Poland are into the quarter-finals after defeating Switzerland on penalties in a match lit up by an extraordinaryscissor-kick from Xherdan Shaqiri
Sat 25 Jun 2016 11.49 EDT
First published on Sat 25 Jun 2016 08.00 EDT- Poland are into the quarter-finals!
- Full-time: Switzerland 1-1 Poland (It's penalties!)
- Half-time in extra-time: Switzerland 1-1 Poland
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- A selection of your reactions to Shaqiri's goal …
- Peep! Extra-time beckons …
- Goal! Switzerland 1-1 Poland (Shaqiri 82)
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- Half-time: Switzerland 0-1 Poland
- Goal! Switzerland 0-1 Poland (Blaszczykowski 39)
- Peep!
- Team news!
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- Poland are into the quarter-finals!
- Full-time: Switzerland 1-1 Poland (It's penalties!)
- Half-time in extra-time: Switzerland 1-1 Poland
- Peep!
- A selection of your reactions to Shaqiri's goal …
- Peep! Extra-time beckons …
- Goal! Switzerland 1-1 Poland (Shaqiri 82)
- Peep! Peep!
- Half-time: Switzerland 0-1 Poland
- Goal! Switzerland 0-1 Poland (Blaszczykowski 39)
- Peep!
- Team news!
Well, what a horrible experience for Granit Xhaka. His penalty was among the worst you’ll ever see. It went way, way west. It’s a pity that we’ll see n more of Shaqiri in this tournament as he arrived in style and was the best player by a mile in the second half and extra-time. As for Poland, they were solid agains and full of character. If Lewandowski ever turns up, they will be very tricky opponents for whoever they face. Right, I have to shoot off. Thanks for you emails and tweets. We’ll always have that Shaqiri goal won’t we?
Poland are into the quarter-finals!
Poland win 5-4 on penalties! Grzegorz Krychowiak keeps his head and finds the corner. Five brilliant, nerveless spot-kicks.
Switzerland score! Rodriguez scores under intense pressure. Switzerland 4-4 Poland.
Poland score! Blaszczykowski bangs it home. Switzerland 3-4 Poland.
Switzerland score! Schar dinks it home. He’s a defender. Lovely stuff. Switzerland 3-3 Poland.
Poland score! Glik makes no mistake. Switzerland 2-3 Poland.
Switzerland score! Shaqiri. Bottom corner. Never in doubt. Switzerland 2-2 Poland.
Poland score! Milik tests Sommer’s wrists and squeezes it in. Switzerland 1-2 Poland.
Switzerland miss! Wow! Xhaka sends it so, so far wide. Abysmal. Switzerland 1-1 Poland.
Poland score! Lewandowski top corner. Wow! Penalties: Switzerland 1-1 Poland
Switzerland score! Lichtsteiner goes down the middle, cool as you like. Penalties: Switzerland 1-0 Poland
Lichtsteiner to take the first kick for Switzerland …
So, it looks like the penalties will be taken in front of the end where the Swiss fans are gathered. I’m nervous. Penalties just make me jittery.
Fabianski has been in great form today, so strong and the busier keeper late in the game. Could it be that he is the matchwinner?
Full-time: Switzerland 1-1 Poland (It's penalties!)
Well, it was always going to be wasn’t it?
ET118 min: Piszczek is played through by Krychowiak, whose pass takes a deflection on the way through and ends up at the feet of the full-back, who can’t shift his body to get a shot away and allows Sommer to clear.
ET117 min: It’s that man Derdiyok again! Seferovic gets on to the end of a long ball played into the left channel and wraps his foot round a cross towards Derdiyok that bounces awkwardly in front of him meaning he can only watch it bounce off his knee and fall into Fabianski’s hands.
ET116 min: “I’ve always thought that Trevor Sinclair’s overhead kick was the one which killed all other overhead kicks. Is the Shaqiri one better than Trev’s?” writes Dave Grinnell. It’s good but that Trev one is something else. Shaqiri runs him close though.
ET 115 min: Derdiyok wallops a free-kick towards the Pyrenees. Not a good couple of minutes from the Swiss striker there. I’d have Shaqiri doing everything right now. Did Swiss media really question his fitness?
