Team Sweden has issued a ticket to the quarterfinals of the World Cup-2018, beating the Swiss team with a score of 1: 0.

The only goal in the 66th minute was scored by Emil Forsberg.

Before the free-kick, Forsberg got the ball from Ola Toivonen, moved to the right and hit hard. The ball ricocheted from the defender flew into the net. In compensated time Mikael Lang pushed Martin Olsson on his way to his own penalty, for which he received a red card for the failure of the attack. After watching the video replay, the referee appointed a free kick, which the goalkeeper.

Note that for the Swedes this game became the jubilee, the 50th, at the World Championships. The Scandinavian team became the 11th team, which reached this figure.

In the quarter finals the Swedish team will play with the winner of the pair Columbia - England. The match of this stage will be held on the 7th of July (17:00).

__________________ Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

In 2015, a Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-security colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.