EURO 2016 Qualifications: Netherland, Czech Republic and Italy saving points with late goals, Wales beat Israel in Group B derby game

Saturday, March 28, 2015

EURO 2016 Qualifications: Netherland, Czech Republic and Italy saving points with late goals, Wales beat Israel in Group B derby game

EURO 2015 Overview:

Today on schedule for EURO 2016 where matches of Group A, B and H.

Group A: Netherland and Czech Republic saving points with last minutes goals, Iceland didn’t have any big problems against Kazakhstan

Leader of Group A Czech Republic surprisingly draw against Latvia in Prague. Czech was better team during entire game with huge ball possession (66%) and with almost 20 goal attempts. Latvia on other hand was mostly relay on counterattacks. Latvia take the lead in 29’ one long ball from Zjuzins in the Czech Republic penalty box result with Visnakovs scoring for Latvia lead. Czech manages to score the equalizer in the last minutes of the game when substitute Pilar manage to score from a close range.

Second team in group Iceland easily won against the Kazakhstan in Astana with 3-0. Gudjohnsen in 20’ and Bjarnason in 32’ and 91’ were enough for another three points for Iceland.

In one of most interesting games today Netherland manage to get a draw in last minutes of the game. In a good game both team have their amount of chances. Turkey manages to get into the lead in 37’ when Yilmaz scored after Netherland defense failed to clear one ball. After the goal Netherland start to pressure even more on Turkey goal but they couldn’t score an equalizer, until the last minutes of the game. After long action Sneijder take the shot just outside the box. Ball hit Huntelaar in the head and change direction and went to goal.

Czech Republic 13 pts

Iceland 12 pts

Netherlands 7 pts

Turkey 5 pts

Latvia 3 pts

Kazakhstan 1 pts

Group B: Wales beat Israel in Haifa, Belgium demolish Cyprus in Brussels, Bosnia and Herzegovina finally manage to win in qualifications

In derby game of Group B Wales manage to beat Israel in Haifa and take the first place. Ramsey gives Wales the lead in the extra time of first half. In 50’ Wales and Real Madrid star Gareth Bale score for 2-0 from a free kick. In 77’ Bale scored third goal for Wales, this time after a good pass by Ramsey.

In battle between last two teams Bosnia and Herzegovina manage to beat Andorra 3-0. Manchester City player Edin Dzeko scored a hat trick and secure Bosnia and Herzegovina first win in these qualifications.

In Brussels Belgium demolish Cyprus with 5-0. Fellaini is playing in excellent form in both Manchester United and in Belgium national team he was double scorer in 21’ and 66’. Benteke, Hazard and Batshuayi scored one each.

Wales 11 pts

Israel (-1) 9 pts

Belgium (-1) 8 pts

Cyprus 6 pts

Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 pts

Andorra 0 pts

Group H: Bulgaria and Italy third draw in a row, Croatia beat Norway in Zagreb, First points for Azerbaijan

In Baku Azerbaijan manage to beat Malta 2-0 taking them first win and points in these qualifications. Huseynov in 4’ and Nazarov in 92’ were scorers for home side.

In Zagreb Croatia beat Norway 5-1. But we cannot say that was a clean win or that Croatia demolishing Norway. They manage to score 2 late goals that secure their win. Croatia takes a lead in 30’ after excellent shot outside the box from Brozovic. Similar situation give them second goal in 53’ from Perisic, Olic scored the third in 65’. Norway could try to get back into the game in 69’ but Elyounoussi missed the penalty shot. Croatia close the game with two late goals from Schildenfeld in 87’ and Pranjic in 94’

In Sofia Italy was looking for another three points to keep them match with Croatia on the table. Start for Italy was excellent in 4’ Minev scored own goal, but in only fifteen minutes Bulgaria manage to turn the score. First in 11’ Popov score the equalizer and then in 17’ Micanski scored for Bulgaria led. Italy then pushed Bulgaria hard and most of the time playing on Bulgaria half. Italy manages to score equalizer in 84’, Eder score the equalizer on this début game for Italy. Until the end Italy had 2 more good chances but Bulgaria defense manage to clear all threats.