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Ouch. Pedri apparently out of the semis and the final if they get there with a stretched ligament.

Switzerland have looked good before today but England managed to nullify that for the most part. It hasn’t looked pretty but I think people are underestimating how effective it’s been at stifling opposition. Wouldn’t bet against England being able to do similar against Netherlands and give themselves a chance of clawing their way to the final.

Feel like Turkey were unlucky not to take that to extra time but Netherlands won’t care!

Goal for Turkey!

I don’t even know how he did that

A perfect set of penalties! From England! GERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIN! Semi Final!

Don’t agree with them wanting to remove extra time myself in the slightest! Teams with the fitter players shouldn’t have that advantage reduced, and teams that manage to do well enough to win in normal time shouldn’t have that advantage reduced over the tournament. Not to mention it’d probably end up with teams wanting to make sure it at least goes to penalties from about 60 mins on.

At least Beckham had a pretty decent conversion rate. Ronaldo has what, 1 goal in the last 60 or so free kicks for Portugal?

Ronaldo on a free kick has to be the most over-hyped aspect in world football.

He’s done two different things that pick up a one match suspension, but there’s some ambiguity as to whether the first suspension (for accumulated yellows) that he first picked up being part of the second suspension (for two yellows leading to a red) affects it, and some ambiguity as to whether, if he does have two suspensions, due to the wording they both apply to just the semi-final rather than stacking to a two match suspension.

I don’t know. It doesn’t look like it’s being reported as two games suspended anywhere though. In Copa America the rules specify that they do stack, but the wording doesn’t seem to cover this case for the Euros rules. Might be that a ruling needs to be made by the competition on it.

The yellows get cancelled, but not the suspensions they picked up for those yellows. It just protects players from getting suspended for the final for accumulated yellows.

They’ll find it tough to get through the semi-final. Three suspended players, plus Pedri potentially out, and the extra half hour in their legs.

I actually don’t know whether the one match suspension for a red gets added to the one match suspension for the accumulated yellows he’d already picked up.

Lost count of the number of times I’ve said ‘he should have scored there…’ during this match.

Yeah, his hand looked like it was out away from his body and he subtly leaned into it as well. And now a cracking header for the goal for Spain. Looks like Germany will be out complaining about the ref here.

Blimey. Looked a stonewall penalty under the current rules to me.

Been a pretty ugly game but compelling to watch.

Admittedly I’m not a huge fan of watching road cycling, but that was a special sporting moment. Can’t imagine how he must be feeling now compared to a year ago!

Save of the tournament right there. What a match!

Not sure they’ll have enough to see this out, but Georgia are actually giving themselves a chance here. They get a second with one of these breaks and Spain might be in a spot of trouble.

‘Tis knockout football. I’m a lot happier than the Slovakian fans that have seen a decent performance from their players tonight. Yes, we’ve been poor so far this tournament, but this group of players are clearly capable of better, and fortunately have done just enough to get through to the last 8 teams in the tournament. If we find a way to click for just three games, or even just manage to sneak our way undeservedly through, then we’re celebrating just like Greece or Portugal have in past tournaments.

Almost feels like some people will actually be more annoyed if England go on and win the tournament

Feels like he earned that with his professionalism and performances to get us over the line for promotion last season. He’s certainly shown that he’s got an excellent mentality to be a back up keeper.

Well, we’ve done what we needed to, just about. Knock out games always play out differently, we won’t be facing all out defence again like we did tonight.