League of Nations: Spain and Portugal are cut in their group

League of Nations: Spain and Portugal are cut in their group

With goals from Joao Cancelo (33) and Goncalo Guedes (39), the ‘Seleçao’ left a game in which they were vastly superior in the first half resolved.

After the complicated passage through the playoffs to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, defeating Turkey and North Macedonia, the Portuguese team seems to have recovered a good version in this competition, having managed to score points in the three games played so far.

The game was complicated, because the Czechs had replicated the performance of Portugal: victory against Switzerland and draw against Spain. However, they only created real danger for a stretch of the second half, failing to convert their efforts into a goal.

Better luck had the group trained by Fernando Santoswho after a powerful start managed to hit twice to knock out the rivals.

A combination on the right wing between the Manchester City players Bernardo Silva and Joao Canceloleft the latter fired towards the Czech goal and resolved with a powerful shot (33) unstoppable for Jindrich Stanek.

A few minutes later, a first-touch passing combination left Guedes alone in front of the goalkeeper (39), defining with a cross shot to close the scoring.

The Seleçao, who drew against Spain (1-1) and thrashed Switzerland (4-0), add 7 points with this victory, which helps them to lead the group before the fourth and last round of June in the League of Nations.

In that last game, the team led by Cristiano Ronaldo must visit Swiss, bottom of the group that has not added a single point.

The Czech Republicwhich arrived at this window with noticeable casualties such as that of Patrick Schickmaintains 4 points and is third in the group with one unit less than Spain, who won 1-0 in Switzerland, and against whom they will close this international window on Sunday.

Source: Ambito

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