Remake of the 2018 World Cup final, Belgium's 12th success in a row, Ronaldo's 100th and 101st goals: what are the highlights of the League of Nations round 2 matches

Repetition of the 2018 World Cup final and the goal of Zenit defender

A remake of the 2018 World Cup final was held at Stade de France, in which the teams of France and Croatia met.

As in Russia, the tricolors won 4-2 and extended their successful streak in the League of Nations.

Antoine Griezmann became one of the main characters of the hosts.

First, the Barcelona striker finished an excellent combination with an accurate shot, and then assisted by Dayo Upamecano.

Olivier Giroud converted a penalty and scored the 40th goal for the national team, and another goal was recorded for the goalkeeper of the "checkers" Dominik Livakovic.

And this despite the fact that it was the Croats who opened the account.

Already in the 16th minute, Dejan Lovren scored after a corner kick, and he did it quite outside the box.

He did not play with his head, but took the ball, removed the French defender with a spectacular feint and shot on goal.

For the Zenit defender, this goal was the fourth for the national team.

Subsequently, Josip Brekalo lit his name on the scoreboard, but the silver medalists of the World Cup were not enough for more.

Among other things, the meeting was remembered by two debuts at once.

Rubin defender Filip Uremovic played for the Croatian national team for the first time, while Rennes midfielder Eduardo Kamavinga became the youngest French debutant in 106 years and the third in history.

At the time of the match he was 17 years 10 months old.

And at a younger age, a tricolor T-shirt was tried on only by Maurice Gastiguet (17 years 4 months) in 1914 and Julien Verbruge (16 years 10 months) in 1906.

Ronaldo's double and Silva's injury

In a parallel match, Portugal confidently dealt with Sweden.

In this case, the main event was the return to the field of Cristiano Ronaldo, who missed the previous game due to an infection on his right toe.

The Juventus forward not only appeared in the starting lineup, but also scored a brace, scoring the 100th and 101st goals for the national team.

This made him the first European footballer to score over 100 goals for the national team.

The Iranian Ali Daei (109 goals) holds the lead in this indicator.

At the same time, the guests spent half of the meeting in the majority.

Even at the end of the first half, Scandinavian midfielder Gustav Svensson received a second yellow card and left the field.

It is noteworthy that it was from this standard that Ronaldo distinguished himself.

For Cristiano, this free-kick goal was 57th in his career and 10th for the national team.

True, it was not without a fly in the ointment, which was the injury to Bernard Silva.

Midfielder Manchester City played about a quarter of the match, after which he was replaced by Gonçalo Gedes.

Batshuayi's two goals and De Bruyne's return

The Belgian national team did not leave a chance to the Icelandic team and won the 12th victory in a row not only in the head-to-head confrontation, but in all tournaments.

Roberto Martinez's men have won all their Euro 2020 qualifying matches and have won the Nations League twice.

And their last defeat was dated November 18, 2018, when they lost to the Swiss.

It is noteworthy that in the 10th minute, the “red devils” were in the role of catching up due to the curious goal of Holmbert Fridionsson, but then they hit the opponent's goal five times.

Misha Batshuayi scored a double, and Axel Witsel, Dries Mertens and Jeremy Doku scored on a goal.

One of the heroes of the match was Kevin De Bruyne.

The best player in the Premier League according to the Professional Football Association (PFA) missed the meeting with Denmark, but in this he was the chief designer of the attacks of the "devils" and twice acted as an assistant.

His track record is 34 assists, which helped him to consolidate the first place in the history of Belgium for this indicator.

One less in the asset of Eden Azar.

Zero draw in Copenhagen and the debut of four Englishmen

The meeting between the teams of Denmark and England turned out to be extremely closed and ended in a goalless draw.

And this despite the fact that in 90 minutes the teams struck a total of 17 shots on goal, four of which were on target.

Until now, only one game between opponents ended without goals scored.

It is noteworthy that this happened precisely at the 1992 European Championship, which later became a triumphant one for the Scandinavian team.

In the absence of goals, the most significant event was the appearance on the field of four debutants at once in the England national team.

Conor Cody and Calvin Phillips came out from the first minutes, and subsequently Jack Grealish and Anzley Maitland-Niles got a chance to prove themselves.

The last time this happened was in October 1962, when Ray Charnley, Chris Crowe, Mike Hallavell and Alan Hinton played their first matches for the Three Lions.

The end of the unsuccessful series of Azerbaijan and the goal of the forward of "Tambov"

The Azerbaijani national team at a party took the upper hand over the Cyprus team and interrupted the unsuccessful streak, which had lasted since November 2018.

After the victory over the Faroe Islands, the "land of fires" suffered nine defeats and once drew.

And then suddenly managed to take away points from Croatia.

This time everything was decided by one goal, the author of which was the 29-year-old Maxim Medvedev.

This game day was also successful for Armenia, which won its first victory in a year.

Joaquin Caparros' wards beat the Estonians in their field, and Alexander Karapetyan took part in both effective attacks.

First, the Tambov striker closed the pass of another RPL player - Arshak Koryan from Khimki, and then helped Vbeimar Angulo to excel.

The Georgian national team was unable to cope with Macedonia and win the second consecutive victories in the League of Nations.

And this despite the fact that she came out ahead already in the 13th minute, and spent most of the second half in the majority.

Visar Musliu got two yellow cards in six minutes and left the Dynamo Arena field.

For the hosts, the former Krasnodar midfielder Tornike Okriashvili played the role of the scorer, and Stefan Ristovski restored parity.