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England are into the World Cup semi-finals but they left it late, and they left it controversial. Norway led for most of an exhausting, attritional quarter-final in Miami, only for Jude Bellingham to swing a contest where an overhead cable became the unlikely co-star. England were not themselves for long periods. Trailing to Andreas Schjelderup's deflected effort after John Stones dallied, they saw Norway dominate large swathes of a match played in 33C heat and 65 percent humidity. Harry Kane was isolated. Declan Rice battled illness beforehand and was withdrawn. Thomas Tuchel ranted. "Sloppy," he called it. "Not fast enough....