ET113 min: What a pass from Shaqiri! What a save from Fabianski! The little man, who has come to life in dramatic fashion, dinks a delicious little ball over the Swiss defence to Derdiyok on the back post, who heads at goal from eight yards out and forces a wonderful reaction stop from Fabianski.
ET 112 min: Pazdan is booked for a foul on Derdiyok.
ET110 min: Lewandowski is fouled about three times in one passage of play, eventually winning a free-kick for a fourth foul that wasn’t by Shaqiri. The attack leads to nothing.
ET108 min: Glik heads behind for a corner. Not a good idea against Switzerland. The first is cleared behind. The second is cleared out. But the ball breaks to Shaqiri, who shows wonderful skill, as though he hasn’t got 108 minutes’ worth of football in his legs, bamboozling his marker and forcing another corner with a little cross to the near post.
ET107 min: Shaqiri is bright and inventive, popping a couple of passes left and right and eventually finding Embolo on the right, but the teenager is tackled well on the run.
ET105 min: Switzerland cause a little panic at the back after a ball into the box is deflected towards Embolo but Pazdan, who has been very, very good, hammers the ball clear on the volley.
Half-time in extra-time: Switzerland 1-1 Poland
This is heading for penalties.
ET104 min: Peszko, who as just come on for Grosicki, takes little time in getting involved, dragging down Lichtsteiner after the full-back showed the first bit of attacking intent in the past 10 minutes. The resulting free-kick comes to nought.
ET102 min: Nothing is happening here. So here’s Conor Murphy: “Xherdan Shaqiri’s goal: nice but could he do it on a rainy night in …” Honk!
ET100 min: And there it is. Maczynski drops to the floor due to cramp and Jodlowiec replaces him.
ET99 min: I’m pretty sure Poland haven’t made a substitution yet. Extraordinary. They have 22 legs chock full of lactic acid out there.
ET98 min: Either Lewandowski overhits a pass or Piszczek checks his run. Either way a Poland move reaches a disappointing end. Here’s an email from Kári Tulinius: “Normally I can’t stand the Swiss team, as no dull football is as dull as when the Swiss are involved. Rote and annoying, they’re like a cuckoo clock that shits on your head. However, any team with Xherdan “Power Cube” Shaqiri is capable of moments of transcendence. I hope he goes back to Shaqiri so I can go back to my irrational grudge against the Swiss team.”
ET97 min: Poland have possession but they don’t appear to have anyone with the legs to do anything with it. Djourou clears a cross from the left and Poland pick up possession once more.
ET95 min: Shaqiri threads a ball through to Seferovic and then gets on the move. He picks it up again and jinks into the box on teh left, where he tries to score another sensational goal by chipping Fabianski from 12 yards. He doesn’t, getting under it and sending it over. He has stones that lad.
ET93 min: Poland are passing the ball around in the sterile fashion. Switzerland are letting them do so. Yup, not much going on here.
ET 92 min: Pazdan makes a fine macho tackle on Derdiyok over by the touchline, sliding through him, winning the ball and making a point.
Peep!
ET 90 min: Poland get us underway. Derdiyok is fouled for Switzerland. Rodriguez lofts it into the Poland penalty area but it’s headed clear. Poland have been solid but they tired dramatically at the end of that second half. Doesn’t bode well for them.
A selection of your reactions to Shaqiri's goal …
“Gooooooooooooooooooool! Feel the Bern!” – Andy Gordon.
“Bicycle kicks don’t lie” – Marie Meyer.
“Did that just happen?! That’s the best volley since Ronnie Whelan’s effort against the USSR in ’88. Okay then, APART FROM Van Basten’s in the final that year!” – Justin Kavanagh.
“As good as Rivaldo’s goal was, this was better. The ball wasn’t controlled by Shaqiri before hitting it and he had to stretch and contort to produce a scissor kick to a ball moving away fro the goal. Rivaldo’s goal was one where you applauded but Shaqiri’s makes you laugh and swear because you just cannot believe that someone had the thought to do that let alone being able to actually do it. It was a ridiculous scissor kick” – Neil Mackie.
Peep! Extra-time beckons …
We’ll have 30 more minutes of this.
90+3 min: Xhaka tries to catch Fabianski off his line. He doesn’t.