League of Nations 24-25
game board
Cycle 1 – 06/09/2024
- Azerbaijan
- 3 – 1
- Sweden
- Denmark
- 0 – 2
- Switzerland
- Portugal
- 1 – 2
- Croatia
- Scotland
- 3 – 2
- Poland
- Belarus
- 0 – 0
- Bulgaria
- Estonia
- 1 – 0
- Slovakia
- Northern Ireland
- 0 – 2
- Luxembourg
- San Marino
- 0 – 1
- Liechtenstein
- Kazakhstan
- 0 – 0
- Norway
- Lithuania
- 1 – 0
- Cyprus
- Belgium
- 1 – 3
- Israel
- France
- 3 – 1
- Italy
- Iceland
- 0 – 2
- Montenegro
- Slovenia
- 1 – 1
- Austria
- Wills
- 0 – 0
- Turkey
- Kosovo
- 3 – 0
- Rumania
- Faroe Islands
- 1 – 1
- North Macedonia
- Georgia
- 1 – 4
- Czech Republic
- Ireland
- 2 – 0
- England
- Moldova
- 0 – 2
- Malta
- Armenia
- 1 – 4
- Latvia
- Germany
- 0 – 5
- Hungary
- Netherlands
- 2 – 5
- Bosnia
- Greece
- 0 – 3
- Finland
- Ukraine
- 2 – 1
- Albania
The outstanding player Kevin de Bruyne, score: 9
City’s star won over the choir without much difficulty with a duo and an excellent performance. The disappointing actor Oskar Gloch, score: 4
Did not contribute in the offensive part, did not threaten the Belgians’ goal, the dribbles did not work for him, Israel owes Oscar better.
The Israeli national team opened its Nations League campaign yesterday (Friday) with a 3:1 loss to the Belgian national team and when it seemed that it was a completely different team in the first half compared to the one that took to the field in the second half.
In Ran Ben Shimon’s official debut as a coach, the Israelis started when they were not in control, but looked good when the ball was at their feet. Nevertheless, in the 21st minute, the Belgian quality decided in one move when Jeremy Doku beat Shagiv Yehezkel and found Kevin de Bruyne who scored the advantage for the host.
Israel did not bow its head and showed that its intention was to equalize and in the 36th minute it did so. Anan Halaili hit Timothy Kastania, who deflected it into his goal, thus making it 1:1 in Debrecen. Just before halftime Omri Gandelman also scored another goal, but it was disallowed due to a clear foul. The team went down, quite encouraged, to the dressing room.
Belgium players celebrate (Reuters)
In the second half it was already a completely different opera. The team in blue and white looked helpless when in just three minutes Yuri Tillmans scored the 1:2, four minutes passed and Michael Oliver pointed to the white spot after Rez Shlomo committed a foul in the box and De Bruyne had already completed a brace in the 52nd minute.
Israel’s bad minutes continued about four more minutes later, when Gib Yehezkel tripped Louis Opanda in the box – another penalty for Belgium. The same Opanda approached the point, but Yoav Graffi prevented the continuation of the avalanche and deflected his kick.
Raz Shlomo (Reuters)
The Red Devils continued to dominate the field without question and there is no doubt that Ben Shimon’s team was lucky not to concede the fourth or fifth in those minutes. One minute before the end of the game, Israel managed to score another goal from the feet of Din David, but this was also disallowed due to a different claim and she went down defeated 3:1 at the end.
In a campaign in which the national team was drawn into a very difficult house with three huge teams, they will already meet another such in three days when they host Italy in Hungary and hope to try to recover and maybe even achieve a better result.
