England Euro 2024 LIVE: Latest news and updates with Gareth Southgate set to manage Three Lions for 100th time

Follow all the latest news and updates after Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane spared England’s blushes in the last-16 win over Slovakia

England fans go wild as Harry Kane puts Three Lions into lead against Slovakia at Euro 2024

Only eight nations remain at Euro 2024 and, somehow, England are still one of them.

A date with Switzerland awaits Gareth Southgate’s side now after struggling through the group stage and mounting the very latest of late escapes in the last-16 against Slovakia, with an injury-time equaliser sending the tie to extra-time, where a goal from Harry Kane sealed their progress.

Jude Bellingham scored the spectacular 96th-minute strike to keep England in the game - and the tourmament - but ensuing celebrations left some offended. “An inside joke gesture towards some close friends who were at the game. Nothing but respect for how that Slovakia team played tonight,” he suggested - but that didn’t stop Uefa opening an investigation over potential indecent conduct, which could yet see him face a ban.

There remains much for Southgate to solve though, including a defensive riddle with Kieran Trippier a doubt and Marc Guehi suspended - and the rest of the team not playing well either.

Follow all the latest news updates and reaction ahead of England’s last-eight fixture below.

England Euro 2024 latest

• Jude Bellingham faces possible ban over lewd gesture in celebration
• England to take on Switzerland in the Euro 2024 quarter-finals
• Gareth Southgate reaches milestone match in last-eight clash

[4 July 2024 07:00 · Richard Jolly in Germany]

How Southgate hopes the lessons of 1966 can inspire success at Euro 2024

It was 30 years of hurt when Gareth Southgate stepped up and missed a penalty and it was about to become at least 60 until Jude Bellingham attempted an overhead kick. Southgate makes no secret of his ambitions to emulate Sir Alf Ramsey, to double the number of trophy-winning managers in England’s history. He looks to the past to provide inspiration and lessons alike. If 1966 has become a profitable nostalgia industry, it is so long ago that many of the England players’ parents were not born. They could be forgiven for not knowing all the details.

At St George’s Park, before England ventured to Germany, Southgate turned back time. “We showed the players a presentation about 1966 and how Geoff Hurst hadn’t played until the quarter-final.” Hurst ended up the hat-trick hero in the final and if that scarcely needs explaining, some of Southgate’s charges may not know that a man who achieved immortality had entered the 1966 World Cup with a lone international goal to his name.

[4 July 2024 06:00 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Switzerland will pose ‘big tactical challenge’ for England – Gareth Southgate

Gareth Southgate knows stumbling but spirited England have to raise their game if they are to stand a chance of beating “outstanding” Switzerland in Saturday’s Euro 2024 quarter-final.

A trip to Dusseldorf awaits after Jude Bellingham came to the rescue with a 95th-minute overhead equaliser against wily Slovakia on Sunday before Harry Kane sealed a 2-1 extra-time win.

England were seconds away from their tournament coming to an end in humiliating fashion, only to squeak through to a fourth successive major quarter-final under Southgate.

[4 July 2024 05:00 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Euro 2024 quarter-finals schedule

Here’s a reminder of all the details you need ahead of this weekend’s last eight ties.

[4 July 2024 04:00 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Euro 2024 power rankings: Rating all eight nations ahead of the quarter-finals

England are into the last eight, with a strange array of sides joining them as quarter-finalists. Lawrence Ostlere assesses the remaining contenders ahead of what should be a wild weekend:

[4 July 2024 03:00 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Jude Bellingham added to BBC’s Dear England adaptation after last-minute bicycle kick goal

Dear England playwright James Graham has revealed that the forthcoming BBC adaptation of his acclaimed football play will be updated to include Jude Bellingham’s 96th-minute equalizer against Slovakia at Euro 2024.

Graham, 41, told Variety that it “feels likely and necessary to feature Jude, and his incredible balletic moment of pure theatre.”

[4 July 2024 02:00 · Richard Jolly in Germany]

Trent Alexander-Arnold can dispel Gareth Southgate myth with obvious England change

The Trent Alexander-Arnold Experiment is dead. Time for another Trent Alexander-Arnold Experiment. Liverpool’s vice-captain seems a misunderstood, underused talent at international level. His time in midfield spanned 123 minutes against Serbia and Denmark and was of sufficient importance, such a scientific voyage of discovery, that it assumed a status of its own. It was an ‘Experiment’.

That it has been deemed a failure was apparent when Gareth Southgate worked his way through a series of partners for Declan Rice against Slovakia – Kobbie Mainoo for craft, Conor Gallagher for graft, Jude Bellingham for overhead kicks – and no scenario called for Alexander-Arnold.

[4 July 2024 01:00 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

How would you fix England’s Euros team? Join The Independent Debate and share your starting XI and tactics

England are set to face Switzerland in the Euro 2024 quarter-finals after Jude Bellingham dramatically saved Gareth Southgate’s team with an overhead kick against Slovakia in the last-16.

England were on the brink of a major upset, leading for much of the game after Ivan Schranz’s early goal.

Southgate’s position was in jeopardy, but his decision to stick with his core players paid off as they transformed a potential defeat into a crucial victory, keeping England’s dreams alive.

But pundits were less than impressed with England’s performance, with boos frequently echoing across the stadium. And while others called for revolution at half-time, Southgate sent the same side out again – much to the disappointment of commentators and fans alike.

Join the debate on what the team should be:

[4 July 2024 00:01 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Euro 2024: Fans question Ed Sheeran’s ‘depressing’ private concert for England team

Ed Sheeran gave the Euro 2024 England team a private concert after their 2-1 extra time victory against Slovakia on Sunday (30 June).

The “Shape of You” hitmaker, 33, visited the England camp in Blankenhain to perform an intimate live gig for the team, with the audience including star player Jude Bellingham and captain Harry Kane.

Sheeran’s visit was one of many measures organised by the England team’s manager Gareth Southgate to make the tournament as enjoyable as possible for the players. However, fans commented that the athletes looked miserable during the Grammy winner’s performance.

[3 July 2024 23:00 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Jude Bellingham faces possible ban over gesture to crowd during England’s Euro 2024 win

Jude Bellingham faces a possible ban at Euro 2024 after Uefa opened an investigation into a gesture he made while celebrating the spectacular overhead kick scored against Slovakia in their last-16 tie on Sunday.

Bellingham equalised in the 96th minute to save England from a humiliating defeat, and they eventually prevailed in extra time to book a quarter-final with Switzerland.

In the aftermath of his goal, Bellingham was seen shouting “Who else?!” as he ran over to England fans after scoring. Video showed the Real Madrid forward then kiss his hand and grab his crotch in a gesture which appeared to be directed towards the side of the pitch.

[3 July 2024 22:00 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Jordan Pickford lauds ‘golden boy’ Jude Bellingham after England beat Slovakia

Jordan Pickford lauded “golden boy” Jude Bellingham after he rescued England’s Euro 2024 campaign in the roller-coaster last-16 clash against Slovakia.

After winning Group C in unconvincing fashion, the Euro 2020 runners-up were on the brink of a humiliating exit akin to Iceland eight years ago in what would almost certainly have been Gareth Southgate’s last match.

But Real Madrid star Bellingham scored a jaw-dropping leveller five minutes into stoppage time, with his overhead kick followed by a Harry Kane header early in extra time as Southgate’s side won 2-1.