“It’s unbelievable,” Alexander-Arnold told BBC Sport after the match. “It’s the targets and the goals we set ourselves. [They’re] Tough opponent. Again, he falls behind, [but] The team has a lot of character, a lot of belief, a lot of heart and soul.
“We dug deep when it mattered most and [we] “Obviously winning on penalties. We knew it was going to be tight. We knew we were never going to run away from the game, although that would be great. Whatever it takes, whatever it takes, we're going to win and that's all that matters.”
“That's what we practice,” he added of the winning penalty. “There's a lot of graft that goes into that moment. They're moments I enjoy. When the coach says I'm going to take one, my stomach doesn't drop.
“I enjoy it, I practice it. I knew where it was and I knew I just needed to take it and I went and did it. All five of our penalties were fantastic, Beckers. [Jordan Pickford] With the amazing save to start the penalty shootout gives you that confidence.
“We train for those. You see every game so far has gone to extra time in the quarter-finals. They are tight margins, it was the best margin today, but we managed to win.
England will meet either Turkey or the Netherlands in the semi-finals on Wednesday night (8pm GMT).
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