Final is today! This page should tell you at what time for your region:
http://www.uefa.com/under21/season=2015/matches/round=2000411/match=2015383/prematch/background/
Was excited to watch it but its not on any channels (I have here). May have to download later.
Sweden's route to the final was insane too:
Sweden's first miracle occured in the playoff qualifications when they had to win against Turkey in their last game. A Kristoffer Olsson hattrick put the swedes 3-1 up. However, the Turks refused to give up and scored two quick goals in the 84th and 86th minutes. 5 minutes later, Hiljemark stepped up and sent the swedes through to the Playoffs where they would face off against France.
In the first leg, the Swedes lost 2-0 and things looked bleak. However, they managed to change things around in the second leg and were up by 3-0 up until the 87th minute when Kurzawa scored and began celebrating and taunting the swedes. He would regret this a couple of minutes later though as Lewicki scored a beatiful volley from a corner. Highlights can be found here Bonus pictures of the swedes doing to the french what the french did to them:
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The summer of 2015 arrives and the Swedes are to play their first group-stage game against Italy. The Swedes are off to a horrible start as Milosevic gives away a penalty and is red carded in the 27th minute. Italy are now up 1-0. In the 56th minute no one other than John Guidetti scores the equalizer aftera nice pass from Lewicki following Khalili's corner. In the 80th minute the Swedish Mikael Ishak kicks the ball at Italy's Stefano Sturaro who is lying down, causing Sturaro to get up and punch Ishak in the face. As a result, Sturaro is sent off and both teams are now playing with 10 men. The same Ishak who got Sturaro sent off just some minutes earlier now earns Sweden a penalty, which is comfortably scored by Kiese Thelin. Highlights
The Swedes lose against England in their second group-stage game. Lingard scores a beatiful volley off of a corner in the 87th minute to give England the victory.
In the last group-stage game against Portugal, Sweden will only need a draw as long as Italy defeat England. With the Italians dominating the game and gaining a comfortable lead in the early stages of the game, the Swedish players know that they will only need to draw. Portugal will also only need a draw in this situation to still end up in first place in the group. The game wasn't too exciting up until the 82nd minute when Portugal scored. If this score were to stand, the Swedes would be knocked out. However, Tibbling was able to score in the 89th minute after a deflection off of a Portugal player, the Swedes had performed another miracle. After this, the game was completely dead, which led to a quite comical (perhaps not from an Italian viewpoint) last 3 minutes
The Swedes would now face their neighbours Denmark in the semifinals. The Danes were cocky beforehand and seemed big favourites. However, the Swedes were able to score two goals in the first half. In the second, Denmark got one back and were pushing hard for the equaliser. Luckily for Sweden, Robin Quaison came on and scored 3-1 late in the game. 4-1 came from the Captain Hiljermark in the last second of the game, after he heroically ran 80 meters to catch up with the Swedish counterattack. Highlights
That's how the far the story has gone up until now. Sweden will face Portugal in the final who beat the Germans 5-0.
I hope you guys found this post interesting, if there's anything I've missed or gotten wrong, feel free to comment or message me and I'll try to fix it as soon as possible!
