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England were four goals up at half-time in Miami, then watched France charge back to 4-3. Jude Bellingham's stoppage-time goal finally settled a wild 6-4 win, and the bronze medal, at World Cup 2026.
Bukayo Saka scored twice before the break and again from the spot as England raced 4-0 clear, weathered a France fightback to 4-3, and won 6-4 to claim the World Cup bronze medal.
Kylian Mbappe scored twice in France's 6-4 defeat to England to reach 10 goals and lead the Golden Boot race. Lionel Messi, on eight, must strike at least twice against Spain tonight to overhaul him.
England raced 4-0 clear by half-time, survived a France fightback to 4-3, then pulled away through Bukayo Saka's hat-trick and Jude Bellingham's stoppage-time goal to take World Cup bronze at Hard Rock Stadium.
England led France 4-0 at the interval in the World Cup bronze match, with Declan Rice, Ezri Konsa and a Bukayo Saka brace doing the damage. Sunday's final looms as the Golden Boot decider.
Nobody plays for third by choice. But when England face France at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday, a first World Cup bronze and a young squad's pride are both on the line.
France and England meet in Miami on Saturday for third place, a game neither side wanted. It is Didier Deschamps' final match in charge, and the tournament's Golden Boot remains very much up for grabs.
England led for an hour in Atlanta and were minutes from a first World Cup final since 1966. Then Enzo Fernandez levelled, Lautaro Martinez headed the winner, and Messi set up both.
Twenty-one years an Argentina international and Lionel Messi has never faced England. He gets his chance in Atlanta on Wednesday, at 39 and with the record already his, and a place in Spain's final on the line.
Four times decisive in six games, Jude Bellingham has been the man England lean on. So why did Thomas Tuchel use the Norway win to sharpen his criticism? Argentina await in Atlanta.
Four decades on from the Hand of God, England and Argentina renew football's most loaded rivalry in Atlanta on Wednesday, and this time Lionel Messi walks out against England for the first time.
The World Cup semi-final in Atlanta may hinge on whether De Paul, Mac Allister and Enzo Fernandez can smother Jude Bellingham's runs from deep.
England can reach a first World Cup final in 60 years on Wednesday, but the defending champions Argentina, and a rivalry thick with old scars, stand between them and Atlanta glory.
The reigning champions meet England in Atlanta on 15 July, and for Lionel Messi, widely reported to be at his last World Cup, one more win puts another final within reach.
Thomas Tuchel is down two players and waiting on a third three days before England meet Argentina in Atlanta, while the holders arrive with no fresh concerns.
England chase a first World Cup final since 1966 when they meet Argentina and a probably departing Lionel Messi in Wednesday's semi-final in Atlanta.
A Jude Bellingham brace, the winner in the 93rd minute, edged England past a stubborn Norway 2-1 after extra time to book a World Cup semi-final.
Jude Bellingham cancelled out Andreas Schjelderup's opener and then struck early in extra time to settle a taut quarter-final that Norway matched almost to the end.
Both sides had 14 shots and near-identical xG at Hard Rock Stadium; England advanced because they put eight efforts on target to Norway's four and took the two that mattered.
A Jude Bellingham double, the second three minutes into extra time, edged England past a stubborn Norway and into the World Cup semi-finals.
Two places in the last four are up for grabs today. England start favourites against a Norway side carried this far by a red-hot Haaland, while the holders Argentina meet the tournament's meanest defence in Kansas City. Our predictions, the odds and what to watch.
Norway have never been this far, and England have never fielded a defence this unsettled. Opta calls it the tightest quarter-final of the eight, and it may come down to whether anyone can handle Erling Haaland.
England are the bookmakers' pick and Opta's, if only just, for tonight's World Cup 2026 quarter-final in Miami. Norway have Erling Haaland, and that is usually enough to make anyone nervous.
A header against Panama took Harry Kane past Gary Lineker as England's all-time World Cup scorer, and he managed it with barely a fuss. He goes into the quarter-final against Erling Haaland's Norway fourth in the race for the Golden Boot, two goals off the lead.
