{"id":249804,"date":"2025-07-09T04:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249804\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T04:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:22:13","slug":"poland-0-3-sweden-stina-blackstenius-among-scorers-as-sweden-into-euro-2025-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249804\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland 0-3 Sweden: Stina Blackstenius among scorers as Sweden into Euro 2025 quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sweden cruised into the knockout stages of Euro 2025 with a dominant victory over Poland in Lucerne.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were well on top before finally taking the lead when Stina Blackstenius found space six yards out to head in Johanna Rytting Kaneryd&#8217;s cross after 28 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kosovare Asllani made it 2-0 early in the second half, heading in her 49th goal in her 201st international, from another Rytting Kaneryd cross. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Lina Hurtig &#8211; recently released by Arsenal &#8211; ensured Sweden&#8217;s victory when she nodded home a 77th-minute corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win moves Sweden onto six points alongside Germany &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cren581rd19t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> who beat Denmark 2-1 earlier on Tuesday<\/a> &#8211; and they will meet to decide top spot on Saturay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Swedes, who were the inaugural European champions in 1984 but have only managed three runner-up finishes since, are ahead on goal difference and need only a draw to secure first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Euros debutants Polands are out with one game to spare, and will face fellow eliminated side Denmark in their final game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweden cruised into the knockout stages of Euro 2025 with a dominant victory over Poland in Lucerne. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114821368704503178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}