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“Has an international tournament penalty shootout ever ended before when a team has only taken three kicks?” tweets Tim Robinson.

Tim is referring to Slovenia’s miserable penalty shootout defeat to Portugal on Monday, when they missed all three kicks. Portugal scored theirs, which meant it was all over after six kicks – the shortest possible penalty shootout.

Real Madrid teenager embraced pressure of the occasion to orchestrate team’s raucous knockout win against Austria

It’s the 59th minute of the game. There’s a corner to be taken, and Arda Guler strolls over to take it. As he approaches the section of the stadium where Austria’s noisiest fans are gathered, the confetti is unleashed: a hailstorm of beer cups flying at him, near him, on him. The rain, heavy all night, has swelled to an epic peak. Turkey lead 1-0. Guler stands alone, raising an arm to the deluge, not drowning but waving.

And of course, we knew all about Guler already. We all saw the long-range goal against Georgia, saw his late-season bloom at Real Madrid, saw the breathless tributes from teammates and coaches, followed the origin story of this precocious left-footed teenager all the way from his childhood at Fenerbahce. We knew what he could do with a football. What we didn’t know – what nobody yet knew – was when he could do it.

• Win against Romania sets up quarter-final with Turkey
• Koeman: ‘If we go down, we don’t reach the final’

The Netherlands head coach, Ronald Koeman, has warned his players that “this is the level” at which they will need to perform if they want to reach the Euro 2024 final after a sparkling performance ended in a 3-0 victory against Romania.

The Oranje are back in contention after a convincing last-16 win in Munich, with Cody Gakpo scoring once and Donyell Malen twice.

• Turkey into Euro 2024 quarter-finals with 2-1 victory
• Rangnick bemoans lack of luck as Austria exit

Vincenzo Montella hailed Turkey’s spirit in overcoming a highly fancied Austria side and booking a place in the Euro 2024 quarter-finals. The manager also admitted he had wiped “a horrible stain” from his career, banishing the ghosts of a 6-1 defeat against the same opponents in March.

“I’m very proud of the spirit we showed on the pitch,” Montella said. “It’s outstanding for a coach when you’re able to see that. Besides our formation, our gameplan and our tactics I saw Turkish heart today, and that’s what I love about this country.”

A tie that had promised noise, tempo and a rattling intensity delivered emphatically. At its conclusion Turkey’s substitutes and staff could hurtle on to the pitch in celebration of a quarter-final spot, their colleagues having seen out wave after wave of Austria pressure that did not yield a leveller. They will face the Netherlands in Berlin after seeing out a game they led for all bar the first 57 seconds, the centre-back Merih Demiral scoring the second-fastest goal in European Championship history and adding another in the second half. Despite a response from Michael Gregoritsch and a frantic finale that brought heroics from the Turkey keeper Mert Gunok, there was to be disappointment for Ralf Rangnick’s highly fancied team.

The smart money had been on an early goal; the surprise was that it came from Turkey. They had been well warned about Austria’s propensity to score inside the first 10 minutes and, when Rangnick’s side poured forward from kick-off, it seemed reasonable to anticipate more of the same.

While Uefa looks at the player’s crotch-grabbing antics, Gareth Southgate must harness his game-changing instinct

It’s day 19 in the Euro 2024 Haus. Cristiano Ronaldo has finally pared his entire on-field performance down to a series of viral reaction memes. German police are to be given tasers and sniper rifles to deal with a raised threat of beaming, selfie-grabbing children whose parents need to have a look at themselves. And a formal investigation is under way into whether Jude Bellingham grabbing his imaginary balls really is a private joke among his friends or an insult to Slovakian manhood.

In fact only one of these statements is demonstrably true at the time of writing. But it does raise many other lines of inquiry. What kind of investigation is this exactly? What kind of friends are we talking about here? And what is the chance any sanction for breaching “decent human conduct” (Uefa translation: racism, arguably no; dick gesture, zero tolerance) will be delayed until after the tournament’s second most famous man is safely packed off somewhere else?

Just in case anyone needed ­reminding, the Dutch know how to play ­football. Clicking back into gear after a ­stumble against Austria, the ­Netherlands brushed aside the challenge of ­Romania – literally in the case of Cody Gakpo bursting beyond Radu Dragusin to set up the decisive second goal – and head into the quarter-finals in form.

This was a vindication for coach Ronald Koeman, whose selection was spot on and his substitutions even more so. For their opponents, this still counts as a good ­tournament, and their fans made one heck of a noise.

Gareth Southgate’s team need to improve against Switzerland – and there is plenty of scope for doing so

It is easy to play through England at the moment. Gareth Southgate has talked about a high press being a core part of his team’s identity, but it has not functioned properly at Euro 2024. Harry Kane, who is meant to be leading from the front, has looked lethargic and the issue has been exacerbated by Jude Bellingham’s wandering. Yet there is no obligation on England to continue their attempts to press given they have been so confused and uncoordinated. Southgate has to recognise that there are too many gaps to cover once opponents break through the first line of defence. An obvious solution would be to tell his players to drop off and exert a smothering mid‑block. England need to be more awkward to break down. There should be more emphasis on drawing teams out, luring them into traps and then hitting them on the break.

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An email: “With Denzel back in the starting lineup, the Dutch are good for Equalizers 1, 2, and 3, if needed,” writes Peter Oh. It could be a long evening …

Those teams: Ronald Koeman makes three changes to the side that started against Austria. Xavi Simons, Denzel Dumfries and Steven Bergwijn come into the Dutch team, with Joey Veerman, Donyell Malen and Lutsharel Geertruida dropping to the bench.

