Ultra-dominating, Sweden waited for the last seconds of its meeting to find the fault, beat Belgium (1-0) and qualify in the quarter-finals of the Euro.
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They were patient, and were finally rewarded. Yet largely favorite against Belgium, the Swedes experienced immense difficulties in blowing up the lock of the Red Flames, Friday, July 22, in the quarter -final of the Women’s Football Euro. But while the meeting seemed inexorably to the always random extension, the Linda defender seemingly appeared in the surface to place a strike of law synonymous with qualification and liberation for a whole people (90
Before challenging the locals of the stage, England, on the next round on Tuesday, the Swedes will already be able to blow a big blow. Announced as immense favorites in front of novice Belgians at this level of competition, the Swedes confirmed their status in the game, multiplying the opportunities throughout the meeting. But they broke their teeth for a long time on a valiant Belgian defense and let the worst fear of their supporters.
At the intermission, the Swedes had already shot 16 times, often by midfielder Filippa Angeldal, omnipresent but imprecise, like his teammates. The Belgian goalkeeper Nicky Evrard, she, all the same had to illustrate in front of her cage, as on a dangerous head of Amanda Ilestedt at the start of the game (14 e ). On the other hand, she could not do anything on a strike at the ground of the attacker Stina Blackstenius a few minutes later, but the Swedish was finally reported offside, the fault of a slightly too in front (25 E ).
The Belgian Guardian tried everything
After this refused goal, the Blagult had to say that this match was all the air of the perfect trap. Because on the return from the locker room, the physiognomy of the meeting remained the same: the Swedes attacked, and the Belgians resisted, tireless. With already two penalties arrested at her record since the start of the Euro, the Belgian goalkeeper Nicky Evrard continued to disgust the opposing attack by multiplied in front of her cage. With the key to a rescue on a head at close range of Blackstenius, who still has to wonder how she has not opened the scoring at that time (72 e ).
The Merit of the Swedes will have been to never give up even though everything seemed to direct the part towards the extension. As often in this meeting, the ball has long sailed in the surface on a last corner, but this time it was the Linda defender seeming who therefore had the last word by catapulting it in the aim of a poor Nicky Evrard , abandoned by an overly passive defense. The 34
Finalists of the last two editions of the Olympic and second games in the FIFA ranking, the Swedes continue their journey even if they undoubtedly hoped for a quieter meeting. The fact remains that they are still in the running to win a second international title, after winning the Euro, already, in 1984.