Berlin, 22 March 2024 (dpa/MIA) - Ukraine produced a stunning comeback in their Euro 2024 play-off semi-final and Georgia moved one win away from their first appearance in a men's major football tournament on Thursday, while Greece, Wales, Poland and Iceland also prevailed.

Ukraine, still proudly fielding a team despite two years of war with Russia, scored twice late on to come back and beat an otherwise dominant Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-1 away in a famous victory.

Roman Yaremchuk and Artem Dovbyk netted on 85 an 88 minutes after Mykola Matviyenko's own goal.

Serhiy Rebrov's side will face Iceland in the Polish city of Wroclaw on Tuesday for a Euro 2024 berth.

He said: "We played against a very good team. We were ready for it, but until we scored that first goal, the defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina was very good.

"We introduced another striker and that was a good move. We expected this kind of match."

Since being invaded by Russia, Ukraine missed out in the play-offs for the 2022 World Cup and face these play-offs for Euro 2024.

Georgia beat Luxembourg 2-0 and will host 2004 champions Greece, who battered Kazakhstan 5-0 in their play-off semi-final, in the Path C final on Tuesday.

Victory will hand them one of the three remaining places at the Euros in Germany from June 14 to July 14.

Georgians have played for the Soviet Union in major tournaments but never for their independent nation. Luxembourg were also looking to reach their first World Cup or European Championship.

Karlsruhe's Budu Zivzivadze hit the post early on in the Tbilisi rain and then broke the deadlock for the dominant hosts on 40 minutes.

The visitors thought they had levelled through Gerson Rodrigues early in the second half but a VAR check meant play was brought back and Maxime Chanot was sent off for a professional foul moments earlier.

Zivzivadze then struck again soon afterwards.

Georgia coach Willy Sagnol, the former France defender, told a news conference: "Today we did a good job, but didn't play perfectly. It was a semi-final and the prize of a win was very high. We have to improve the quality of our play for the final."

Whoever wins between Georgia and Greece in Tbilisi on Tuesday will go into Group F at the Euros alongside Turkey, 2016 winners Portugal and the Czech Republic.

The play-offs are a remnant of the last Nations League campaign, with European governing body UEFA leaving three slots in the Euros open to teams who did not reach the 24-team tournament via the usual qualifiers.

UEFA hopes to therefore open up its flagship tournament to smaller nations who might not ordinarily qualify.

In one-off semis in Path A, Poland crushed 10-man Estonia 5-1 in Warsaw and hosts Wales beat Finland 4-1, with the winners now meeting in Tuesday's final in Cardiff.

Wales defender Neco Williams, who scored one of the goals, told S4C: "We came into this game with a game plan, and I think it worked out as good as it can go. An excellent performance all round and a good stepping stone for Tuesday."

France, the Netherlands and Austria await the victors in Group D in the Euros.

In Path B, Iceland won 4-1 against Israel courtesy of a hat-trick by Genoa's Albert Gudmundsson in a game played in Budapest due the Gaza war.

The Icelanders next take on Ukraine with a place in Group E alongside Belgium, Slovakia, Romania the prize.

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