Jordan Pickford’s save off Carlos Bacca and Eric Dier’s decisive kick ensured that England book themselves a place in the quarter-finals. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
England were within touching distance of the quarter-finals when Yerry Mina towered above everyone else and hammered the ball in to the back of the net in stoppage time from a Colombian corner and forced the game into extra-time. That period had a lot of attacks and wayward shots but no goals. It came down to penalties and England, who have a miserable record with shootouts in major tournaments, held on and nailed their shots. Jordan Pickford saved Carlos Bacca’s effort and England thus made it into the quarter-finals. It is the first time that England have ended up on the winning side after a World Cup knockout game has gone into penalties.
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We are into the quarter-finals already. It is incredible how quickly a World Cup seems to pass by.
The last time England won a World Cup knockout match on penalties was.......never. It has been an Achilles heel for successive England squads in major tournaments but they have broken that glass ceiling. The last time they progressed at all in the World Cup knockout stages, David Beckham was their captain.
Can you believe this? England have actually beat a team in the World Cup knockouts on penalties, Eric Dier with the decisive shot and England will now face Sweden in the quarter finals. Jordan Pickford made a sensational save to keep out Carlos Bacca. Colonmbia forced the game into extra time when it looked like they were down and out but they could not do any further damage. Their Russia adventure is over, England are through.
Carlos Bacca's shot is saved by Pickford. England on the brink now.
Kieran Trippier steps up, calmly puts it into the top left corner, England back on level terms.
Uribe is next and he hits the bar! England given a chance to make amends.
Jordan Henderson's kick is saved brilliantly by Ospina! Advantage Colombia.
Luis Muriel strokes it into the bottom right after Pickford goes the other way first.
Rashford is next, and he makes no mistake, slams it into the bottom left. All square
Cuadrado next and he too, slams it into the top left corner
Falcao and Kane take the first two kicks for Colombia and England respectively and they slam it into the net.
It does look like Colombia have the momentum. This shootout did not look remotely possible even in the last minute of stoppage time but Yerry Mina had other ideas. So here we go, Radamel Falcao to take the first kick.
So for the third time in this Round of 16, a penalty shootout, often called a lottery by coaches and players, will decide the result of the match. The teams get their massages as Fatboy Slim plays in the stadium.
Cuadrado gives away a free kick and gets booked. He is the sixth Colombian player, and the eighth overall, to be shown the yellow card today. The free kick is swung in by Young and it is headed out by Colombia for a throw in.
Cuadrado goes long for Falcao who is in the box, he can't quite reach it and the ball goes out. Falcao claims that the ball took a touch off Dier before going out, replay suggests he may have had a point there.
Trippier takes the corner, Dier gets at the end of it and his header is over the bar.
Trippier with a long ball that is taken down beautifully by Vardy, he moves into the right flank and crosses in for Sterling at the near post but it is put out for a corner.
Danny Rose with a piercing run into the box from the left after passing the ball to Henderson, he puts it back into his path, Rose takes a shot at the far post and it rolls just wide. Walker is taken off for Marcus Rashford.
Kyle Walker pulls up with a cramp after trying to dribble past two Colombian players. That was moments after Mina snuffed out an attack from Vardy.
Lingard slips it through to Vardy who takes a shot from around 15 yards out at a tightish angle, Barrios blocks it brilliantly.
England kick off the second half, the ball is booted up field and Kane pikcs it up at the edge of the box, he is under pressure and gives it to Henderson who puts the ball in, Vardy is there but he shoots over. He was offside anyhow.
England looked utterly famished in the first period of extra time and Colombia have had a number of chances. Still, no goals. This has all the makings of a match that will be decided on penalties now. And England have a rather checkered history there.
Muriel passes it forward to Mojica down the left flank, he crosses it in for Falcao. His header is off target. Colombia are knocking on the door.
Cuadrado's looping cross from near the halfway line down the right into the box, Bacca rises but Maguire manages to head it for a corner.
Colombia have more possession in the first period of extra time. A hear in the mouth moment for England when Mojica fires in a low cross looking for Falcao, Pickford gets the ball before him.
Extra time it is! It looked like England were cruising towards a win but Yerry Mina's stoppage time header has turned the tables here. England fans who were making their way to the exits will have to get back to their seats. If you were thinking of switching off your TVs or your computers, think again. This is going down the wire.
