Bukayo Saka dropped to his knees near the center spot and looked to the sky.
The rest of England’s players had sprinted toward the goal to celebrate with Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jordan Pickford, the team’s two headline-grabbers from the penalty shootout win over Switzerland in the European Championship quarterfinal on Saturday.Euro 2024 predictions, best bets: England vs. Switzerland, Turkey vs. Netherlands
Saka was 19 at the time, the youngest player in a multi-ethnic England squad that won the hearts of the soccer-mad nation — before the loss to Italy, anyway.Three years later and there was Saka again, making that long and lonely walk from the center circle to the penalty spot to take England’s third kick of the shootout against Switzerland.
“I’m a guy who is going to put myself in that position. I believed in myself. And when I saw the ball hit the back of the net, I was a very happy man.”Saka said it had been “really difficult” to bounce back from that fateful night in July 2021 but “used it to make me stronger.”
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