New Nations League evening with six matches scheduled at 8:45 p.m. Whether France challenged Denmark in Copenhagen to try to stay in League A, other beautiful posters took place all over Europe. In the group of the Blues, Austria thus welcomed Croatia, vice-world champion. A meeting which started on the hats of wheels since Modric quickly found the fault. Served by Vlasic, the Madrid midfielder deceived Lindner with a fine strike (0-1, 6th). Surprised from the start, the Austrians reacted, however, in stride and Baumgartner put the two teams equal (1-1, 9th).
Just before the break, it was Arnautovic who was very close to giving the advantage to the locals but Livakovic won his face-to-face by diving quickly to the right (44th). In the second half, Austria pushed to pocket the three points but neither Sabitzer (61st) nor Gregoritsch (65th) found the opening. And what had to happen happened. On a cross from Perisic, Livaja was ahead of Wöber to deceive the Austrian goalkeeper at the near post (1-2, 69th). Carried by this goal, the Croats flew away a few moments later on a new achievement signed Lovren (1-3, 72nd). With this convincing victory, Croatia finished at the top of their group and validated their ticket for the Final Four. Austria ranks fourth.
The Netherlands subdue the Red Devils, Turkey end in a worrying defeat!
Gala poster, also, at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam where the Netherlands, ideally positioned to reach the Final Four, received Belgium from Eden Hazard. Despite a tantalizing opposition on paper, the two selections could not come apart during the first act. More incisive with three shots on target out of five, the Belgians could not find the fault against the Oranje block which lost Berghuis to injury. On returning from the locker room, the Red Devils were much less enterprising but the Dutch selection, lacking offensive realism, did not take advantage of it. Shortly after the hour mark, Amadou Onana was even close to opening the scoring but Pasveer diverted the recovery from the Everton midfielder to leave his teammates in the game (66th).
A stop all the more important as in the minutes that followed, the Dutch were finally going to take the lead. After a first save from Courtois, van Dijk took advantage of a corner from Gakpo to place a header and deceive the vigilance of the Madrid goalkeeper (1-0, 73rd). In front of the score, the Netherlands kept this slight advantage to definitively validate their place in the next Final Four. Belgium, led by Thierry Henry for the occasion, finished in second place in group 4. In this same group, Poland moved to the lawn of Cardiff to challenge Wales. After a relatively balanced first act, Robert Lewandowski’s teammates finally snatched victory thanks to Karol Swiderski (0-1, 57th). In the other matches of this evening, Turkey, for its part, validated its ticket for League B despite its defeat against the Faroe Islands (1-2). Finally, Luxembourg took the best against Lithuania (1-0).
All results from 8:45 p.m.
Ligue A
Groupe 1
Denmark 2-0 France : Dolberg (34th) and Skov Olsen (39th)
Austria 1-3 Croatia : Baumgartner (9th) / Modric (6th), Livaja (69th) and Lovren (72th)
Groupe 4
C-League
Groupe 1
