Friday 22nd June 2018

Serbia 1 Switzerland 2

I love Xherdan Shaqiri he is great. So happy he scored this goal to beat Serbia 2-1.

Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri stuns Serbia with late breakaway goal in the last minute, Xherdan Shaqiri was racing away, Serbs in pursuit but unable to catch him before he slipped the ball under Vladimir Stojkovic. It was the goal that defeated Serbia and put Switzerland in a strong position to progress to the next round, but it was also much more than that. As he turned and screamed, he took his shirt off, flexed his muscles and performed a double-eagle celebration, a recreation of the Albanian flag. Alongside him, Granit Xhaka did the same – for the second time.

“It was a fantastic goal, an important goal for my team and I am very proud I was able to score it for them,” Shaqiri said. “I can’t discuss the gesture I’m afraid. We are footballers, not politicians… Emotions sometimes take over footballers and there was a lot of emotion out there.”  His shirt off celebration was not to be missed.