{"id":10347,"date":"2021-07-03T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T03:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=119424"},"modified":"2021-07-03T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T03:43:56","slug":"euro-2020-spain-booked-their-spot-in-the-semifinals-after-penalty-shootout-victory-over-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/euro-2020-spain-booked-their-spot-in-the-semifinals-after-penalty-shootout-victory-over-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2020: Spain booked their spot in the semifinals after penalty shootout victory over Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain becomes the first team to book their place in the semifinals of the 2020 European championship after they outscored Switzerland 3-1 in the penalty shootout at the Gazprom Arena, St Petersburg.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every picture tells a story\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tough on Switzerland. Well played, Spain \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p1pXBSfUbr\">pic.twitter.com\/p1pXBSfUbr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA EURO (@UEFAEURO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFAEURO\/status\/1411033914269970439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spain became dominant in the early 8th minute with Denis Zakaria\u2019s own goal but captain Xherdan Shaqiri scored an equaliser at 68th minute to draw levels 1-1 before the game headed into extra time and 10-man Switzerland took Spaniards to penalties where Mikel Oyarzaba won the shootout and the Spanish national team advanced to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland XI: Sommer, Elvedi, Akanji, Rodr\u00edguez, Widmer, <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Freuler, Zakaria, Zuber, Shaqiri, Embolo and Seferovic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spain XI: Unai Sim\u00f3n, Azpilicueta, Pau Torres, Laporte, Jordi Alba, Koke, Busquets, Pedri, Ferr\u00e1n Torres, Morata and Sarabia.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland had shocked everyone with their remarkable performance where they fought back to World Cup champions France from being down to 3-1 and beat them 5-4 on penalties. Today, they were without Granit Xhaka due to suspension who was Star of the Match vs France.<\/p>\n<p>Jordi Alba shot from outside the box which was deflected off Denis Zakaria and confirmed as an own goal at the 8th minute of the first half that gave the lead to Luis Enrique\u2019s side. But Shaqiri, who captained Vladimir Petkovic\u2019s Switzerland on his 96th international appearance and has been directly involved in 51 goals after he slid the ball into the corner for the equaliser. It finished 1-1 after extra time, and Spain went through a victory on penalties.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Penalty shoot-out thread! \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded \ud83c\udd9a \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BSg6QTvw1G\">pic.twitter.com\/BSg6QTvw1G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA EURO (@UEFAEURO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFAEURO\/status\/1411030657833316356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Unai Simon, who made a mistake that cost them a goal four days ago vs Croatia was awarded as Star of the Match for his penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The comeback is always stronger than the setback.<\/p>\n<p>Unai Sim\u00f3n \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gdC1QmTwmi\">pic.twitter.com\/gdC1QmTwmi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA EURO (@UEFAEURO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFAEURO\/status\/1411038344319057923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6\ud83d\ude03<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E6YZrEIoYX\">pic.twitter.com\/E6YZrEIoYX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA EURO (@UEFAEURO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFAEURO\/status\/1411035543505358853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Grande Unai Sim\u00f3n!! \ud83d\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iker Casillas (@IkerCasillas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IkerCasillas\/status\/1411032625431646209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Swiss star Roger Federer tweeted appreciating Switzerland\u2019s efforts and wished Spain luck.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Danke \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded, It\u2019s been an amazing Sommer \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffc guys, <br \/>thank you \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc, great effort, can\u2019t wait for the World Cup \u26bd\ufe0f.  Great playing Spain \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 and good luck. <br \/>Kopf hoch Jungs. <br \/>Traum gsi mit euch die EM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer\/status\/1411042054843650054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spain, who have lost only one of their previous 22 international matches against Switzerland will play Italy, who eliminated Belgium to meet in the semifinals of Euro 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain becomes the first team to book their place in the semifinals of the 2020 European championship after they outscored\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":32855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1234,1722,1970,727,2072,773,910,2071],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-belgium","tag-euro-2020","tag-granit-xhaka","tag-luis-enrique","tag-sergio-busquets","tag-spain","tag-switzerland","tag-unai-simon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}