QF Spain 2 - 1 Germany (AET)
I'd only just got myself settled back into this football thing, and just like that our hosts are out. It has felt like an age since Tuesday (with many stages of Tour De France to catch-up on and the small matter of our seismic general election to wade through) so it's good to be back in front of the big-football-giving- rectangle again.
This game that really could have gone either way, both sides had their periods of dominance, and it was quite open without being wildly exciting. Germany will rue the wastefulness of Havertz, Musiala and Fulkrüg.
It's all getting pretty serious now, and it is definitely showing, with the free flowing football of the group stages seemingly behind us. Imagine if England play MORE conservatively now we're at the business end of the comp (shudder).
Merino stole the show with a cracking leap and finish at the death, breaking German hearts, setting up a frantic few minutes with Germany throwing everything at it and Spain using any necessary means to stop them.
Not a classic, but the better team through to a semi.
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