What a night! England boss Gareth Southgate is embraced by his wife as millions of jubilant fans wake up with sore heads after celebrating their
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What a night! England boss Gareth Southgate is embraced by his wife as millions of jubilant fans wake up with sore heads after celebrating their FIRST EVER World Cup penalty shootout – and start preparing for Saturday’s quarter-final
England’s heroes celebrated their historic win over Columbia by taking to social media with Jesse Lingard calling family from the Moscow pitch to say: ‘No mum, I’m not coming home. It’s…’.
Millions of fans at home and around the world celebrated wildly into the night after witnessing the team’s first ever victorious penalty shoot-out in a World Cup and today declared: ‘Bring on Sweden’.
England’s win was all the more extraordinary after they conceded an equaliser with almost the last kick of the game sending the last-16 match into extra time.
They then went behind in the penalty shoot-out after Jordan Henderson’s miss but an incredible one handed save by goalkeeper Jordan Pickford turned the match.
Then a winning spot kick from Eric Dier sent millions of emotionally exhausted supporters into hysterics. Back home jubilant fans flooded the streets to celebrate, climbing lamp posts, stopping traffic and even setting off fireworks.
Many tweeted today that they were going to work with headaches with one fan saying: ‘Are 75% of the country hungover this morning? #ItsComingHome’.
Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy, Jack Butland, Kyle Walker and Marcus Rashford all took to social media to express their joy and relief after the final whistle in Moscow.
Jesse Lingard posted a photo of him talking on the phone while on the pitch, accompanied by the amusing caption: ‘No mum, I’m not coming home. It’s…’ – a nod to England’s beloved anthem Three Lions.
Gareth Southgate’s team will now face Sweden in the quarter final on Saturday at 3pm – England’s first for 12 years – with more than 20million people expected to watch.
The country watched in disbelief last night as the miracle of Moscow saw England go through to the quarter finals of the World Cup.
After Colombia’s equaliser in the final stages of the game and goalless extra time, the nation’s heart sank as the match went to dreaded penalties.
Just minutes from defeat goalkeeper Jordan Pickford became a national hero after skilfully saving Carlos Bacca’s effort.
As a result the Three Lions booked a place in Saturday’s quarter-final when they will play Sweden in Samara.
The familiar curse of England losing on penalties seemed once again on the cards when Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson saw his spot kick saved.
But failure then followed from Colombia’s Mateus Uribe who crashed his effort on to the crossbar.
Pickford then produced a crucial save when he kept out Bacca’s effort.
In front of a capacity 45,000 Spartak Stadium it was then left to Tottenham Hotspur’s Eric Dier to step up.
He planted his effort past Arsenal’s goalkeeper David Ospina to win the shoot-out 4-3.
Tottenham player Kieran Trippier said after the shoot-out: ‘I thought we played really well in the first half and for their goal, it was a mistake by myself. I was gutted. I keep going on about the spirit of the team, we carried on, we believed and in the shoot-out, we have some great takers. We practised and practised and it paid off.’
Earlier the team had victory snatched from their grasp when the South Americans scored a 93rd minute equaliser to cancel out captain Harry Kane’s second-half penalty.
His strike made him the tournament’s leading scorer with six goals – not counting a seventh effort he bagged during the penalty shoot-out.
Substitute Eric Dier was the man who slotted home the decisive penalty which helped ease 28 years of pain from the penalty spot for the ‘Three Lions.’
The Tottenham midfielder would have been acutely aware that England has been eliminated from six major tournaments – three World Cups and three European Championships – on penalty kicks.
The ‘Three Lions’ have been beaten in five previous penalty shoot-outs. The losing famously began in Euro 96 – held in England – when the current coach Gareth Southgate was the man who missed the vital spot kick.
But this time Southgate had a wry smile after bringing in specialist sports pyschologists to the current training camp to help the players deal with the pressures of penalties.
Southgate may even have thought ‘ here we go again’ after Jordan Henderson missed England’s third kick last night.
But Colombia’s Uribe hit the crossbar and Bacca’s penalty was saved by keeper Jordan Pickford last night in a game that ended just before midnight.
It was then left to Eric Dier to convert the vital fourth penalty and win a shoot-out for the first time for almost thirty years.
The England players sealed victory despite boos, cat-calls and jeers from Colombia’s huge 10,000 strong support last night.
And their wives , girlfriends and families went through agony as their men played for a quarter-final place.
Harry Kane’s fiancee celebrated his first penalty goal with an Instagram post saying ‘balls of steel’.
Kate Goodland, 25, shared a photo of Kane on her TV screen after he scored our opening goal, with an England flag emoji.
Her Instagram story was posted as she cheered the Three Lions from the UK while preparing to welcome the couple’s second child.
In the cauldron of noise in the stadium, Jack Butland’s fiancee Annabel Peyton was alongside Jamie Vardy’s wife Rebekah, 36, Harry Maguire’s girlfriend Fern Hawkins, Kieran Trippier’s wife Charlotte and Jordan Pickford’s fiancee Megan Davison.
The group posed for their own ‘team’ line up at their hotel before the match.
Later Trippier paid tribute to the 15-strong group of family and friends who have cheered him all the way in Russia.
They include his father Chris, brothers Chris, Curtis and Kelvin – known by his mum’s name of Lomax during his playing career – and friends Oliver Hawley and Ryan McDonald.
The Harry Maguire family following in the stadium last night included his parents Zoe and Alan, brothers Laurence and Joe – also professional footballers- and sister Daisy.
Now the group ravel travel to Samara to see them in action against Sweden on Saturday .
Once there they will no doubt go through all the emotion again.
Manager Gareth Southgate described the dramatic victory as ‘fantastic’ and added: ‘I think we deserved it, as well. We played so well in the 90 minutes. We’ve shown incredible resilience to come back from huge disappointment at the final whistle.
‘It’s a huge credit all players and every member of staff.
‘Shootouts are tough but we talked long and hard about owning the process. We kept calm. Again, great credit to all our staff and all the players who’s taken it on board. We got our rewards tonight … We looked at individual technique and how we needed to be as a team.
‘This was special but I want us to go on now. Sweden is another team we have a poor record against. We’ve underestimated them for years. They’re brilliant at what they do.’
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