It was one other dramatic day within the Euro 2024 knockout rounds, as two extra groups booked their locations within the quarter-finals.
England fought again from the jaws of defeat as they secured an extra-time win over Slovakia to arrange a gathering with Switzerland within the final eight.
In the meantime, Spain broke Georgia hearts with their comeback victory, and can play Germany in an attention grabbing last-eight tie.
Right here, we spherical up the very best Opta statistics from the second day of the final 16.
England 2-1 Slovakia (aet): Bellingham, Kane show late heroes
It appeared like England had been going to make an embarrassing early exit from the match, till Jude Bellingham stepped up with a spectacular overhead kick in stoppage time earlier than Harry Kane netted the winner.
Timed at 94 minutes and 34 seconds, Bellingham’s purpose was the newest ever for England in regular time on the Euros, coming from the Three Lions’ first shot heading in the right direction after a largely toothless efficiency.
Kane, on his record-breaking 79th aggressive look for England, received the timing proper too, heading house simply 50 seconds into further time for the quickest purpose scored in that interval within the competitors’s historical past.
The England captain has now scored 14 objectives at main tournaments (World Cup and Euros), with solely 4 European gamers netting greater than him – Cristiano Ronaldo (22), Miroslav Klose (19), Gerd Muller (18) and Jurgen Klinsmann (16).
6 – Jude Bellingham has scored six objectives in second half stoppage time in 2023-24 (4 for Actual Madrid and two for England), with all six both placing his workforce in entrance or equalising. Power. #EURO2024 pic.twitter.com/vI2gjOa2VN
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) June 30, 2024
It marked the fourth sport that England have gained from a dropping place on the European Championships as effectively, after dropping their first six such matches.
Solely France (5) have ever gained extra matches when conceding first within the competitors, and that late, late present left Slovakia surprised after being simply moments from a well-known victory in Gelsenkirchen.
Ivan Schranz’s third purpose at this Euros appeared set to take the headlines, with solely Robert Vittek (4) on the 2010 World Cup ever scoring extra at a single main match for Slovakia, however the ahead is not going to get an opportunity to equal that file.
Spain 4-1 Georgia: La Roja march on with comeback win
Spain are the one workforce within the match to win all of their video games to this point, and survived an early scare to come back out on prime in Cologne because of second-half objectives from Fabian Ruiz, Nico Williams and Dani Olmo.
Robin Le Normand’s 18th-minute personal purpose noticed Luis de la Fuente’s aspect concede for the primary time at Euro 2024, just for Spain to rally to the most important margin of victory by a workforce that conceded first within the competitors.
Spain amassed 17 photographs on purpose within the first half however solely Rodri’s first main match purpose hit the web. It’s the most on file (since 1980) by a workforce within the opening half of a European Championship knockout sport.
Certainly, La Roja’s 35 photographs total had been their most in a single match at both the World Cup (since 1966) or the Euros.
Lamine Yamal & Nico Williams usually are not two gamers that many defences will get pleasure from arising in opposition to.
Good luck Germany.#EURO2024 pic.twitter.com/S8VVuiV2qg
— Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) June 30, 2024
It was the children who stole the highlight as soon as extra as Lamine Yamal received his second help on the Euros, with Cristiano Ronaldo the final teenager to tee up a number of objectives at a single version (Euro 2004 when he helped Portugal attain the ultimate).
Williams, in the meantime, grew to become the primary participant on file on the European Championships (since 1980) to attain a purpose, help one other and full 100% of his passes (46/46) in a sport he began.
Georgia’s fairytale was ended by a well-known, formidable foe as they’ve now misplaced all seven of their aggressive conferences with Spain, conceding 23 objectives and netting simply 4 of their very own.
