Thomas Tuchel's team survived storms on and off the pitch at the Estadio Azteca as goals from Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane sealed a 3-2 win over Mexico on their home turf in the last 16.
Jarell Quansah's red card means he misses the battle with Erling Haaland as the Bayer Leverkusen defender serves a one-game ban.
Tuchel has indicated England could consider an appeal on the back of FIFA's controversial removal of Folarin Balogun's suspension ahead of USA's loss to Belgium.
Reece James is back in contention, and could replace Quansah at right-back, but Jordan Henderson will miss the rest of tournament after breaking his wrist during the celebrations in Mexico City.
As attention turns to Norway, Tuchel is also balancing a delicate suspension risk, with four of his players in danger of missing a possible semi final based on FIFA's updated rules.
2026 FIFA World Cup suspension rules
Due the competition's expansion to 48 teams, FIFA tweaked their yellow card accumulation rules, when drawing up new suspension cut off points.
FIFA introduced a rule in which all single yellow cards are erased after the group stages. This ensures teams enter the knockout phases with a fresh disciplinary record.
There's then a second deletion of single yellow cards after the quarters to guard against players missing the final for picking up bookings.
In effect, suspensions work in three-match windows, firstly in the group stage, followed by the Round of 32, last 16 and quarters. If a player picks up two yellow cards inside one of these three-match window, they are suspended for the next following match.
Who are England's suspension risks vs. Norway?
In the group stage, no England player was booked against Croatia, with Declan Rice cautioned in the 0-0 draw with Ghana and Quansah yellow carded in the Panama win.
If Rice had been booked vs. Panama, he'd have missed the Round of 32 game, but he was rested by Tuchel as all cards were wiped.
Jude Bellingham was carded against DR Congo and Rice, Nico O'Reilly and Marc Guehi were all shown a yellow card against Mexico, by match referee Alireza Faghani.
That means all four will miss England's possible semi-final if they are carded against Norway. Quansah's red means he only misses one game, and Henderson is also on that yellow card list, but his injury has ruled him out regardless.