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Ukraine scores late in extra time, beats Sweden at Euro 2020

(AP) — Ukraine had Emil Forsberg’s deflected
reached the round of shot from outside the area
16 at the European in the 43rd minute equalized
Championship with two for Sweden. It was his fourth
losses and the worst record goal at Euro 2020, but a
of the advancing teams. tournament lead-tying fifth
eluded him in the second half
And now the quarterfinals, despite curling shots off the
too. post and the crossbar.

Ukraine eliminated “It’s a very bitter defeat,”
previously unbeaten Sweden Sweden coach Janne
2-1 on Tuesday with a goal in Andersson said. “In the
stoppage time at the end of second half we had four really
extra time from a player who great chances. It felt like we
was left on the bench for the would score eventually.”
entire group stage. Substitute
Artem Dovbyk stooped Andersson cited the
low to guide a header from momentum shift in extra
Oleksandr Zinchenko’s cross time when Sweden defender
past goalkeeper Robin Olsen. Marcus Danielson was sent
off in the 98th minute for
It was the 24-year-old following through on a
forward’s first goal for the challenge with a raised boot
national team. on substitute Artem Besedin.

Ukraine’s greatest ever The game lost all rhythm and Ukrainians had needed seize a chance for a deep run After scoring with a first-time
forward, current coach flow in scrappy extra time a favor from Sweden to in the arguably weaker half of shot, Zinchenko ran away
Andriy Shevchenko, ran periods littered with fouls, advance because they lost the draw. with a finger to his lips in a
down the sideline to celebrate injuries and an argument two group games and had a gesture he said was telling
with his players, who will between the two coaches. negative goal difference. After The winner between critics to be quiet.
now head to Rome to face losing to Austria last week, Ukraine and England will
England on Saturday. “It was a really hard game,” Ukraine would have been out play Denmark or Czech “In the first three games we
Shevchenko said. “Everyone if Poland had beaten Sweden Republic in the semifinals. received a lot of criticism,
Zinchenko also scored on understood that the prize at two days later. Sweden won which I think we deserved,”
a day when his Manchester the end was great. We needed that game 3-2 with Forsberg Ukraine’s key creator had he said through a translator.
City teammate Raheem to be strong and the players scoring twice. been Yarmolenko, who plays “I showed that they need to
Sterling got one in England’s showed it today.” in England for West Ham. support us.”
2-0 win over Germany. Neither team had ever won a To set up Zinchenko’s goal,
Zinchenko gave Ukraine the Andersson said he confronted knockout game at a European Yarmolenko used the outside Yarmolenko looked
lead in the 27th minute when Shevchenko because “I felt Championship in a combined of his favored left foot to drift exhausted long before he was
he rifled in a low shot set up like they were diving a bit eight previous tournaments. a curling pass across seven taken off for the final period
by a crafty pass from captain toward the end.” Both often-cautious teams defenders toward their blind of extra time — making way
Andriy Yarmolenko. played more freely in a wide- side in the penalty area. for Dovbyk to come on.
Just to get to Glasgow, the open 90 minutes, trying to

England fans celebrate beating Germany at Euro 2020

(AP) — Years of despair. Steve Line, a 61-year-old gar- Championship. “When those goals went in, it ments Manager from Lon-
Decades of distress. Eons dener from Milton Keynes felt like a quarter of a century don.
of agony. who made his way to Wem- The last time England had of emotion poured out in the
bley Stadium on Tuesday for beaten a German team on stands.” “It’s good to get one over on
It’s nothing but history now, the historic night. “It’s put it such an occasion was in the the Germans, we owed them.
because England has finally to bed now, hasn’t it? Put it 1966 World Cup final. Since Only about 40,000 fans were But it’s not so much revenge.
beaten Germany again in a to bed.” then, there were many heart- at Wembley to witness the We’re a massive football na-
knockout match at a major breaking losses, like at the epic victory because capacity tion, we need to be perform-
soccer tournament. Raheem Sterling and Harry 1970 World Cup in Mexico, was reduced amid the coro- ing at the top level ... England
Kane were the ones who did at the 1990 World Cup in It- navirus pandemic, but the are up there with the elite
“It’s absolutely brilliant as the hard work, scoring a goal aly, and at the 1996 European roaring crowd screamed and again.”
an old man, after seeing us each to give England a 2-0 Championship at Wembley cheered like twice that much.
keep losing to the Germans victory over Germany in the Stadium. The spot in the quarterfinals
for a while,” said England fan round of 16 of the European England will next play follows a run to the semifinals
The Germans beat England Ukraine in the Euro 2020 at the last World Cup in Rus-
in a penalty shootout in those quarterfinals on Saturday sia, and all of it under coach
Euro ’96 semifinals, and it’s in Rome. If they win that, Gareth Southgate — a for-
been a source of anguish for the English will come back mer England defender who
the fans ever since. to Wembley for a semifi- knows all about the team’s
nal match against either the history with the Germans.
“I remember the pain of 1996, Czech Republic or Denmark.
as a 12-year-old and hav- The final is scheduled for He missed the decisive pen-
ing to go to school the next July 11. alty kick in the shootout loss
day,” said Terence Michael in 1996.
Anthony, now a 37-year-old “I think it’s just a relief now
accountant from London. “I that the draw opens up we’ve “Poor Gareth, but he’s put
hoped we would get revenge got a real chance of making it to bed,” Line said. “He’s a
eventually, just not 25 years it to the final,” said Richard happy man now, so come on
later. Mills, a 36-year-old Pay- England.”