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This is not a problem of stamina and mentality, but indeed Spain's quality is slightly better, they played much better with the many attacks they managed to carry out and luck came in the final minutes of extra time, this was truly an extraordinary surprise, no one expected it. there will be a goal in those last seconds.
And overall I think Spain also deserves to qualify for the semifinals.
And in another match, Portugal had to be eliminated quite painfully because they lost through a penalty shootout even though their performance was slightly better but unfortunately no goals were scored in normal time.
The match was extraordinary, Spain managed to beat the home team in a very dramatic way, the equal strength of the two teams meant that the match had to continue into the Extra Time round. The winning goal for Spain was scored by Mikel Merino in the 119th minute. Germany was very surprised and devastated by this goal because they did not have time to catch up. Spain level of confidence is very high even though they play more young players, the Spanish coach also really believes in the young players he has and continues to maintain the starting XI as in the previous match.
Portugal failed to show their strength after only being able to play 0-0 in Normal time, none of their attempts to break into the French goal were successful, as a result they had to be eliminated in the penalty shootout. France was the only team to qualify for the semifinals without scoring a single goal from open play. France got three goals through 2 own goals from opposing players and 1 goal from the penalty spot. The Spain vs France match will take place in the semifinals, it looks like Spain can win this match easily because France is just relying on luck to qualify for the semifinals.
Yesterday match between Germany vs Spain was the most interesting game between the two matches, and it was actually very fascinating no doubt, but I wasn't happy with the officiating of the central referee, I believe that he killed the game by his incompetence, that game would have gone to penalty shoot out if he had gave Germany that clear penalty they had when the ball struck cucurella's hand in the penalty box, and to me, that was the turning point of the game, because it was very clear that the Germans has seized the rythme and it would have led to penalty shoot out or they would have won, but the performance of the referee was the major cause of their losing yesterday.
Then as for the Portugal vs France, it was an even game, though the France team has almost all the best scoring opportunities, but I don't actually think they were better than Portugal either, so since it ends in a penalty shoot out, I would say that the winning side was just lucky, because penalty is a game of luck, so a big congratulations to France for advancing to the semi final stage of the competition.