Geneva may never have known a din like it. Any pretensions of lakeside refinement were blasted into the sky when Riola Xhemaili, brought on as a late throw of the dice, showed the instinct Switzerland had been missing all night. They had only needed a point to continue local interest at Euro 2025 but found themselves trailing to a gutsy Finland as the match entered its second minute of added time.
Then the tireless Geraldine Reuteler skewed a cross-shot into the six-yard box; Xhemaili was placed to capitalise and host nation politesse was the last thing on anybody’s minds from thereon.
