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Chile storm into Copa America Football Final; Portugal enter Euro Round-of-16 after a thrilling draw with Hungary

In UEFA Euro Football Championship, Cristiano Ronaldo's two goals helped Portugal enter the last-16 stage last night after they played out a pulsating 3-3 draw with Hungary at Lyon. Needing a win or a draw in their final Group-F game to advance, Portugal came back from behind twice to seal a Round-of-16 berth. Balazs Dzsudzsak scored a brace for Hungary who also qualified after topping the Group. Tournament debutants Iceland was the third team to progress from Pool-F. They knocked out Austria with a 2-1 win.In Group-E, Zlatan Ibrahimovic-led Sweden failed to qualify to the last-16 stage after they lost to Belgium 0-1. Radja Nainggolan scored an 84th minute goal for Belgium helping them to progress. Ibrahimovic had recently announced that he will retire from international football after Euro.In the other game of the group, Ireland defeated Italy 1-0 to enter the next round. Italy had earlier qualified.The Round-of-16 will begin on Saturday, with Portugal battling it out against Croatia, Switzerland taking on Poland and Wales playing Northern Ireland.

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