European preliminaries: Cyprus vs Spain, Liechtenstein vs Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo scores
The group stage of the Euro 2024 qualifiers has entered the final stage, some have already qualified early, such as Portugal, some have to work hard to qualify, such as Italy, some have to fight for the top spot in the group, such as Spain, and some have to brush up on statistics to compete for the top scorer in the qualifiers, such as Cristiano Ronaldo.
Cyprus vs Spain
Nature of competition: Euro 2024 qualifiers Group A group stage
Competition time: 1:00 Beijing time on November 17
In Group A, Spain and Scotland are both 6 games, 5 wins and 1 loss, with 15 points, and the third Norway has 7 games, 3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses with 10 points, and there is still 1 round behind Spain and Scotland 5 points, so Spain and Scotland have advanced in advance.
Then the only suspense in Group A is who can win the first place in the group between Spain and Scotland.
Cyprus is ranked 124th in the world by FIFA, and is a super belly in Europe, and has played 7 rounds in the group stage, without scoring a point, conceding 25 goals, and scoring 2 goals.
In this game, there is no suspense for Spain to win, it depends on how many goals can be scored.
Liechtenstein vs Portugal
Nature of competition: Euro 2024 qualifiers Group J group stage
Competition time: 3:45 on November 17, Beijing time
In the Euro 2024 qualifying stage, Portugal's record is quite strong, with 24 points from 8 wins, 32 goals scored and 2 goals conceded, and the offensive firepower is the strongest among all participating teams.
Portugal has advanced ahead of schedule and ensured the top spot in the group ahead of schedule, so what else can be done may be to help Ronaldo win the top scorer in this European preliminary tournament.
In the current European qualifier scorer list, Romelu Lukaku leads with 10 goals, and Cristiano Ronaldo ranks second with 9 goals.
Belgium has one game left in this European qualifiers, at home against Azerbaijan, Lukaku may not be able to play, and he may not be able to score if he plays, although Azerbaijan has been out of the game early, but it is not a soft persimmon.
Liechtenstein, ranked 200th in the world by FIFA, is the belly of the super fish belly, played 8 games in this European qualifiers, 8 consecutive defeats at the bottom, conceded 25 goals, and scored only 1 goal. Cristiano Ronaldo only needs to score 2 goals in this game to rise to the top of the scorer list.
Portugal still has 2 rounds to play in this European qualifier, and after this round, they will play at home to Iceland in the final round. Cristiano Ronaldo is highly likely to be the top scorer in this European qualifiers.
In addition, Ronaldo has to compete for the annual goal list in 2023. Haaland is currently first with 48 goals, Kane second with 47 goals and Cristiano Ronaldo third with 45 goals. Before the New Year's Day, in addition to the 2 European qualifiers, Ronaldo also has 6 games to play on behalf of the club Riyadh Victory.
In this game, there is no suspense about Portugal's big victory, the suspense is only how many goals Portugal can score and how many Ronaldo can score.