But Bonucci was one of the players to fail in the penalty shootout. Jonas Hector scored the winning goal as Germany beat Italy, 6-5, in a wild penalty-kick shootout to reach the European Championship semifinals on Saturday. Germany has won six of its last seven spot kicks since losing the final of Euro 1976 to Czechoslovakia. It was a fixture worthy of the final itself — Italy and Germany are Europe's most successful football nations — but the game didn't live up to its promise. The Germans advance to a semifinal on Thursday in Marseille against France or Iceland, which play Sunday in the last quarterfinal.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 02, 2016 22:02 UTC