Lottery decided one duel

World Cup qualifiers - Africa region, preliminary round 1, leg 2:

Lesotho - Ethiopia 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 50-own goal (49.53) Nkau Lerotholi
              1:1 55 (55.14) Tsepo Seturumane

Tanzania - Burundi 1:1, after penalties 3-0

Scorers: 1:0 29 (28.57) Mbwana Samatta
              1:1 45+2 (46.35) Fiston Abdul Razak

Equatorial Guinea - South Sudan 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 71 (71.03) Emilio Nsue

Sierra Leone - Liberia 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 54 (54.20) Kei Kamara

- Sierra Leone captain Umaru Bangoura derived a very poor penalty on 90+5 (94.54).
- The first 4 teams who traveled into the next World Cup elimination stage - Africa are Ethiopia, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea and Liberia.

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Some stunning goals scored at the last evening of matchday one

CONCACAF Nations league 2019-20, matchday 1:

Montserrat - Dominican Republic 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 23 (22.43) Joshua Garcia
              1:1 28 (28.09) James Comley
              2:1 64 (64.04) Adrian Clifton

Guadeloupe - Sint Maarten 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 04 (04.02) Dimitri Ramothe
              2:0 26 (25.53) Florian David
              3:0 48 (47.34) Anthony Baron
              4:0 61 (60.25) Florian David
              4:1 83 (82.55) Gerwin Lake
              5:1 89 (88.31) Ronan Hauterville

Curacao - Haiti 1:0


Scorer: 1:0 69 (69.01) Elson Hooi

Canada - Cuba 6:0


Scorers: 1:0 13 (12.21) Junior Hoilett
              2:0 21 (20.56) Jonathan David
              3:0 49 (49.15) Junior Hoilett
              4:0 52 (51.37) Jonathan Osorio
              5:0 64 (64.10) Doneil Henry
              6:0 82-pen (81.50) Junior Hoilett

El Salvador - Saint Lucia 3:0


Scorers: 1:0 07 (06.49) Narciso Orellana
              2:0 73-pen (72.31) Darwin Ceren
              3:0 86 (86.13) Nelson Bonilla

- The first direct red card of the tournament received Denis Pineda (El Salvador) on 78.

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Ninety plus minutes of tormenting the poor ball

World Cup qualifiers - Africa region, preliminary round 1, leg 1:

Botswana - Malawi 0:0

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Embarrassment at the start after third anthem played

Qualifying games for EURO 2020, round 5 (part 3):

Kosovo - Czech Republic 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 15 (15.10) Patrik Schick
              1:1 19 (19.10) Vedat Muriqi
              2:1 66 (65.36) Mergim Vojvoda

England - Bulgaria 0:4


Scorers: 0:1 23 (23.02) Harry Kane
              0:2 49-pen (48.51) Harry Kane
              0:3 55 (54.45) Raheem Sterling
              0:4 72-pen (72.17) Harry Kane

Iceland - Moldova 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 30 (30.15) Kolneinn Sigthorsson
              2:0 55 (54.27) Birkir Bjarnason
              3:0 77 (76.34) Jon Dadi Bodvarsson

Lithuania - Ukraine 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 07 (06.22) Oleksandr Zinchenko
              0:2 27 (26.52) Marlos Romero Bonfim
              0:3 61 (60.58) Ruslan Malinovskiy

Turkey - Andorra 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 88 (88.10) Ozan Tufan

Serbia - Portugal 2:4

Scorers: 0:1 41 (41.18) William Carvalho
              0:2 58 (57.27) Goncalo Guedes
              1:2 67 (67.09) Nikola Milenkovic
              1:3 80 (79.44) Cristiano Ronaldo
              2:3 84 (84.03) Aleksandar Mitrovic
              2:4 86 (85.40) Bernardo Silva

France - Albania 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 07 (07.10) Kingsley Coman
              2:0 26 (26.16) Olivier Giroud
              3:0 67 (67.10) Kingsley Coman
              4:0 84 (84.06) Jonathan Ikone
              4:1 90-pen (89.49) Sokol Cikalleshi

- At least is 'A', thus the hymn is not so important: this duel was delayed for 7 minutes after a huge blunder (deliberate or not, it is hard to say), because instead of Albania the organizers have let the Andorra anthem played.
- Antoine Griezmann (France) hit the post from 11 metre on 36 (36.00).

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Four double scorers from just two games

CONCACAF Nations league 2019-20, matchday 1:

Bonaire - British Virgin islands 4:2

Scorers: 0:1 31 (30.51) Tyler Forbes
              1:1 74 (73.42) Edshel Martha
              2:1 78 (77.22) Jursten Trinidad
              3:1 81 (80.31) Jursten Trinidad
              4:1 83 (82.41) Edshel Martha
              4:2 90+2 (91.23) Tyler Forbes

Martinique - Trinidad and tobago 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 40 (39.21) Cyril Mandouki
              1:1 65-pen (64.40) Joevin Jones

Aruba - Guyana 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 22 (21.22) Sheldon Holder

Jamaica - Antigua and barbuda 6:0

Scorers: 1:0 08 Shamar Nicholson
              2:0 30 Bobby Reid
              3:0 50 Shamar Nicholson
              4:0 67 Brian Brown
              5:0 77 Leon Bailey
              6:0 80 Peter-Lee Vassell

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