COLOMBIA HAVE FOUND THE EQUALISER! Corner swung in, Yerry Mina rises and once again, he is the man wqho provides the decisive header. This is going into extra time.
Five minutes added to the 90. Surprising, considering the number of fouls and stoppages this half has seen.
Both sides make changes, Luis Muriel comes on for Juan Quintero. England bring on Jamie Vardy for Raheem Sterling.
Mojica does well to keep the ball in down the left, he moves inside and provides a delicious cross, Falcao rises on the far side and heads it over.
Kyle Walker's error gifts Colombia a counter-attacking opportunity, Bacca picks up the lose ball and runs forward, it comes to Cuadrado who is in space for a shot from the right of the box. He takes it but it has been smashed out of Moscow surely. If the scored, that would have been the most typically England-like equaliser to concede in a World Cup knockout match.
Dele Alli is subbed off for his Tottenham teammate Eric Dier. Alli takes about 20 seconds to leave the field, shaking hands with almost every team mate that he can find.
England break after a period of Colombian pressure with Young dashing down the left, he provides a through for Lingard who is charging up on his right and Sanchez had to make an urgent challenge to get the ball away from him inside the box. Lingard screams for a penalty but nothing doing says the referee.
Both sides pick up a bunch of yellow cards in this match that has turned into the uggliest of this otherwise thrilling Round of 16. Colombia are unable to do anything decisive inside the England third and they have been the more angry of the two sets of players.
Falcao screaming in the referees face for something that he thinks went against the Colombians. He gets a yellow card for that. Colombia are completely losing their minds here.
Stones gets a yellow card for a foul on Falcao. He then proceeds to drag his studs on the Monaco striker's head and he writhes around in pain. Replay shows that there was contact between the foot and the head but nothing of the sort that Falcao is indicating.
He goes down the middle, Ospina dives out of the way, he tries to raise his leg to make the save but the ball is nowhere near his feet. England lead.
Carlos Sanchez hounds Harry Kane and tackles him to the ground inside the box while England swing in a corner. A blatant foul and an obvious penalty but the Colombians are all over the referee for that decision. This is quite unbelievable from the Colombians, they are completely losing it. Sanchez gets a yellow and the two teams keep going at each other for around four minutes. Kane, in that time, is just standing with the ball in his hand. Ref finally clears the area, Kane puts the ball down and stands over it......
Team talks done and both sets of players take their positions, England get the second half underway. There were reports in the British media of an England player, possibly Sterling, being nudged on the shoulder by a Colombian staff member while the teams went in to the tunnel for half-time. We could have some firecrakers in this second half.
A feisty but ultimately sterile first half. England did most of the attacking in the first 20 minutes of this first half but Colombia did well to keep them at bay. They also had their own chances but a decisive pass in the final third has been missing from the Colombians. In the end, the two teams effectilvely cancel each other out and it is goalless at half time.
Sterling and Mina now having a go inside the Colombian box. This was after the two of them got in a tangle for the ball. Davinson Sanchez intervens, there is a bit of a sting in this match now.
Trippier gets it up and over but it curls wide of the left post. So, a longish free kick routine comes to nothing but a yellow card for Barrions.
England win a free kick when Kane is taken down around 20 yards away from goal just left of centre, Kieran Trippier stands over. There sia bit of a tussle between Jesse Lingard and Wilmar Barrios. Replays show that Barrios had headed into Jordan Henderson's chin which incenced Lingard. Barrios, rightly gets a yellow for that. Anyhow, back to the free kick then, Kieran Trippier standing over it.....
Cuadrado and Maguire have a little pushing match at the left corner of the England half after the latter shouldered Cuadrado away to let the ball run out of play.
Sterling dashes into the box from the right, gets past Sanchez and takes a shot, it is blocked away by a Colombain defender.
Quintero with an attempted pass to Arias inside the box but he ends up overhitting it. England go forward and win a free kick after that, Young swings it in and Sanchez does well to head it away ahead of Maguire.
A period of Colombian possession ends when an attemped long ball to Falcao ends up in the hands of Pickford.
Trippier gets to the byline and sends in a cross from the right, Kane is arriving at the far post and he attempts a headed effort from a tight angle, the commentator goes "KAAAANNNNNNE!" at this point but that header was never going in. It is over the bar and nestles on the roof of the goal. That was a good move from England, though.
