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Hello and welcome to Sweden v Ukraine in the last 16 of the European Championships!

Euro 2024 / Last 16
Hampden Park / 29.06.2021
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Tim Hobbs

Updated 29/06/2021 at 21:36 GMT


19:37
19:33
Ukraine will be hoping for less of this...
19:29
Speaking to BBC, Gareth Southgate just said that he saw David Seaman in he crowd, and though he can't ever atone for the penalty he missed in 1996, which will always hurt, he's trying to compensate as manager. Aw!
19:25
Sweden have defended really well so far, Victor Lindelof in particular. That's partly because he's a decent defender, and partly because the slower pace of the game suits him; ultimately, his physical capacity is limited, and he struggles against power and pace. If I'm Shevchenko, I'm getting Yarmolenko to play on him to try and exploit that.
19:21
The winners of this match play, er ... England in Rome on Saturday night.
19:19
Andriy Shevchenko, meanwhile, makes two changes from the Austria debacle, Taras Stepanenko and Serhiy Kryvtsov coming in for Vitalii Mykolenko and Ruslan Malinovskyi.
19:16
Janne Andersson makes one change to the team which beat Poland, Dejan Kulusevski replacing Robin Quaison. Quaison actually played pretty well, his pace offering more pace than Marcus Berg, but Kulusevski created two goals when he came on in the last game and is of an entirely different order.
19:15
Ukraine: Bushchan, Karavayev, Kryvtsov, Zabarnyi, Matviyenko, Shaparenko, Stepanenko, Sydorchuk, Yarmolenko, Yaremchuk, Zinchenko. Subs: Sobol, Malinovsky, Marlos, Pyatov, Makarenko, Tsygankov, Mykolenko, Bezus, Besyedin, Trubin, Tymchyk, Dovbyk.
19:11
19:09
Teams, then...
19:06
This game, then. Sweden were impressive in the group stages, shutting out Spain, shutting out and beating Slovakia, then somehow finding themselves in a thriller against Poland, which they won. They're the favourites tonight and rightly so - they've got better players, and Ukraine, after impressing in defeat against the Netherlands, absolutely bottled their deciding tie against Austria only to be saved by Slovakia's defeat to Spain and Poland's defeat to ... Sweden. But they're capable of better than they produced that night, and I'm expecting a tight one.
19:03
Before we go any further, apparently England have just beaten Germany. Is that allowed?