England 2 Slovakia 1

The gap between performance and result has never been more marked than in this game.

England are through to the last 8 v Switzerland but it was another dysfunctional performance.

Indeed it took a remarkable effort from Jude Bellingham to equalise in the dying embers.

There was nothing in this performance to convince that England can beat one of the big boys but they will probably go far enough to avoid ignominy and keep Gareth Southgate in his job.

If the first goal was executed with consummate technique then the winner had the stamp of good luck.

Eze totally miscued his shot which fell onto the head of Ivan Toney who cross headed for Harry Kane to head home. This was not a goal from the training ground

The so called ITV experts had written off England at half-time but as the channel had to broadcast Spain v Georgia almost immediately after the game we were spared both xenophobia and hypocrisy.