Sweden counterpart Janne Andersson felt his team deserved credit despite exiting the tournament. My advice to everyone – let's celebrate, we only live once and we may never repeat these moments again." I'm very proud that we showed our country and the whole of Europe that we can achieve our goals. "It was hard for me to concentrate on this game because we had so much criticism for our three group games," he said. Ukraine defender Zinchenko felt the victory answered some of the negativity which had come their way after an underwhelming group stage, which saw them only beat North Macedonia. But the team has fully fulfilled our plan." We tried to control the game but it wasn't that way from time to time. We asked our midfielders to work harder and changed Andriy Yarmolenko's position. "We decided to protect the wide areas more. The plan we had developed has worked well. He added: "We knew how our team should play from the first minutes. Shevchenko's side are still to keep a clean sheet at a European Championship, conceding at least once in each of their 10 games, but he felt his side's tactics were spot on against Sweden. "With this performance and commitment, our team has deserved the love of the whole country." Neither side wanted to lose so we got this drama at the end. "I thank my team for all their efforts, for the heroism they have shown," head coach Shevchenko told a post-match media conference. Ukraine's only previous appearance in the knockout stages of a major competition came at the 2006 World Cup when eliminating Switzerland before losing to Italy in the last eight. Shevchenko's Ukraine will face England, who beat Germany 2-0 at Wembley earlier in the day, in Rome on Saturday after Dovbyk headed home at the end of 120 minutes. Ukraine progressed to the European Championship last eight for the first time thanks to Artem Dovbyk's last-gasp winner in extra time after Oleksandr Zinchenko had seen his opener cancelled out by Emil Forsberg on Tuesday. Andriy Shevchenko hailed his heroic Ukraine players following their dramatic 2-1 extra-time win over Sweden as he prepares to turn his focus to a Euro 2020 quarter-final showdown against England.
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