Solna, Sweden // Sweden defeated Denmark 2-1 in the first leg of a 2016 European Championship playoff on Saturday and Nicolai Joergensen’s late goal gave the Danes hope for the return match next week.
Emil Forsberg scored for Sweden in the first half and Zlatan Ibrahimovic made it 2-0 on a penalty kick at the start of the second.
Denmark struggled to create any clear chances until Jakob Poulsen headed a corner toward the far post where Joergensen slotted home in the 80th minute.
“That goal could become a really, really important goal,” Denmark coach Morten Olsen said.
The result means a 1-0 win in Copenhagen on Tuesday would see the Danes through.
Ibrahimovic, who scored eight goals in qualifying, downplayed the significance of the Danish goal.
“We won the game, that was the most important,” he said.
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Friends Arena in Solna was lit up in blue, white, and red to show solidarity with France following the terror attacks in Paris. Both teams wore black armbands and observed a minute of silence before the match.
Denmark looked stronger in the opening minutes but fell back as the Swedes surged toward the end of the first half. Marcus Berg missed two scoring chances and Ibrahimovic shot just wide before Sweden took the lead near halftime.
Breaking free on the right flank, Mikael Lustig sent a low cross into the area where an unmarked Forsberg scored with a direct hit inside the far post.
Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel kept the score down before the interval with a magnificent fingertip save on Ibrahimovic’s free kick.
Ibrahimovic made no mistake from the penalty spot, though, after Thomas Kahlenberg tripped Forsberg inside the area five minutes after the break. Schmeichel went for the right post but couldn’t get there in time to stop the Sweden captain’s powerful shot.
Ibrahimovic was substituted near the end of after signaling to the bench he wanted to come off. Sweden coach Erik Hamren said the striker was tired and out of breath.
Boosted by Joergensen’s goal, Denmark pushed forward in the final minutes but couldn’t find the equalizer.
Ibrahimovic sends sympathies to Paris victims
Sweden captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic has expressed his sympathies for his fellow Parisians after gun and bomb attacks in the French capital on Friday left 129 killed, hundreds injured and the city traumatised.
“It’s sad, tragic. Things like that shouldn’t happen,” the Paris Saint Germain player told broadcaster Kanal 5 after Sweden beat Denmark 2-1 in the first leg of their Euro 2016 playoff. “I stand behind those who have passed on and the families there.
“I tried hard to focus on the game, which was very hard,” added the 34-year-old, who is in his fourth season at PSG, having moved to the French capital in July 2012 from AC Milan.
The Friends Arena in Stockholm was lit up in the red, white and blue national colours of France, with a minute’s silence observed before play while the players also wore black armbands.
Sweden coach Erik Hamren said the attacks in the French capital had affected his side’s preparations.
“The terrible and despicable has happened,” Hamren told reporters.
“We had a chat when we assembled and we must show that evil cannot be allowed to win, that football is important on days such as this.”
Euro 2016 play-off first leg results on Saturday
At Lviv
Ukraine 2 (Yarmolenko 22, Seleznyov 54) Slovenia 0
2nd leg: Nov 17
At Solna
Sweden 2 (Forsberg 45, Ibrahimovic 50-pen) Denmark 1 (N. Jorgensen 80)
2nd leg: Nov 17
Played Friday
At Zenica
Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 (Dzeko 85) Republic of Ireland 1 (Brady 81)
2nd leg: Nov 16
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Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
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- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
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