Spain leaves him late, and Croatia is stunned by France

The owners of the Spanish League Nations require a stopper equalizer from the Arsenal midfielder Mikel Merino to pull 2-2 against the 10-man of the Netherlands.

The replacement of Merino, who was filled as a makeshift striker Gunners, showed that his eye was re -directing his goal at the Niveler at an extra time of fun game in Rotterdam.

The Dutch returned after they came out in the ninth minute with Cody Gakpo and Tijjani Reijnders’ goals, but ended up with 10 men after sending a teenage defender Jorrel Hato eight minutes from time for a study challenge.

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Spain, which has not lost in its previous 21 competitive internationals, opened scoring through Nico Williams after the rapid start of the game.

By the way, Croatia Ante Budimir and Ivan Perisic hit to secure a well-deserved 2-0 victory over France in the quarterfinals of their league of nations, first legs, because the return of Kylian Mbappe and Ousman Dembele failed to get visitors on fire.

Croatia also missed the early penalty when Andrei Kramaric’s Spot-Dodarac saved French goalkeeper Mike Maignan, and the runners in 2023 were full of a victory that could easily be achieved by a larger margin.

France created chances and tested several times to the goalkeeper of Croatian Dominic Livakovic, but it was a lower appearance in the night, which promised a lot with the return of Mbappe, especially after sitting the last four fixtures of his part.

“We lost our first leg, we will make sure we win the second at home,” French coach Didier Deschamps told TF1. “Our first half was below what we were capable of. We will do our best to reverse the situation.

“We were punished in the first half. We were too wasteful at the technical level and gave the opponent’s opportunity.”

German victory; The portal beaten

Germany came from behind to defeat Italy 2-1 to San Siro, and the midfielder Bayern from Munich Leon Goretzka started with a 14-minute winning goal.

Italy moved forward when Nicolo Barella played a passage to Matteo Police, who pulled the ball back to Moise Kean, and the ball fell to Newcastle Man Sandra Tonali, who put his shot into the corner.

Germany equalized for four minutes in the second half when Joshua Kimmich floated the ball into the frame, and the unmarked deputy team Kleindienst stood up that he had attacked the header near Gigi Donnarumm with his first touch.

The winner came from Kimmich’s corner, who looked like he had got into a net without a touch, but Goretzka got the smallest head to the ball before defeating Donnarumm.

Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund got off the bench to be the winner while Denmark beat Portugal 1-0.