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England outshot Colombia 4-3 on penalties to stop a five-game series of shootout losses in major tournaments and set up a quarter-final clash against Sweden at the World Cup.
Harry Kane gave the advantage to England with his sixth goal leading the tournament just before the hour of play in Moscow, converting a penalty kick after being shot by Carlos Sanchez to a corner.
Gareth Southgate's team seemed to be heading for the final eight games of regulation until Yerry Mina equalized with a header in the 93rd minute as the Colombian giant defender scored for the third match of the day. # 39; row.
No team could find an advantage in overtime and therefore a bad mood match went to a shootout.
David Ospina dipped superbly to his left to repel Jordan Henderson's third penalty for England, but Manuel Uribe hit the crossbar before Jordan Pickford saved Carlos Bacca.
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Eric Dier dominated the penalty shootout as England won for the second time in eight penalty shootouts and reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 2006.
"To be eliminated in the end as we did with this goal in overtime, you know, it's hard to come back from there, but we did it," said Dier.
"We were ready for that, we knew what we had to do, we stayed calm, we stayed true to our plan, we never panicked all the extra time.
"We knew that if it had to go to penalties, it had to go to penalties, we were ready for that."
– Shot of James Rodriguez –
Colombia suffers a hard blow before the kickoff, as James Rodriguez fails to get rid of a calf injury, the Bayern Munich midfielder not even being able to able to sit on the bench.
The 26-year-old was the winner of the Golden Shoe with six goals in Brazil four years ago, when Colombia reached the quarter-finals for the first time.
Kane, Raheem Sterling and Dele Alli were among the nine players recalled for England after Gareth Southgate rested the majority of his first-choice team for their last group match against Belgium.
Kane scored a combined total of five goals in the victories over Tunisia and Panama, and the Tottenham striker went close when his header looped through the goal landed on the roof of the net .
Sterling then did well to pbad in front of the imposing Davinson Sanchez, although his left foot shot was shot down, while Kieran Trippier curved wide of a free kick.
Wilmar Barrios was booked to lean his head into Jordan Henderson's chest as the game became a more and more fiesty affair.
Pickford made his first stop of a long-range effort from Juan Fernado Quintero, while Jesse Lingard sliced after Colombia half-cleared a center.
A member of the Colombian coaching team seems to have deliberately defeated Sterling while the Manchester City player was heading towards half-time at half-time, escaping with only one Warning.
Kane made a breakthrough in the 57th minute after being beaten on the ground in a corner by Carlos Sanchez, the same player who showed the tournament's first red card in a 2-1 loss to Japan.
The England captain had to face a long wait while several Colombian players were protesting against the referee, but he kept his courage to beat Ospina, his rival from North London.
Alli nearly added a second as his head dipping into the far post went over the bar, with Lingard taking another penalty after being caught by Davinson Sanchez.
Juan Cuadrado won with 10 minutes of play, and Colombian hopes were up when Pickford made a great save to get behind Manuel Uribe's spectacular long-range strike.
But Mina got up powerfully to face the resulting corner, Trippier could only pbad the ball from below the crossbar at the third minute of the additional time.
Substitute Danny Rose almost hit a winning goal in overtime when his oblique shot whistled past the far post, and Eric Dier headed without scoring in a corner before Luck's chance hit him. England does not leave them again.
Then, unlike so many times before, luck finally smiled on them in the shootout.
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