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Italy's reputation as European champions saw them go into the last-16 clash as favourites, but it was soon clear that they should have been the underdogs.

Switzerland played them off the park and got their noses in front in the 37th minute when Remo Freuler volleyed the opener past Gianluigi Donnarumma via a deflection.

The only thing missing at half-time was a second goal and the Swiss soon put that right after the break. A brilliant finish from Ruben Vargas doubled their advantage and it was pretty plain sailing from there in a famous victory for Switzerland.

In their third and final Group A game, Switzerland nearly caused one of the shocks of Euro 2024.

Dan Ndoye put the emphatic finishing touch to a well-worked attacking move to give his side an unlikely lead in the 28th minute. And the scoreline remained 1-0 to Switzerland for over an hour.

But, in the second minute of stoppage time, substitute Niclas Fullkrug headed in from six yards to bring the tournament hosts level and to take them back to the top of Group A.

On paper, Switzerland looked well set to take maximum points from their first two games. But the spark from their opening win disappeared somewhat against Scotland.

Fabian Schar skewed Scott McTominay's goalbound effort into the top corner to give Steve Clarke's side the lead. Luckily, Xherdan Shaqiri had yet another magic major tournament moment up his sleeve as he equalised 13 minutes later with an sensational left-footed effort into the top corner from 25 yards.

Chances for both sides came and went as the game continued, Embolo saw a lovely chipped finish chalked off and both teams had to settle for a point apiece.

In the knowledge that Germany would probably advance from Group A as winners, Switzerland's first match was a huge one.

And they made an excellent start. Kwadwo Duah finished off a great passing move to score his first international goal in the 12th minute before Michel Aebischer doubled the lead from distance on the stroke of half-time.

Hungary staged a bit of a fightback and they halved the deficit through Barnabas Varga midway through the second half, but Switzerland prevailed. Breel Embolo made a real impact off the bench and wrapped up the victory in the third minute of stoppage time with a superb lob over Peter Gulacsi.

Being drawn in Group A alongside tournament hosts Germany and many observers' dark horses Hungary gave Switzerland a tough task.

But, so far, they have looked really impressive and are full value for their quarter-final place.

Let's take a look at their four matches at Euro 2024.

Surely it couldn't get worse in England's last-16 tie against Slovakia. But, you guessed it, it did.

A well-worked first-half goal from Ivan Schranz put them on the back foot and it looked like that would be enough for Slovakia to win the match.

But, in the last minute of second-half stoppage time, Bellingham pulled a sublime overhead kick out of the bag to rescue England. And, within a minute of extra time starting, Kane headed in from close range to make it 2-1.

Again, England went into lockdown mode and survived the prospect of a penalty shootout.

Plenty of problems still to fix for Gareth Southgate...

With frustrations back home only increasing after the first two underwhelming performances, a goalless draw with Slovenia in the final group game certainly didn't help.

Once again, England never got going and could not find a way through the Group C underdogs. They did manage to create more chances but, given the complete lack of chance creation against Denmark, that was hardly a positive to take from the game.

But, zero losses in their group-stage campaign and five points on the board saw them advance to the knockouts as Group C winners.

And, in their second game, England made a quick start. This time, it was Harry Kane who opened the scoring and it came in the 18th minute after Kyle Walker capitalised on some lackadaisical defending from Victor Kristiansen.

But England's defensive mode didn't work twice in a row. Morten Hjulmand stung a brilliant low effort from 25 yards off the post and in to level the game for the Danes.

And it was them who pushed to win the game but, fortunately, England held on for a point to keep their unbeaten start alive.

Lots of noise around England as they arrived in Germany, as you might expect, and they got off to a strong start in Group C.

It took them less than 13 minutes to score their first goal at Euro 2024 as Jude Bellingham popped up in the right place at the right time to give them the lead against Serbia.

From there, they did what all good England teams do when they're winning at a major tournament: they battened down the hatches and camped inside their own defensive third in full survival mode.

And it just about worked as they clung onto their 1-0 lead in Gelsenkirchen.

Yesterday marked three weeks since the start of Euro 2024, but it has felt a lot longer than that since Scotland were given a real hiding by Germany in Munich on opening night.

Three weeks' work — and plenty more — has got England into a position, once again, where they are a win away from a semi-final.

So let's take a look at how they got to this stage of the tournament.

We had the first two quarter-finals yesterday and we have got the second pair of them today.

This one gets the action underway in Germany before going across to Berlin for the fourth and final quarter-final — here is today's line-up:

This is something truly special. Our correspondents and data experts here at The Athletic have pulled together our Euro 2024 edition of The Radar.

It’s a database of the 50 players to watch at this summer’s tournament, with at least one representative from each of the 24 nations competing in Germany.

Some of those players will have already gone home, but there are still plenty in The Radar that are still very much in the tournament.

There are established stars and rising talents, bespoke data visualisation for every player and magnificent insight from our writers.

So go give it a visit, have a play and see what you discover.

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The Radar – The Athletic’s Euro 2024 scouting guide

Goalkeepers: Yann Sommer (Inter), Yvon Mvogo (Lorient), Gregor Kobel (Borussia Dortmund).

Defenders: Ricardo Rodriguez (Torino), Fabian Schar (Newcastle United), Manuel Akanji (Manchester City), Nico Elvedi (Borussia Monchengladbach), Silvan Widmer (Mainz 05), Cedric Zesigner (Wolfsburg), Leonidas Stergiou (Stuttgart).

Midfielders: Granit Xhaka (Bayer Leverkusen), Xherdan Shaqiri (Chicago Fire), Remo Freuler (Bologna), Denis Zakaria (Monaco), Michel Aebischer (Bologna), Fabian Rieder (Rennes), Ardon Jashari (Luzern), Vincent Sierro (Toulouse).

Forwards: Breel Embolo (Monaco), Steven Zuber (AEK Athens), Ruben Vargas (Augsburg), Renato Steffen (Lugano), Noah Okafor (AC Milan), Zeki Amdouni (Burnley), Dan Ndoye (Bologna), Kwadwo Duah (Ludogorets).

Goalkeepers: Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal).

Defenders: Lewis Dunk (Brighton), Joe Gomez (Liverpool), Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Newcastle), Kyle Walker (Manchester City).

Midfielders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Conor Gallagher (Chelsea), Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United), Adam Wharton (Crystal Palace), Declan Rice (Arsenal).

Forwards: Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Jarrod Bowen (West Ham), Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle United), Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Ivan Toney (Brentford), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa).

Capacity: 54,600

We are at the home of German second-tier side Fortuna Dusseldorf for this one as it hosts its final match of Euro 2024. Tens of thousands of England and Switzerland will pile into the 54,000-seater stadium and they will make quite the atmosphere.

The Dusseldorf Arena hosted three games throughout the group stage and on the last 16:

Here are your viewing options for today's game, depending on where you are based:

UK: BBC

US: Fox

Canada: TSN

Switzerland: SRF

This game is the earlier of the two games at Euro 2024 today.

So, for anyone unfamiliar with the schedule, that is 6pm local time. In the UK, that is 5pm BST while, in the US, it is 12pm EDT and 9am PDT.

Good morning and welcome along to The Athletic's live coverage of the third quarter-final between England and Switzerland.

There is a lot of pressure on Gareth Southgate and his players coming into this game against the team ranked 14 placed below them in the FIFA rankings.

But they are no strangers to making the latter stages at major tournament nowadays, so they will be confident of making another semi-final. Their opponents, though, have looked sharp and this will certainly be no cakewalk for England.

Plenty of time to go until kick-off, so stick with us throughout the day for all the build up.