Ran Ben Shimon and Roy Rabivo (Reuters)
second half
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’90+4
- The final whistle! The Belgium team beat Israel 1:3
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’90+3
- Israel went forward quickly, Bitton raced and kicked well to the crossbar, from which the ball splashed and David rolled it in, but Oliver disallowed the goal due to a deviation
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’82
- Substitution in Belgium: Bakayoko replaced Lukaku
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’80
- Substitution in the Israel team: Bitton replaced Solomon
Tedesco and De Bruyne (Reuters)
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’77
- De Bruyne saw the yellow card
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’74
- Dornaville replaced Dooku
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’74
- Double substitution in Belgium: Engels replaced Tillmans
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’72
- Doku got good depth and came up with a great chance when he was free in the box, but was stopped at the last moment by Ezekiel
Advanced Jeremy Duco (Reuters)
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’68
- Israel made another substitution: Jaber replaced Abu Fani
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’66
- A clever deep ball from Doku found Opanda with excellent movement in the area, the striker positioned himself well and kicked, but was pushed away by Graffi again
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’64
- Debest replaced de Kuyper
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’64
- Double substitution in Belgium on the other hand: De Catalara replaced Opanda
Doku vs Halaili (Reuters)
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’63
- David replaced Groper
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’63
- Rabivo replaced Gendelman
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’63
- Triple exchange in Israel: Peretz replaced Gloch
Idan Nahmias strikes (Reuters)
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’60
- The Israeli team looked simply powerless, the Belgians’ exchanges of passes reached Tillmans, who kicked hard at the edge of the box and was repelled by another stop by Graffi
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’56
- Opanda approached the point this time, but encountered an excellent stop by Graffi, who kept the Israeli deficit “only” at two goals
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’55
- Very bad minutes for the team, when Hezekiel tripped Opanda in the box and received another penalty against the Israeli
The Belgians celebrate (Reuters) Kevin de Bruyne (Reuters) De Bruyne before the penalty (Reuters)
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’52
- gate! Belgium went up 1:3: De Bruyne approached the point, did not get confused and increased his team’s advantage in a moment
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’51
- The Israeli team in terrible minutes, Shlomo tripped Opanda from behind in the area – Oliver pointed to the white spot
Tillmans celebrates (Reuters) Tillmans is happy (Reuters)
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’48
- gate! Belgium went up 1:2: Thiet advanced unhindered and sent a dangerous ball into the box, Opanda left on his heels for Tillemans, who came freely and finished easily with a goal that restored the advantage to the Belgians
first half
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’41
- A great exchange of passes by Israel, a double pass between Gloch and Solomon penetrated the Belgian defense, the Salzburg midfielder found himself free in the box and turned a kick, but it missed the frame
Anan Halaili celebrates (Reuters) Anan Halaili is happy (Reuters)
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’36
- gate! Israel equalized to 1:1: after a mess in the Belgian area and a lack of coordination, a good lift by Nehmias found Halaili’s head in the area and he hit Castanea who deflected it into his goal
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’33
- Abu Fani saw the first yellow of the match after he stopped Tillmans in a foul
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’24
- Luccacchio completed an impressive dribble down the right side of the pitch before curling a powerful shot wide of the box, which was brilliantly parried by Jarafi, who stretched his limbs
De Bruyne and the Belgians celebrate (Reuters) Kevin De Bruyne beats Yoav Jarafi (Reuters)
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’21
- gate! Belgium went up 0:1: the quality of the Belgians proved itself after several minutes, Doku beat Ezekiel on the dribble on the right wing and with an accurate cross found De Bruyne, who came from the second line quite freely and kicked sharply to inherit the advantage
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’15
- Halaili went on a personal operation on the right wing, penetrated the box and found Gloch with a measured ball, but his kick was blocked by the Belgian defense
Out pass against Danny Gruper (Reuters)
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‘8
- On the other hand, Duko crossed after a dribble on the left wing, the ball was cleared to the edge of the box, from where Onana unleashed a strong kick of his own, but missed the frame as well
Vot Pass and Anan Halaili (Reuters)
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‘6
- In spite of Belgian control, it was our team with another offensive intention, after another quick departure for a crossing attack Yehezkel tried his luck from a long distance, but did not find the frame
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‘1
- Already within a minute, the team went on a quick passing attack in which Gloch found Halaili with a great spinning deep ball, who advanced into the box and unleashed a kick that was blocked by Castiles
The Belgian national team at the opening (Reuters)
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‘1
- The opening whistle! Oliver started the fight
Luis Opanda in the last moments before the whistle (Reuters) Kevin de Bruyne in the warm-up (Reuters) Nobody really feels at home – the grass in Debrecen is ready (Reuters)
