On March 27, Beijing time, the team that has finished the World Preliminary Tournament competition between Ireland and Belgium launched a warm-up contest, and Ireland, ranked 49th in the world, continued its wild state, and drew 2-2 with The world's no.1 European team Belgium, which is not a small cold. Belgium did not release water in this campaign, showing a strong starting lineup, Eden Hazard Jr. led the starting 11 people to reach 200 million euros, Ireland's starting 11 people only 54.2 million euros.
The two teams did not have as big a gap as imagined in the game, the two sides played very glue, Ireland although the possession rate was only 36%, but the attack was more crazy than Belgium, 10 shots on goal 3 shots scored 2 goals, Belgium played more efficiently, 7 shots on goal 2 shots on target scored 2 goals. It was Batshuayi and Vanakon who scored for Belgium and Ogburn and Alain Brown who scored for Ireland.
Belgium broke the deadlock in the 12th minute of the game, Batshuayi cut two defenders on the left side of the road, and then completed the draw to break the goal, Belgium led 1-0; in the 35th minute of the game, Ireland stubbornly equalized, Ogburn scored easily after receiving the ball in the box, the stop and barb action was very neat and coherent, Ireland 1-1 Belgium.
In the 59th minute of the game, Hazard Jr. took a corner and directly assisted Vanakon in the penalty area to complete the header, and Belgium once again led; in the 84th minute of the game, Ireland also adopted a combination of side-and-center tactics with color, the same as the combination of sides, Ogburn launched an attack from the right side, met the defender to complete the side cross, directly assisted Alain Brown in the box to complete the header to break the goal, helping Ireland to draw Belgium 2-2.
According to the statistics, Ireland started with a 1-1 draw with Azerbaijan on September 2021 and continued until the 2-2 draw with Belgium in this game, with a magical unbeaten run, 7 consecutive games unbeaten, 3 wins and 4 draws, of which the first 6 were World Cup matches. The seven matches were 1-1 Azerbaijan, 1-1 Serbia, 3-0 Azerbaijan, 4-0 Qatar, 0-0 Portugal, 3-0 Luxembourg and 2-2 Belgium.
Ireland's 7 unbeaten matches of 3 draws and a victory proved that they deserve the level of the World Cup, respectively, tied the performance of The Top 3 european Sevilla, Portugal, Belgium and the world cup host Qatar, Sevilla, Belgium, Portugal are all the world's top 25 strong teams, these by Ireland upset draw of the strong team, C Ronaldo led portugal is the most unlucky, has been dragged into a desperate situation by Ireland, has no chance to directly qualify for the World Cup, is still struggling in the play-offs, The play-off final will see PK just eliminating Italy's North Macedonia. Ireland's performance once again confirms the situation of no weak brigades in Europe.