Spain, Norway, Italy and Portugal unlucky from the spot (but all winners). Paradoxically, the only penalty that was scored was that of the Latvian Gutkovskis, but his national team did not go beyond a 2-2 draw with Andorra…
The World Cup Qualifiers were truly an evening bordering on the absurd. Almost a competition between those who want to make their fans and their team suffer the most. First Haaland’s Norway: twice the number 9 and City star was unable to beat Peretz, as Marciniak had to have the penalty taken again. The Israeli goalkeeper becomes Superman and saves Haaland’s shots on two different sides of the goal, even if it was of little use: Norway dominated and won 5-0 easily. Then Spain with Ferrán Torres in the 29th minute, in the match against Georgia, thanks to a super intervention from Mamardashvili. Italy also starts at the same time, after a brilliant start against Estonia (1-0 for Kean, who then went out due to injury), wasting a possible second goal from the spot with Retegui: an angled finish but too weak. Hein stretches, sending the ball into the corner. But it doesn’t end there: there is also room for those who have shot more than 150 in their career. CR7 challenges Ireland and tries to take his team forward with a central penalty, perhaps too affected. Kelleher, however, hesitates for a moment to dive and then extends his leg, blocking Ronaldo’s shot. Rúben Neves will take care of putting everything right in injury time, giving Portugal the 1-0.
gutkovskis instead…
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The only penalty scored this day was scored by Latvia. In the 55th minute Gutkovskis overturned the initial deficit and made it 2-1 from the spot, even if it wasn’t enough to stop Andorra’s equalizer a little later (78′), signed by Ian Olivera. The final paradox? The 4 big names who missed the penalty still won their respective matches, the only national team that took advantage of the bonus penalty was then unable to win the match…
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