(Ukraine – Austria 0-1) Christoph Baumgartner (21) sent Austria to the quarterfinals, but should have been replaced.
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Earlier in the match, he barked with Ukrainian Ilya Zabarnij and took the count for a minute, before he eventually got back on his feet.
Baumgartner still continued the match and also won the duel with the aforementioned Zabarnij when he scored the 1-0 goal, which means that Austria is further and will face Italy in the quarterfinals.
33 minutes into the game, Christoph Baumgartner had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. He also received an ice pack in the neck from someone in the support apparatus.
– With the decision in hand, it is completely wrong. It is the doctor who must take responsibility and decide, says SVT expert Jonas Eriksson in the Swedish studio.
– Baumgartner should have been taken off immediately and examined by an independent doctor. It was completely ridiculous, said Chris Sutton at the BBC.
Baumgartner went down for counting.
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If a concussion is suspected, players must be taken off the field. Eriksson highlights the World Cup final in 2014, where Germany’s Christoph Kramer struggled with memory loss after he continued to play the final.
– The players will always continue to play. The doctors must make the decision, says Eriksson.
21-year-old and 324-day-old Baumgartner became the youngest goal scorer in this year’s European Championship so far and at the same time sent Austria on from the group stage – for the first time ever.
– We are proud that we managed to achieve this historic result, says Florian Grillitsch to UEFA, after being named “Man of the match”.
– I’m overjoyed, but I can barely stand. It hurts everywhere, says striker Marko Arnautovic after 90 minutes in rainy Bucharest.
Many had predicted that it could end in a draw as it would send Ukraine on with four points, while Austria on the same score would have had good opportunities with four points and a neutral goal difference.
With three points and one minus in goal difference, it looks significantly darker for the Ukrainians.
– Ukraine is probably out, says TV 2’s commentator Endre Olav Osnes.
However, there was no copy of the group stage match between Austria and West Germany in 1982, where both teams knew that both teams would advance with a one- or two-goal victory to West Germany.
West Germany took the lead after ten minutes and afterwards neither team seemed particularly interested in attacking.
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