A goal by Michel Aulis, the 21-year-old right winger who plays for Crystal Palace (Premier League, England), sealed France’s 1-0 victory over Norway on Sunday night, in their second round group match. d of the European Under-21 Championship, which is being held in Georgia and Romania, a match that was held at the Constantin Radulescu Stadium, in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and its victory qualified the French team to the quarter-finals.
After the 2-1 victory over Italy, in the opening round, France, coached by Sylvain Ribally, got six points and is at the top of the standings in Group D, having already qualified, it remains to be seen in which final position, while Norway, coached by Lev Gunnar Smirod, from the tournament who had no points after two games.
A bittersweet taste for Olise, for whom the Londoners paid €9.3m from Crystal Palace to Reading two years ago, in the summer of 2021, to secure the tender for the right winger, which has now been evaluated, according to the specialized TransferMarkt website. At… €38m: After scoring, he left injured, at 70 minutes, and was replaced by Barkola.
In the other match of this second round of Group D, during the afternoon, at the Cluj Arena, also in Cluj-Napoca (Romania, the country hosting the competition with Georgia), Italy beat Switzerland 3-2. , a result that leaves the two teams in second place in the standings, both with three points … and with the same goal difference: four scored and four conceded each.
Switzerland, against already-qualified France, and Italy against already-eliminated Norway, will decide, in the third round of this Group IV, who in the group with the ‘weak spot’ goes to the quarter-finals (only the first and second qualifications of each of four groups).
A game in which the ‘squadra azzurra’ won in the first half with a comfortable score of 3-0 – goals from Pirola (6′), Gnonto (11′) and Parisi (45 + 4′) – but where they didn’t get rid of a gritty terror, with the Swiss , who still has 40 minutes to play, already leaning on the scoreboard, after the reduction to 3-2, thanks to goals from Emery (47) and Amdouni (52). But the Swiss reaction did not reach three points for Italy.
We see in the attached tweet the goal of Michel Aulis, which won France the victory over Norway and qualified France to the quarter-finals of the European Under-21 Championship:
– Mercafoot (@MercaFoot_) June 25, 2023
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