England have done more of the attacking so far but none of it has come to anything decisive. The latest shot came from Raheem Sterling, who picked the ball when Colombia lost possession and went for goal first time from around 20 yards out. The shot was bocked away.
England win a corner, their players are running all over the place inside the box but Young's delivery is straight into the hands of Ospina.
England are in all reds while Colombia are in their home colours of yellow and whites. Peter Drury says from the commentary box that James Rodriguez has an 'A' marked against his name in the team sheet, which means that he can't be brought on as a subsitute in this match.
Radamel Falcao gets us going for the final Round of 16 game of this World Cup. They initally pass it around their own half and lose the ball as soon as they get forward.
Over the past two decades, England have come into the World Cup with some of the biggest superstars occupying almost every department of the pitch. And yet, on the big stage, they looked disjointed and dishelved and they all have mostly known dissapointment. This England squad have looked more stable than most of them, and all those former stars are pinning their hopes on them.
Colombia: Ospina; Arias, D Sanchez, Mina, Mojica; Barrios, C Sanchez, Quintero, Lerma, Cuadrado; Falcao
Subs: Zapata, Murillo, Rodriguez, Bacca, Vargas, Muriel, Uribe, Diaz, Borja. Izquierdo, Aguilar, JF Cuadrado
NO JAMES RODRIGUEZ. That is the biggest takeaway from this Colombian line up. That is a huge blow for the Colombians. James has struggled with his fitness throughout this tournament and he had limped away in the first half of their final group game against Senegal.
England: Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire, Lingard, Henderson, Kane, Sterling, Trippier, Young, Alli
Subs: Rose, Dier, Vardy, Butland, Welbeck, Cahill, Jones, Rashford, Loftus-Cheek, Alexander-Arnold, Pope
So England have reverted to the squad that played Tunisia in their tournament opener. Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford is the only player who has retained his spot from their 1-0 defeat against Belgium.
So this is the final match of the Round of 16 and it has a lot to live up to. England and Colombia have faced each other once before in a World Cup. England won that match 2-0 thanks to goals from Darren Anderton and David Beckham. England and Colombia fans, of course would want this to be a boring, stress-free match at the end of which their side come out as victors and book a quarter-final date with Sweden. Neutrals would want right the opposite. Let's see who wins. For now, England have decided on something, their team!
Enter, Belgium vs Japan. The first half was deceptively sterile for Japan went 2-0 up even before we were through the first 15 minutes of the second half. But so what, Belgium came back through a ridiculous (and surely fluke) headed goal by Jan Vertonghen and another from Marouane Fellaini. Then came the final minute of stoppage time in which the sequence of events was a Japanese corner, Belgium clear, De Bruyne leads the counter, Lukaku makes a meandering run that stretches and ravages the sparse Japanese defence, Nacer Chadli (of all people), is left free. De Bruyne to Mertens ahead of him, Mertens to Lukaku who feints it and leaves it for Chadli, score. Belgium through. Breath.
Brazil vs Mexico was akin to an oasis. It was a straightforward win for Brazil, at a time when their fellow giants were falling like dominoes. That was done and dusted and then came the Battle of the Goalkeepers in Croatia vs Denmark. Two goals for either side in the first five minutes, one penalty save by Kasper Schmeichel in stoppage time off none other than Luka Modric, and five saves between the two keepers during the penalty shootout. Croatia prevailed at the end of it all as it was their keeper Danijel Subasic who made three of those five. That was the most saves made in a penalty shootout by any goalkeeper in a World Cup knockout penalty shootout.
It all started with France and Argentina. That match was so back and forth that the neutrals almost started pitying those supporting either of the two sides. in the end, France pulled away and Sergio Aguero's last minute goal was only a consolation. The same day, Portugal were knocked out by Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez. Bye bye, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Then came the fall of Spain. The match by itself may not have been as thrilling as many of the others we have seen but just the sheer tenacity of Russia and Igor Akinfeev's virtuoso performance in the penalty shootouts was thrilling to watch.
“For me personally, it’s the right decision,” Rooney told ESPN. “The result, in my opinion — I can say it now, I’m not (an England) player — the result was the best result for England. “And maybe that’s been a problem we’ve had the last 15, 20 years as a country: we’re too honest. We sit there and say we want to win every game. This is England. This is how we should play.” Here is the full story.