First 3 nights are reserved for fifth phase

Just two more rounds have to be played on the second part of the European Cup tournaments, where next month the group stage are going to be completed. As always from the first event of the penultimate phase playing inequality continues, while in the second all will be even. In terms of kick off times, everything stays the same for the:

Champions league who has 16 duels...

 

Tuesday, 01 December at 18.55 CET: Lokomotiv Moscow - Red bull Salzburg.

Tuesday, 01 December at 18.55 CET: Shakhtar Donetsk - Real Madrid.

Tuesday, 01 December at 21.00 CET: Atalanta - Midtjylland.

Tuesday, 01 December at 21.00 CET: Atletico Madrid - Bayern Munich.

Tuesday, 01 December at 21.00 CET: Borussia Monchengladbach - Inter.

Tuesday, 01 December at 21.00 CET: Liverpool - Ajax.

Tuesday, 01 December at 21.00 CET: Olympique de Marseille - Olympiacos.

Tuesday, 01 December at 21.00 CET: Porto - Manchester city.

Wednesday, 02 December at 18.55 CET: Basaksehir - Rasenballsport Leipzig.

Wednesday, 02 December at 18.55 CET: Krasnodar - Stade Rennais.

Wednesday, 02 December at 21.00 CET: Borussia Dortmund - Lazio.

Wednesday, 02 December at 21.00 CET: Club Brugge - Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Wednesday, 02 December at 21.00 CET: Ferencvaros - Barcelona.

Wednesday, 02 December at 21.00 CET: Juventus - Dynamo Kyiv.

Wednesday, 02 December at 21.00 CET: Manchester united - PSG.

Wednesday, 02 December at 21.00 CET: Sevilla - Chelsea.

...together with 24 pairs from the most interesting Europa league event.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: AEK - Braga.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Antwerp - Ludogorets.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Crvena zvezda - Hoffenheim.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: CSKA Moscow - Wolfsberger.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Feyenoord - Dinamo Zagreb.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Gent - Slovan Liberec.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: LASK - Tottenham.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Lille - Sparta Praha.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Milan - Celtic.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Qarabag - Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Sivasspor - Villarreal.

Thursday, 03 December at 18.55 CET: Zorya Luhansk - Leicester.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Arsenal - Rapid Wien.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: AZ - Napoli.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Benfica - Lech.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Cluj - CSKA Sofia.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Glasgow rangers - Standard Liege.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Granada - PSV.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Molde - Dundalk.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Nice - Bayer Leverkusen.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Omonia - PAOK.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Real Sociedad - Rijeka.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Roma - Young boys Bern.

Thursday, 03 December at 21.00 CET: Slavia Praha - Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

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Man in a garbage can

The above title may seem that some homeless person is digging inside the trash, but is actually a football official who was forcefully put there on an incident that happened in Ukraine four days ago.

Oleksandr Ovcharenko is a new appointed director of Desna when he (immediately) announced that is planning to build an Olympic stadium on the same place where the first division club is playing since 2008. Just what this idea have meant to the loyal fans can be watched in the following video/s by giving him a direct answer.

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President removed from office for a long, long...long time

It looks like football does not have any luck with presidents. Nicolas Leoz, Austin (or for wide public Jack) Warner, Michel Platini, Sepp Blatter, or in short the first 3 were bosses of their own confederations (South American, North American and the Caribbean plus the European), while the last one led the world football association and all these names were removed from this sport. To refresh this list is added the current president of the African confederation Ahmad Ahmad.

It became very suspicious, because he was locked up in the French capital Paris at 2019, while this Monday it was only confirmed, by the world football affiliation, that the 60-year-old from Madagascar can not resume his leadership in the next five years plus had to deliver 200.000 Swiss francs (185.099 euros) financial fine. And the accusations are very serious: bribery, corruption and malversation with funds to his gain. Expelled from the sport, this is definitely a huge blow for him as was planning to run and win for a new term in March 2021. Until then the whole thing will take in the Court of arbitration for sport and trying at least to prove his innocence (like the above four).

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Result was changed after just 54 seconds

Europa league group stage, single night, round 4 out of 6:

Sparta Praha - Celtic 4:1

Scorers: 0:1 15 (14.22) Odsonne Edouard

               1:1 26 (25.56) David Hancko

               2:1 37 (37.17) Lukas Julis

               3:1 79 (79.16) Lukas Julis

               4:1 90+3 (93.19) Srdjan Plavsic

Wolfsberger - Dinamo Zagreb 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 59 Lovro Majer

               0:2 74 Bruno Petkovic

               0:3 90+1 Luka Ivanusec

CSKA Moscow - Feyenoord 0:0

- On 48 Nicolai Jorgensen (Feyenoord) had to leave the pitch because of two yellow cards.

Braga - Leicester 3:3

Scorers: 1:0 04 (03.36) Ali Elmusrati

               1:1 09 (08.24) Harvey Barnes

               2:1 24 (23.48) Joao Paulo Dias Fernandes (or just Paulinho)

               2:2 78 (77.37) Luke Thomas

               3:2 90 (89.43) Fransergio Barbosa

               3:3 90+5 (94.38) Jamie Vardy

AEK - Zorya Luhansk 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 60 Artem Hromov

               0:2 75 Vladyslav Kabayev

               0:3 85-pen Vladlen Yurchenko

- In this duel two yellow cards was issued for Yevhen Shakhov (AEK) at 48.

