2024-03-21 22:00:42
Austria’s national football team will face Wales and Poland alongside France and the Netherlands in the group stage of EURO 2024 in Germany. The British won the play-off semi-final at home against Finland 4-1 in Path A on Thursday and will now host the Poles on Tuesday in the fight for the European Championship ticket, who beat Estonia 5-1 in front of their own audience. Georgia, Greece, Iceland and Ukraine can also hope to make it to the finals.
From the start in Warsaw, the game seemed to be on a slippery slope towards the visitors’ goal. The Estonians’ defense only lasted until the 22nd minute, when Przemyslaw Frankowski made it 1-0 for Poland with an outside instep shot. At the latest after the yellow-red for the Estonian Maksim Paskotsi (27th), the Balts’ serious chances were over. After the break, Piotr Zieliński (50th), Jakub Piotrowski (70th), Karol Mets (74th/own goal) gave them the chance. and Sebastian Szymanski (77th) when Martin Vetkal (79th) conceded a goal to the over 50,000 fans. Poland’s official goalgetter, Robert Lewandowski, failed to score.
The Welsh took the lead early thanks to David Brooks (3rd), Neco Williams followed up (38th). The Finns came close again through Pukki (45th), but Brennan Johnson (47th) and Daniel James (86th) made things clear.
In Path C, the duel between Greece and Austria’s upcoming Nations League rivals Kazakhstan was already decided at the half-time whistle, Anastasios Bakasetas (9th/penalty), Dimitris Pelkas (15th), Fotis Ioannidis (37th) and Dimitris Kourbelis (40th). .) score. In the second 45 minutes, Erkin Tapalow scored an own goal (87th).
The 2004 European champions will fight for a place in the finals against Georgia in Tbilisi on Tuesday. The Georgians celebrated a 2-0 home win against Luxembourg, and in the absence of the suspended Napoli star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Budu Zivzivadze became the match winner with his brace (41st, 64th).
However, the match could have been overturned in the 53rd minute. Gerson Rodrigues scored the supposed 1-1, but then the VAR intervened and referred to a scene about a minute earlier in which Georges Mikautadze fell after a challenge with Maxime Chanot. Spanish referee Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez took the score back to 1-1 and instead gave Chanot a red card for stealing a goal.
Sturm Graz legionnaire Otar Kiteishvili played well for the Georgians, who are aiming for their first European Championship participation. Sandro Altunashvili (WAC) was on the bench. For Luxembourg, Austria Wien’s Marvin Martins came on as a substitute in the 42nd minute.
Israel’s European Championship ambitions, however, are over after a 1:4 defeat against Iceland in Budapest. Veteran star Eran Zahavi gave the Israelis (with Salzburg’s Oscar Gloukh from the 46th) the lead from a penalty in the 31st minute, but then the Icelanders hit back through Albert Gudmundsson (39th) and former Rapid player Arnor Traustason (42nd). . After Israel’s Roy Revivo was red (73′), Zahavi missed a penalty (80′), then Gudmundsson (83′, 87′) sealed the island’s success.
The Icelanders are now in the Path B final against the Ukrainians, who fell behind in Zenica against Bosnia-Herzegovina due to an own goal from Mykola Matwjenko (57th). The turning point came with a double strike from Roman Yaremtschuk (85th) and Artem Dowbyk (88th). For the Bosnians, Jusuf Gazibegovic (Sturm Graz) played through, Amar Dedic (Salzburg) was in action until the 68th minute. LASK defender Maksym Talowjerow was swapped for the winners at the finish.
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