Serbia is still alive in the Nations League and Portugal gets into the quarterfinals with a ‘little hand’ to Poland

This Friday, the Serbian men’s soccer team saved a draw (1-1) from its visit to Switzerland, keeping the Balkans the option of getting into the quarterfinals of the Nations League, a phase in which the team will surely be Portugal team as seeded after their 5-1 win against Poland on matchday 5.

At the Stadion Letzigrund in Zurich, Aleksandar Mitrovic missed a penalty for Serbia at the beginning of the second half and, to make matters worse, the hosts took the lead in the 78th minute thanks to Zeki Amdouni with a strong right foot from the edge of the area and after a Remo Freuler pass with the head.

However, in the 88th minute, Aleksa Terzic saved a point for the visiting team thanks to a left-footed shot from the top of the area on a counterattack. This score placed Serbia with five points in third place in Group A4, behind Spain (13 pts.) and Denmark (7 pts.); Meanwhile, the Helvetians are bottom with two points.

In Group A1, Portugal’s clear dominance was not rewarded until after the break. Of course, the hosts let their hair down on Dragão from the 59th minute, when Rafael Leão rode the attack and opened the ball on the left wing for Nuno Mendes; He crossed into the small area and Leão himself headed 1-0 between the centre-backs.

The veteran and always motivated Cristiano Ronaldo converted a penalty to make it 2-0 (min.72), Bruno Fernandes scored a great goal into the top corner in the 80th minute, Pedro Neto made it 4-0 (min.83) with another powerful right foot. inside the rival area and Cristiano Ronaldo himself rounded off the Portuguese ‘little hand’ in the 87th minute with a bicycle kick from a pass from Vitinha.

Group leadership assured for Portugal based on its current 13 points, with Croatia occupying second place with seven points after losing by the minimum in its visit to Scotland; Both Poles and Scots accumulate four points and the sixth day will dictate the sentence.

Regarding the rest of this fifth date on the calendar, it stood out that the duel between Romania and Kosovo, corresponding to Group C2, was provisionally suspended when they were 0-0 and everything was about to end. The Kosovar footballers left the field due to chants from the local stands in favor of Serbia, thus leaving the result in doubt.