CSKA Sofia - Young boys Bern 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 34 (33.33) Jean-Pierre Nsame

Molde - Arsenal 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 50 (49.39) Nicolas Pepe

               0:2 55 (54.41) Reiss Nelson

               0:3 82 (82.03) Folarin Balogun

Maccabi Tel Aviv - Villarreal 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 44 (44.08) Alejandro Baena

               1:1 47 (46.47) Aleksandar Pesic

- The home defender Enric Saborit was automatically send off at 89 (88.48).

Gent - Crvena zvezda 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 01 (54 seconds) Njegos Petrovic

               0:2 57 (57.18) Nemanja Milunovic

LASK - Antwerp 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 52 (52.00) Lior Refaelov

               0:2 82 (82.16) Pieter Gerkens

- Bad example have shown the LASK captain Gernot Trauner to his teammates, as he received a direct red card at 50 (49.30).

Qarabag - Sivasspor 2:3

Scorers: 1:0 07 (07.13) Abdellah Zoubir

               1:1 40-pen (39.57) Arouna Kone

               2:1 50 (50.11) Uros Matic

               2:2 58 (57.41) Olarenwaju Kayode

               2:3 79 (78.25) Arouna Kone

Slovan Liberec - Hoffenheim 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 76 (76.13) Christoph Baumgartner

               0:2 88-pen (88.20) Andrej Kramaric

Standard Liege - Lech 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 60 (59.58) Mikael Ishak

               1:1 63 (62.25) Abdoul Tapsoba

               2:1 90+3 (92.48) Konstantinos Laifis

- Two opposing players were sent off for receiving two yellow cards: Obbi Oulare (Standard Liege) was the first to depart on 45+2, followed him by Djordje Crnomarkovic (Lech) at 74.

AZ - Real Sociedad 0:0

Dundalk - Rapid Wien 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 11 Christoph Knasmullner

               0:2 37 Ercan Kara

               0:3 57 Ercan Kara

               1:3 63-pen Chris Shields

- Nathan Oduwa (Dundalk) failed to convert a penalty, because his shot missed the whole goal at 49.

Bayer Leverkusen - Hapoel Be'er Sheva 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 29 (28.41) Patrik Schick

               2:0 47 (47.15) Leon Bailey

               2:1 57 (57.17) Itamar Shviro

               3:1 76 (75.43) Kerem Demirbay

               4:1 79 (79.12) Lucas Alario

PSV - PAOK 3:2

Scorers: 0:1 03 (03.09) Fernando Varela

               0:2 13 (12.38) Christos Tzolis

               1:2 19 (19.08) Cody Gakpo

               2:2 50 (49.58) Chukwunonso Madueke

               3:2 43 (52.26) Donyell Malen

Nice - Slavia Praha 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 13 (13.19) Ondrej Lingr

               1:1 60 (59.52) Amine Gouiri

               1:2 63 (63.16) Peter Olayinka

               1:3 75 (74.33) Abdallah Sima

- At 90+1 (90.35) Hicham Boudaoui (Nice) saw his second yellow card.

Granada - Omonia 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 07 (07.03) Luis Javier Suarez Charris (Colombian footballer)

               1:1 59 (59.18) Ernest Asante

               2:1 73 (72.24) Alberto Soro

Tottenham - Ludogorets 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 16 (15.28) Carlos Vinicius

               2:0 33 (33.02) Carlos Vinicius

               3:0 63 (62.24) Harry Winks

               4:0 72 (72.19) Locas Moura

Glasgow rangers - Benfica 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 06 Scott Arfield

               2:0 69 Kemar Roofe

               2:1 77-own goal James Tavernier

               2:2 81 Luis Miguel Afonso Fernandes (known as Pizzi)

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Quickest issued two yellow cards happened tonight

Group phase of Champions league, night 2 of 2, round 4 of 6:

Borussia Monchengladbach - Shakhtar Donetsk 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 17-pen (16.30) Lars Stindl

               2:0 34 (33.34) Nico Elvedi

               3:0 45+1 (45.30) Breel Embolo

               4:0 77 (76.36) Oscar Wendt

Ajax - Midtjylland 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 47 (46.28) Ryan Gravenberch

               2:0 49 (48.46) Noussair Mazraoui

               3:0 66 (65.54) David Neres

               3:1 80-pen (80.00) Awer Mabil

- An automatic sending off was for the visiting defender Erik Sviatchenko at 90 (90.07).

Inter - Real Madrid 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 06-pen (06.05) Eden Hazard

               0:2 59-own goal (58.31) Achraf Hakimi

- For arguing too much with the referee, on 33 (32.27) Arturo Vidal (Inter) saw his second yellow card. Both were received in a space of just 5 seconds, while the color was changed into red at 10.

