This past night, the European Championship qualifiers were played in a number of high-profile matches, including Portugal's away game against Luxembourg, but Cristiano Ronaldo scored two more goals to lead the team to a 6-0 victory and two consecutive group stage wins. After losing to England in the opening game, Italy visited Malta and eventually won 2-0 to usher in their first group stage victory.
Luxembourg 0-6 Portugal
As of now, Luxembourg is ranked 92nd in the world and Portugal is 9th, and the ranking of the two teams is enough to illustrate the strength gap between the two sides. Sure enough, only half an hour into the game, Portugal was already leading 4-0, and the game was completely out of suspense.
In the 8th minute of the first half, Ronaldo easily ate bread in front of goal, teammates headed the ball into the middle, Ronaldo stretched out a kick into the empty goal, Portugal led 1-0.
Portugal then went on the offensive, and in just three minutes, Felix and B scored two more headers in a row to extend the score to 3-0. In the 30th minute, Ronaldo scored again, receiving a direct shot from his teammate, and he single-handedly pushed directly to change the score to 4-0.
Martinez replaced Cristiano Ronaldo early in the second half due to his huge advantage, and the Portuguese superstar continued his national team scoring record by scoring two more goals in this game after the previous round.
In the 77th minute, Leo assisted Ottavigno's header to make it 5-0. In the 84th minute, Leo created a penalty opportunity, but unfortunately his free throw was saved. If Ronaldo had been there, he would have had a chance to score a hat-trick. Before the end of the game, Leo made up for it, and he broke through and hit the ball into a dead corner, and the score was also locked in 6-0.
Portugal continued to top the table after this match, and in this group, Portugal is thriving, as long as they play normally, they will basically lock in the top spot in the group and qualify for the European Championship main stage.
Malta 0-2 Italy
Before that, Mancini had complained that Italy did not have many strikers for him to choose from, and as a result, Retegui scored again. Following the goal against England, the 23-year-old striker scored one more goal to break the deadlock for Italy.
Receiving a cross from Tonali, Retegui nodded in front of the goal. In this European preliminaries, Retegui is definitely the biggest discovery of the Italian team, and if he continues to perform like this, he is very likely to completely occupy the main position. Pesna then added the icing on the cake to help Italy seal the score at 2-0.
However, although the Italian team won this game, but in this group, the first place is still England, this round they also beat the opponent 2-0, the current group stage 2 wins all the top of the list, fortunately the top 2 in the group stage can directly qualify, Italy has a great chance to beat the siege!