Spain celebrate as Portugal fall to 57-second sucker punch

Paris (AFP) – Spain received a second successive UEFA Nations League match on Sunday with a 2-0 win over the Czech Republic whereas rivals Portugal conceded a purpose after simply 57 seconds to lose to Switzerland.

Spain went in entrance in Malaga after 24 minutes when a perfectly-weighted go by Marco Asensio launched Carlos Soler to attain.

Pablo Sarabia added the second on 75 minutes as Spain acquired the higher of a Czech facet towards whom they’d drawn 2-2 in Prague final week.

Regardless of the win, Spain had been indebted to some positive saves by Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper Unai Simon.

He thwarted an 18th-minute strike from Vaclav Cerny and, two minutes later, denied Jan Kuchta.

In Geneva, Switzerland took the lead after simply 57 seconds towards a Portugal facet enjoying with out Cristiano Ronaldo when Haris Seferovic scored from Silvan Widmer’s go.

Portugal’s stand-in skipper Pepe made his 128th worldwide look they usually had been unfortunate to not get one thing from the sport with Swiss keeper Jonas Omlin saving from Danilo and Bernardo Silva.

Victory was a great addition for a Swiss facet who went into the sport having misplaced their earlier three matches.

Spain keep prime of League A Group 2 with eight factors from 4 video games with Portugal some extent additional again.

Erling Haaland scored twice and arrange the third as Norway beat neighbours Sweden 3-2 in Oslo in League B.

“I’m speechless!” the 21-year-old striker instructed Norwegian tv, earlier than including: “To win towards Sweden within the final match of the season, it’s stunning.”

Haaland, who’s heading for Manchester Metropolis from Borussia Dortmund this summer time, gave Norway the lead within the tenth minute heading in a near-post cross.

He added a penalty within the 54th minute after Hjalmar Ekdal fouled Alexander Sorloth.

It was Haaland’s twentieth worldwide targets in 18 Norway appearances.

Sweden replied eight minutes later when Emil Forsberg smashed house a go from Dejan Kulusevski.

Haaland then crossed for Sorloth to move house and restore the host’s two-goal lead after 77 minutes.

Viktor Gyokeres gave the Swedes temporary hope by rifling house a shot 5 minutes into added time. 

“This tasted nice,” mentioned Norway coach Stale Solbakken.