{"id":8302,"date":"2021-06-29T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2021-06-30T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:16:35","slug":"euro-2020-switzerland-knock-out-world-champion-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/euro-2020-switzerland-knock-out-world-champion-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2020: Switzerland knock out world champion France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Switzerland has defeated reigning world champion France with victory in a nerve-shredding penalty shootout to secure its berth in the Euro 2020 quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kylian Mbappe, who endured a torrid night leading the line for France, capped a miserable evening by missing his team\u2019s decisive fifth penalty, the only player not to score in the shootout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was scarcely believable the tie had even reached this stage, as Switzerland trailed 3-1 with less than 10 minutes of regulation time remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, late goals from Haris Seferovic and Mario Gavranovic stunned their French opponents as Switzerland forced extra-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France looked like it was cruising after Karim Benzema\u2019s brace and Paul Pogba\u2019s stunning long-range strike had canceled out Seferovic\u2019s early header, with Switzerland\u2019s Ricardo Rodriguez missing what looked like a crucial penalty in the second half. Switzerland will face Spain in Friday\u2019s quarterfinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland has defeated reigning world champion France with victory in a nerve-shredding penalty shootout to secure its berth in the Euro 2020 quarterfinals. Kylian Mbappe, who endured a torrid night leading the line for France, capped a miserable evening by missing his team\u2019s decisive fifth penalty, the only player not to score in the shootout. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[468,449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}