Euro 2016: Switzerland v Poland

Summary

Poland into last eight for first time
Arsenal's Xhaka misses crucial kick in shootout
Poland face Croatia or Portugal in last eight

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance

Postpublished at 13:15 British Summer Time 25 June 2016
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Switzerland have only beaten Poland once - a friendly back in 1976.
The sides are infrequent rivals to be honest, just 10 meetings across the years. This is the biggest clash in the history books for sure.
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Expecting goals?published at 13:14 British Summer Time 25 June 2016
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I'm all for a goalfest, Hungary v Portugal style, but the omens are not really great for one in St Etienne...
- Switzerland’s last shot on target was 103 minutes ago, against Romania.
- Switzerland have conceded only one goal so far, from the penalty spot against Romania.
- Poland have never scored more than one goal in nine games at the Euros. However, they haven’t conceded a single goal in this tournament
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Uncharted territorypublished at 13:12 British Summer Time 25 June 2016
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A first for both nations this afternoon.
Switzerland and Poland have both reached the knockout stage of a European Championship finals for the first time. In fact, prior to Euro 2016 Poland had never even won a game at the tournament.
Now both sides find themselves in the so-called “right half of the draw” and one of them will be the first country into the quarter-finals.
How far can they go?
'Games really matter'published at 13:08 British Summer Time 25 June 2016
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Danny Murphy
Former England midfielder
I am excited now because we are at the point where the games really start to matter. People are going home if they lose and that should create some better games, a bit more end to end and people having a go.
Today's line-uppublished at 13:04 British Summer Time 25 June 2016
Three games, all could go to extra time and penalties. Gorge yourselves on this lot..
Switzerland v Poland (14:00 BST)
Wales v Northern Ireland (17:00 BST)
Croatia v Portugal (20:00 BST)
You can follow all three games across the BBC...
Team newspublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 25 June 2016
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Switzerland make just one change as striker Haris Seferovic statrs in place of teenager Brrel Embolo, but Poland make four changes.
In come dependable right-hand-side duo Lukasz Piszczek and Jakub Blaszczykowsi, plus Kamil Grosicki and Krzysztof Maczynski.
Football is BACKpublished at 13:00
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Afternoon all.
Never have two rest days at a tournament dragged on for so long. After the feast of three, or even four games a day, the famine of no matches at all has been hard for us all to take.
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It's all been very quiet across Europe. Hasn't it?
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Anyway - football is back. And back big.
Three knockout matches today will see the top half of the draw taking shape. Who will make the first step into the last eight?
Let's find out...