GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany : England's Jude Bellingham was not only proud to score a last-gasp bicycle kick equaliser to help rescue his side from Euro 2024 elimination in their last-16 clash with Slovakia but also to silence what he thinks are unjustified critics of the team.
Soccer Football - Euro 2024 - Round of 16 - England v Slovakia - Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany - June 30, 2024 England's Jude Bellingham celebrates after Harry Kane scores their second goal REUTERS/Lee Smith
"In international football, in knockout football, it's even a worse feeling because you're 30 seconds from going home and have to listen to all the rubbish, feeling like you've let a nation of people down," Bellingham told a press conference. "It's very difficult to come to these press conferences and interviews and talk as openly as footballers want to because we're always judged.
"I think in knockout football, when you can produce a moment like that and everyone kind of looks around at each other and realises that's the spirit we actually have got in that team, it can help a lot," Bellingham said.
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