Atletico Madrid - Lokomotiv Moscow 0:0

Bayern Munich - Red bull Salzburg 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 42 (41.59) Robert Lewandowski

               2:0 52 (51.29) Kingsley Coman

               3:0 68 (67.27) Leroy Sane

               3:1 73 (72.38) Mergim Berisha

- At 66 (65.29) Marc Roca (Bayern Munich) departed early from this game due to two yellow cards.

Olympique de Marseille - Porto 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 39 (38.48) Zaidu Sanusi

               0:2 72-pen (71.23) Sergio Oliveira

- Naughty boys in this duel were Marko Grujic (Porto) on 67 (66.37) and at 70 (69.54) Leonardo Balerdi (Olympique de Marseille) who got rewarded with their second yellow cards.

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Big player of all time is no longer with us

The most talented and legendary great footballer of all time Diego Armando Maradona has passed away today from a heart attack in Buenos Aires. On the pitch he was known for his excellent dribbling skills and free kicks, that won numerous awards during the 21-year-old playing career. After that he decided to try into the coaching business at United Arab Emirates, Mexico and his native Argentina where his last post was in Gimnasia de La Plata.

Off the football terrain the 60-year-old have led a terrible life. Using drugs and lots of alcohol, was many times seeing in hospital, and because of this had cardiovascular and liver problems. Recovering from brain surgery at the beginning of this month, was released home whither later he unfortunately died on 25 November in Tigre.

In the following three days it will be a state of mourning in the country (Argentina), while Napoli is going to rename its stadium San Paolo as to honor him of leaving a deep trace and good memories at the Italian club.

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Victory achieved in closing seconds

Group phase of Champions league, night 1 of 2, round 4 of 6:

Krasnodar - Sevilla 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 04 (03.55) Ivan Rakitic

               1:1 56 (55.39) Wanderson Maciel Sousa Campos

               1:2 90+4 (94.10) Munir el Haddadi

Dynamo Kyiv - Barcelona 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 52 (51.40) Sergino Dest

               0:2 57 (56.23) Martin Braithwaite

               0:3 70-pen (69.24) Martin Braithwaite

               0:4 90+1 (91.09) Antoine Griezmann

Juventus - Ferencvaros 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 18 (18.06) Myrto Uzuni

               1:1 35 (34.34) Cristiano Ronaldo

               2:1 90+1 (91.10) Alvaro Morata

Borussia Dortmund - Club Brugge 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 18 (17.39) Erling Braut Haaland

               2:0 45 (44.58) Jadon Sancho

               3:0 60 (59.26) Erling Braut Haaland

Lazio - Zenit Saint Petersburg 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 03 (02.47) Ciro Immobile

               2:0 22 (21.52) Marco Parolo

               2:1 24 (24.06) Artem Dzyuba

               3:1 55-pen (54.32) Ciro Immobile

Manchester united - Basaksehir 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 07 (06.41) Bruno Fernandes

               2:0 19 (18.57) Bruno Fernandes

               3:0 35-pen (35.00) Marcus Rashford

               3:1 75 (74.44) Deniz Turuc

               4:1 90+2 (91.38) Daniel James

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Known from where the teams will come out

With the completion of the main part in Nations league last Wednesday the four finalists are known, who is going up and who is going down (although two more duels have to be staged). Apart from that, another thing which became familiar, are the seeds for the World Cup qualifying tournament who is going to start next year. But before that, groups have to be made on 07 December in Zurich (Switzerland) where the 55 teams will be drawn from the following six bowls:

Pot 1: Belgium, France, England, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands.

Pot 2: Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Wales, Austria, Ukraine, Tukey, Serbia, Slovakia, Romania.

Pot 3: Russia, Republic of Ireland, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Scotland, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Finland, Greece.

Pot 4: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Israel, Georgia, Luxembourg.

Pot 5: Armenia, Cyprus, Faroe islands, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Andorra.

Pot 6: Moldova, Malta, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, San Marino.

On the European continent 10 groups are going to be formed. Those teams who likes to qualify directly into the 2022 finals will have to be first, while the runners-up would have to (torture themselves a little bit more and) play additional elimination matches which will be mixed with the best two teams from the Nations league. For this World Cup qualifying event everything has to start at the end of March 2021, and one year later is expected to finish this saga.

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Month of double seeing each other: returning the hospitality

After the international teams action, we slowly came to the second part of the group phases in both European leagues (Cups) competitions. The calendar was like that that this month we are going to see only two rounds from both, which are similar to each other, where the most interesting piece is that all 40 pairs will meet again, but there is just one (small) catch: change of hospitality. Round three was played at the beginning of this month, while teams from round four are going to have the same rivals but in reverse order (or in simple language: the guests from two weeks ago will be the hosts). Kick off times remains the same together with the nights and matches, whilst pairings for both competitions are not going to be equal.

Sixteen duels from the Champions league...

Tuesday, 24 November at 18.55 CET: Krasnodar - Sevilla.

Tuesday, 24 November at 18.55 CET: Stade Rennais - Chelsea.

Tuesday, 24 November at 21.00 CET: Borussia Dortmund - Club Brugge.

Tuesday, 24 November at 21.00 CET: Dynamo Kyiv - Barcelona.

Tuesday, 24 November at 21.00 CET: Juventus - Ferencvaros.

