EFE/SoyChile
yesterday
In what can be summed up as an ode to football, the thrilling encounter between France and Switzerland had everything, penalties, comeback after comeback, wonderful goals and extraordinary plays, finishing 3-3 with extra time. But finally the victory went to the Swiss draw via penalties (4-5), thanks to the only failure of the shootout, by Kylian Mbappe.
Switzerland’s national team will face Spain next Saturday in the quarter-finals of Euro 2020 after beating France in a penalty shootout (4-5), after the knockout match, played at the National Arena in Bucharest, ended in a three-way tie. The failure on Kylian Mbappe’s last shot, stopped by Yann Sommer, and after scoring the rest of the pitchers, ended France’s hopes and qualified the Swiss team. The final shootout was reached after two goals in the last ten minutes of Haris Seferovic (m.81) and Mario Gavranovic (m.90) allowed Switzerland to stay alive before a French team that seemed to have sentenced the victory with a double by Karim Benzema and a great goal by Paul Pogba.Igual to what happened in the match between Spain and Croatia, the Swiss team resisted to surrender and continues to aspire to give the surprise against the current world champion, who was remade to the first goal of Seferovic at the quarter of an hour thanks to a penalty stopped by Hugo Lloris to Ricardo Rodriguez (m.55) and two consecutive goals of Benzema (m.57 and 59) that extended Pogba (m.75).