France have scored three goals at the tournament: a penalty and two own goals. They are not right

By Luke Entwistle for Get French Football News

“He feels like he’s seeing things in 3D,” said Didier Deschamps when asked if Kylian Mbappé had adapted to wearing a mask. That’s two more dimensions than his France side.

Despite their various experiments at Euro 2024, they are yet to hit their usual form. Deschamps is not fine tuning on the fly. In light of poor performances, injuries and imbalances in his team, he is being forced to make relatively major structural changes. The results, however, have not varied greatly.

Ageing icon is always watchable, but his waxwork target man act is now a hindrance

It was the penultimate question of a 15-minute press conference but one that had everybody nodding in agreement, internally at least. At almost 1am local time in a bunker inside the Frankfurt Arena, Roberto Martínez leaned forward into the microphone and reached for a virtual shield to steel himself.

“Do you feel your game gets too predictable with all those crosses inside the box towards Ronaldo?” came the question and regardless of what the Portugal manager may say, the answer is a resounding big, fat yes. Or as the Portugal supporters mimicking Ronaldo outside the ground before kick-off might say: “Siuuu!”

A 6-1 humiliation in March is still on their minds with a place in the quarter-finals at stake in clash of dark horses

The footage is enough to inflict sleepless nights on anyone following Turkey. They were pulverised by Austria three months ago in Vienna and the knives were immediately out for Vincenzo Montella. It was always going to be that way after losing 6-1 and the question took no time in coming: would he quit? “I want to ask you this, do you resign when asking a wrong question?” he responded. “It is an unnecessary provocation.”

That was a no, then. Montella remains firmly in situ and has a new opportunity to find the right answers in Leipzig on Tuesday night. The stakes are infinitely higher, a quarter-final place the prize, and the lessons are there to be acted upon. For starters, exhibit one showed what not to do Salih Ozcan was caught dwelling on the ball inside 100 seconds and a hurtling Romano Schmid pressed him into oblivion to create the opening goal.

• England manager recalls tough moments in campaign
• Southgate must lift exhausted players for quarter-final

Gareth Southgate has attempted to rally the nation behind his England team at Euro 2024 with a reminder that the memories of Italia 90 and Euro 96 have become more cherished over the years and overlook the difficulties experienced at the time.

England have set up a quarter‑final against Switzerland on Saturday after a heart-stopping 2-1 win over ­Slovakia on Sunday, and there is no doubt they have problems. ­Southgate is grateful for the mini-break to ­recalibrate his players, many of whom were shattered after extra time against Slovakia, some ­carrying knocks and bruises.

Played out of position against Slovakia, made to survive on his wits, the winger proved Mr Dependable once again

Declan Rice is the guy who has to break the news. It’s a good choice. Instinctively Rice feels like the kind of guy who you want breaking bad news. Rice in a veterinarian’s coat, clipboard under his arm, explaining that they tried everything they could, but Jimmy Chew just didn’t make it. Rice’s voice on a crackly wireless, informing us with a heavy heart that we are now at war with Siam. And here – less gravely – with his arm around Bukayo Saka, letting him know that he is now England’s left-back.

“I don’t think putting me out of position is the solution,” Saka said last week when the zany suggestion was put to him that he might be the man to fill the cosmic event horizon on England’s left side. Sucks for you, Bukayo! The man in the M&S polo shirt reckons differently. And so as Rice explains the situation, you can glimpse a certain grotesque bemusement in Saka’s expression, the look of a man finally having the ending of the film Saltburn described to him.

La Roja midfielder magisterially dictated tempo and alleviated emotions in comeback win against Georgia

Rodri Hernández stopped, which was when Spain started again. “Sometimes,” the Manchester City midfielder said, “20 or 30 seconds of saying to people ‘Calm down’ is more productive than going on the attack” – and this was one of those times.

The selección were half an hour into their last-16 tie with Georgia and they had taken nine shots to their opponents none but to everyone’s shock, especially their own, they were losing through a Robin Le Normand own goal. Worse, they were losing control.

Keep up with who is winning the battle to be top scorer at the European Championship in Germany, updated throughout the tournament

The Golden Boot is awarded to the player who scores the most goals in the tournament. If there are multiple players with the same number of goals, the tie is broken by assists – as was the case at Euro 2020, where Cristiano Ronaldo (five goals, one assist) edged out Czech striker Patrik Schick (five goals, no assists).

If the top scorers also have equal assists, the winner will be the player with the fewest total minutes in the tournament. This happened at Euro 2012, where Spain’s Fernando Torres (189 minutes) pipped Mario Gomez of Germany (282 minutes) after both men notched three goals and one assist each.

Togetherness and confidence inspired by Red Bull empire is having a lasting effect on surprise contenders

Just outside the centre circle of Austria’s training pitch, Ralf Rangnick stood deep in discussion with his assistant Lars Kornetka. Nothing could interrupt such focused conversation, but for an interested observer it was hard for attention not to drift. No more than 200 metres beyond the far side, the multicoloured flags that fly atop Berlin’s Olympiastadion’s stands fluttered over a row of trees. At the right-hand corner stood the columns that guard its west entrance, and the perfunctory row of terracing, as Rangnick’s squad emerged to go through their paces.

Austria may have a last-16 tie on Tuesday with Turkey to grapple with, but they can see the Euro 2024 finishing line every day. They are based at the amateur stadium, used by Hertha Berlin’s under-23 team, that adjoins the arena where dreams will come true in just under a fortnight. It is a languid Sunday morning in the surrounding complex, the bustle of match day replaced by a vintage car exhibition, along with a mixture of joggers, curious tourists and perambulating families, but Austria have their eyes on glory.

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