England will meet Ukraine in the quarter-finals in Rome
Quarter-finals
QF1: Switzerland vs Spain (St Petersburg)
QF2: Belgium vs Italy (Munich)
QF3: Czech Republic vs Denmark (Baku)
QF4: Ukraine vs England (Rome)
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Euro 2020: Granit Xhaka is the enigma driving Switzerland forward after they stunned France
A decade after making his Switzerland debut as a teenage substitute against England, Granit Xhaka let his pride run free.
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Southgate praises his ‘immense’ England side for ‘playing with brains’
Gareth Southgate has called on his ‘immense’ England heroes to continue making history after clinching a Euros quarter-final spot with a euphoric win over Germany.
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In 2006, Andriy Shevchenko captained Ukraine to their first ever World Cup quarter-final.
In EURO 2020, Andriy Shevchenko has just managed Ukraine to their first ever European Championship quarter-final.
What a moment. 
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Andriy Yarmolenko’s game by numbers against Sweden
◉ Most chances created (3)
◉ Most fouls won (3)
◉ =Most take-ons completed (1)
And an assist for the opening goal.
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AF EURO 2020 Man of the Day: JACK GREALISH! Roaring Supernova
This Three Lions’ new No.7 showed admirable performance & spirit in the much-anticipated clash between England and Germany. As one of the key players of the match, he made 1 fantastic assist and created 2 chances. History was made as England supporters chant ‘It’s coming home’.
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Goals (and own goals) galore – A statistical look at Euro 2020 so far
Euro 2020’s last 16 concluded on Tuesday evening, with England and the Ukraine securing the last two quarter-final places.
Here, the PA news agency takes a statistical look at the first round of knockout matches.
Manic Monday
There were 14 goals scored in the two last-16 games played on Monday – 3-3 draws first between Spain and Croatia and then France and Switzerland, with Spain scoring twice more in extra time. Switzerland saw off France in the current tournament’s first penalty shootout.
That is the most goals on a day with so few games in any European Championship – indeed, the only higher total came in the four games on the final day of this year’s group stage when Spain again scored five, without reply against Slovakia, Sweden beat Poland 3-2 and the Portugal-France and Germany-Hungary fixtures both finished 2-2.
Spain’s thrilling win over Croatia was the second-highest scoring game ever in the tournament, behind only Yugoslavia’s 5-4 win over France in the semi-finals in 1960.
Denmark previously made history with their 4-0 win over Wales, becoming the first team ever to score four goals in successive European Championship games – only for Spain to then go one better with back-to-back five-goal hauls.
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Golden Boot
Portugal’s early elimination leaves Cristiano Ronaldo’s lead in the Golden Boot standings vulnerable to a host of players.
The Juventus forward scored five goals in his side’s three group games, in the process matching Ali Daei’s record as the leading goalscorer in men’s international football, but then exited the tournament in a 1-0 loss to Belgium.
Karim Benzema’s four goals were also not enough to keep France in the tournament and neither was four from Emil Forsberg of Sweden, but Czech Republic striker Patrik Schick remains an active threat on the same total.
England’s Raheem Sterling, Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku and Switzerland’s Haris Seferovic have three, with Robert Lewandowski and Georginio Wijnaldum eliminated with Poland and Holland respectively after also scoring three times.
Antoine Griezmann won the Euro 2016 Golden Boot with six goals and fellow Frenchman Michel Platini scored a record nine in 1984, but Ronaldo’s total would have topped the charts at any other European Championship to date, albeit with fewer fixtures than this year.
But at the other end…
Extraordinarily, Euro 2020 has now seen as many own goals scored as all previous editions of the tournament added together.
Unai Simon’s howler against Croatia saw his unfortunate Spain team-mate Pedri score the ninth own goal of the month – the first of the knockout phase, with the group-stage fun starting early when Italy scored the first goal of the tournament thanks to Turkey defender Merih Demiral.
Pedri’s nightmare moment also provided a neat statistical symmetry – his back-pass was played from 49 yards out, the same distance as Schick’s wonder strike against Scotland in Group D, meaning matching records have been set for the longest goal and own goal in Euros history just a fortnight apart.
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Ukraine head coach Andriy Shevchenko called his players “heroes” after they beat Sweden at Euro 2020 to secure a quarter-final with England.
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Euro 2020: Toni Kroos ‘to RETIRE from German national team’ aged 31
Toni Kroos has reportedly played his last game for Germany as the 31-year-old will announce his international retirement ‘imminently’.
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Denmark put on a show
Italy win in extra-time
Czechs stun the Dutch
Belgium knock out Portugal
Spain vs. Croatia 
France vs. Switzerland
England beat Germany at last
Ukraine win in the 121st minute
The EURO 2020 last 16 was football at its best 
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1,924 – Granit Xhaka has completed 181 forward passes at EURO 2020, accounting for a total progressive distance of 1,924 metres; the most of any midfielder remaining in the competition.
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The previous European Championship Golden Boot winners:
Antoine Griezmann (2016)
Fernando Torres (2012)
David Villa (2008)
Milan Baroš (2004)
Savo Milošević (2000)
Alan Shearer (1996)
Who will win this years Golden Boot?
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Group F—the Group of Death—contained the defending champions Portugal and the winners of the last two World Cups, Germany and France.
It’s the only group which has seen all four teams eliminated before the quarterfinals…
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England had little time to reflect on their hard-earned victory over Germany as preparations soon turned towards the Euro 2020 quarter-final against Ukraine in Rome
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