Slovenia's unexpected misfire

The most unexpected result of the game day was recorded in Nicosia, where the Cypriots have achieved only a second victory in the last 14 matches in all tournaments.

An accurate shot by Ioannis Pittas not only opened the scoring for the national team in the tournament, but also allowed the hosts to score the long-awaited three points.

In terms of play, the Slovenes looked better, but for this they do not give points in the qualification of the championship of the planet.

But after losses in their own half of the field, they can be missed.

This is what happened to the guests.

The defeat lowered them to the penultimate place in group N.

Serbia's victory thanks to Mitrovic's double

The Azerbaijanis lacked nine minutes to withstand the confrontation with Serbia, led by Aleksandar Mitrovic.

In English Fulham, the forward does not shine: in the last 24 matches he has not a single goal.

But in the national team, the striker is transformed.

In the same 24 matches, but at the international level, he recorded 24 accurate shots to his credit.

The last two fell on the game in Baku, where Mitrovic first opened an account, and then established himself in the status of the hero of the match.

After Emin Makhmudov's return goal from the penalty spot, the guests unsuccessfully attacked for about 20 minutes.

During this time, Shakhrudin Magomedaliev made five saves and, it seemed, unbalanced all the star opponents - from Dusan Tadic to Sergei Milinkovich-Savic.

However, Mitrovic approached the implementation of the moments in the end as calmly as possible, leaving his team among the leaders of Group A.

Shame on Belarus in Leuven

The Belgian national team, leading the FIFA rating, received the Belarusians in Leuven, where the matches of the youth and women's national teams of the country are usually held.

And the "Red Devils" played as if they had one of these teams as opponents.

Even despite the fact that such stars as Thibaut Courtois, Kevin de Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku did not enter the field, the team of Roberto Martinez scored eight unanswered goals against the opponent.

Moreover, three players of the hosts scored their debut goals as part of the national team.

The Belarusians suffered the biggest defeat in history: in 2003 they lost to Austria with a much less humiliating score - 0: 5.

But then the opponent played the basis.

In Leuven, Martinez actually set up a reserve.

But for the Belgians, this victory did not become a record.

In 2017, they beat Gibraltar - 9: 0, and in 2001 - defeated San Marino - 10: 1.

Ronaldo's 103rd goal for Portugal

Until the 25th minute, the Portuguese national team did not strike a single shot on target of Luxembourg, no matter how hard the star attack of the reigning European champion tried.

But the owners of the small stadium "Josie Barthel" have succeeded not only in destruction, but also in creation.

Gerson Rodrigues, who scored the winning goal for Ireland a few days ago, continued his exploits on the international stage.

And even gave the outsider a chance for another historic outcome.

However, at the junction of the halves, Diogo Jota and Cristiano Ronaldo returned the match to an acceptable course for the guests.

For the captain, this accurate shot was 103rd in the Portuguese national team, which brought the forward one step closer to the all-time record.

There are six goals left before the repetition of the result of the Iranian Ali Daei.

Joao Paligna and Maxim Chano finally reassured the guests.

The Sporting player scored the third goal, setting the final score.

And the New York defender received a red card in the end, chilling the ardor of the already tired Luxembourgers.

Two removals in Wales

Wales midfielder Daniel James has never head-scored before.

But in the 82nd minute of the match with the Czech Republic, the Manchester United midfielder interrupted this series of 123 matches.

The ball turned out to be victorious, because the teams did not differ either before or after.

In addition to the goal, the attention of the fans was attracted by two deletions.

Czech Patrick Schick received a red card for unsportsmanlike behavior in the first half, while Welshman Connor Roberts got the second yellow card in the 77th minute.

Nevertheless, even in truncated compositions, the British did not change themselves and played in the most disciplined defense.

This led to the eighth clean sheet of the last ten, and in six of them Robert Page's team celebrated the minimum victory.

Six goals in Turkey

For the first time in history, the Turkish national team began the selection for the World Cup with two victories and, apparently, lost touch with reality.

Having distinguished themselves twice by the 33rd minute of the home match with Latvia, Shenol Gunesh's players began to show uncharacteristic carelessness in defense.

Balts at the beginning of qualification, on the contrary, did not shine in attack - only one goal in 180 minutes.

But as soon as the guests stopped feeling the density of pressure on themselves and found free zones in the center of the field, they immediately turned the tide of the meeting.

And even veteran Burak Yilmaz's ball was not embarrassed from the penalty spot.

Firstly, by that time, Roberts Savalnieks had already punched Ugurchan Chakyr and proved that the Turks have weaknesses.

And secondly, the increased level of freedom allowed guests to combine more and more varied.

This led to a spectacular denouement.

First, Roberts Uldrikis reduced the difference to a minimum.

And in the 79th minute, Davis Ikaunieks made Latvia the first team that took the points from the Turks in the world qualification, and even on a foreign field.