Geneva may never have known a din like it. Any pretensions of lakeside refinement were blasted into the sky when Riola Xhemaili, brought on as a late throw of the dice, showed the instinct Switzerland had been missing all night. They had only needed a point to continue local interest at Euro 2025 but found themselves trailing to a gutsy Finland as the match entered its second minute of added time.
Then the tireless Geraldine Reuteler skewed a cross-shot into the six-yard box; Xhemaili was placed to capitalise and host nation politesse was the last thing on anybody’s minds from thereon.
Written by Nick Ames at Stade de Genève
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jul/10/finland-switzerland-euro-2025-match-report under the title “Xhemaili’s late leveller floors Finland and sends Switzerland into quarter-final”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
