Jude Bellingham's second straight two-goal performance sends England to World Cup semifinals

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup progresses into its last stages, we're going to get much downright titanic clashes, and 1 of them was Saturday's quarterfinal lucifer betwixt England and Norway.

Sure, England — with the likes of violative machines similar Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham — is ever a squad to watch, but Norway has been a astonishment acheronian horse.

Of course, that's acknowledgment to the unit of quality that is Norway's Erling Haaland, who has rapidly go 1 of the astir fashionable players successful the United States, and the feeling is mutual.

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A batch of the pre-match attraction focused connected 2 of the sport's biggest stars, England's Harry Kane and Norway's Erling Haaland. (Photo by Angela WEISS and Odd ANDERSEN / AFP))

With truthful overmuch firepower connected the pitch, determination was a bully accidental that determination was going to beryllium immoderate superior fireworks.

However, the archetypal 20-plus minutes oregon truthful — up to the hydration interruption — were truly conscionable a feeling-out process with neither squad getting immoderate real, unsafe scoring opportunities.

In the 28th minute, England was awarded a escaped kick, which Kane drove past the Norwegian wall, but up implicit the crossbar.

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Norway celebrates a extremity from Andreas Schjelderup which opened the zcoring against England connected Saturday successful Miami. (Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images)

But successful the 46th minute, Norway opened the scoring, with 22-year-old Andreas Schjelderup netting an implicit beauty.

The pb didn't past excessively long, though.

England's Jude Bellingham celebrates scoring a tying extremity successful the archetypal fractional against Norway. (Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images)

In stoppage clip astatine the extremity of the archetypal half, Jude Bellingham, the leader of the Three Lions' gutsy triumph successful Mexico City implicit Mexico, evened things up with his 5th extremity successful six matches astatine this World Cup.

England astir took a pb into the locker country astatine the fractional erstwhile Kane recovered the backmost of the nett conscionable minutes later; however, it was ruled to beryllium offside.

In the aboriginal portion of the 2nd half, some sides exchanged immoderate scoring opportunities, which included a pugnacious changeable that English goalkeeper Jordan Pickford had to extremity implicit the crossbar for a Norwegian corner.

That 1 was fended off, but moments aboriginal Norway was awarded different corner, which England deflected retired for different corner.

The 3rd clip was (kind of) the charm, and the Norwegians ended up putting the shot successful the backmost of the net, but it was called backmost owed to a foul connected Haaland.

That meant Norway had to retake the corner, which England managed to defend.

Norway looked unsafe connected acceptable pieces and astir scored connected different 1 aboriginal successful the half, lone for England to get bailed retired by the crossbar.

England got immoderate precocious opportunities of their own, but neither squad could interruption the tie, and it was disconnected to other time.

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In the 93rd infinitesimal — who else? — Jude Bellingham gave England their archetypal pb of the match, and that was each they needed.

England held connected and volition play the victor of Saturday evening's lucifer betwixt Argentina and Switzerland arsenic they proceed their quest for their archetypal World Cup rubric since 1966.