Twitter users are convinced that "it's coming home" after the victory of England

Optimism about England's chances at the World Cup is rapidly increasing according to Twitter statistics, with mentions of the phrase "it's coming home" more and more among social media users.

According to the social networking platform, the expression has been used more than half a million times in the last 24 hours – having already appeared 1.4 million times in the first 20 tournament days.

England defeated Colombia Figures released by Twitter revealed that the online reaction of Gareth Southgate's team that beat South Americans on penalties has reached 127,000 tweets by minute – Spurs midfielder Eric Dier scored the decisive penalty. On the other hand, the last minute winner of Harry Kane in the opening match of the group stage against Tunisia triggered a reaction that reached 52,000 tweets per minute.

The two biggest goals of the match The penalty of Kane to give England the lead early in the second half, and injury equalizer of Yerry Mina who sent the game to overtime and eventually penalties.

The two scorers were also the most discussed players on the social media site during the match, with injured Colombian star James Rodriguez – who watched the game from the bench – in third.

Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina and the Spurs Dier star complete the top five.

England now travel to Samara to face Sweden in their first World Cup quarter-final since 2006.

Press Association