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Black night like the raven for Sergio Ramos before the shame of the Spanish soccer team in the Nations League, which has just been avoided: (The matches can be read on TICKER)
The Iberians reached a final 1: 1 0: 1 (0: 1) in Switzerland with difficulty. Their captain also made one of the weakest appearances of his career in recent years. (Nations League results and schedule)
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Ramos initially had reason to celebrate but set a European record heading into 177 caps, replacing previous record holder Gianluigi Buffon (Italy). (Service: Nations League Schedule and Results)
But the Real Madrid veteran missed two penalties in the match frivolously: First, Ramos spoiled the hand penalty against Yann Sommer after he decided late against a Panenka execution and successfully pushed the goalkeeper, who was on duty. Borussia Mönchengladbach to the left. lower corner (57).
Ramos misses two penalties in Spain
Then the 34-year-old defender also gifted the gift from the spot in the 80th minute, when he unnecessarily delayed his approach and even let Sommer catch the ball. (Service: Nations League tables)
Ramos had previously converted 25 consecutive penalties in all competitions; he missed the last one on May 9, 2018 when he hit the crossbar.
“It would be very unfair for us to criticize Sergio Ramos now,” defended national coach Luis Enrique after the final whistle and referred to Ramos’ previous record: “25 in a row …”
Only the substitute Gerard Gerard (89.) saved a point to the Spanish, equaled the Swiss advantage of Remo Freulner (26)
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The still-winless Swiss, in whom his Sommers Gladbach teammate Nico Elvedi had seen the yellow-red card after his foul before Ramos’ second missed shot (57th), supported the German team in the fight for victory in Group 4:
The selection of national coach Joachim Löw, who celebrated a 3-1 victory in the duel with Ukraine, is enough to play the final phase of the “Final Four” in October 2021 in Spain, former world champion, on Tuesday to the preliminary round.
Nations League: France, first participant in the finals
World champion France has already achieved this goal in Group 3 with a 1-0 (0-0) duel between group rivals Germany in European champion Portugal.
Sweden, meanwhile, kept their chance to stay in the same group with a 2-1 (2-0) win against relegation rivals and world runner-up Croatia.
The match in Switzerland, in which five Bundesliga professionals were in the starting lineup, was on edge until a few hours before kick-off due to a crown case in the host team.
The Basel authorities only gave the go-ahead for the match when all the players had negative results in another series of tests on Saturday.
Defending champions Portugal and Ronaldo out
Portugal and superstar Cristiano Ronaldo have no chance of defending their title in the final next year after their home loss to France.
Despite the failure of injured star forward Kylian Mbappé with Bayern Munich’s trio Lucas Hernández, Benjamin Pavard and Kingsley Coman in the starting lineup, the Frenchman managed to amend the 2-0 loss to Finland and thus the jump to the final round with the winning goal of N. ‘Golo Kante (54th)
Under pressure, Sweden headed for victory in the first round with Leipzig’s Emil Forsberg against Croatia. Dejan Kulusevski (36th) and Chinese Legionnaire Marcus Danielson (45th + 2) provided the reassuring break ahead.
The guests with the Wolfsburg duo Marin Pongracic and Josip Brekalo, who had to do without Marcelo Brozovic, who tested positive for the coronavirus, only reached the connecting goal through an own goal by Danielson (82).
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With sports information service (SID)
