As the new rule of UEFA 3 teams will play knock out stage games among four in the group and the teams are:
- Switzerland
- Poland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Croatia
- Portugal
- France
- Republic of Ireland
- Germany
- Slovakia
- Hungary
- Belgium
- Italy
- Spain
- England
- Iceland
Switzerland vs Poland
It was the first match of knockout stage. Here Poland gave lately break through in which J.Blaszckyowski scored a goal in 39' minutes and the score up to first half was 1-0 with poland leading. Here Switzerland was searching for equalising goal which came from Xherdan Shaquiri in 82' minute with stunning bicycle kick at the corner of the post. Up to 90'minutes the score was 1-1.
Now extra time was added in which Switzerland played attacking football and nearly missed two goal chance.
And the game went to 120 min with score 1-1.
In the penalty shootout Granit Xhaka missed the penalty and Poland won by 5-4 in tiebreaker.
Wales vs Northern Ireland
The game was important game for the both of the team. But the game didn't gone according the thought of the coach. Here first half was finished with score 0-0.
Only one goal came in the whole game and that was own goal by G.McAuley in the 75' minute and the final score of the game was 1-0 with wales win.
Croatia vs Portugal
Croatia in the tournament was playing very well with their two winning matches. But the way Portugal played in the group stages was not good as they were expected with their 0 win and all tthe game went draw.
But the stat between Portugal vs Croatia was that Portugal won their last three encounters vs Croatia scoring six goals.
But the game was played with full effort Croatia mainly attacking.
But the game gone 0-0 until the 90' minute. In the closing end of the added 30' minute Ricardo Quaresima scored at 117' minutes and it was Portugal who won by 1-0.
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| WALES VS NORTHERN IRELAND |
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| PORTUGAL VS CROATIA |
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| STUNNING BICYCLE KICK |
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