📹 England knock out Norway and face Argentina in the Cup semi-finals | OneFootball

This Saturday (11), England needed extra time to come from behind and beat Norway 2-1, booking their place in the semifinals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

This is the fourth time the "English Team" has finished among the four best in the world. Previously, in 1966 (champion), 1990 (3rd place), and 2018 (4th place).

The quarterfinal match in Miami (USA) began with the English side dominating possession.

However, the "Vikings" opened the scoring with an outrageous wonder goal from Schjelderup.

Odegaard, meanwhile, reached four assists in five matches at the 2026 World Cup.

Only Olise, for France, has more assists at the tournament: five!

Late on, however, Bellingham received the ball from Gordon at the edge of the box, surged forward unchallenged, and fired a shot across goal to level the match.

The Real Madrid star's goal put England into the select group of countries that have had players score five or more goals in the same World Cup edition.

Among the five national teams with this mark, Brazil is the only one to have done it twice.

In 1958, Pelé and Vavá scored six and five goals, respectively, and in 2002, Ronaldo Fenômeno and Rivaldo found the net eight and five times, respectively.  

Harry Kane even put England ahead in stoppage time, but the play was ruled out for offside against the Bayern Munich striker.

After the break, Norway had a goal disallowed for a foul by Haaland before the corner kick was taken.

The better team on the field, the Nordics also hit the crossbar.

In extra time, however, England completed the comeback through him - Jude Bellingham - taking advantage of a terrible mistake by goalkeeper Nyland.

With that, Bellingham (23 years and 12 days old) became the second-youngest player to score two or more goals in consecutive World Cup knockout matches. Behind only King Pelé (17 years and 249 days).

The Real Madrid star is also the only English player with two or more goals in consecutive World Cup knockout matches and the first to achieve the feat since Maradona at the 1986 World Cup.

In the second half of extra time, the coach took Haaland off, making Norway's situation much more difficult in the fight for a historic first World Cup semifinal.

🚦 How it stands

With the win, England will face Argentina in the semifinal next Wednesday (15) at 4 p.m. (Brasília time).

On the other side of the bracket, Spain and France will face each other on Tuesday (14), at the same time.

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