In the early morning of July 2, Beijing time, the 1/8 finals of the European Cup continued, with Portugal facing Slovenia. The two teams battled for 90 minutes without a win, C missed a penalty in extra time, and Slovenia also missed a superb single knife and entered the penalty shootout. In the penalty shootout, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a penalty to redeem, and Portugal goalkeeper Costa bravely saved three penalties from Slovenia, and finally Portugal eliminated Slovenia 3-0 on aggregate to reach the last eight of the European Championship, and they will compete with France for a place in the last four.
Portugal won 2-1 in the group stage and qualified first in the group, while Slovenia was a dark horse team with three consecutive draws in the group stage. After the opening, Portugal quickly took the advantage, Ronaldo, B, Leao, etc. were very active and created a lot of opportunities, but Slovenian goalkeeper Oblak defused Portugal's attack many times, and the two teams drew 0-0 in the 90th minute, and the game went into extra time.
In the 15th minute of the first half of extra time, Portugal won a penalty, and Ronaldo's penalty was saved by Oblak bravely, and Ronaldo, who missed the opportunity, cried bitterly. In the second half of extra time, Pepe's mistake gave Slovenia a one-on-one chance, but Sesko couldn't take it, neither team could score, and the game went to penalties.
Penalty shootout, Slovenia's first appearance Ilicic missed a penalty, Ronaldo was the first to play for Portugal, this time he hit the penalty steadily, and then Costa saved Barkovic's penalty, the third player Welbic took a penalty and was saved by Costa again, Slovenia's 3 penalties were all saved by Costa, and Portugal made 3 free throws, Portugal eliminated Slovenia 3-0 on aggregate, and entered the top 8 of the European Cup, and they will face France in the 1/8 finals.
Slovenia are out of the tournament but still in a glorious performance, the small nation of 2.11 million people has made history, unbeaten in regulation time in four matches of this tournament, drawing with the mighty England and Portugal, only to be eliminated on penalties and ultimately missing out on the last eight.
In the first 1/8 finals that ended first, France eliminated Belgium 1-0, substitute Muani made an own goal in the 85th minute, scored the only goal of the game, and finally France defeated Belgium 1-0 and reached the top 8.