The 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign is coming to an end and the penultimate round of games brings with it quite a few dramas.
Tonight (Thursday) we got quite a few results that could be very significant regarding the decisions early next week.
House A
Ireland - Portugal 0: 0
The Salsa came into the game after four straight wins but had a very hard time against the opponent who played mostly for her honor.
Thanks to the point, Cristiano Ronaldo and his trainees climbed to first place in the table thanks to a better goal ratio over Serbia and on Sunday the two teams will meet for a battle of giants in the war for direct immigration to the World Cup to be held exactly in a year.
In another game:
Azerbaijan - Luxembourg 3: 1.
House B
Georgia - Sweden 0: 2
The Swedes knew that a victory would leave them in first place in the table and bring them closer to Qatar but they collapsed in a very surprising way.
Havica Quartzhalia (61, 77) was the one to sign the Yellows' loss, which may later become tragic, with a great duo that did not change too much for the local team.
Zlatan in shock, tonight in Georgia, Photo: Reuters
Greece - Spain 1: 0
Whoever took advantage of the Swedes' loss is Spain who managed to win away and turn the situation around at home, when they host Sweden at home on Sunday.
Pablo Sarabia decided to tackle a successful penalty (25).
House 8
Russia - Cyprus 0: 6
The Russians did the job with a great show at home.
Alexander Arukin with a double (4, 86), Fyodor Smolov (55), Andrei Mostovoy (56), Alexander Sotormin (62) and Anton Zabolotny (82) were in charge of the celebration.
Malta - Croatia 7: 1
Russia can not be too quiet as it has not yet guaranteed the automatic qualification for the World Cup, what with the fact that on Sunday it will go to a decisive game against Croatia which also did not leave its opponent too much chance in an almost perfect game.
Ivan Frisic (6), Doya Chalta-Tsar (22), Mario Peshalic (39), Luca Modric (45), Louvre Meyer in the pair (47, 64) and Andrei Kramaric (53) scored for the Balkans.
In another game:
Slovakia - Slovenia 2: 2.
my home'
Germany - Liechtenstein 0: 9
The team held a tribute ceremony before the game to Yogi Lev, who this summer finished his work as a coach after an amazing 15 years.
Lev saw his former trainees very much enjoying it, this after securing the illegal immigration already in the previous game window.
Ilkai Gonduan in Pendel (11), Daniel Kaufman in own goal (20), a pair of Leroy Sane (22, 49), Marco Royce (24), Thomas Muller (77, 87), Riddle Baku (81) and Max Goffle in self-goal ( 89) Decide unhindered.
German players celebrate, tonight.
Without Mercy, Photo: AFP
In other games:
Armenia - Northern Macedonia 0: 5, Romania - Iceland 0: 0.