Rarely has there even been so much euphoria and unrestrained hope on the front pages of England's newspapers.

England are in dreamland after making it through to their first World Cup semi-final in 28 years thanks to goals from Harry Maguire and Dele Alli against stoic Sweden.

Days after laying their penalty ghosts to rest against Colombia, Gareth Southgate's men diligently went about their job in Samara to continue this extraordinary summer and bring the fantasy of replicating the heroes of 1966 closer to reality.

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Croatia, who defeated Russia, now await in just England's third-ever World Cup semi-final, with headers either side of half-time by Maguire and Alli securing a comfortable 2-0 quarter-final win against surprise package Sweden.

With ecstasy in England and heartbreak in Sweden, here's how the world reacted to the Three Lions victory.

England

The Sunday Telegraph

The Observer

The Sunday Times

Mail on Sunday

Independent

Scotland on Sunday

Sunday Mirror

Sunday Express

The Sun on Sunday

Sweden

In Sweden, the mood was unsurprisingly much more sombre.

The front page of the Stockholm-based newspaper Dagens Nyheter ran with a headine that most English fans would be able to translate: Bye, bye, Sweden.

Loosely translated, the Svenska Dagbladet's headline struck a more positive note, saying the team did much better than expected in the World Cup.

Malmo's newspaper Sydsvenskan was also upbeat, thanking its tea m for the party.

Zlatan  Ibrahimovic, the all-time leading scorer for Sweden in a career that spanned 15 years, retired from international football in 2016.

But the Los Angeles Galaxy star was still supportive of the national team from afar, frequently posting to social media with the hashtag £letsgo. Before the game against England, he struck a good-natured bet with former England captain David Beckham.

After the Saturday's game Ibrahimovic went to Twitter: "Every player should get a golden ball in Sweden. What they did will be remembered forever. Thank you for the show."

Elsewhere in Britain

Not everyone in Britain was happy with the Three Lions' footballing success.

SNP MP Pete Wishart took to Twitter to say: "ABBA records flung out, hammer now taken to the Ikea furniture and the Elk's for the barbecue. Other than that, I'm taking this well."

Fellow Scot Jamie Ross, a journalist for the Daily Beast, was filmed watching the match with his hand shielding his face, not looking overjoyed by England's fortune.

Sarah Manavis posted the video to Twitter with the caption "Dating a Scottish man during £ENGSWE".

She told the Press Association: "I'm Greek-American so I'm not bothered about how England do, but needless to say Jamie is very unhappy."

Where some non-English did show support on Twitter for Gareth Southgate's team, it was often met with derision by others.

Twitter user @missmcdonald14 wrote: "Honestly folk who are Scottish and supporting England need their heads checked..."

Social media

Football's coming home, apparently. That's according to the tens of thousands of people who tweeted it after England's victory.

Among those celebrating were David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, whose Three Lions song in 1996 spawned the phrase to begin with.

Alan Shearer, Gary Lineker and Rio Ferdinand  could be seen singing along as the celebrated.

Even Kensington Palace got in on the celebrations.

And there were the memes.

Kyle Walker joined in the fun with a picture of Leicester defender and England goal-scorer Harry Maguire.

But arguably the most apt was the one of Gareth Southgate depicted leaving Ikea.