In the early morning of September 9, Beijing time, a match in Group J of the European Cup qualifiers, the Luxembourg men's football team played at home against the Iceland men's football team. In the end, world No. 89 Luxembourg continued to create an upset with a 3-1 victory to beat world No. 67-ranked Iceland for the first time in its history to win three consecutive European qualifiers.
In European football, Luxembourg is only a weak team, a favorite opponent of Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored nine goals, and Luxembourg has also become the team with the most national team goals.
According to the data, Luxembourg at the beginning of the 21st century became Europe's super fishbelly, the world ranking fell to 195th, through youth training, naturalization of players 2 major measures, and constantly improve their level, now this national team has a number of players playing in the five major leagues, including Borussia Mönchen's Ivandro Sanches, Mainz's Barreiro, Cologne's Oleson, etc., is no longer a point boy in European football, only 9 places away from the ranking of the Chinese men's team, of course, the strength compared to Luxembourg can at least score 2 goals against the national team.
Now at home against former European powerhouse Iceland, Luxembourg is undaunted, despite a complete downside in previous meetings. According to the statistics, Luxembourg has won two draws and three defeats against Iceland in their last five games and has never met in the European Championship or its qualifiers.
Luxembourg got off to a fantastic start just nine minutes into the game when Shano scored a penalty to give Iceland a 1-0 lead.
In the 70th minute of the second half, Luxembourg extended the score and Kurci assisted a goal from Ivandro Sanches to maintain a 2-0 lead.
In the 88th minute, Johannesson assisted Haraldsson to score a goal to help Iceland win 1-2.
Iceland thought there was hope of equalising, and Luxembourg scored again just a minute after Haraldsson's goal. In the 89th minute, Sinani scored to help Luxembourg seal a 3-1 victory.
According to statistics, Luxembourg's possession rate of 44% in this game is not as good as Iceland, but it completed 16 shots and 7 shots on target, Iceland had 11 shots and 4 shots on target, from the advantage of shots and shots on target, Luxembourg is more threatening in attack than Iceland.
After beating Iceland, Luxembourg won three consecutive European qualifiers, after beating Liechtenstein 2-0 and Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0.
According to statistics, Luxembourg, with a population of only 650,000, won three consecutive European preliminary rounds for the first time, setting a 60-year record and completing a breakthrough.
Portugal are well ahead of the table with 15 points and Luxembourg with 10 points, equalling second-placed Slovakia and remaining third behind on goal difference, but see hope of reaching the European Championship finals and have a chance to compete for second place in the group.