Finland storm past Northern Ireland and set the group on fire with ‘goodnight’

He left with the “double” from Belfast and… confused the 8th group Finland! The Scandinavians prevailed 1-0 of Northern Ireland with Kalman’s goal in the 28th minute, achieved their first win in the qualifying phase of Euro 2024 and will fight with three teams for the second place!

His team Marco Canerva it was perfectly set up on the field closing the spaces to the home team. The first visit of the Finns to the opposing defense was in the 26th minute with Jensen making a cross from the right, but Puki did not have time to get into the path of the ball. However, two minutes later the forward of Norwich found Kalman who beat him with a perfect placement Peacock-Farrell for 0-1 “freezing” Belfast.

Northern Ireland tried to respond in the second half and in the 56th minute Magnesium with a terrific shot he marked it horizontal beam of Hratetsky. Six minutes later Charles took advantage of the counter-attack by sending the ball into the net from close range but the goal was disallowed after VAR as the Bolton striker used his arm to control with 1-0 remaining in favor of Finland.

The games of the 2nd round

Kazakhstan-Denmark 3-2

(73′ Sainudinov, 86′ Tagibergen, 89′ Aybetov-21′, 35′ Hoylund)

Slovenia- San Marino 2-0

(57′ Cesco, 60′ Di Maio auto.)

Northern Ireland-Finland 0-1

(28′ Kalman)

The score of the 8th group

Slovenia 6 (4-1)

Denmark 3 (5-4)

Kazakhstan 3 (4-4)

Finland 3 (2-3)

N. Ireland 3 (2-1)

San Marino 0 (0-4)