The Top Three Teams Fall in the Round of 16 Euro 2020.
Euro 2020 has entered the round of 16, some of the top teams have certainly failed to advance to the round of 8.
Italy will meet Belgium, while Switzerland will face Spain and the Czech Republic will be challenged by Denmark. Two more places will be contested by England versus Germany and Ukraine versus Sweden who will compete today.
The seeded teams that failed to qualify for the top eight were Portugal as the defending champion, the Dutch orange team and the 2018 world champions France. The failure of Portugal to go to the next round after they lost 1-0 to the Belgian national team, Cristiano Ronaldo cs failed after Thorgan Hazard was able to score a goal in the 42nd minute of the first half.
The defeat made Portugal's move to the last 8 aground, after the match the world's best player Cristiano Ronaldo looked very disappointed, the Juventus retainer was seen throwing away the captain's armband and kicking it after the match ended. Besides Portugal, the Dutch orange team also failed to advance to the next round, the Netherlands even unexpectedly lost 0-2 to the Czech Republic.
The defeat of Frank de Boer's team was unexpected, considering that the Dutch who were very seeded in the match had to dash their hopes. The defeat of the Dutch national team could not be separated from the poor performances of the players, Matthijs de Ligt was frustrated by the Czech Republic players so that he had to get a red card in the 52nd minute of the second half.
Despite controlling the match, the Netherlands was only able to release a shot on target once while the Czech Republic was able to make five shots on target, the Czech Republic's victory was presented by goals from Tomas Holes (64) and Patrik Schick (80).
The team that failed to qualify for the next round of 8 was France, although they played very well against Switzerland, Didier Deschamps' men appeared off guard in the final minutes of the match. Switzerland had taken the lead 0-1 in the 15th minute of the first half through Haris Seferovic.
France, which was strengthened by great players, could only equalize in the 57th minute through Karim Benzema's goal, France again winning 2-1 in the 59th minute through Karim Benzema's second goal of this match. In the 75th minute Paul Pogba managed to bring France ahead to 3-1 and made the national team dominate the match.
Disaster came for the French national team in the 81st minute after Haris Seferovic was able to reduce the deficit to 3-2 with his goal, but thanks to the hard work of Vladimir Petkovic's men they were able to equalize to 3-3 at the end of the match through M. Gavranovic's goal. The next match lasted 2X15 minutes, but both teams were unable to add a goal so it had to take place through a penalty shootout.
France's failure to advance to the next round after Kylian Mbappe failed to execute a penalty kick gave the Swiss team a 4-5 advantage, thanks to this victory Switzerland had the right to qualify for the next round.
The failure of Portugal, the Netherlands and France to advance to the round of 8 was beyond expectation, some world football observers did not even believe that the Netherlands and France failed to advance to the next round, this was because both teams had lighter opponents than Portugal, who faced Belgium as the ranking world first.