In Glasgow Sweden beaten at the last minute of extra time: historic result for the former Rossoneri’s national team
Recovered for the broken cap in the patrol of the best third, Ukraine finds its brightest star and overtakes for the first time in a European quarter-final.
From Glasgow, in the play to outline England’s opposite Rome who wants to bring football back home, the fourth surprise of these indecipherable eighth rounds emerges: the Sweden of the without Ibra, who also graduated first in front of Spain in the group, hit by a whip of the newly found Zinchenko, put back into play by the usual Forsberg (4 centers in the tournament), worked up by Yarmolenko, saved from the pole on Sydorchuk’s safe shot and finally sunk in extra time by the red to Danielson and by the jab on the gong from substitute Dovbyk. For the icon Shevchenko, serial breaker of Ukrainian football records, the qualification among the top eight of the continent is worth another first: being the only direct witness both of the 2006 world quarter final against Italy, experienced as a player, that of the European one against England on Saturday, played by the coach.
In the singular raffle of Hampden Park, characterized by two goals in the first half buttoned, by three woods (two by Forsberg and one by Sydorchuk) and zero goals in a second half without calculations and by infinite overtime, the winning ticket is extracted from the hero by chance Dovbyk a few seconds from penalties. –