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Paris – Edenic danger insured Belgium launched its qualifying campaign for Euro 2020 Thursday with a brace in a home win against Russia, while one Memphis DepayThe Netherlands, inspired, won the 4-0 win against Belarus.
World Cup semi-finalists, Belgium won a 3-1 win over the Russians in Brussels. Hazard scored two goals for Roberto Martinez's team during his Group I opening match.
Yuri Tielemans made a gentle come-from-home move to shut down Belgium in the 14th minute at King Baudouin Stadium, but Thibaut Courtois gave Russia an immediate equalizer.
The Real Madrid goalkeeper, under pressure from Artem Dzyuba, panicked and let the ball slip to Denis Cheryshev who brought the ball home for an empty goal.
Michy Batshuayi cleared the ball, and then hit the post, but Hazard restored Belgium's lead just before half-time after Yuri Zhirkov's foul in the box.
Chelsea's point guard sealed the three points two minutes from the end by a late warning, while Aleksandr Golovin was sent off for Russia just before the end.
"I had a lot of fun tonight and I'm really enjoying this win, where I scored two goals," said Belgian captain Hazard.
"After our last game against Switzerland (5-2 defeat), we had to react to our own fans."
Cyprus beat San Marino 5-0 to temporarily take first place in the group, while Scotland crashed in the face of a 3-0 defeat to Kazakhstan – a nation ranked at 117th place in the FIFA rankings.
Yuriy Pertsukh and Yan Vorogovskiy scored Kazakhstan's first goals before Baktiyor Zainutdinov's formidable header eliminated any chance of recovery for Scotland.
In Rotterdam, Memphis Depay has pioneered a pbad to give the Dutch a 60-second lead over 60 against Belarus.
The Lyon striker put Georginio Wijnaldum in second place in 21 minutes, while Depay scored a penalty at halftime after a foul by Mikhail Sivakov.
Depay has made a center for the skipper Virgil van Dijk. He then dominated the Netherlands with Northern Ireland, who beat Estonia 2-0 thanks to Niall McGinn and Steven Davis in Belfast.
"It's hard to choose between goals and aids," said Depay. "The first goal was good because it was outside of my foot, but I also enjoyed the film that staged the second goal."
Krzysztof Piatek continued his great season off the bench to score the only goal of Poland's 1-0 win over Austria in Group G.
The AC Milan striker, who has already scored 19 goals in 27 Serie A games this season, has scored twice in three games for his country after his international debut in September.
"It was a first step in qualifying, it was a very important game and a very important win, we took three points and we are very happy," said Poland striker. Robert Lewandowski.
Croatia, a World Cup finalist, relegated to first place in the League of Nations last year, won an unconvincing 2-1 win against Azerbaijan in Zagreb.
Rummy Sheydaev gave the advantage to Azerbaijan 19 minutes before Croatia came back on Borna Barisic and in the 79th minute of Andrej Kramaric in the E group.
Slovakia dominates the goal difference section after a 2-0 defeat by Hungary in Trnava, while Ondrej Duda and Albert Rusnak scored for the hosts.
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