UEFA League of Nations: Hungarian footballers shock England, Germany defeats Italy – Football

The Hungarians also defeated the English in the first round match, winning 1: 0 at home.

For England, this is the heaviest loss on its field since 1928, when it capitulated to Scotland 1: 5.

In the 16th minute of the match in Wolverhampton, Rolands Šallai scored 1: 0 in favor of the Hungarian team, who got the ball in the penalty area and sent it into the net. Hungary strengthened their lead in the 70th minute when the British lost the ball on their side of the field and allowed Shall to go alone against his goalkeeper.

Ten minutes later, the English played again unconvincingly at their goal and Žolts Naģs scored 3: 0 in favor of the Hungarians with a shot outside the penalty area.

The British finished the match with ten men, as eight minutes before the end of regular time, John Stones was on his second yellow card in the match and was disqualified. However, the home team’s problems didn’t end there, because in the penultimate minute of the regular time, Daniel Gozdogs, after the passing of Adam Naģis, came alone against Aaron Remeddale and hit the ball over the English goalkeeper – 4: 0.

In the second game of this group, Germany defeated Italy’s European champion 5: 2 (2: 0) in Monchengladbach.

Italian footballers scored five goals for the first time since 1957, when they lost to Yugoslavia 1: 6.

In the tenth minute after passing through the penalty area, Jozua Kimmihs caught the ball, quickly put it to the goal – 1: 0. Before taking a break during the first half of the compensation after Alessandro Bastoni’s foul, Ilkay Gindoan scored an 11-meter penalty and strengthened the lead for the German national team.

In the second half, in the 51st minute, after an Italian sloppy play in his penalty area, the ball was hit by Thomas Miller from about 13 meters in the “fortress”, reaching 3: 0. Timo Werner scored two goals in the middle of the minute, first to pass to Sergei Nyabri unscrupulously, but then made an Italian mistake in the goalkeeper’s match with the defenders.

12 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 – 4 as Vilfrīds Gnonto finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. In the fourth minute of the compensation, Bastoni sent the ball into the head when the ball was headed, further reducing the German lead.

In the third group of League A, after four games, Hungary is in first place with seven points, six points for Germany, five for Italy and only two for England.

Meanwhile, the end of the dramatic match was in Rotterdam, where the Netherlands defeated Wales 3: 2 (2: 1).

After 17 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by Vincent Jansen might have resulted in another goal for fc. Six minutes later, Kodijs Gakpo got the opponent’s blocked ball after his own shot and repeatedly hit it in the goal – 2: 0. Three minutes later, Brenans Johnson tried to exploit their counterattacking skills, unfortunately, Brenan Johnson’s shot sailed wide after his break down the right.

After a violation in the second half of the second half, Getter Baille made the pendulum and scored 2: 2, but the Welsh did not escape the loss. A minute later, Memphis Depay returned to lead the Netherlands in a swift attack.

Belgium defeated Poland with 1: 0 (1: 0).

In the 16th minute, after Juri Tīlmansa’s pass in the penalty area, Mišī Bačuajī shot the ball into the goal in a slim jump, reaching 1: 0 in favor of the Belgians.

After four matches in the fourth group of League A, the Netherlands has ten points, Belgium has scored seven, Poland has scored four and Wales has one.

In the League of Nations, the winners of the group next season earn the opportunity to play in a higher group. Namely, the team that wins in one of the C groups gets a chance to start in one of the B groups, while the winners of the B groups will be strong in the A groups next season. The weaker teams in Group C meet in the knockout battles to find out the two units that will be relegated to League D, replacing the two strongest units.

The League of Nations tournament is in its third year.

Last season’s final tournament took place last October, with France winning Spain in the title race. In the first season, the final was hosted by Portugal, making the home team the first UEFA League of Nations champions in history.