Jude Bellingham mentioned he felt like Cristiano Ronaldo when he scored the overhead kick which saved England in Euro 2024.
The Three Lions had been on the point of elimination within the final 16 after falling 1-0 behind to Slovakia and regarded uninspired in assault earlier than the Actual Madrid icon leapt to acrobatically divert Marc Guehi’s flicked header into the again of the online.
Harry Kane accomplished the comeback at first of extra-time but it surely was Bellingham’s second of genius that has captured the nation’s consideration and saved hopes of a primary ever males’s European Championship triumph alive.
Former Los Blancos star Ronaldo netted the same overhead kick towards Juventus again in 2018 and Bellingham revealed he noticed similarities between the 2 objectives.
He advised England’s EURO 2024 Diary Room: “It was actually intuition greater than something. It type of fell within the good spot and it was a bit of bit behind me.
“After I was within the air I believed, ‘I am six ft off the bottom and it is like Ronaldo!’ However I’ve watched it again and I nonetheless had one hand on the bottom, so it wasn’t probably the most acrobatic.
“But it surely was a pleasant contact. Undoubtedly one of the essential and memorable moments of my profession up to now.”
Regardless of the dramatic victory, England once more copped criticism from followers and pundits for one more spluttering show and might want to make vital enhancements if they’re to beat Switzerland within the quarter-finals on Saturday.
Bellingham added: “Not probably the most pleasurable approach to win a sport. Clearly you all the time wish to really feel like you might be in management and cozy.
“However it’s a must to discover methods to win, even when it means overhead kicks in 90+5. However the distinction in emotion is so enormous. It is one minute [from] being useless and buried.
“I noticed the Slovakian bench they usually had been all able to run on. In a single second every little thing adjustments.
“However we by no means stopped believing we’d get yet another probability and by chance we bought it in.”
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