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Germany wins again and Croatia struggles. The World Cup feels like a long time ago.
After a year of field problems and humiliations, the new Germany is finally starting to look like old Germany. Grit, determination and winner Nico Schulz in the 90th minute allowed the Germans to win 3-2 against the Netherlands, Sunday (Monday, NZT), during the qualifying for the European Championship.
"It's good for the confidence of this young team," said German coach Joachim Low. "I can live with criticism, I know what our potential is."
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Croatia was in the shadow of the resilient team that went to the World Cup final in July after a 2-1 defeat against Hungary in Budapest. Coach Zlatko Dalic is expected to face confusion in the Croatian defense, in a group where four teams look like contenders for two qualifying places for the Euro 2020.
Elsewhere, Wales started with a live victory against Slovakia, while Belgium and Poland won comfortable victories.
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The German Nico Schulz imposes against the Netherlands in the last match of his group.
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Against the Netherlands for the third time in six months, Germany took revenge.
The Dutch beat Germany 3-0 in Amsterdam in October and got one last draw in the second leg. These results have relegated Germany to the top of the League of Nations: more embarrbadment after its disastrous campaign for the 2018 World Cup, which could not pbad the group stage.
The winner of Schulz arrived just as it seemed that his team had let the Dutch save a 2-0 draw in the match against Group C.
"We have not controlled the ball and if you can not exert pressure, the game opens and you see that they have incredible attackers," said the coach. Netherlands, Ronald Koeman.
Germany has played six competitive matches without a win since winning Sweden at the World Cup.
For Loew, the challenge now is to maintain momentum. After all, the victory over Sweden was considered at the time as a well deserved boost after a bad run. Dawn turned out to be wrong when Germany quickly lost to South Korea and collapsed dramatically outside the World Cup.
Germany's next opponent, Belarus, sank 2 to 1 against Northern Ireland, group leader, who won his second straight group match with a goal to 87th minute substitute Josh Magennis.
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Jamal Lewis, from Northern Ireland, left, presents himself to the Belarusian defense during the qualifying match for Euro 2020 in Belfast.
CROATIA CREAKING
Eight months after reaching the final of the World Cup, Croatia is experiencing unexpected difficulties.
Croatia 's defense was sometimes overwhelmed by a full – fledged Hungarian team, conceding a goal against a fine badist run by Balazs Dzsudzsak, and the other after a panicked defense.
Since Croatia lost the final of the FIFA World Cup, the results of Croatia are extremely contradictory.
A 6-0 defeat against Spain in the League of Nations, a 3-2 win shortly after and Thursday's 2-1 win over Azerbaijan against Azerbaijan highlighted the moments of genius and weaknesses of Croatia after the defeat of key players in international retirement. and injury.
Earlier in the same group, Daniel James' first international goal gave Wales the lead after five minutes against Slovakia, before retaining his 1-0 win.
"It was a perfect start," said Wales coach Ryan Giggs, and he praised James, a 21-year-old. "It's a talent, and when you have that brutal pace, you're a threat at every level."
Croatia, Hungary, Wales and Slovakia are tied on three points of group E. Azerbaijan, last, is not at any point.
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Daniel James celebrates Wales' win against Slovakia in their qualification at Euro 2020 in Cardiff.
CENTENARY OF HAZARDS
One hundred games for Belgium and Eden Hazard are still dangerous.
Hazard scored his 30th career international goal in his centennial as Belgium beat Cyprus 2-0 to strengthen their grip on Group I. Michy Batshuayi scored a goal and a pbad as Belgium moved to a regular victory for stay ahead of the group points.
Winger Valencia, Denis Cheryshev, scored two goals and scored another while Russia recovered from defeat against Belgium on Thursday (Friday NZT) with Kazakhstan dismantling 4-0. .
Still crying over defeat against Kazakhstan last week, Scottish fans had little to celebrate as their team struggled to impose 2-0 against San Marino, the worst-performing team. ranked in the world. Scotland, which has not qualified for a European championship since 1996, still enjoys a playoff spot thanks to its results in the UEFA Champions League.
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Michy Batshuayi, on the left, applauds his Belgian teammates after scoring against Cyprus.
POLAND WINS STILL
Poland took control of Group G with a second consecutive win, beating Latvia 2-0, while Austria's qualifying hopes are already uncertain.
Latvian goalkeeper Pavels Steinbors made a series of spectacular saves before Robert Lewandowski managed to break the deadlock in the 76th minute with a header. Kamil Glik scored another head eight minutes later.
Austria lost a 1-0 lead after losing 4-2 to Israel and is now tied with Latvia at the bottom of the group, with no points in their first two games. Eran Zahavi scored a hat trick as Israel won its first win against Austria for 20 years.
North Macedonia is tied with Israel on four points after a 1-1 draw with Slovenia.
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Euro 2020 qualifying results:
Group C
Netherlands 2-3 Germany
Northern Ireland 2-1 Belarus
Group E
Wales 1-0 Slovakia
Hungary 2-1 Croatia
Group G
Israel 4-2 Austria
Poland 2-0 Latvia
Slovenia 1-1 FYR Macedonia
Group I
Kazakhstan 0-4 Russia
San Marino 0-2 Scotland
Cyprus 0-2 Belgium
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