European Qualifiers round-up: France and Portugal hit four in victories
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019As the Group H leaders swept aside Albania 4-1, A France facet scored four goals for the fourth time in five Euro 2020 qualifiers.
Their outstanding goal difference – nine greater than Iceland’s and better than Turkey’s – is what is keeping the world winners in first position as all three teams have been level on 12 points.
As the Stade de France address system played the national anthem of Andorra, seven minutes delayed the beginning of the match – traffic next week and Albania refused to start until the error was rectified.
Even also with Kylian Mbappe viewing in the stands, there was little concern for the hosts as Kingsley Coman scored twice on target.
Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris conceded a 90th-minute penalty from which Sokol Cikalleshi felt as France threw away their sheet.
In Group H, Turkey beat against Andorra 1-0 with a Ozan Tufan strike, leaving them par in the very best on 12 points. Earlier in the afternoon, Iceland beat Moldova 3-0.
European champions Portugal obtained their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign back on track with goals from Goncalo Guedes, William Carvalho, Cristiano Ronaldo and Bernardo Silva assisting them into a pulsating 4-2 Team B victory in Serbia on Saturday.
The victory raised the Portuguese to next place from three matches in the group on five points , eight behind runaway leaders Ukraine who have 13 out of five matches following their 3-0 win in Lithuania.
Serbia and third-placed Luxembourg in fourth both have four points from as many matches while Lithuania are bottom with just one point in four matches.
Portugal dominated the opening half and Carvalho fired them ahead in the 42nd minute, before the lead of Portugal doubled with a fine effort.
Centre back Nikola Milenkovic pulled back for Serbia at the 68th minute, heading out a Dusan Tadic corner beyond keeper Rui Patricio.
But taunted by chants of”Messi” out of Serbia’s die-hard fans, Ronaldo revealed his course in the 80th minute when he first chose a Bernardo Silva pass into his stride and coolly dinked the ball over the advancing Dmitrovic.
As Aleksandar Mitrovic drove a shot inside the penalty area to the roof of the net after a defensive blunder at the 85th minute, serbia refused to roll around but Silva secured the competition with a clinical conclusion barely 60 seconds later.
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