The Spanish national football team fell to a 1-1 draw with its Greek guest today, Thursday, at the start of the two teams' journey in the second group of European qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, which today also witnessed Sweden's victory over Georgia 1-0.
With this, the Swedish national team led the group early with three points and two points ahead of their Spanish and Greek counterparts.
The Spanish national team ended the first half in its favor with a goal scored by Alvaro Morata in the 32nd minute, amid complete dominance of the team over the course of the game.
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Despite the continued Spanish supremacy in the second half, actual attempts were absent on the Greek goal, and the Greek team responded with the equalizer scored by Tassos Paksitas from a penalty kick in the 57th minute.
In the second match in the group, the Swedish national team defeated its Georgian counterpart with a clean goal, which was scored by Victor Clayson in the 35th minute.
The match witnessed the first participation of veteran striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (39 years) in nearly five years, as the player returned to the team through this match.
Ibrahimovic announced his retirement from international football in 2016, following his participation with Sweden in the European Nations Cup in France, but he returned today to participate in the team.
Unlike its Spanish counterpart, the German national team made a successful start in the European qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup, with a comfortable 3-0 victory over the Icelandic club in the first round of the tenth group matches.
The German national team made a strong start in the match and advanced with two early goals scored by Leon Goritska and Kai Havertz in the third and seventh minutes, and then Ilkay Gundogan added the third goal in the 56th minute.
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In another match in the European World Cup qualifiers, the Italian team started its campaign by defeating its northern Irish guest 2-0 in the first round of the third group.
Domenico Berardi and Cero Immobile scored for the Italian national team in the 14th and 38th minutes.
With this victory, the Italian team, who missed the 2018 edition in Russia, scored their first three points in the group, to finish second on goal difference from Switzerland, which earlier Thursday beat Bulgaria 3-1.
And the English football team revealed its fangs with a landslide victory over San Marino 5-0 at the opening of the two teams ’march in the ninth group of the European World Cup qualifiers.
And at the ancient Wembley Stadium in the British capital, London, the England team showed its strength and resolved the match completely in the first half with 3 goals scored by James Ward, Dominic Calvert Lewin and Raheem Sterling in the minutes 14, 21 and 31.
In the second half, Lewin added his second and fourth goal for the team in the 53rd minute, before Oli Watkins finished scoring the match with the fifth goal for the home side in the 83rd minute.
With this, England leads the group early on goal difference only against Albania.