France, Germany and Italy solved their Nations League matches against Belgium, the Netherlands and Israel with three victories. Pending the performance of the Eurocup champion, Spain, Monday’s day of the Nations League offered very interesting matches in the first division of the competition. France, Germany and Italy showed their stripes in a tournament designed to bring together confrontations between large official European teams.
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Casteels, Zeno Debast, Castagne (Maxim De Cuyper, min. 66), Arthur Theate, Wout Faes, Orel Mangala (Aster Vranckx, min. 66), Trossard, Tielemans (Lukebakio, min. 81), Jeremy Doku, Charles De Ketelaere (Arne Engels, min. 81) and Lois Openda
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Mike Maignan, William Saliba, Koundé, Digne, Ibrahim Konate, Matteo Guendouzi (Camavinga, 73 mins), Aurelien Tchouameni, Kouadio Kone, Bradley Barcola (Nkunku, 73 mins), Randal Kolo Muani (93 mins). y Ousmane Dembele (Youssouf Fofana, 79 minutes)
Goals 0-1 min. 35: Randal Kolo Muani. 1-1 min. 48: Lois Openda. 1-2 min. 62: Randal Kolo Muani.
Arbitrator Irfan Fear
yellow cards Digne (7 min.), William Saliba (21 min.), Aurelien Tchouameni (24 min.), Orel Mangala (28 min.), Ibrahima Konate (45 min.), Wout Faes (53 min.), Charles De Ketelaere (55 min.) and Mike Maignan (78 min.)
France, which gave Mbappé a rest and with Griezmann already retired, relied on Kolo Muani against a Belgium in the process of renewal. Deschamps’ team, once again, showed interesting notes and also gross errors in defense. At 20 minutes, their defensive system squeaked before the arrival of the fast Openda. Saliba gave him a clear penalty and Tielemans shot wide. The best of France was in its wingers, Dembelé and Barcola. A play by the latter was stopped with his hand by Faes in a very naive action inside the area. Kolo Muani scored from a penalty. However, France is not a reliable team. Openda took the turns from Saliba again to make it 1-1 with a header on the stroke of half-time.
France took a step forward in the second half. Koné, a tireless player in the center of the field, scored with a strong shot from outside the area. A handball from Kolo Muani aborted the possibility of the goal going up on the scoreboard. However, it was Kolo Muani’s night, who headed in a good cross from Digne to make it 1-2. It was the French team’s turn to pull back after Tchouameni saw the second yellow in the 76th minute for a clear knockdown of Tielemans as he entered the area. France held on and is firm in a group led by Italy.
Germany honored Neuer, Gundogan and Müller, legends now retired from the team and, incidentally, their match against the Netherlands, a classic of European football, began like a true cyclone. After two minutes, a goal was disallowed by Leweling, substitute for the injured Musiala, due to a previous offside by Gnabry. The passing of the minutes tempered the mood of the German team. Holland resisted until in the second half, in the 64th minute, Leweling scored it inside the area to take revenge for the goal disallowed in the first half. The winger, from Stuttgart, earned the right to repeat ownership with Germany. The young German team held the 1-0 lead until the end. Koeman’s Holland will now play the qualification with a Hungary that defeated Bosnia (0-2) with two goals from its great figure, Szoboszlai, the talented playmaker who plays for Liverpool. The Netherlands and Hungary are tied on five points and will fight for second place in the group.
In a match marked by extreme security measures around the Israeli team in the city of Udine, Italy showed its good moment by defeating the Israeli team 4-1, putting its qualification for the quarterfinals on track. Retegui, from a penalty, Di Lorenzo, twice, and Frattesi scored for the Italian team.
Arda Güler scored a goal in Türkiye’s victory in Iceland (2-4) in the Second Division of this Nations League. The Madrid player made it 2-3. Ukraine and the Czech Republic tied 1-1 in the same division.
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