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England summon spirit of 1966 – and wait for free-kick goal goes on

thetimes.co.uk 4 days ago

England’s 2-1 win over Slovakia was their first match since the 1966 World Cup final in which they have scored twice after the first minute of stoppage time. They were on target on Sunday in the fifth minute of added time and then the first minute of extra time; in 1966 at Wembley they found the net in the 11th and 30th minutes of extra time.

In half of England’s previous meetings with Slovakia (three out of six) they had fallen behind and trailed for at least half an hour but then hit back to win 2-1 — and the same happened here. Ivan Toney came on as a substitute in stoppage time with England trailing and 94 seconds of ball-in-play time later England were

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