England won 2:1 (0:1, 1:0, 1:0) in extra time in Gelsenkirchen.
In the third minute, England defender Mark Gehi earned a yellow card, which meant that he would have to miss the match if England qualified for the quarter-finals.
At the beginning of the match, the Slovaks shot more at the opponent’s goal, but did not hit the goal square.
In the 25th minute, in the counter-attack, David Strelec made a one-on-one pass to the English goalkeeper Jordan Pickford and put Ivan Šrantz past the goalkeeper into the bottom left corner of the goal – 1:0 in favor of Slovakia.
In the 50th minute, after a pass from the left side of the field by Kieran Trippier, Phil Fowden sent the ball into the goal from in front of the goal, but the video replay showed that Fowden had been behind.
In the 55th minute, Strelec tried to beat Pickford with a long shot, who had gone far from the goal, but the ball flew past the right post of the goal.
In the 66th minute, forward Cole Palmer entered the field for England instead of the injured Trippier.
In the 78th minute, after Fowden’s free kick, Harry Kane headed from the middle of the penalty area, but the ball flew past the left corner of the goal.
In the 81st minute, Declan Rice hit the left post of the goal, but Kane sent the ball bouncing off the post over the goal.
England attacked in an attempt to level the scores and in the fifth of six minutes of stoppage time, Kyle Walker’s throw-in from the right flew all the way to the near corner of the goal area, where Mark Gehi won the battle for it, redirecting the ball to Jude Bellingham, who backhanded the crossbar. sent the ball into the right corner of the goal – 1:1.
It was the first shot by the England national team players, after which the ball hit the goal.
At the end of the first minute of extra time, the English scored the second goal with the second shot in the goal area. After Eze’s kick outside the penalty area, the ball hit the ground, flew into the air, and was redirected from the left side of the penalty area by Ivan Toni with a header to the right, Kane headed the ball to the right side of the goal – 2:1 for England.
Slovakian defender Peters Pekarik came close to scoring during stoppage time in the first half of extra time, who beat Ezi at the right post after a pass from the left side of the goal, but sent the ball just over the crossbar.
At the start of the second half of extra time, England replaced Kane and Bellingham with defensive players and focused on defending the score.
In the first minute of extra time, Toni shot a little over the goal of the Slovakia national team from the penalty area.
England footballers beat Serbia 1-0 in the subgroup and drew with Denmark (1-1) and Slovenia (0-0), taking first place in the group with five points. On the other hand, Slovakia beat Belgium 1:0, lost to Ukraine 1:2, drew with Romania (1:1) and finished third in the subgroup.
In five of the six meetings between the two teams, the English were superior, but in 2016, in the group stage of the European Championship, the match ended without a goal being scored.
Slovaks have reached the knockout games of the European Championship for only the third time.
At 22:00 Latvian time, Spain and Georgia will compete in Cologne, the match will be broadcast live on TV channel TV6.
On July 1, France will meet Belgium and Portugal and Slovenia in the round of 16 matches, and on July 2 – Romania and the Netherlands and Austria and Turkey.
On Saturday, in the first round of 16 matches, Switzerland beat Italy 2-0, and Germany beat Denmark 2-0.
The final tournament of the European Championship is attended by 24 national teams, which were divided into six subgroups, with the first two place winners and the four best third place winners of each subgroup entering the playoff tournament.
The 2024 European Championship will be held in ten German cities from June 14 to July 14. The new European champion will be determined at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
In London in 2021, Italy became the European champion, defeating England in the final in the penalty kicks.
England squad: Jordan Pickford; Kieran Trippier (Cole Palmer, 66 min.), Mark Gehi, John Stones, Kyle Walker; Phil Fowden (Iwen Toney, 90+4 min.), Declan Rice, Jude Bellingham (Ezri Konsa, 106 min.), Coby Maino (Eberechi Eze, 84 min.), Bukayo Saka; Harry Kane (Connor Gallagher, 106 min.).
Slovakia national team: Martin Dubravka; David Hantzko, Milan Scrinyar, Dennis Wavro, Peter Peccaric (Lubomir Tupta, 109mins); Ondrej Duda (László Böhnes, 81st min), Stanislav Lobotka, Yuraj Kutzka (Matouche Bero, 81st min); Lukáš Haraslin (Thomas Suslov, 61st min.), David Strelec (Robert Bożenick, 61st.), Ivan Schrantz (Norbert Zomber, 90th+3rd.).
2024-06-30 18:46:01
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