New Arsenal signing Granit Xhaka bundled his country out of the Euro 2016. Is that the worst penalty ever?

GRANIT XHAKA took a truly woeful in the penalty shootout between Switzerland and Poland - and Twitter has exploded.

By Jack Watts and drian Stiles

The new £30m Arsenal signing went for power over placement and his effort backfired spectacularly.

The awful shot will probably go down as one of the worst sport-kicks ever taken at an international tournament.

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A Jakub Blaszczykowski strike had looked to be enough in normal time for Poland only for Stoke’s Xherdan Shaqiri to make it 1-1 with a tremendous athletic volley to send the game into extra-time.

With no winning goal found, the tie was decided on penalties with new Arsenal signing Granit Xhaka missing and Sevilla’s Grzegorz Krychowiak hammering home the winning penalty as Poland scored all five efforts.

Poland should have been ahead inside 30 seconds when Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer bowled the ball out to Johan Djourou who passed it back across his box, only for Robert Lewandowski to pounce.

STRIKE: Shaqiri's goal wasn't enough

Sommer did enough to nick the ball off the toe of the Bayern Munich forward but it fell to Arkadiusz Milik, who could only fire over the crossbar with the goal at his mercy.

The game lacked any real quality and Poland missed another good chance when Krychowiak headed over a corner just before the half-hour mark when completely free inside the box.

Moments later Kamil Grosicki and Milik wasted further good chances for Poland, with Switzerland getting a rare effort on goal but Fabian Schar’s header was easily saved by Lukasz Fabianski.

The Swansea stopper was then forced to tip a deflected Blerim Dzemaili strike behind for a corner from which Poland broke forward to open the scoring.

With six minutes to go before the break, Grosicki led a counter-attack which was swept home by Blaszczykowski to give Adam Nawalka’s side a deserved half-time lead.

Shaqiri looked to give Switzerland a strong start to the second half as he burst into the box before seeing his cross cleared behind, with Poland defender Michal Pazdan almost turning the resulting corner into his own goal.

They will now play the winner of Croatia v Portugal in the quarter-finals.