Gareth Southgate ignores Anthony Gordon again as he flukes his way to 100th game as England boss

We aren't sure how but England will now face Fabian Schar's Switzerland in the Euro 2024 quarter-finals after somehow coming through a strong test as Martin Dubravka's Slovakia took England to extra time.

It was more of the same by Gareth Southgate who made just one change to the side that faced Slovenia swapping Kobbie Manoo for Conor Gallagher as he struggles to find that missing ingredient in the middle.

England were reportedly gearing up to be ruthless ahead of this game, but they were simply feckless. Slovakia took the lead midway through the first half and it looked like that was how it was going to stay.

Millions of England fans watching on were joining the cries from Lee Dixon on ITV commentary for Southgate to make changes after he was forced into one change as Kieran Trippier picked up an injury.

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Anthony Gordon would have ran Slovakia ragged and England would have ran away with it

Southgate left it late to make an attacking change by bringing on Ivan Toney but it was Jude Bellingham, who had another truly honking game, who came up with a superb equaliser by way of a stunning overhead kick in the 94th minute to take the game to extra time.

Then England grabbed the lead just 52 seconds into Extra Time with Harry Kane nodding home after an Ivan Toney set up and then it was back to business as usual, sitting back and protecting a one-goal lead instead of pressing home the advantage.

Conor "Howis he even there?" Gallagher once again got some minutes for the second half of extra time as Anthony Gordon once again watched on questioning his life choices.

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All this means we have to endure at least another 90 minutes of the worst brand of football we've ever witnessed, and we say that as Newcastle cans who endured Steve Bruce.

We were seconds away from seeing the end of the Gareth Southgate era and it was a huge case of mixed emotions when those two England goals went in.

I've still got this awful feeling that England are going to fluke their way to lifting the trophy and Southgate will stay on as boss and I'm not sure how I'd react to that.