Denmark suffers, Hungary saves the furniture

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By: Manu Tournoux

Several Euro 2024 qualifying matches took place on Tuesday evening. Denmark struggled to win in San Marino (1-2), while Hungary snatched a point in Lithuania (2-2).

While England overthrew Italy (3-1) and validated their ticket for Euro 2024, the qualifying matches which took place on Tuesday evening brought some certainty to some and gave cold sweats to others . Yet much superior to its opponent on paper, Denmark, for example, was scared in Saint-Martin (1-2). If defeat was never really on the agenda in this game, Poulsen’s partners still saw their opponents equalize on the hour mark. And it was precisely RB Leipzig who scored. used to score the winning goal on the Danish side.

Second in Group H, Denmark remains in the wake of Slovenia which achieved the union minimum by winning on the field of Northern Ireland with a very small goal in advance, scored in the fifth minute by Gnezda Cerin (0-1). The Slovenes remain first in the group with the same number of points as the Danes. The two selections will meet on November 17. Beware of defeat.

Ukraine got scared

In Group G, Hungary came close to disaster in Lithuania. Trailing 2-0 for more than an hour, the partners of Szoboszlai, scorer from the penalty spot during the match, managed to equalize to save a precious point (2-2). Because at the same time, the other meeting of the group saw Serbia’s victory over Montenegro (3-1). A success which allows the Serbs to come back to within one point of the Hungarian leader who, however, is only missing one point to qualify for Euro 2024.

Last match of the evening, the opposition between Malta and Ukraine could have been a huge surprise since the Maltese opened the scoring and led almost until the break. But following Camenzuli’s csc (1-1, 38th), Ukraine got back in the right direction to finally win (1-3).

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