Thanks for joining me today as England basks in the glory of a long overdue penalty shootout victory.

The countdown is on for Saturday's quarter-final against Sweden and the Three Lions have every right to be positive, as BBC's chief football writer Phil McNulty explains here.

Until then, remember to make sure everyone knows...it's coming home!!

You've told us how excited you are about England and, as you can see by the results on the right of this page, football is definitely coming home!

Marc: Was sat in a pizza shop at 1 am with three random people all singing 'it's coming home'.

Tom: My bet with a work colleague is coming ever closer to happening. However I'm losing that bet with Gareth Southgate's face being tattooed on me, IF England win the World Cup.....anyway it's coming home!

How about this picture, Tom? Dare I ask where you've said you'd have it done?

Image source, PA

Remember Max's dad from earlier? He got a reply from his son's English teacher...

George, Harrogate: I'll be working on the labour ward this Saturday. Hoping there'll be some Harry's, Raheem's and Jordan's delivered!

Paul, London: I'm supposed to be going to Pride in London on Saturday and I've now got to factor in the football and miss the parade!

Richard, London: Re Chris Allen @11:48 - I too will be in Hyde Park for the Cure. With my wife. Who is Swedish!!

The England captain's nearest rivals are Belgium's Romelu Lukaku on four goals and Kylian Mbappe of France on three.

And today Real Mardrid have denied reports they are close to signing Paris St-Germain forward Mbappe.

That cancelled out this penalty from Harry Kane, the World Cup's leading scorer with six goals.

And here's a reminder of that late save, although Yerry Mina equalised from the resulting corner.

BBC Radio 5 live

Former Sunderland goalkeeper coach Adrian Tucker, who worked with Jordan Pickford for two-and-a-half years, could not contain his excitement at the Everton goalkeeper's heroics, even as a proud Welshman.

He told Radio 5 Live: “It was quite nerve wracking for myself to be fair, because obviously I wanted Jordan to do so well.

“Obviously when he made that save at the end… I had been saying to my wife ‘he will make one save, he will make one save’, and obviously it was an important one!

“Jordan knows how to wind people up a little bit on occasions and he knows how to get into people’s minds. And he certainly tried to play to his advantage and to England’s advantage last night in that particular tense time."

Image source, Getty Images

BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

Let's not forget that Sweden have reached the World Cup semi-finals more recently than England have.

Svenska Dagbladet, external said the team “can go further than ever” and offered readers a guide to Samara, where they will play their “biggest and most important match this side of the millennium.”

The paper also quoted midfielder Emil Forsberg, who called his goal: “The biggest moment in my life so far.”

And speaking to Dagens Nyheter, external newspaper, prime minister Stefan Lofven said the performance was a reflection of Sweden as a whole: “Sticking together. Community. You help each other out, and then you get very far. Sweden is a small country, but we are world leaders in many fields. Doing things together makes you very, very strong.”

Image source, EPA

BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

That's the word amongst the Swedish media after yesterday's win over Switzerland, which has Swedes remembering the summer of 1994, when they reached the World Cup semi-finals in the USA.

Newspapers have praised the collective effort of the Sweden team, who have found a way to succeed without relying on the individual brilliance of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Aftonbladet, external conceded that the match was seen by some as “real horror”, but its reporter said he preferred the calm and methodical to drama.

“Only seven opponents left”, he said., external “The world may think that this is a boring bunch, that there are others who offer matches that are more open. Sure. If the world does want to stop Sweden, you’d have better send more accomplished opponents next time.”

Richard, Knutsford: To do list before Saturday: Throw out IKEA furniture, Remove ABBA from playlists, Sell the Volvo

Tom Jackson: After a long pregnancy, my wife is getting induced on Saturday afternoon. Here's hoping it's not just football that'll be 'coming home' this weekend!

David Kelsall: A guy on my team text me after the game last night saying "I still don't think it's coming home" so I told him not to bother coming into work today.. and that's the last we saw of Steve the accounts assistant.

James Lake, Cambridge: Please can we have this live feed 24/7 until the game? The enthusiasm here is sustaining me.

By all means, James. You may have to shout us a couple of pizza deliveries though!

Dele Alli writes on Instagram: "My face says it all, what a night!! We're here to stay!!"

Bold talk Dele, bold.

Anthony: At Heathrow on my way to Bogotá, might have to support the Three Lions in a Colombia shirt for health and safety reasons.

James Guymer, Portsmouth: I'm master of ceremony at my friends wedding in Portsmouth, this role now includes football commentary for 90min, extra time and penalties.

Rachel, Manchester: I'm due to be going up Ben Nevis on Saturday with my best mate and my dad, I'm proposing a massively early start to get up and down before 1500! Hope the Scots have it on TV somewhere!

Farshad: I was in a meeting with my boss and I said you heard the news? He respond by saying ‘you pregnant?’ I said ‘it’s coming Home’ should have seen his face.

Alex, Cambs: Yes, Sweden will be tough to break down in open play, but that's not what we do. Our only two goals from open play have been a Jesse Lingard worldie and a world-class flick from Harry Kane. Gareth Southgate will have some set-pieces up his sleeve. It's coming home.

Nigel: I'm trying to stay positive but surely I can't be the only one who thought that, without the penalty in normal time, we wouldn't have scored?

Wayne Ellis: Funny how for the last 5 years, people have been saying the 4-4-2 formation is outdated and had no place in international football. Now it’s Sweden’s biggest strength?

Sharif: Got to be honest, not taken an interest since the disgrace of non-qualification in '94. Deffo been swept up by the mood of the nation. It's coming home!

Rich B:I don’t know why but I took my shirt off for the penalties. I guess I’ve got to do this again if it gets that far!

Mitchell Finlay: I couldn't watch the penalties, I actually volunteered to change my babies dirty nappy instead as a distraction!

Wimbledon has started and so surely British number one Kyle Edmund has more to do with his time than create these kind of images. Go and hit a ball against a wall Kyle or work on the ball toss.

But if you've done that already, kudos on your creativity.

Rio Ferdinand is keeping it real this morning. He simply accompanies this Instagram video with the message: "I know it’s early but......."