th-ranked club in the world in the round of 16.
For sixty minutes, Southgate put up with this shitshow before making a single change.
He gave so many fantastic performances that it’s difficult to comprehend why he felt his group needed to be reorganised.
In his 99th game in command, he had seen 11 of the best football players in the world seem to have forgotten how to play the game without looking to his bench. England’s long-questionable in-game management was also atrociously bad.
When Harry makes his century the next weekend, if England don’t step up their game significantly, they will lose against a very good Swiss side.
Phil Foden, the Footballer of the Year who never really does it for England, was especially awful, straying offside for a tap-in that should have brought the Three Lions level early in the second half.
Ivan Schranz’s first-half score had put England on the verge of a defeat as humiliating as Iceland’s in 2016.
Being in Germany for the previous two and a half weeks, there was an overwhelming sense that there was a tournament going on, that goals were being scored and joy was being had, but that England was not really a part of it.
Southgate looked less anxious than most of us, naming ten of the same eleven players who had started all three group games.
Kobbie Mainoo began in place of Conor Gallagher, as he should have from the start, but it was the only alteration to the team.
Slovakia had upset Belgium in a VAR-infested opener but had failed to build on that one shock success, finishing third in their group.
Still, England proved themselves to be world beaters very fast.
Kane completed an amazing recovery by going back home.
Gareth Southgate and the England coaching staff were ecstatic by England’s goals.
Kieran Trippier’s hospital ball saw Marc Guehi, who had been warned against Slovenia, drag David Strelec to the ground.
Strelec attempted a follow-up free kick, but Kyle Walker lost possession to David Hancko, who cut inside and missed the far post with a shot.
After Mainoo lunged into the Slovakian penalty area, Bellingham tackled Lukas Haraslin, earning three yellow cards for England in the space of eighteen minutes.
Trippier scored from a clever diagonal pass, so Bellingham was clearly more involved than in England’s previous two games. However, that tackle looked desperate.
Walker was having an utter nightmare, constantly missing the ball and looked like he had borrowed someone else’s legs.
England received a stark warning when Haraslin slipped through and had a shot blocked by Guehi before Trippier urgently scrambled away.
Slovakia quickly gained a well-deserved lead. Guehi, who was suffering terribly, misplaced a header, John Stones backed off, and the outstanding centre-forward David Strelec slotted a pass from Schranz past Pickford.
Southgate’s team lacked quality throughout the game. It was shapeless and panicked. England lacked intelligence, speed, and the ability to pass to one another.
The front three were horrible, with Kane ponderous, Foden lost, and Saka completely ineffectual.
And the back four were possibly much awful.
Only Mainoo, a 19-year-old making his tournament debut, was getting any credit, and the Manchester United player had a shot deflected wide shortly before halftime.
Surprisingly, there were no halftime replacements.
Nonetheless, England believed they had levelled four minutes into the second half, with Kane’s diagonal cross for Trippier slicing open the Slovak defence, but when the full-back centred for Foden to tap in, the Manchester City player was strangely offside.
It was brainless and typical of England’s performance in this competition.
Warming up for this subject, Walker delivered a short free kick to Stones, who was not looking, and Strellar lobbed Pickford from 45 yards out, but his shot went narrowly wide.
It was like seeing 11 men have a collective nervous breakdown.
It was almost an hour later and England still had no replacements. The boos began to crumble.
At last, Saka moved to left-back, a position he had previously stated he did not want to play, and Southgate replaced Trippier with Cole Palmer.
Palmer hit a wonderful cross that Foden was unable to head home.
After Foden won a free kick, Rice struck the post with a long-range effort, and Kane missed a simple header.
However, England was forced to toss into the mixer in the 95th minute, and it worked amazingly well.
Walker’s long throw was nodded on by Guehi, who then set up Bellingham’s incredible attempt, England’s first on goal.
It just took 53 seconds for England to take the lead in extra time.
Eberi Eze was cleared of a free kick awarded to Toney, who had replaced Foden just prior to the equaliser.
The mistaken shot from the Crystal Palace player was cleverly headed across goal by Toney, allowing Kane to shove across the line and infuriate the stunned supporters of England.
Slovakia was still alive. Just before the change of ends, their tongue twister, Peter Pekarik, missed a two-yarder.
Then, Southgate took a risk by going to a back five, starting Ezri Konsa and Gallagher in place of Kane and Bellingham.
But England did not give up. The fortunate guys.