Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens was cooking, a heat index over 100 degrees, and Norway used the first hour like they were the team who had waited 28 years for it, because they were. Andreas Schjelderup cut in from the left and bent a cross-shot off the post and in, and suddenly the tournament favorites were staring at a very different Saturday. England, as is tradition, looked like a side that had read the script and refused to skip to the good part, sweating through the melodrama instead of just scoring.

Then came Jude Bellingham, because of course it did. In first-half stoppage time Anthony Gordon slid a pass inside, Bellingham shifted it onto his left foot and placed it into the bottom corner with the calm of a man who has done this in front of much larger crowds. 1-1 at the break, and 1-1 it stubbornly stayed through 90. Norway even thought they had the winner when Torbjorn Heggem bundled home a rebound, and for a few seconds a giant-killing was on. VAR had other ideas.

Extra time in that heat was less a football match and more a test of who would faint last, and England found a second wind at exactly the moment Norway ran out of theirs. Erling Haaland, kept off the scoresheet for the first time all tournament after bullying his way to 7 in his previous 4 games, was hooked late and made to watch. Bellingham finished what he started, tucking away his second to complete the brace and settle it 2-1 after extra time. England march on to meet Argentina in the Atlanta semifinal, having once again turned a routine job into a national blood-pressure event.