2024-06-30T18:01:55.302ZWith seconds left against Slovakia, Jude Bellingham tied the score with a brilliant bicycle kick. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)The situation was bleak, to say the least, at the 2024 European Championship on Sunday, with England trailing Slovakia 1-0 as six minutes of stoppage time dwindled down. England’s lackluster performance to that point had Fox’s Landon Donovan musing, “If you’re an England fan, it must be so hard to watch.”But England fans still had Jude Bellingham. On the day after his 21st birthday, he delivered a tying goal with 30 seconds left in the fifth minute of stoppage time, executing a bicycle kick that will go down not just as one of the more classic moments in recent English soccer history but arguably the goal of the tournament.JUDE BELLINGHAM IN THE 95TH MINUTE ????ABSOLUTLEY UNREAL ???? pic.twitter.com/DuYMSpSGmm— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 30, 2024 Moments later, Harry Kane’s header put England up 2-1, delivering an out-of-nowhere comeback win for England and, for now, putting questions about the future of Manager Gareth Southgate aside. England advanced to a quarterfinal matchup on Saturday against Switzerland.But the goal by Bellingham is what lifted England out of its doldrums and became the latest big moment for a player marked for stardom since he was a youngster. After signing with Borussia Dortmund in 2020, he became the team’s youngest scorer in his first appearance; in the 2022-23 season, he was named the German league’s player of the season. In 2023, he signed with Real Madrid and was the top league scorer in his first campaign. Bellingham earned player of the season honors as Real won La Liga and Champions League titles.His goal Sunday against Slovakia, though, represented a new high point of his international career. The exhilarating play capped three-plus intense minutes of action, sending English fans into delirium as Fox’s Ian Darke suggested Monday’s headlines be something along the lines of “The Great Escape.”Seconds after Jude Bellingham tied the score, Harry Kane added the game-winner in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)The goal adds to Bellingham’s impressive résumé, which includes four stoppage-time winners with Real Madrid. His pretournament Adidas campaign had featured the tagline, “You Got This" and that proved to be prescient, even if it took longer than England’s fans would have liked. As he celebrated, cameras caught Bellingham seeming to say, “Who else?” and few could argue.JUDE BELLINGHAM, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? ????SECONDS FROM DISASTER, AN INCREDIBLE GOAL WHEN ENGLAND NEEDED ONE MOST. ????????????????????????????pic.twitter.com/YWlcDm8qnD— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) June 30, 2024 “That’s right up there. To score that type of goal in that moment to keep our dreams alive is one of the best,” Kane, England’s captain, told the BBC. “What a player. Credit to him for being ready in that moment. It wasn’t easy. To score that type of goal in that moment just shows the type of person he is.”“It is crazy because if that was me that was going over the bar!” England midfielder Declan Rice said of Bellingham’s goal. “It was a big moment for 21 years old, that takes a lot of guts. People don’t understand what you have to go through to get over the line.”The win also provided a sigh of relief for the embattled Southgate, who had faced calls for lineup changes and for his firing earlier in the tournament. Those grew louder Sunday before Bellingham stepped up.“We were thinking should we take him off,” Southgate said, “but you know he is capable of those sorts of moments.”