On Friday, England and France strolled to triumphs over international minnows in Euro 2024 qualifying, while Wales saw their dreams of reaching next year’s finals in Germany suffer a setback when they were defeated at home by Armenia 4-2 in the match. England and France both won by more than two goals.
The England national football team, coached by Gareth Southgate, cruised to a 4-0 victory away from home against a Malta team that is rated 172nd in the world. With the victory, England maintained their unblemished record in Group C.
After Malta defender Ferdinando Apap sent a cross from Bukayo Saka into his own net, England took an early lead in the match. England’s Trent Alexander-Arnold then scored an outstanding goal to make the score 2-0 in England’s favor.
Harry Kane, who became England’s all-time leading scorer during the most recent international window in March, made it three goals in three games for this campaign when he scored a penalty to make it 3-0. Kane became England’s all-time leading scorer during the most recent international window.
Callum Wilson, who came on as a substitute late in the game, scored the decisive goal from another penalty kick that was awarded for a handball after a VAR review.
“Of course, we are aware that we possess the ability to prevail in the match; now the question is one of attitude. “Right off the bat, I had a very positive impression of that,” said Southgate.
Even though England has played one more match than Ukraine, Italy, and North Macedonia, they lead those three teams by six points in the standings.
While Italy is competing in the finals of the Nations League right now, Ukraine secured their first points of the tournament with a spectacular comeback victory that earned them a 3-2 victory away in North Macedonia.
North Macedonia took a 2-0 lead thanks to a penalty kick from Enis Bardhi and a magnificent goal from Eljif Elmas of Napoli. With those two goals, North Macedonia qualified for Euro 2020.
Illia Zabarnyi, a defender for Bournemouth, scored a goal for Ukraine immediately after the hour mark, and Yukhym Konoplia tied the score for Ukraine shortly after that.
North Macedonia, who will play in England on Monday, were reduced to 10 men before Viktor Tsygankov completed the comeback with seven minutes left by heading home a cross from Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk. North Macedonia will play in England on Monday.
Giroud and Mbappe have scored for the team.
Kylian Mbappe put to rest rumors regarding his future at Paris Saint-Germain by captaining France to a 3-0 victory over Gibraltar in Faro, Portugal. Mbappe also scored a goal in the match. Gibraltar was the lowest-ranked team in Group B.
France took the lead thanks to a header from Olivier Giroud early on, and Mbappe added a goal from the penalty spot after a handball was called in the first-half stoppage time.
Late in the match, France scored their third goal when Aymen Mouelhi scored an own goal by turning in a low cross from Mbappe.
Didier Deschamps, the head coach of France, remarked that the team should have scored more goals despite the fact that the objective was to win and get the job done.
The team that finished in second place in the World Cup is currently on top of Group B with a perfect nine points after three matches. This gives them a three-point lead over Greece, who just defeated the Republic of Ireland in Athens by a score of 2-1.
Giorgos Masouras scored the game-winning goal for Greece on their trip to France on Monday. The game was tied after a penalty kick by the home team’s captain, Tasos Bakasetas, which gave the hosts the lead. Nathan Collins scored the equalizer.
Following Matt Doherty’s late dismissal, Ireland finished the match with 10 players on the field.
After losing to Armenia in Cardiff, Wales’ hopes of qualifying for the European Championship in 2024 are in jeopardy, despite the fact that they had qualified for the previous two European Championships and advanced to the knockout rounds both times.
Daniel James gave Wales the lead, but Armenia responded with a pair of goals from Lucas Zelarayan, who was born in Argentina, and Grant-Leon Ranos, who was born in Germany.
Harry Wilson scored another goal for Wales, but they finished the game with ten men when Kieffer Moore was sent off. Despite Wales’ late comeback, they remain in third place in Group D, two points behind the leaders, Turkey, who won 3-2 in Latvia.
– Denmark has a slight advantage against Northern Ireland –
Both times that Turkey had the lead, they squandered it, and Kristers Tobers scored the second goal for Latvia in the 94th minute. Irfan Can Kahveci scored the game-winning goal by heading it in a minute later.
In Copenhagen, Denmark defeated Northern Ireland by a score of 1-0 to go into first place in Group H, which now has four teams tied for second place.
The game was won by Wolfsburg’s Jonas Wind, but Callum Marshall’s late equalizer for Northern Ireland was disallowed after a thorough review by the video assistant referee revealed that Marshall was offside.
Following their respective victories over San Marino (3-0) and Slovenia (2-0), Kazakhstan and Finland have moved onto six points in the standings.
Switzerland improved their record in Group I to 3-0 with a victory in Andorra, which they won by a score of 2-1.
They are currently two points ahead of Romania, who played to a scoreless draw in Kosovo, while Israel defeated Belarus 2-1 in Budapest thanks to two late goals.