Tuesday, 24 November at 21.00 CET: Lazio - Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Tuesday, 24 November at 21.00 CET: PSG - Raseballsport Leipzig.

Tuesday, 24 November at 21.00 CET: Manchester united - Basaksehir.

Wednesday, 25 November at 18.55 CET: Borussia Monchengladbach - Shakhtar Donetsk.

Wednesday, 25 November at 18.55 CET: Olympiacos - Manchester city.

Wednesday, 25 November at 21.00 CET: Ajax - Midtjylland.

Wednesday, 25 November at 21.00 CET: Atletico Madrid - Lokomotiv Moscow.

Wednesday, 25 November at 21.00 CET: Bayern Munich - Red bull Salzburg.

Wednesday, 25 November at 21.00 CET: Inter - Real Madrid.

Wednesday, 25 November at 21.00 CET: Liverpool - Atalanta.

Wednesday, 25 November at 21.00 CET: Olympique de Marseille - Porto.

...plus Europa league which has 24.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: AEK - Zorya Luhansk.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Braga - Leicester.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: CSKA Moscow - Feyenoord.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: CSKA Sofia - Young boys Bern.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Gent - Crvena zvezda.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: LASK - Antwerp.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Lille - Milan.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Villarreal.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Molde - Arsenal.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Qarabag - Sivasspor.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Slovan Liberec - Hoffenheim.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Sparta Praha - Celtic.

Thursday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Wolfsberger - Dinamo Zagreb.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: AZ - Real Sociedad.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Bayer Leverkusen - Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Cluj - Roma.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Dundalk - Rapid Wien.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Glasgow rangers - Benfica.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Granada - Omonia.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Napoli - Rijeka.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Nice - Slavia Praha.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: PSV - PAOK.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Standard Liege - Lech.

Thursday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Tottenham - Ludogorets.

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Debut agreement at one East Asian nation reached

For the first time ever, television viewers in Mongolia will watch top football major club and team competitions from the Asian continent. This historic deal was brought on 12 November thanks to the local information technology company Unitel who signed the contract with the Football marketing Asia agency to show various competitions from 2021 until 2024 on their channel UniLive and the digital service station Look television. As in every three years deal package, the extensive coverage will be more focused primarily on the Mongolian clubs playing at the continental Champions league and AFC Cup together with team level, where the country currently participates at the qualifiers for the World Cup 2022. Besides that, international matches will be shown as well, plus the Asian Cup 2023 together with the under 23 category finals in 2022 and 2024 from the same event.

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Host found to stage club finals

With adapting to a new format and with 90 minutes game only, the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions league final 8 will be played in Orlando next month. On 10 November Exploria stadium has been designated to be a host to the teams in the closing stages (from quarterfinals onwards). These seven duels are going to be staged from 15 as far as 22 December (where the winner will earn the right to represent the North American continent at the Club World Cup tournament in Qatar from 01 until 11 February 2021).

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Accepted new dates for resuming football events

Because of the well-known health problem around the world, elimination games that were scheduled for 2020 on a team and one from the club level were forced to be rescheduled and had to find next new available dates.

As December 2022 is (rapidly) approaching, it is very difficult to find affordable space due to the tight schedule, but at the end everything was accepted. This is the year when the first ever winter World Cup will be staged in Qatar, and on 11 November the Asian region has revealed when qualifying will resume. From the second phase it was remained to be played four more rounds, or divided by two each one are going to be held in March and June 2021. Last and phase number three from the same competition will begin in September. And to go (little bit) further beyond the inter-continental play offs should all be completed until May and June 2022. However, there is one trick: instead of two, only one match is going to decide the traveler for the finals.

Because these are also counting as elimination duels for the Asian Cup event at 2023 as well, it was determined that final stage (round three) with all 10 rounds have to be finished as far as March 2022.

Staying on the same continent and country, this Tuesday it was decided that the Club World Cup which was scheduled to be staged in December 2020 will be played from 01 until 11 February next year. Under the current situation it is impossible to schedule this event in 2020 knowing that three representatives are known (Europe and Oceania plus the host club Al-Duhail), while the other four are missing (Champions league winners from Africa, Asia, North America and the Caribbean together with South America).

In conclusion this only means that the plans for the expanded Club World Cup in June and July 2021 has been brought down. Three official tournaments (two of them have been moved for 2021: European championship and Copa America) plus the Gold Cup next year has prevented this (stupid) idea to make it happen.

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Qualifiers from the lone confederation played tonight closes for this year

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 6, night 2 out of 2:

Albania - Belarus 3:2

Scorers: 1:0 19 (18.52) Sokol Cikalleshi

               2:0 27-pen (26.21) Sokol Cikalleshi

               2:1 34 (34.09) Maksim Skavysh

               3:1 44 (43.47) Rey Manaj

               3:2 80 (79.34) Max Ebong

Kazakhstan - Lithuania 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 37 (37.20) Abat Aimbetov

               1:1 40 (39.38) Modestas Vorobjovas

               1:2 90+3 (93.12) Arvydas Novikovas

- Islambek Kuat (Kazakhstan) had to leave the game at 50 (49.35) due to two yellow cards.

