For some reason UEFA thought that closing the two funds of the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia a couple of two games was enough punishment for the racist chants of Bulgaria's fans against the Czech Republic. And that placing a few banners with its motto 'Respect' was going to prevent it from repeating itself. Surprisingly , it did not work and England thrashed Bulgaria among racist chants (0-6).

He has some poetic justice that soon after it was precisely Marcus Rashford who opened the scoring with a beautiful left-handed shot to the squad. And if the situation were not so despicable, it would have been funny if the president of the Bulgarian federation complained a few days ago to UEFA when Gareth Southgate confessed that he feared another racist episode. Prejudices, Mihaylov alleged, while his stadium was serving two penalty matches.

Before half an hour, with England winning 0-2, the referee stopped the game for the first time for five minutes for racist insults, the first step of the UEFA protocol for these cases. In theory, the next one is to remove the players from the grass, but the chants continued - also England's goals - and the only thing the referee did was stop again a few minutes before the break to talk to some men in suits and ties. Meanwhile, Nazi greetings were seen in the stands.

The security of the stadium expelled a large group of hooded ultras, although at the break it was possible to see the Bulgarian captain, Ivelin Popov , approaching the stands to speak with some leaders and ask for calm. Not to behave in an indecent manner did they have courage. A double by Sterling , another by Barkley and a goal by Kane closed the win. Kosovo's victory against Montenegro delays its classification, but England already has a foot and a half in the European Championship.

Portugal in a mess

The current European champion will have to sweat to even have the right to defend her title. Between his defeat in Ukraine (2-1) and Serbia's victory against Lithuania (1-2), Portugal has complicated more than his Eurocup ticket bill. Ukraine is already classified and there is only one place at stake: Portugal is left with 11 points, Serbia gets 10 and there are only two days left.

The worst thing that could happen to Portugal was for Ukraine to score soon, and as soon as Yaremchuk started, he took advantage of a central error to get the first rebound. Shevchenko's team is being one of the safest defenses of this qualifying phase and the goal was the signal to step back. He gave up the initiative but did not keep the knife, and before half an hour Yarmolenko made the second against.

From 2-0, it seemed that the stadium was leaning towards the Ukrainian goal. Even more so when in the second part he stayed with ten in the play of the penalty that Cristiano Ronaldo scored. There was plenty of time and Joao Felix and Bruno Fernandes had entered, but an immense Pyatov and the crossbar at the last minute denied Portugal the goals that would have saved him the suffocation now in front of him.

France will also have to wait, although in its case it is relative. The world champion still does not fall in love with anyone and tied at home against Turkey (1-1), co-leader of Group H, but it will be enough to win Moldova in November (2 goals in favor and 21 against) to have her ticket to Eurocup in your pocket.

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