Continuous and long VAR checks were a surprise in the deciding games of the first group of the European Championship – Sweden won the group, Holland advanced at the end

The victory in Group C of this summer’s European Football Championship went to Sweden. The blue-and-yellow team won the group with an undefeated performance, sharing the points only once with the second runner-up of the group, Holland.

In their last two games, Sweden first defeated Switzerland, and in their last preliminary group match, Portugal. On Sunday, the Swedes immediately took control of the game in the opening half and pressed for a convincing 5–0 victory.

In a special mood, he had once again played wonderful football Kosovare Asllani. Asllani, who was Sweden’s captain, scored one goal from the penalty kick and provided one assist. In addition, the special situations provided by Asllani resulted in two more Swedish goals. The midfielder strongly paced the game of the yellow-blues, continuing his good performances in the European Championships.

Besides Asllan, the most effective of the Swedish players was the one who scored two goals for “Blågult”. Filippa Angeldal.

Instead of Sweden’s superior performance, what surprised the most in the match was the French referee of the match by Stephanie Frappart and especially the pair of video referees of the match, the Poles by Tomasz Kwiatkowski and Bartosz Frankowski, squeamishness to VAR checks. Every goal scored by Sweden was checked after the goal was scored, two hits were also disallowed with the help of VAR.

You can watch all five of Sweden’s goals in the video below.

The Switzerland-Holland game had the biggest stakes in terms of the playoffs. Switzerland desperately needed a win to secure their place in the quarterfinals.

For the Swiss, the opening half, which ended 0-0, gave a lot of promise of possibilities. However, Holland opened the scoring for Switzerland by Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic after heading the ball from the special situation of the Dutch into their own goal. Switzerland did not give up, and soon tied the game on the counterattack. He knocked the equalizer into the goal Geraldine Reuteler.

In the end, reigning European champions Holland showed their strength. The Dutch, who constantly threatened Switzerland’s goal, got their reward just six minutes before the end of regular time. Just ten minutes earlier, a striker who came on the field as a substitute Romee Leuchter became Holland’s heroine and the scorer of the winning goal.

In the end, Switzerland’s further dreams were buried Victoria Pelova. Holland’s lateral free kick bounced just before extra time to Pelova right in front of the goal, and the substitute converted his opening goal.

However, the paint was checked with all the money. Romanian referee Iuliana Demetrescu listened for a long time to the pair of Italian VAR referees by Maurizio Mariani and Paolo Valerin reflection on the main game situation before the goal. It checked the first hit of the ball, which would have turned the situation into an offside if it had hit the Dutch player.

In the end, after more than five minutes of checking, Demetrescu marched the situation after seeing the situation on the screen himself to indicate the situation as a goal. Holland’s fourth was completed by Leuchter in extra time.

You can look at the goal and the VAR check situation by pressing the main picture of the story.

Let’s continue, Sweden and the Netherlands, who left Group C, also got to know their upcoming quarter-final opponents. On Monday, Sweden will have either Iceland, Belgium or Italy as their opponent in Group D, which will be confirmed on Monday. The Netherlands will face France, who secured victory in Group D.