Viktor Gyokeres scored a dramatic 88th-minute winner as Graham Potter’s Sweden overcame Poland in their play-off final to reach this summer’s World Cup.<\/p>\n
Poland twice came from behind but Gyokeres smashed into an empty net after Besfort Zeneli’s shot had come back off the post to spark joyous scenes in Stockholm.<\/p>\n
Newcastle winger Anthony Elanga had put the hosts in front with a superb finish, clipping the bar on the way in, after being teed up by Yasin Ayari’s clever flick.<\/p>\n
The lead lasted just 13 minutes before Nicola Zalewski curled in a shot from the edge of the box for Poland.<\/p>\n
Sweden goalkeeper Kristoffer Nordfeldt may feel he could have done better but more than made up for it with a number of smart saves in the first half.<\/p>\n
Potter’s men were back in front just before half-time as centre-back Gustaf Lagerbielke powerfully headed home from Benjamin Nygren’s free-kick.<\/p>\n
But Poland fought back again with Karol Swiderski tapping in from close range after Zalewski had stolen in around the back to put the ball back across goal.<\/p>\n
The visitors seemed the more likely to snatch it for much of the second half before a late Sweden rally that ultimately led to Gyokeres’ moment of glory.<\/p>\n
Victory also meant Sweden gained revenge having been beaten by Poland in the World Cup qualifying play-off final four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viktor Gyokeres scored a dramatic 88th-minute winner as Graham Potter’s Sweden overcame Poland in their play-off final to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-556936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556936","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=556936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}