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Italy clinched a quarter-final meeting with Spain as they sent France crashing out of Euro 2008 with a deserved win.
France had a nightmare evening, losing key man Franck Ribery to a serious injury after only seven minutes.
Eric Abidal was then sent off after 25 minutes for fouling Luca Toni to give away a penalty, scored [...]

Goals from Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Robin van Persie ended Romania’s hopes of making the Euro 2008 quarter-finals.
Italy’s win over France meant that the Romanians had to beat the Dutch to progress, but they rarely threatened goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
Huntelaar’s opened the scoring in the second half when he slotted in Ibrahim Afellay’s low cross from [...]

Michael Ballack’s superb second-half strike handed Germany a last eight tie against Portugal at the expense of Austria who exited Euro 2008.
The Chelsea midfielder scored the only goal of the match when he fired in a powerful 30-yard shot from a free-kick won by Philipp Lahm.

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Ivan Klasnic fired the game’s only goal for Croatia as Poland’s unlikely bid to reach the last eight ended in failure.
Needing to beat Croatia by at least two goals, and for Germany to lose to Austria, only a string of Artur Boruc saves kept Poland’s losing margin down.
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Nihat Kahveci scored two late goals to complete a pulsating Turkey comeback against the Czech Republic and secure his side a Euro 2008 last eight spot.
Jan Koller steered in a header to put the Czechs ahead before Jaroslav Plasil slid in to add a second.
Arda Turan slotted in for Turkey to set up a tense [...]

Hakan Yakin’s double strike ensured that Switzerland ended their Euro 2008 campaign on a high at the expense of Group A table-toppers Portugal.
After a goalless first half, Yakin gave Switzerland the lead when he slotted in through the legs of keeper Ricardo.
He scored his second, and third of the championship, with a firmly struck penalty [...]

Russia beat Greece to send the holders crashing out of Euro 2008 and set up a deciding final game against Sweden for a place in the quarter-finals.
Konstatin Zyryanov scored the winner from close range in the 34th minute after Sergei Semak cashed in on Greek keeper Antonis Nikopolidis’s mistake.
Angelos Charisteas wasted Greece’s best chances either [...]

Spain booked a Euro 2008 quarter-final spot after David Villa’s last-gasp goal sank Sweden and Russia beat Greece.
Spain took the lead on 15 minutes with a clever move that ended with Fernando Torres poking home David Silva’s cross.
But Sweden responded well and levelled when Zlatan Ibrahimovic met Fredrick Stoor’s cross on 34 minutes.
Spain, who could [...]

Netherlands reached the last eight of Euro 2008 and topped Group C with a superb win against France, who are now fighting to survive in the tournament.
Dirk Kuyt headed the Dutch in front after only nine minutes.
Substitute Robin van Persie turned in Arjen Robben’s cross on the hour, before Thierry Henry pulled one back from [...]

Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon’s late penalty save from Adrian Mutu kept his side in Euro 2008 after a draw with Group C rivals Romania.
Italy were denied the lead when Luca Toni was wrongly ruled offside before Mutu lifted in a shot after a poor backheader to put Romania ahead.
The lead lasted barely a minute with [...]