Switzerland and Germany enter the quarterfinals with convincing play

The team in blue suffered a 0-2 defeat against Switzerland. Although they were considered inferior to the Southern European representative, right after the opening whistle, the Swiss team gradually overwhelmed Italy, forcing the Azzurri to retreat deep to defend on their home field. Switzerland completely controlled the midfield and their pressing style of play caused Italy to continuously make bad passes and not be able to advance the ball.

Gianluigi Donnarumma had to pick the ball out of the net twice in the first match of the round of 16 of EURO 2024.

If it weren't for the talent of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, the Italian team would have conceded an early goal after the Swiss team's attacks. However, the PSG goalkeeper could not play the role of savior for the Italian team forever when in the 37th minute, Donnarumma was completely helpless against Freuler's shot in the penalty area.

About 30 seconds after the second half started, the Italian team's net continued to shake for the second time, Vargas, unmarked in the penalty area, comfortably kicked the ball with his right foot into the top corner, defeating Donnarumma.

Trailing by 2 goals, the Italian team fought back but what they created was only at the level of opportunities. In the end, the Italian team lost 0-2 and stopped at the round of 16 of EURO 2024. The Azzurri officially became the former champion of Europe.

Speaking after the match, goalkeeper Donnarumma admitted that this was a deserved result after the Italian team's unconvincing performance in Germany and apologized to the fans. "We (the Italian team) apologize to all the fans. This defeat is really painful. Today the whole team was disappointing and Switzerland deserved to win," Donnarumma said after the match.

"We had a terrible first half. When we needed to fight back in the second half, we conceded a second goal instead. In today's game we lacked everything from quality to courage," Donnarumma added.

Germany was "both lucky and fortunate" in the match against Denmark in the second match of the round of 16 of EURO 2024.

A few hours later, in the early morning of June 30, the second match of the round of 16 of EURO 2024 took place between the home team Germany and Denmark. After a goalless first half and a suspension due to weather, the nets of both teams shook three times in the second half.

First, in the 48th minute, Joachim Andersen scored a low shot that left the German team's goalkeeper Neuer helpless. However, referee Oliver signaled for a VAR check and the goal was disallowed due to Delaney's offside. Notably, the Danish player wearing the number 8 shirt was ruled offside simply because the toe of his boot was higher than the German defender's.

3 minutes after the disallowed goal, in a counter-attack on the left wing, Sane tried to cross the ball into the penalty area, the ball situation was not dangerous but surprisingly the VAR team determined that the ball touched Andersen's hand. The referee then had to use the sensor technology in the ball to decide to blow the penalty for the German team. On the penalty spot, Kai Harvertz made no mistake to put Germany ahead 1-0.

The Tanks became the second team to qualify for the quarter-finals of EURO 2024.

In the 68th minute, the home team scored their second goal. Musiala received a pass from his teammate below before breaking away to face Schmeichel. The number 10 player made no mistake to make it 2-0. Defeating Denmark, the German national team became the second team to win a ticket to the quarter-finals of EURO 2024.

Why are Danish players afraid of thunder?

The match between Germany and Denmark was suspended for 15 minutes due to bad weather. Specifically, according to Daily Mail, when the sky above Signal Iduna Park appeared with large lightning bolts, referee Michael Oliver temporarily stopped the match and told the players of both teams to return to the locker room. According to Daily Mail, the Danish players themselves also showed that they did not want to play in the stormy and lightning conditions.

Explaining this, football reporter Klaus Egeland explained that many current Danish players know the story of a colleague named Jonathan Richter. The former FC Nordsjaelland player was struck by lightning during a match in 2009 and had to have a leg amputated.

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