Goals from Roman Pavlyuchenko and Andrei Arshavin earned Russia a very impressive 2-0 victory over Sweden at the Tivoli Neu Stadium in Innsbruck that secured their place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008. Russia played superb passing football throughout, and took a deserved lead through Pavlyuchenko midway through the first half, with the influential Arshavin doubling their advantage after five minutes of the second half following a slick counter-attack.

A Innsbruck, i gol di Pavlyuchenko e Arshavin mandano a casa una Svezia frastornata: finisce 2-0 e quella russa è l’ultima nazionale a superare la fase a gironi di Euro 2008. Affronterà l’Olanda. Ibrahimovic resta in campo fino alla fine, ma non incide.