England ended their World Cup penalties misery with a 4-3 win shootout against Colombia in Moscow, a success that saw them claim victory from spot kicks for the first time since 1996.
Jordan Pickford’s save from Colombia’s Carlos Bacca, following Mateus Uribe’s miss, enabled Eric Dier to score the decisive kick for England, which sends them through to a quarterfinal clash with Sweden in Samara on Saturday.
England had led 1-0 until Yerry Mina’s 93rd-minute header cancelled out Harry Kane’s penalty opener and went into the shootout having won just one of their previous seven.
That came 22 years ago, against Spain at Euro 96, but it has been otherwise been a tale of woe, with manager Gareth Southgate famously missing the crucial kick in a defeat against Germany later in the same tournament.
And when Jordan Henderson missed with England’s third kick, it looked like history would repeat itself. But England bounced back to win and remain in Russia.