Georgia - Estonia 0:0

Serbia - Russia 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 09 (09.10) Nemanja Radonjic

               2:0 25 (24.30) Luka Jovic

               3:0 40 (39.56) Dusan Vlahovic

               4:0 45+1 (45.35) Luka Jovic

               5:0 63 (63.11) Filip Mladenovic

Czech Republic - Slovakia 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 17 (16.38) Tomas Soucek

               2:0 54 (54.05) Zdenek Ondrasek

Israel - Scotland 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 44 (43.47) Manor Solomon

Hungary - Turkey 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 56 (56.13) David Siger

               2:0 94 (94.01) Kevin Varga

Republic of Ireland - Bulgaria 0:0

Belgium - Denmark 4:2

Scorers: 1:0 03 (02.36) Youri Tielemans

               1:1 17 (17.04) Jonas Older Wind

               2:1 56 (56.09) Romelu Lukaku

               3:1 69 (68.47) Romelu Lukaku

               3:2 86-own goal (85.40) Nacer Chadli

               4:2 87 (86.55) Kevin de Bruyne

Austria - Norway 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 60 (60.19) Ghayas Zahid

               1:1 90+4 (93.44) Adrian Grbic

Poland - Netherlands 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 05 (04.59) Kamil Jozwiak

               1:1 77-pen (76.46) Memphis Depay

               1:2 84 (83.35) Georginio Wijnaldum

Northern Ireland - Romania 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 56 (55.23) Liam Boyce

               1:1 81 (80.29) Eric Bicfalvi

Greece - Slovenia 0:0

- Deserved direct red card was for Pantelis Hatzidiakos (Greece) on 89 (89.11).

Kosovo - Moldova 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 31 (30.25) Lirim Kastrati

- The home team finished with 10 players, because at 85 (84.34) Ibrahim Dresevic saw a direct red card. 

Wales - Finland  3:1

Scorers: 1:0 29 (28.26) Harry Wilson

               2:0 46 (45.50) Daniel James

               2:1 62 (62.05) Teemu Pukki

               3:1 83 (83.14) Kieffer Moore

- Bad boy in this game was Jere Uronen (Finland) who was directly sent off on 12 (11.29).

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Italy 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 21 (21.13) Andrea Belotti

               0:2 68 (67.04) Domenico Berardi

England - Iceland 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 20 (19.41) Declan Rice

               2:0 24 (23.54) Mason Mount

               3:0 80 (79.36) Phil Foden

               4:0 84 (83.52) Phil Foden

- For two yellow cards Birkir mar Saevarsson had to say goodbye to his teammates at 53 (53.02).

Additional information: despite two duels that still have to be played, we now know that in this competition there is going to be a new champion. As Portugal did not qualify for the 2021 finals in October (and can not defend its title), the new winner will be either Italy (top team in league A group 1), Belgium (A2), France (A3) or Spain (A4).

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Within the completion of World Cup qualifying list for 2020 we add 18 more goals

Qualifiers for World Cup Qatar 2022 - South American region, round 04, single night / morning:

Ecuador - Colombia 6:1

Scorers: 1:0 06 (06.13) Robert Arboleda

               2:0 09 (08.40) Angel Mena

               3:0 31 (31.07) Michael Estrada

               4:0 39 (38.23) Xavier Arreaga

               4:1 45-pen (45.20) James Rodriguez

               5:1 78 (77.25) Gonzalo Plata

               6:1 90+1 (90.24) Pervis Estupinan

- For doing striptease (jersey only) on the pitch (before empty stadium), the fifth goalscorer of Ecuador received his second yellow card at 79 (right after his celebration).

Venezuela - Chile 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 09 (08.37) Luis Mago

               1:1 14 (14.09) Arturo Vidal

               2:1 81 (80.50) Salomon Rondon

Uruguay - Brazil 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 33 (33.18) Arthur Melo

               0:2 45 (44.52) Richarlison de Andrade

- For a really nasty foul Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) was deservedly shown a direct red card on 71 (70.55).

Paraguay - Bolivia 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 19-pen (18.30) Angel Romero

               1:1 41 (40.24) Marcelo Martins Moreno

               1:2 45 (44.47) Boris Cespedes

               2:2 71 (71.20) Alejandro Romero Gamarra (better known as Kaku)

Peru - Argentina 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 17 (16.21) Nicolas Ivan Gonzalez

               0:2 27 (27.10) Lautaro Martinez

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Topmost victory achieved in a game where the only hat trick was given

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 6, night 1 out of 2:

Gibraltar - Liechtenstein 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 17-own goal Noah Frommelt

               1:1 43 Noah Frick

Montenegro - Cyprus 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 13 (13.02) Stevan Jovetic

               2:0 24 (24.02) Aleksandar Boljevic

               3:0 28 (27.33) Aleksandar Boljevic

               4:0 59 (59.04) Stefan Mugosa

France - Sweden 4:2

Scorers: 0:1 04 (03.57) Viktor Claesson

               1:1 16 (15.32) Olivier Giroud

               2:1 36 (35.08) Benjamin Pavard

               3:1 59 (58.28) Olivier Giroud

               3:2 88 (87.47) Robin Quaison

               4:2 90+4 (94.01) Kingsley Coman

Luxembourg - Azerbaijan 0:0

- The home midfielder Danel Sinani did not convert a penalty on 45+1 because his shot was saved.

