Spain beat Switzerland on penalties to reach Euro semis
Former Euro champions Spain has secured qualification into the semi final of the European Championship after defeating 10 man Switzerland in penalty shootout.
Coming into the match both team endured a challenging round of 16 with Switzerland seeing off world champions France and Spain defeating 2018 finalist Croatia after extra time.
The match which took place at the St. Petersburg began with Spain going up 1-0 in the 8th minutes after Swiss midfielder Denis Zakaria scored an own goal after deflecting a shot by Jodi Alba past his goal keeper.
The Second half saw Liverpool winger and Switzerland Captain for the day Xherdan Shaqiri restore parity for his side in the 68th minutes after capitalizing on a defensive error.
Nine minutes later in the 77th Switzerland midfielder Remo Freuler was issued a straight red after reckless a tackle on Spain forward Gerard Moreno, an incidenct which dampened the Swiss chance of a win.
After that Switzerland struggled a lot but were able to hold the game on until penalty shootout where they failed after missing three spot kicks to see Spain into the semi final of the Euros.
Spain is scheduled to face off Italy in semi final at the Wembley on Tuesday 6th July after Mancini men saw off No 1 ranked national team Belgium 2-1.
That was what make the game to be tough,for it to have end up in penalty that means the two players as really done well, the painful thing is that i don't have the opportunity to watch the great game
Yeah both team really gave it their all. Unfortunately only of them has a room in the next phase of the competition. Nothing to feel bad about, there's still other fixtures left this weekend to see. You can also make preparations to see the semi finals which starts on Tuesday
Congratulations to Spain. Is not so easy making it to semi finals.
Switzerland really gave them a tough challenge and also defense well against SPAIN.
At some point I got scared when the game entered penalty, I thought Switzerland will win.
Yeah. Congratulations to them. Not an easy feat going past the stubborn Swiss. They did really well.
The swiss were tough as hell. How do you contain Spain for almost an hour with 10 men after suffering a red card. That was impressive from Switzerland. Sadly one of the teams had to bow out.
The spotkick situation was a very intense one with both team missing out their first. That was unlike any other. Good for Spain for been the better of the teams
They did well enough to stand up to the hype in them and congratulations to them ,hope to see them improve on their performance when they play against the mighty Azzurri's in their next match
Yeah they will better in the poor shooting content. Hope they don't fall into such situation going forward as they might not be this lucky. The semi final clash against Italy is one I look forward to. Spain will have to be another level to get anything from the game as the Italians are the team to beat with their impressive form.
Thanks for the news update on this game
Yesterday, I couldn't watch the match in my local football viewing center because few minutes into the game, we had a cult clash in my region
Everyone ran home for safety, the viewing centers had to close up because of the shooting and killing
Phew.... It good to know that Spain were able to beat Switzerland
My pleasure. Oh bad bad. Cult still terrorize in this age? Hope the situation has been brought under control by the authorities?
Shootings? That must be have been really scaring and frightening. Hope you didn't get hurt?
Yeah. Spain eventually progressed after match filled with lot of tension.
Concerning avoiding situations like you did yesterday, you might want to consider viewing further matches online.
I wasn't able to watch the game at home due to serious gridlock experienced on my way back from work. I however steamed it live in the road using hesgoal . Com. It's a great site and it consume less data
I love the game that Switzerland always play a tough match every time when ever the getting march with Spain. But congratulations to the Spanish side that they later qualified
Switzerland was really hard as rock despite been down with 10 men. Doubt Spain would have made it if it wasn't for the penalty shootout. They were really awesome. I must give it to them. Congratulations to Spain for doing what needed to be done
That is the way they always play their games especially when it comes Spain as their opponent they be come serious on the pitch for that day
Yeah It was noticable as they defended and played very deeply. But Sadly for Switzerland their fairy tale run had to come to end
That normal in the game of football which I always tell my self that a player need more strength that they can use till the end of that particular game
True but how do recover your strength been one man against a very possessive side like Spain?