Ukraine eliminated Sweden from EURO 2020 with a last minute extra time goal on Tuesday.
Key stats from Ukraine 2-1 Sweden Round of 16
- Ukraine are into their first EURO quarter-final; their only previous major quarter-final was a 3-0 defeat to eventual winners Italy at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- Dovbyk’s goal was his first for Ukraine on his third appearance.
- Dovbyk and Zinchenko have made it five players to score for Ukraine at EURO, after current head coach Shevchenko and team-mates Yarmolenko and Yaremchuk.
- Zinchenko has scored in seven matches for Ukraine; they are unbeaten when he has found the net (W6 D1).
- Ukraine are still to keep a clean sheet at EURO finals, conceding at least once in each of their ten games.
- Sweden conceded in the first half for the first time in 2021, in their ninth match.
- Forsberg is the first Swedish player to score four goals at a single EURO tournament.
- Forsberg has matched Tomas Brolin’s national record of scoring in three successive EURO finals games for Sweden.
- In 2006, Andriy Shevchenko captained Ukraine to their first ever World Cup quarter-final. In EURO2020, Andriy Shevchenko has just managed Ukraine to their first ever European Championship quarter-final.
- Marcus Danielson is the fourth player to receive a red card in extra-time of a European Championship match, and first since Nuno Gomes for Portugal against France in 2000.
- Timed at 120:37, Artem Dovbyk has scored the second-latest goal in European Championship history, behind Semih Sentürk v Croatia in 2008 (121:01), and the latest match-winning strike in the competition, overtaking Michel Platini v Portugal in 1984 (118:53).
- Sweden v Ukraine is the fourth EURO2020 last 16 tie to go to extra-time (also Italy v Austria, Croatia v Spain & France v Switzerland), the most ever in a single knockout round in the competition, overtaking three that went the distance in the 2008 quarter-final.
- Oleksandr Zinchenko is the fifth different Manchester City player to score at EURO2020 (also De Bruyne, Sterling, Laporte, Torres) – only Atalanta (also five) have had as many different players score at the tournament.
- Sebastian Larsson (36y 23d) is the oldest Swedish player to start in a knockout game at a major tournament (World Cup/EUROs) since Gunnar Gren (37y 241d) in the 1958 World Cup final v Brazil.
- Andriy Yarmolenko has either scored (two) or assisted (three) five of Ukraine’s seven European Championship goals. Indeed, five goal involvements is level with Andriy Shevchenko (G4 A1) for most by a Ukraine player at major tournaments (World Cup/EUROs).