Croatia - Portugal 2:3

Scorers: 1:0 28 (28.09) Mateo Kovacic

               1:1 52 (51.36) Ruben Dias

               1:2 60 (59.31) Joao Felix

               2:2 64 (64.03) Mateo Kovacic

               2:3 90 (89.46) Ruben Dias

- Bad boy in this duel was Marko Rog (Croatia) as he did a nasty foul for a second yellow card at 51 (50.25).

Spain - Germany 6:0

Scorers: 1:0 17 Alvaro Morata

               2:0 33 Ferran Torres

               3:0 38 Rodrigo Hernandez Cascante (or in simple use Rodri)

               4:0 54 Ferran Torres

               5:0 71 Ferran Torres

               6:0 88 Mikel Oyarzabal

Andorra - Latvia 0:5

Scorers: 0:1 07 Antonijs Cernomordijs

               0:2 56 Janis Ikaunieks

               0:3 59 Janis Ikaunieks

               0:4 70 Vladislavs Gutkovskis

               0:5 89-pen Raimonds Krollis

- Christian Garcia (Andorra) was sent off at 88 due to two yellow cards.

Malta - Faroe islands 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 54 Matthew Guillaumier

               1:1 69 Ari Mohr Jonsson

Switzerland - Ukraine SUSPENDED (because of positive virus cases in the visiting team)

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Guests celebrated more than home teams, but draws were outnumbered

African Cup of nations qualifiers for Cameroon 2021, round 4, night 3 of 3:

Madagascar - Ivory Coast 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 15-pen (14.26) Franck Kessie

               1:1 51 (50.21) Ibrahim Samuel Amada

Sudan - Ghana 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 90+1 (91.07) Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Lesotho - Benin 0:0

Rwanda - Cape Verde 0:0

- The home team finished this match with 10 players, because on 29 (28.24) Ally Niyonzima saw his second yellow card.

Ethiopia - Niger 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 13 Amanuel Gebremichael

               2:0 43 Mesud Mohammed

               3:0 69 Getaneh Kebede

Togo - Egypt 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 18 (17.27) Mohamed Magdi Kafsha

               0:2 32 (31.56) Mohamed Sherif

               0:3 52 (51.30) Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan (or just Trezeguet)

               1:3 90+2 (92.17) Elom-Nya Vedji

Central African Republic - Morocco 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 39 (38.27) Hakim Ziyech

               0:2 90+1 (90.51) Youssef en-Nesyri

Sierra Leone - Nigeria 0:0

Angola - Democratic Republic of Congo 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 64 (63.30) Neeskens Kebano

Namibia - Mali 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 12 (11.33) Sekou Koita

               0:2 37 (36.27) Moussa Doumbia

               1:2 39 (38.37) Elmo Kambindu

- At 59 (58.53) the penalty from El Bilal Toure (Mali) was perfectly saved.

Tanzania - Tunisia 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 10 (10.20) Saif-Eddine Khaoui

               1:1 47 (46.59) Feisal Salum

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Nets were calm on 180 minutes of play

African Cup of nations qualifiers for Cameroon 2021, round 4, night 2 of 3:

Eswatini - Congo 0:0

South Sudan - Uganda 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 35-pen Tito Okello

- Both teams have finished this game with 10 men: first to depart with a direct red card was Khalid Aucho (Uganda) at 32, while at 79 Abdalla Asad Musa (South Sudan) joined him in the dressing room as he saw his second yellow card.

Malawi - Burkina Faso 0:0

Zimbabwe - Algeria 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 33 (33.00) Andy Delort

               0:2 38 (37.22) Riyad Mahrez

               1:2 43 (42.40) Knowledge Musona

               2:2 81 (81.13) Prince Dube

Sao Tome e Principe - South Africa 2:4

Scorers: 1:0 11 (11.19) Joazhifel Soares (better known as Jocy)

               1:1 38 (38.04) Themba Zwane

               1:2 69 (69.10) Percy Tau

               2:2 74 (74.18) Harramiz Soares

               2:3 86 (86.09) Themba Zwane

               2:4 88 (87.29) Percy Tau

- Home defender Ivonaldo Viegas said goodbye to his teammates on 81 (80.37) leaving the pitch due to two yellow cards.

Botswana - Zambia 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 05 Mosha Gaolaolwe

Mozambique - Cameroon 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 25 (25.06) Vincent Aboubakar

               0:2 72 (72.02) Serge Tabekou

- The post was shaken from Reginaldo Faife, preventing him to open the score from 11 metres for the home team on 22 (21.39).

Gambia - Gabon 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 49 (48.41) Modou Barrow

               2:0 78 (78.11) Musa Barrow

               2:1 88 (88.12) Bruno Ecuele Manga

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United all at one night

The only region which is playing elimination games for the World Cup tournament is South America. Next week we are entering into the fourth phase and unlike from the previous one, games are going to be played on one single night / morning.

