In 2008, Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia with the support of the United States and different countries of the European Union . Eight years later, FIFA and UEFA formalized the entry of this selection into their bodies and, therefore, since then this combined nine can play qualifying qualifying matches for the World Cup and the European Championship .

The selection led by the Swiss Bernard Challandes has become the sensation of this qualifying phase for the European Championship next summer. Second place in Group A, with eight points in four games, its threat to the first place England occupies is real. Next Tuesday, in the mythical Wembley , both teams will cross each other, with only one point of difference between them, and Kosovo could assault the group's leadership in case of mooring a victory that would go down in history.

Yesterday, on the fourth day, after starting losing to the Czech Republic in the city of Pristina, the team representing a state of just two million inhabitants traced with the goals of Vedat Mirigi and Mergim Vojvoda, thus adding their second win in this classification phase.

The good work of Kosovo not only sticks to the meetings that lead to the next European Championship. Since March 24, 2018, the Challandes team has accumulated fifteen consecutive games without knowing the defeat. Among them, extensive goals to Malta and Azerbaijan. Next Tuesday, this combined novel will live the most demanding duel in its short history, against an England that was fourth in the last World Cup in Russia. Will it reach the figure of 16 undefeated matches?

Portugal achieves its first victory

In the rest of the day, the Portuguese national team, the new champion of the League of Nations, added its first victory in this qualifying phase. They have had to spend three days for the team commanded by Cristiano Ronaldo to open his triumph box. Before Serbia, in the Red Star Stadium, in a game without excessive brightness, the Iberian team asserted its punch (2-4).

With the athletic Joao Felix on the bench , Guedes and Cristiano led the Portuguese attack. The Juventus striker tried in every way, brushing the post in two shots very far, until he found the prize ten minutes to go. Bernardo Silva sentenced with a shot from the front. Before, on the edge of the break, after a bulk error of goalkeeper Dmitrovic, William Carvalho finished off the net almost unintentionally. Guedes made the second with a fantasy play that ended with a shot to the long stick. Milenkovic and Mitrovic gave excitement to a meeting that ended up tying Portugal thanks to its good defensive and decisive performance of the Manchester City midfielder. In Group B, Ukraine dominates with authority, leader with 13 points, after their victory last night against Lithuania (0-4).

For its part, France defeated weak Albania (4-0) with Antoine Griezmann as the protagonist by missing a penalty, which crashed on the crossbar. The match was marked by an error in the hymns before the initial beep. Instead of the national anthem of Albania, the one of Andorra was heard, and the Albanian players refused to let the match begin until the organization did not correct their mistake and the anthem of their country sounded. The start of the crash was delayed up to ten minutes.

Already in the match, with the French team accumulating constant arrivals, Coman , on two occasions, Ikone and Giroud scored the goals of the Gauls, who did not miss their star Kylian Mbappé , injured two weeks ago in a Ligue match 1 with the Paris Saint-Germain. The Deschamps team continues at the top of Group H, tied to points with the combative Iceland.

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