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PARIS: The immense fascination of Kylian Mbappe led Monday to Iceland's defeat in qualifying for Euro 2020, but Cristiano Ronaldo braked Portugal's disappointing draw against Serbia and the Netherlands. Racist violence eclipsed England in Montenegro, ranked five stars.
Mbappe scored one more goal and two goals as the reigning world champions crushed Iceland 4-0 at the Stade de France to top the Euro 2020 qualifiers H group.
The result gives France, Moldova's 4-1 winner in their inaugural Euro match, six points in their first two games and place ahead of Turkey, who also won 4-0 on Monday, unlike of goals.
Samuel Umititi, Olivier Giroud, Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann all scored. Iceland was struggling to cope with a totally dominant French team.
Giroud's 35th goal in France propelled him to third place on the list of French scorers, with Chelsea striker holding only Michel Platini (41) and Thierry Henry (51).
In Group A, England, fresh out of a 5-0 Czech Republic demolition in which Raheem Sterling scored a hat trick, was forced to come from behind in a 5-1 victory. on Montenegro.
But another impressive victory for the Three Lions has been overshadowed by allegations of racist abuse in Podgorica.
Sterling celebrated the visitors' fifth goal by plugging their ears.
"The best way to silence enemies (and yeah, I mean racists)," Sterling said in a photo of his celebration.
English coach Gareth Southgate said he heard racist chants targeting Danny Rose and promised to report the problem to UEFA.
"I have certainly heard of Danny Rose's mistreatment when he received a reservation at the end of the match." There is no doubt in my mind. "We will make sure that this is reported to him." UEFA because it's not acceptable, "said Southgate. "We have to make sure we support our players."
ENGLISH COMEBACK
Marko Vesovic surprised England very early, but after making his two previous visits to Podgorica, England showed why their current group is among the favorites to be champion of Europe next year.
Michael Keane's header restored parity before Ross Barkley's double stopped the visitors from taking the lead and Harry Kane and Sterling completed a victory.
The situation was different in Lisbon: Portugal, reigning European champion Fernando Santos, drew 0-0 at home against Ukraine in his first Group B match, getting a second match Nil, 1-1 at home against Serbia.
If the result was not disappointing enough, captain Ronaldo stopped after 30 minutes without knowing whether the winner of the Ballon d'Or would be able to play for his club, Juventus, in the first leg of the Champions League. final in Ajax on April 10th.
Ajax Serbian playmaker Dusan Tadic opened the scoring from the penalty spot.
Ronaldo was denied equalization two minutes later as his effort was saved very well, Marko Dmitrovic.
The international 156 times then left the field after getting up by chasing a ball on the left wing.
He was quickly treated by members of the medical team before taking up his duties, but was replaced a few minutes later.
In his absence, Porto's Danilo Pereira scored a tying goal in the 42nd minute, scoring a shot from outside the box in the top corner in front of a helpless Dmitrovic.
Elsewhere, Turkey won two out of two victories in Group H, like France, with a 4-0 home win against Moldova.
Two goals in the first period in the space of three minutes, thanks to Hasan Ali Kaldirim and Cenk Tosun, inflicted the damage on Eskisehir.
Tosun scored his second goal after 10 minutes of play in the second period, while Kaan Ayhan won a brilliant victory with fourth place in Turkey.
Kosovo scored their first Euro qualifying match with a 1-1 draw against Bulgaria, but Luxembourg were heartbroken – Lithuania's 2-0 winners on Friday – while Gerson Rodrigues scored a goal to six minutes of the injury, Ukraine won 2-1.
Euro 2020 qualifying results:
In podgorica
Montenegro 1 England 5
In Pristina
Kosovo 1 Bulgaria 1
In lisbon
Portugal 1 Serbia 1
In Luxembourg
Luxembourg 1 Ukraine 2
In Andorra La Vella
Andorra 0 Albania 3
In Paris
France 4 Iceland 0
In Eskisehir, Turkey
Turkey 4 Moldova 0
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