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Portugal and Spain beat Poland and Denmark respectively and “locked” the top of the Nations League groups. Dominik Kotarski made his debut in an official match of the Croatian national team, with the PAOK goalkeeper conceding a goal in the 86th minute from McGinn.
The role of the favorite was confirmed by the Iberians. Portugal and Spain overcame Poland and Denmark respectively to secure top spot in their Nations League League A groups and a ticket to the Final Four that gives the winner the trophy.
The Portuguese national team, after managing not to concede a goal in the first half thanks to Diogo Costa’s interventions, in the second 45 minutes turned the match into a performance for a role by scattering their opponents.
Leao opened the scoring in the 59th minute, with the Milan winger starting Portugal’s counter-attack and finishing it off with a superb header.
In the 72nd minute, Dalot won a penalty at the hands of Kivior and usual suspect Cristiano Ronaldo, through Panenka, scored his fourth goal in four Nations League games.
Bruno Fernandes took the top scorer’s baton in the 80th minute, with the Manchester United captain scoring a terrific goal. He found an empty space in Poland’s defense and punished their passivity by executing out of the area Bulka, who remained a column of salt watching the ball end up in his net for the third time in the match.
Pedro Neto in the 83rd minute capitalized on Cristiano Ronaldo’s assist from executor-turned-creator, with the Chelsea man thundering past the Polish keeper and as if that wasn’t enough, four minutes later the scorer made it 5-0 with a scissors kick. of Ronaldo, who scored his 135 goals in 217 appearances with the national team.
The only thing the visitors managed was to score the goal of honor in the 88th minute with Marchuk.
PORTUGAL: Costa, Dalot, A. Silva, Vega, Mendes (88′ Tavares), M. Silva (77′ S. Costa), Neves (46′ Vitinia), Fernandes, Neto (84′ Trincao), Leao (84′ Felix) , Ronaldo
POLAND: Bulka, Piatkowski, Bednarek (46′ Malukiewicz), Kivior, Berezinski (32′ Kaminski), Szymanski, Romanchuk, Zielinski, Zalewski, Piontek (81′ Kozubal), Urbanski (73′ Buksa)
In the other big match of League A of the Nations League, Spain with many changes in its composition passed 2-1 at home to Denmark.
Luis De La Fuente’s well-tuned machine made it 0-1 with Ojarthambal in the 15th minute. The Sociedad striker was the final recipient of an attack that initially featured pressing and stealing the ball, Merino stole the ball, chipped it to Perez, he in turn turned it into the area to Ojarthambal, who with a beautiful take and a cool finish beat Schmeichel.
The 0-2 came with Olmos showing his class and his high technical training. The Barcelona midfielder in the 58th minute fired a laser ball at Perez, who moved at the back of the Danish defense and made no mistake with his left foot against Schmeichel.
All Denmark managed was to reduce in the 84th minute with Isaksen, without changing anything in the final outcome of the match.
DENMARK: Schmeichel, Bach, Andersen, Westergaard, Christiansen (87′ Dorgu), Hoiberg, Nergaard (61′ Damsgaard), Hulmand, Eriksen (79′ Skon Olsen), Grenbaek (61′ Isaksen), Hoylund (79′ Dolberg)
SPAIN: Raya, Poro, Vivian, Laporte, Cucoureja, Merino (80′ Pedri), Thubimendi, Oyarthabal, Olmo (70′ Williams), Baena (62′ Baena), Perez (69′ Morata)
In Glasgow, Scotland host Croatia, with both teams wanting victory for different reasons. However, in the end it was the hosts who smiled thanks to McGinn’s goal in the 86th minute that “stained” the official debut of Dominik Kotarski at the home of the guests.
In fact, Croatia played for more than 50 minutes with one player less due to Petar Sucic’s second yellow card dismissal.
SCOTLAND: Gordon, Ralston, Shooter, Hanley (46′ McKenna), Robertson, McLean (67′ McGinn), Gilmour, McTominay, Dock (90+2′ Armstrong), Christie (67′ Gould), Conway (67′ Dykes)
KRAOTIA: Kotarski, Jakic (82′ Piazza), Sutalo, Chaleta-Czar, Guardiol, Modric, Kovacic, L. Sucic (65′ Perisic), P. Sucic, Baturina (75′ Vlasic), Kramaric (66′ Pasalic)
- Portugal – Poland 5-1 (59′ Leao, 72′ penalty, 87′ Cristiano Ronaldo, 80′ Fernandes, 83′ Neto – 88′ Marchuk)
- Scotland – Croatia 1-0 (86′ McGinn)
- Denmark – Spain 1-2 (84′ Isaksen – 15′ Oyarthambal, 58′ Perez)
- Switzerland – Serbia 1-1 (78′ Amduni – 88′ Terzic)
- Cyprus – Lithuania 0-0
- Romania – Kosovo 0-0 (Halftime)
- Luxembourg – Bulgaria 0-1 (23′ Crave)
- Northern Ireland – Belarus 2-0 (50′ Ballard, 63′ pen. Charles)
- San Marino – Gibraltar 1-1 (90+1 pen. Nani – 11′ pen. Walker)
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