{"id":251,"date":"2025-07-11T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T02:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:02:55","slug":"finland-1-1-switzerland-hosts-score-stoppage-time-equaliser-to-reach-euro-2025-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland 1-1 Switzerland: Hosts score stoppage-time equaliser to reach Euro 2025 quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Riola Xhemaili&#8217;s stoppage-time goal created history as Switzerland reached the quarter-finals of the European Championship for the first time at the expense of Finland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With five minutes remaining and the hosts&#8217; spot at Euro 2025 in danger, the ball was drilled towards the back post where substitute Xhemaili tapped home to send her country through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both sides started the game knowing avoiding defeat for the Swiss would take them through in second spot, while Finland needed all three points to progress from Group A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a first half that lacked any real attacking intent, Finland took the lead in the 79th minute through Natalia Kuikka&#8217;s penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stade de Geneve was stunned after Viola Calligaris&#8217; reckless challenge on Emma Koivisto in the box resulted in a penalty and Kuikka rose to the occasion by sending Swiss goalkeeper Livia Peng the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts were in mouths as seven minutes were added on, but the superb Peng in the Swiss net was in fine form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Swiss piled forward and found that all-important goal to progress from Group A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riola Xhemaili&#8217;s stoppage-time goal created history as Switzerland reached the quarter-finals of the European Championship for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}