Forced to qualify for the semi-finals of joining, Squadra Azzurra was eliminated last night by North Macedonia who will challenge the Portuguese at home early next week for the prized sesame.
unbelievable. Let’s start with the big surprise of the evening…European champions, La Squadra, were eliminated last night from the semi-finals, as well as at home in Palermo, from humble North Macedonia (0-1), and thus will be eliminated from the World Cup for the second time in a row . The Macedonians achieved the feat thanks to a goal from Aleksandar Trajkovsky in overtime (0-1, 90 + 2), while Italy dominated throughout the match. Next Tuesday, Macedonia will face Porto, the top scorer of Turkey (3-1), against Sesame.
The Lusitans largely controlled Ottavio (15), Diogo Jota (42) and Matthew Nunes (90 + 4); And the Turks from Lil Burak Yilmaz (65), who failed even to equalize by taking a penalty kick over (85).And)!
Thanks to a double from Bale (25, 51), the Welshman tamed Austria (2-1).
Finally, it took extra time for Sweden to get rid of the Czech Republic (1-0). Chances of seeing King Ibra for the last time on the planetary stage still exist…
Remaining European Zone Finals:
– Wales – Scotland – Ukraine (postponed until June due to the Russian invasion of the Ukrainians);
– Poland (victory on the green carpet after excluding Russia as it had to move to the half) – Sweden;
Portugal – North Macedonia.
The 17 teams have already qualified
Seventeen out of 32 tickets for the next global stage (November 21-December 18, 2022) were found after yesterday’s qualification from Japan and Saudi Arabia: in addition to the host country automatically qualified, 10 European selections, 2 South Americans and 4 Asians are already guaranteed that Be in the small principality of the Middle East next fall.
South America region: Brazil, Argentina;
Asia region: Qatar (host country), Iran, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia;
European region: Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Serbia, England, Switzerland, Holland.
