After Zinchenko and Forsberg, the center-forward’s gore in the 121st minute gives the former Rossoneri qualification
Ukraine is the eighth and last national team to qualify for the quarter-finals of Euro 2020 where he will face England at the Olimpico in Rome, after beating Sweden 2-1 in extra time. Glasgow’s Hampden Park is two hours of play after the1-1 resulted in regular time for the network of Zinchenko at 27 ‘equaled by Forsberg at 43 ‘. In the last second of overtime came the winning round of Dovbyk.
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THE MATCH
Out of breath, without enchanting but the mission is accomplished for Andriy Shevchenko who by eliminating Sweden in Glasgow in extra time put his Ukraine in the top eight in Europe. It took two hours of play and a lot of luck for the former Rossoneri to get the better of the Scandinavians, stopped twice by the woods always with Forsberg, but in the end the joker’s gore Dovbyk caught in the extratime made the difference after Danielsson was sent off for an entrataccia on Besedin. England will be in the quarterfinals in Rome for Ukraine.
The ninety minutes of regulation had returned a balanced game, lit intermittently by a few plays here and there of the single – see Yarmolenko on the one hand and Forsberg on the other – without a tactical predominance of one of the two formations. From the point of view of the dribble, Andersson’s selection did something more, but after an occasion on each side with Yaremchuk and Isak not very precise, it was Ukraine that broke the balance by developing an action on the right wing at its best; Yarmolenko’s “trivela” freed in the 27th minute Zinchenko on the opposite side of the field, good at closing the net with the left-handed and less glacial in the polemical exultation towards those who had criticized him in recent days, inviting them to be silent.
Above a goal, however, Sheva’s Ukraine made the mistake of moving back the center of gravity of the formation by a few meters, leaving the reins of the game to Sweden and trying to take away much depth. Kulusevski as for Isak. From a more dribbled action, however, Forsberg’s equalizer came with a shot from the edge that was unstoppably deflected by Zabarnyi just before the interval. An episode in its own way lucky in which the Swedish number 10, the best in the field by posting, paid the bill in the second half. After the fright for Olsen, saved from the post on Sydorchuk’s shot in tow of the usual assist of Yarmolenko, just Forsberg hit the post first at the conclusion of a great counterattack by Isak with a right-footed turn, then also centering the crossbar shortly after with another too precise shot to Bushchan beaten. Isak and Kulusevski the other two chances thrown to the wind by Sweden before extra time.
In the extra half hour of Hampden Park the episode that could have changed the match came to 98 ‘with theentrataccia killer in Danielsson on the newly entered Besedin who cost the Scandinavian defender the red card and the lightning change, limping, for the Ukrainian center forward. In numerical superiority and with Tsygankov’s entry to Shevchenko’s team, ball possession was touched in search of the right pocket, which arrived at the last second, at minute 121 with theDovbyk’s winning shot on the perfect cross of the usual Zinchenko. Network that is worth the quarterfinals against England at the Olimpico in Rome.
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THE BOARD
SWEDEN-UKRAINE 1-2 dts
Sweden (4-4-2): Olsen 6.5; Lustig 6 (38 ‘st Krafth 6), Lindelof 6,5, Danielsson 5, Augustinsson 5,5 (38’ st Bengtsson 6); Larsson 6 (7 ‘pts Claesson 6), Olsson 6 (11’ pts Helander 6), Ekdal 6.5, Forsberg 7.5; Kulusevski 6.5 (7 ‘pts Quaison 6), Isak 6.5 (7’ pts Berg 6). A disp .: Johansson, Nordfeldt, Svensson, Sema, Claesson, Jansson, Cajuste. Ct .: Andersson 6.
Ukraine (4-3-3): Bushchan 6.5; Karavaev 6, Zabarnyi 6.5, Kryvtsov 6, Matviyenko 6; Sydorchuk 6 (13 ‘sts Bezos sv), Stepanenko 6 (4’ pts Makarenko 6), Zinchenko 7; Yarmolenko 6.5 (1 ‘sts Dovbyk 7), Yaremchuk 6 (1’ pst Besedin sv (12 ‘pts Tsygankov sv)), Shaparenko 5.5 (16’ st Malinovskyi 6). A disp .: Trubin, Pyatov, Sobol, Marlos, Mykolenko, Tymchyk. Ct .: Shevchenko 6.
Referee: Orsato
Markers: 27′ Zinchenko (U), 43′ Forsberg (S), 16′ sts Dovbyk (U)
Ammonites: Kulusevski, Forsberg (S); Yarmolenko, Dovbyk (U)
Expelled: 9 ‘pts Danielsson (S) for violent play
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OPTA STATISTICS
Sweden-Ukraine is the fourth match of the round of 16 of EURO 2020 to go to extra time (including Italy-Austria, Croatia-Spain and France-Switzerland), the highest number ever in a single knockout round of the competition. the three matches of the 2008 quarter-finals.
Artem Dovbyk’s, which arrived after 120 minutes and 37 seconds, is the second-latest goal to the Europeans after that of Semih Sentürk in 2008, which came after 121 minutes and 1 second.
With Zinchenko’s goal for the first time in this European Championship, Sweden fell behind in the score.
Andriy Yarmolenko has participated in five of Ukraine’s eight European goals (two goals and three assists), equaling Andriy Shevchenko (4G 1A) among the Ukrainian players with the most participation in the World and European Championships.
Yarmolenko is the 13th player to have scored at least two goals and provided at least two assists in a European championship since 1980, only Sneijder in 2008, Zenden in 2000 and Rijkaard in 1992 did not make it to the final.
Emil Forsberg is the Swedish player who has scored the most goals in a single European edition (four goals) – only Kennet Andersson (five in the 1994 World Cup) has scored more for Sweden in a major international tournament.
With Emil Forsberg four players have scored at least four goals, there have never been so many players with as many goals in a single European Championship.
Since 2004, only Emil Forsberg and Cristiano Ronaldo have scored two left and two right goals in a single European Championship (both at Euro 2020).
Marcus Danielson is the fourth player to receive a red card in extra time in a European Championship match, and the first since Portugal’s Nuno Gomes against France in 2000.
Sebastian Larsson (36 years 23 days) is the oldest Swedish player to have started a knockout match in a major international tournament since the 1958 World Cup final – Gunnar Gren (37 years 241 days against Brazil).
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