Croatia together with Portugal in the quarter-finals, possible opponent of the national team Scotland with a goal in the 90+3′, historic victory for San Marino

Portugal traveled to Croatia having secured not only qualification but also a place in the quarter-finals of the Nations League and this enabled them to proceed in rotation, with the “Croatia” burning for their side for a positive result and getting , to follow the Iberians in the quarter-finals of the competition.

The 1-1 draw was a heartbreaker for the home side, however, with Portugal coming out determined to win and taking the lead in the first half in impressive fashion, with Felix bringing down the ball perfectly to a stunningly accurate ball from Vitinia to defeats Livakovic with a great shot in the 33rd minute.

In the second half the hosts pushed for an equalizer to secure second place and qualification regardless of what happened in Poland v Croatia and found it with a defender who has scoring appeal.

The reason for Josko Guardiol, with the Manchester City defender advancing into the opponent’s area and, after a cross from Soutar, flying at the second post, to beat Jose Xa in the 66th minute and give his team qualification (1- 1).

• CROATIA: Livakovic, Sutalo, Chaleta-Czar, Guardiol, Kovacic (46′ Pasalic), Modric (78′ Moro), Perisic (58′ Susic), Sosa (46′ Jakic), Kramaric, Baturina, Matanovic (63′ Budimir)
• PORTUGAL: Sa, Vega, Araujo (63′ Jalo), Semedo, Mendes (80′ Dalot), Vitinia, Neves, Otavio (71′ Conceição), Cancelo, Leao (71′ Fabio Silva), Felix

Poland lined up for the match against Scotland with… the cushion of a draw in the battle for 3rd place in contrast to their opponent who only wanted a win to make the overtake, with the balance even tipped with the good morning.

Specifically in the 3rd minute when the “highlanders” combined beautifully, with McGinn being fed by Doke and sending the ball into the net with a diagonal right-footed cross into the area.

The result left Scotland looking even at second place in the group, however Poland fought back in the second half to equalize in the 59th minute, with Piatkowski unleashing a right-footed thunderbolt from the height of the box to leave no room reaction to Gordon (1-1).

The excitement in this match was to peak in the finale, specifically in the 90+3′, with Robertson following the ball as a trailer to a cross from Shooter and sending it with an unimaginable header into the net, to give a great victory to the country and lead it to 3rd place, which makes it a possible opponent of the National team in the playoffs.

At the same time, the Poles disappointed once again, with this defeat relegating them to League B.

• POLAND: Skorupski, Piatkowski, Walukewicz, Kiwior, Kaminski (63′ Puhacz), Szymanski, Moder (46′ Slis), Zielinski, Zalewski, Buksa, Swidderski (75′ Urbanski)
• SCOTLAND: Gordon, Robertson, Hanley, Shooter, Ralston (76′ Devlin), McLean, Gilmour (87′ Armstrong), McTominay (76′ Gould), McGinn, Doake (66′ Christie), Dykes (66′ Shankland)

• Croatia – Portugal 1-1 (66′ Guardiol / 33′ Felix)
• Poland – Scotland 1-2 (59′ Piatkowski / 3′ McGinn, 90+3′ Robertson)

Historic victory for San Marino, heavy defeat for Cyprus

As for the night’s other results, San Marino celebrated a huge 3-1 win at home to Liechtenstein that saw them climb to the top of their group and also get promoted to League C.

Cyprus suffered a heavy defeat 4-1 away from Romania, while the matches between Bulgaria and Belarus (1-1) and Luxembourg and Northern Ireland (2-2) ended without a winner.

• Serbia – Denmark 0-0
• Spain – Switzerland 3-2 (32′ Pino, 68′ Hill, 90+3′ penalty Tharagotha ​​/ 63′ Monteiro, 85′ penalty Zekiri))

• Kosovo – Lithuania 1-0 (5′ Jasari)
• Romania – Cyprus 4-1 (17′ Birligea, 42′ Marin, 80′ Haji, 83′ Mihaila / 52′ Pittas)

• Bulgaria – Belarus 1-1 (13′ Panagiotov / 70′ Martinovic)
• Luxembourg – Northern Ireland 2-2 (72′ Korats, 75′ Rodriguez / 19′ Price, 50′ Bradley)

• Liechtenstein – San Marino 1-3 (40′ Sele / 46′ Lazzari, 66′ pen. Nani, 76′ Golinucci)