17 November, Tuesday at 22.00 CET: Ecuador - Colombia.

17 November, Tuesday at 22.00 CET: Venezuela - Chile.

18 November, Wednesday at 00.00 CET: Paraguay - Bolivia.

18 November, Wednesday at 00.00 CET: Uruguay - Brazil.

18 November, Wednesday at 01.30 CET: Peru - Argentina.

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Introducing new, a little bit forgotten, kick off time

According to the league format this is the final, sixth phase of the competition. In this stage: almost all duels at the Nations league will play on the late kick-off time, and what is more interesting there is going to be one new which is unusual for everyone.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Andorra - Latvia.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Croatia - Portugal.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: France - Sweden.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Gibraltar - Liechtenstein.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Luxembourg - Azerbaijan.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Malta - Faroe islands.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Montenegro - Cyprus.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Spain - Germany.

17 November, Tuesday at 20.45 CET: Switzerland - Ukraine.

18 November, Wednesday at 16.00 CET: Albania - Belarus.

18 November, Wednesday at 16.00 CET: Kazakhstan - Lithuania.

18 November, Wednesday at 18.00 CET: Armenia - North Macedonia.

18 November, Wednesday at 18.00 CET: Georgia - Estonia.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Austria - Norway.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Belgium - Denmark.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Italy.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Czech Republic - Slovakia.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: England - Iceland.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Greece - Slovenia.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Hungary - Turkey.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Israel - Scotland.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Kosovo - Moldova.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Northern Ireland - Romania.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Poland - Netherlands.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Republic of Ireland - Bulgaria.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Serbia - Russia.

18 November, Wednesday at 20.45 CET: Wales - Finland.

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Final 19 elimination games for this year

We are already into the new, fourth phase of the African Cup of nations qualifiers for Cameroon 2021, where matches will be played on consecutive two more nights. Three kick off times remains, for the following 19 elimination matches in this continent for this year.

16 November, Monday at 14.00 CET: Eswatini - Congo.

16 November, Monday at 14.00 CET: Malawi - Burkina Faso.

16 November, Monday at 14.00 CET: Sao Tome e Principe - South Africa.

16 November, Monday at 14.00 CET: South Sudan - Uganda.

16 November, Monday at 14.00 CET: Zimbabwe - Algeria.

16 November, Monday at 17.00 CET: Botswana - Zambia.

16 November, Monday at 17.00 CET: Gambia - Gabon.

16 November, Monday at 17.00 CET: Mozambique - Cameroon.

17 November, Tuesday, at 14.00 CET: Ethiopia - Niger.

17 November, Tuesday, at 14.00 CET: Lesotho - Benin.

17 November, Tuesday, at 14.00 CET: Madagascar - Ivory Coast.

17 November, Tuesday, at 14.00 CET: Rwanda - Cape Verde.

17 November, Tuesday, at 14.00 CET: Sudan - Ghana.

17 November, Tuesday, at 17.00 CET: Angola - Democratic Republic of Congo.

17 November, Tuesday, at 17.00 CET: Central African Republic - Morocco.

17 November, Tuesday, at 17.00 CET: Sierra Leone - Nigeria.

17 November, Tuesday, at 17.00 CET: Togo - Egypt.

17 November, Tuesday, at 20.00 CET: Namibia - Mali.

17 November, Tuesday, at 20.00 CET: Tanzania - Tunisia.

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Every duel had an excitement except one, who did not even start

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 5, night 2 out of 2:

Slovakia - Scotland 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 31 (30.59) Jan Gregus

Turkey - Russia 3:2

Scorers: 0:1 10 (10.00) Denis Cheryshev

               1:1 26 (25.31) Kenan Karaman

               2:1 32 (31.40) Cengiz Under

               3:1 52-pen (51.45) Cenk Tosun

               3:2 56 (56.05) Daler Kuzyayev

- At 23 (23.08) Andrey Semenov (Russia) deservedly was shown a direct red card.

Georgia - Armenia 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 32 (32.12) Gevorg Ghazaryan

               1:1 65-pen (64.41) Valeri Qazaishvili

               1:2 86 (85.28) Sargis Adamyan

Netherlands - Bosnia and Herzegovina 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 06 (05.41) Georginio Wijnaldum

               2:0 13 (12.56) Georginio Wijnaldum

               3:0 55 (54.32) Memphis Depay

               3:1 63 (62.41) Smail Prevljak

Albania - Kazakhstan 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 16 (15.14) Sokol Cikalleshi

               2:0 22 (22.20) Ardian Ismajli

               2:1 23 (23.08) Aybol Abiken

               3:1 62-pen (61.53) Rey Manaj

Bulgaria - Finland 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 07 (06.35) Teemu Pukki

               0:2 45 (45.07) Robin Lod

               1:2 67-pen (67.17) Dimitar Iliev

- Galin Ivanov had the first punishment for Bulgaria, but his shot was perfectly saved on 60 (59.55).

Wales - Republic of Ireland 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 66 (65.56) David Brooks

- Jeff Hendrick was quicker than the final whistle as he had to leave the pitch early at 90+3 (93.04) receiving a direct red card.

