Ideally celebrate the completion 200 appearances with her national team Portugal The Cristiano Ronaldogiving his team the victory by a score 1-0 in the away match with Icelandwith a goal, in fact, in the 90′!
In a game in which Iceland of the main Magnuson and Ingason stood up very well, was very solid and almost infallible defensively but, in the end, couldn’t even get the equaliser, Ronaldo scored the winning goal in record for that game and Portugal came away with the important “double” from Reykjavik, making it 4/4 and remaining alone first in their 10th qualifying group Euro 2024.
The Icelanders had the first good chance of the match, with the former Olympiakos striker, Alfred Finnbogasonto send the ball high out from a very advantageous position in the 13′, while in the 16′ Pepe narrowly missed with a header for Portugal, who increased their pressure as time went on.
In the 49th Ronaldo he came close to scoring, but his header went over the crossbar, while in the 81st minute the hosts were a man down due to Williamson’s dismissal with a second yellow card. Portugal pressed hard in the closing minutes and finally found the winner in the 90th minute with Ronaldo heading Inácio’s cross to set up the final 0-1!
In the second place of the group remained Slovakiawhich struggled and prevailed with the “poor” 1-0 of the weak Liechtenstein in Vaduz thanks to a goal by Vavros at 45’+1′, reaching 10 points (-2 from Portugal), while Bosnia suffered at home from the Luxembourgwhich celebrated a great victory with 2-0 and does Euro dreams!
The guests “froze” Zenitsa in the 4th minute of the match with Sanchez’s goal and then showed themselves very well defensively. In the 56th minute, Hadziakmentovic missed a penalty for Bosnia and in the 74th minute, Sinani completed the triumph of Luxembourg, which climbed to 3rd place in the group, two points away from the qualifying positions!
The 4th matchday:
Iceland-Portugal 0-1
(90′ Ronaldo)
Bosnia-Luxembourg 0-2
(4’Slantses, 74′ Sinani)
Liechtenstein-Slovakia 0-1
(45’+1′ Vavros)
The next (5th) matchday (8/9):
Luxembourg-Iceland (21:45)
Slovakia-Portugal (21:45)
Bosnia-Liechtenstein (21:45)
The standings of the 10th group:
Source: Sport Fm
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