Tuesday, 10 September 2019

2020 European Cup Qualifications, Italy and Spain Still Mighty

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DBasia.news –  The winning pace of the Italian and Spanish national team has continued until the sixth week of the 2020 European Cup group stage which took place on Monday (9/9) AM.

Robert Moreno’s Spanish national team had no significant difficulty when entertaining the Faroe Islands in El Molinon. Dominating the match with 71 percent possession, Spain released 30 attempted kicks and nine of them were on target.

Four of the nine kicks produced goals. Two goals were scored by Rodrigo (13 ‘and 50’) and Paco Alcacer (89 ‘and 90 + 2’). While the Faroe Islands only released two kicks on target.

The victory has puts La Furia Roja in first place in Group F with 18 points from six matches that have taken place. Spain are ahead of Sweden (11 points), Romania (10 points), Norway (nine points), Malta (three points), and Faroe Islands (without points).

The clean sweep of the victory was also followed by Italy. Gli Azzurri directed by Roberto Mancini won 2-1 over Finland at Tampere Stadium. The host provided fierce resistance and the three goals were only created in the second half.

Ciro Immobile scored for Italy in the 59th minute and was reduced by Teemu Pukki’s penalty in the 72nd minute. In the 79th minute, Jorginho scored the winning goal from the spot.

As with Spain, Italy also won 18 perfect points and topped the Group J standings above Finland (12 points), Armenia (nine points), Bosnia Hezergovina (seven points), Greece (five points), and Liechtenstein (one point).

The following are the complete results of the sixth match of the 2020 European Cup Qualifying group until Monday (9/9) AM:

Armenia 4-2 Bosnian Hezergovina

Romania 1-0 Malta

Switzerland 4-0 Gibraltar

Georgia 0-0 Denmark

Spain 4-0 Faroe Islands

Finland 1-2 Italy

Sweden 1-1 Norway

Greece 1-1 Liechtenstein

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