Belarus - Lithuania 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 04 (04.10) Yevgeniy Yablonskiy

               2:0 20 (19.55) Max Ebong

Slovenia - Kosovo 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 57 (57.05) Vedat Muriqi

               1:1 62 (61.58) Jasmin Kurtic

               2:1 90+3-pen (93.06) Josip Ilicic

Czech Republic - Israel 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 06 (06.16) Vladimir Darida

- Nasty foul in this duel did Hatem abd Elhamed (Israel) who saw a direct red card at 80 (80.00).

Denmark - Iceland 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 12-pen (11.41) Christian Eriksen

               1:1 85 (84.39) Vidar orn Kjartansson

               2:1 90+2-pen (91.24) Christian Eriksen

Belgium - England 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 09 (09.07) Youri Tielemans

               2:0 23 (23.00) Dries Mertens

Hungary - Serbia 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 17 (16.34) Nemanja Radonjic

               1:1 39 (38.52) Zsolt Kalmar

Austria - Northern Ireland 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 74 (73.54) Josh Magennis

               1:1 81 (80.37) Louis Schaub

               2:1 86 (86.09) Adrian Grbic

Moldova - Greece 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 32 (31.52) Kostas Fortounis

               0:2 41 (40.22) Anastasios Bakasetas

Romania - Norway CANCELLED (the visiting team did not get a permit to travel to Bucharest from its own health officials due to virus case).

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Duplicate score goes different ways

African Cup of nations qualifiers for Cameroon 2021, round 4, night 1 of 3:

Burundi - Mauritania 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 06 (05.48) Saidi Ntibazonkiza

               1:1 26 (26.13) Mamadou Niass

               2:1 46 (45.54) Youssouf Ndayishimiye

               3:1 54 (54.01) Saidi Ntibazonkiza

Chad - Guinea 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 24 (23.41) Naby Keita

               1:1 45 (44.22) Ahmat Abdaraman

- On 88 Eric Mbangossoum (Chad) saw his second yellow card.

Guinea-Bissau - Senegal 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 82 (81.47) Sadio Mane

- Jorge Braima Sande Nogueira (or just Bura, Guinea-Bissau) received second yellow card at 64.

Comoros - Kenya 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 22 (21.26) El Fardou Mohamed ben Nabouhane

               1:1 36 (35.36) Cliff Nyakeya

               2:1 50 (49.41) Faiz Mattoir

Equatorial Guinea - Libya 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 26 Iban Salvador (also known as Iban Edu)

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Single target sometimes is enough

African Cup of nations qualifiers for Cameroon 2021, round 3, night 4 of 4:

Benin - Lesotho 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 23 (23.05) Jodel Dossou

Democratic Republic of Congo - Angola 0:0

Egypt - Togo 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 53 (52.54) Mahmoud Hamdi (known as El Wensh)

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Bad night for two various players: one who missed punishments and another who scored in both nets

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 5, night 1 out of 2:

Malta - Andorra 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 02 (02.20) Marc Rebes

               1:1 55-own goal (54.56) Emili Garcia

               2:1 58 (57.53) Jurgen Degabriele

               3:1 90+2 (92.19) Shaun Dimech

San Marino - Gibraltar 0:0

- Home defender Davide Simoncini deservedly received a direct red card on 48 (48.17).

Latvia - Faroe islands 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 58 (58.18) Vladimirs Kamess

               1:1 60 (59.48) Gunnar Vatnhamar

Cyprus - Luxembourg 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 04-own goal (04.01) Ioannis Kousoulos

               1:1 34-pen (33.38) Grigoris Kastanos

               2:1 70 (69.55) Grigoris Kastanos

- On 32 (32.14) Vahid Selimovic (Luxembourg) was sent off due to two yellow cards.

Azerbaijan - Montenegro 0:0

- Igor Ivanovic (Montenegro) saw his second yellow card on 45+1 (45.42).

Germany - Ukraine 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 11 (10.59) Roman Yaremchuk

               1:1 22 (22.20) Leroy Sane

               2:1 33 (32.29) Timo Werner

               3:1 63 (63.14) Timo Werner

Switzerland - Spain 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 25 (25.20) Remo Freuler

               1:1 89 (88.24) Gerard Moreno

- Two weak shots from 11 metres were perfectly saved from the Spanish captain Sergio Ramos: on 57 (56.48) and 79 (79.07).

- At 78 (78.17) Nico Elvedi (Switzerland) had to leave the pitch because of his second yellow card.

Sweden - Croatia 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 36 (35.50) Dejan Kulusevski

               2:0 45+2 (46.38) Marcus Danielson

               2:1 81-own goal (80.30) Marcus Danielson

Portugal - France 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 53 (52.51) N'Golo Kante

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Couple of home teams and one visiting were in love at number three

Qualifiers for World Cup Qatar 2022 - South American region, round 03, night or morning 2 out of 2:

Colombia - Uruguay 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 05 (04.47) Edinson Cavani

               0:2 54-pen (53.35) Luis Suarez

               0:3 72 (72.06) Darwin Nunez

- Yerry Mina (Colombia) left early the pitch on 90 (89.39) when he saw his second yellow card.

Chile - Peru 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 20 (19.27) Arturo Vidal

               2:0 35 (34.36) Arturo Vidal

Brazil - Venezuela 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 67 (66.43) Roberto Firmino

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