Euro 2024: England’s Kane hails Jude Bellingham’s incredible goal

England captain Harry Kane are welcome Jude BellinghamThe overhead kick has additional time to enter the net Slovakia scored one of the best goals in the country’s history as they fought back to win 2-1 in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday.

Bellingham’s 95th-minute goal rescued England, who had trailed for much of the last-16 tie against Slovakia, and sent the match into extra time.

Kane scored the winner for England in the 91st minute, and Gareth Southgate’s side held on to progress to the quarter-finals against Switzerland on Saturday.

“It’s the desire and the attitude of the boys and everyone involved. It looks difficult for a second, but you keep going,” Kane said in a post-match interview.

“We worked on a lot of the details during the week. We did a long throw a few days ago and said we might need it. We have to be ready for anything. That’s what Jude did. It was an unbelievable goal. One of the best in our country’s history, I think.

“He’s a great player. He works very hard for the team. There’s been a lot of talk about him in the last few days, and that shows what he can do. In those moments In the important moments, he will step up, and that’s what we need.

“We know we’ll do whatever it takes. If we get a game like this in the quarter-finals, it’s the same. We have to dig deep and that’s exactly what we did today. We could have done better, we could have played better. But at the end of the day it’s about the result and that’s what we care about. So we can enjoy tonight and hopefully take that momentum into the rest of the tournament.”

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Southgate said he still expected an equaliser even with time running out.

“I have a funny feeling the game isn’t dead and I know that sounds ridiculous,” Southgate said. We are pushing and exploring.” “In the end it was the throw into the box that gave us the goal.”

Bellingham’s goal was England’s first shot on target in the match.

There wasn’t long to wait for a second goal as Kane reached the finish line and scored his seventh goal in his last seven knockout matches at major tournaments. This was also the record-extending 65th goal for his country.

England – ranked fifth in the world – have not won a major tournament since their only triumph at the 1966 World Cup.

“We didn’t come here to get to the quarter-finals, but to get through a night like tonight is fantastic and now we have a Swiss team who played really well,” said Southgate. “We have a few days to recover and be ready for this game.”

Information from the Associated Press was used in this story.