Francesco Calzona was simply 120 seconds away from eliminating England and reaching the EURO 2024 quarter-finals, however a second of Jude Bellingham magic and Harry Kane in stoppages sunk spectacular Slovakia.
England will now face Switzerland within the quarter-final.
Since February, Calzona has balanced his position answerable for the Slovakia workforce with a caretaker supervisor place at Napoli, the place in 2021-22 he was assistant supervisor to Luciano Spalletti. His line-up right here included Napoli midfielder Stanislav Lobotka, Verona’s Ondrej Duda, former Milan man Juraj Kucka and ex-Inter defender Milan Skriniar. England didn’t impress within the group stage with just one win and two attracts, so introduced in Kobbie Mainoo for Connor Gallagher in midfield.
Slovakia began sturdy, Kucka failing to bundle in a free kick, ex-Fiorentina man David Hancko’s cross-shot flashing throughout the face of objective and a determined Marc Guehi block on Lukas Haraslin despatched clear on objective.
Calzona’s males opened the scoring when a ball was flicked on by Kucka for David Strelec, who drew the defenders in the direction of him solely to position a slide-rule ball for Ivan Schranz to prod in from six yards.
Phil Foden tapped in from a few yards on 50 minutes, however was offside on the Kieran Trippier ball throughout the face of objective.
Strelec nearly scored a shocker from midfield when John Stones handed it straight to him and Jordan Pickford was nicely off his line, however the lob went vast of an open objective.
Harry Kane turned a header vast from a free kick and Declan Rice got here closest with a scorcher from outdoors the field that thumped the bottom of the close to publish.
Lobotka examined Pickford from distance, however the first England shot on course got here on the 95th minute with a shocking Jude Bellingham overhead kick on the flicked on nook to power additional time.
That was an enormous blow to Slovakia they usually went behind inside 60 seconds of additional time, as a set play bobbled round till the Kane header in from 4 yards.
It wasn’t over, as Peter Pekarik on the again publish couldn’t hold the end down sliding in on to a fierce cross-shot, however England clung on beneath fixed stress for the ultimate whistle.
England 2-1 Slovakia (aet)
Schranz 25 (S), Bellingham 90+5 (E), Kane 91 (E)
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