Overview
- - The playoff bracket is set for Tuesday after Thursday’s semi‑finals: Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Italy, Sweden vs Poland, Kosovo vs Turkey, and Czechia vs Denmark.
- - Italy moved within one win of a return to the World Cup with a 2-0 win over Northern Ireland in Bergamo, as Sandro Tonali scored and set up Moise Kean to earn a trip to Zenica.
- - Bosnia reached the Path A final by beating Wales on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Cardiff, with 40-year-old Edin Džeko forcing extra time and Brennan Johnson and Neco Williams failing from the spot.
- - Sweden will face Poland after Viktor Gyökeres hit a hat-trick to beat Ukraine 3-1 in Valencia and Robert Lewandowski and Piotr Zieliński led a 2-1 Poland comeback over Albania in Warsaw.
- - Kosovo will host Turkey after a 4-3 win in Slovakia and Turkey’s 1-0 defeat of Romania from a Ferdi Kadıoğlu finish off an Arda Güler assist, while Czechia advanced on penalties to meet a Denmark side that cruised 4-0 past North Macedonia.