Moscow, July 4(TNS): England won a knockout game in a World Cup for the first time in 12 years as they defeated Colombia 4-3 on penalties to book a semi-final berth on Wednesday in the Spartak Stadium.<\/p>\n
The three lions won the game in dramatic fashion as skipper Harry Kane became the highest goal scoring captain in his debut World Cup (6 goals).<\/p>\n
Kane opened the scoring in the 57th<\/sup> minute when a penalty was awarded after Carlos Sanchez was found wrestling with the England captain on a set-piece situation.<\/p>\n The England skipper made no mistake from 12 yards and became the first English striker since 1939 to score in 6 consecutive games.<\/p>\n James Rodriguez watched the game from the bench as a fan, as he suffered an\u00a0injury in the third game of the group stage.<\/p>\n However, Colombia still managed to cause drama in the end as their top-goalscorer [a Centre-back] scored his third goal in the world cup in stoppage time to force the tie into the extra time.<\/p>\n England looked lacklustre and were lucky to get through extra time harmless, the game went onto penalties.<\/p>\n England who had never won a penalty shootout in a major tournament on four attempts were looking at an early world cup exit, when Jordan Henderson\u2019s penalty was denied by a brilliant save by Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina.<\/p>\n But Jordan Pickford had other ideas as he saved the next penalty to drag England right back into it.<\/p>\n All eyes were on Eric Dier, nestled the ball into the net with supreme authority as England made to the last eight where they will face Sweden on July 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moscow, July 4(TNS): England won a knockout game in a World Cup for the first time in 12 years as they defeated Colombia 4-3 on penalties to book a semi-final berth on Wednesday in the Spartak Stadium. The three lions won the game in dramatic fashion as skipper Harry Kane became the highest goal scoring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70395,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70392\/revisions\/70395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}