Sport: The Hungarian soccer team has reached the European Championship!

The Hungarian soccer team is in a game to advance to the next European Championship, partly national. To do this, the Icelandic team had to be defeated at home at the Puskás Arena. In the match, the Icelanders took the lead in the 11th minute as Gylfi Sigurdsson’s easy-to-catch free kick was “defended” by Péter Gulácsi. In the 88th minute, substitute Nego tied, then the goal for the Euro was scored by Dominik Szoboszlai in extra time, the ball was cut from the left post into the net.

For the first time in the history of the eighth Hungarian national team four years ago, it reached the continental competition twice in a row. In the European Championship postponed to next summer, he will be in the same group with the Germans, the French world champion and the Portuguese defender, with the latter two at the Puskás Arena.

Hungary will play next time on Sunday, we will welcome Serbia into the Nations League.

This is how the teams got up:

HUNGARY: Gulácsi – Botka, Orbán, Szalai A. – Fiola, Kalmár, Nagy Á., Szoboszlai, Holender – Szalai Á., Sallai.

ICELAND: Halldórsson – Pálsson, R. Sigurdsson, Árnason, H. Magnússon – J. Gudmundsson, Sigurjónsson, A. Gunnarsson, B. Bjarnason – G. Sigurdsson, A. Finnbogason.

Directed by Kuipers (Van Roekel, Zeinstra) – Dutch

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1st minute: The game has started!

1 minute: Iceland immediately receives a free kick, Sallai is fouled. However, Barnason’s free kick was harmless.

After 4 minutes, Gunnarson can take a corner kick.

Minute 5: Warm situation … After the corner, Pálsson headed from four meters, Gulácsi calmed down and grabbed it.

5th minute: Gylfi Sigurdsson kicks Szoboszlait, receives a yellow card.

Minute 6: At the moment, Iceland is more proactive, the Hungarian team has difficulties to get the ball out of midfield.

This is how the team arrived:

9th minute: Sallai arches in the middle, but it’s not good for Szalai.

Minute 10: Iceland’s free kick 17 meters from the Hungarian goal.

11 min: 0-1! Gulácsi can’t defend Sigurdsson’s free kick … He should have hit him, but he wanted to catch him and hit him in goal.

Minute 14: Iceland is more active. It is difficult for us to cross the middle line.

17th minute: I had the first shot on goal, but Holander hit it weakly from 18 meters.

Minute 18: We are getting better and better, crossing the space. Vial even hands out an apron.

Minute 19: After the corner of Szoboszlai, we return to our own space.

21st minute: Szoboszlai launched a free kick, but the corner ended behind Sallai’s head.

Minute 22: Great situation! After a corner from Szoboszlai, Orban headed in at the hands of the Icelandic goalkeeper.

23rd minute: Sigurdsson throws Szalait to the ground, free kick again. Not very well, Iceland is part of it.

24th minute: Finnbogasson heads, but Gulácsi defends with confidence.

Not like before the goal:

26th minute: After Szoboszlai’s free kick, Botka heads.

29th minute: Botka went huge in front of Bjarnas … If the Hungarian defender is not there, he will probably score.

30th minute: Iceland is now more proactive again, but we are getting rid of attempts.

Minute 33: Sallai shoots from 20 meters but hits him weakly, gently catching the Icelandic goalkeeper.

35th minute: Holender shoots from an acute angle, this is what Halldórson will do.

Minute 38: Szalai’s ball is a bit long for Salli, the situation falls short. The team is playing better and better, it could be enjoyed even more if it weren’t for that Icelandic goal.

Icelanders after the first goal:

Minute 40: We got a free kick 17 meters from the Icelandic goal.

41st minute: Szoboszla throws a free kick.

Minute 42: Gulácsi defends again, Gudmondsson gallops towards the Hungarian goal, but does not have the strength to shoot.

45th minute: Szoboszlai fires a free kick from afar, which somehow reaches the Icelandic goal, but Halldórsson catches it.

46 minutes: Gulácsi defends Sigurdsson’s shot.

The first half is over.

Minute 46: The second part has begun.

Minute 48: Magnósson enters the curve, but Gulácsi pulls down.

50th minute: Szoboszlai can kick a corner, but the Icelanders finally cut him off.

52nd minute: After perhaps the most beautiful action of the match, after Szoboszlai’s corner kick, Pálsson’s Attila Szalai shot finally rose.

54th minute: The Hungarian team is clearly better than Iceland in the second half.

57th minute: Sallai shoots from an acute angle, but slides over the ball and goes over the Icelandic goal.

Playoff halftime results:

Minute 60: The Hungarian team exchanges two: Sigér and Lovrencsis arrive, Fiola and Kalmár come down.

Minute 63: Attila Szalai receives a yellow card for manipulating

Sigurdsson sends a good shot from a direct free kick towards the goal but the goalkeeper blocks it.

65th minute: There is a lot of commotion in front of the Icelandic goal, Ádám Nagy seems to have been knocked down, but the referee does not award a penalty. Based on the slowdown, with good reason.

67th minute: Botka shoots from afar, the ball bounces and passes inches from the goal.

69th minute: After a long time, Iceland approached our goal, but a dangerous situation did not develop.

Minute 71: Nikolics Nemanja arrives to replace Holender.

72 minutes: Iceland replace Jón Dadi Bödvarsson with Gudmundsson and Albert Gudmundsson with Finnbogasson.

76th minute: Dallai’s dangerous pass is voiced by the Icelandic defenders.

78th minute: The Hungarian team has a clue, but it can rarely reach sixteen Icelanders.

82: minute: Sallai shoots me but goes to Nikolics, what happens, but the defenders go to the corner.

Gunnarsson had to leave the field in the 83rd minute due to a knee injury. Get to Skúlas.

84th minute: Nego instead of Ádám Nagy, Ádám Szalai instead of Ádám on the field.

85th minute: Szoboszlai throws a corner kick and is knocked out by the Icelandic goalkeeper.

86th minute: The Hungarian team is still in a strong position, getting closer and closer to the Icelandic goal, but the situation is not developing.

87th minute: Not so in front of the Hungarian goal … Gudmondsson shoots from three meters above.

88 min: eleven! Substituting Nego equals! Shoot a dribbling ball from the corner of the high five. Nego has been a Hungarian citizen for a year and a half.

90 minutes: 4 minute extension.

91 min: twenty-one! Incredible! Szoboszlai takes the lead! After a single, he shoots from 20 meters perfectly towards the goal!

Minute 93: 1 minute left …

95: minute: Another Icelandic corner, the Icelandic goalkeeper takes the lead. After a lot of confusion, Ingasson turns yellow.

FINISH !!! Hungary participates in the European Championship!

On October 8, the national team won Bulgaria 3-1 in the semi-finals over Orbán, Kalmar and Nikolics in the semi-finals, with Iceland defeating Romania 2-1. Now we greet Iceland behind closed doors and say goodbye.

The European Championship would have originally been held in 2020, but had to be postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic. According to plans, the tournament would take place between June 11 and July 11, 2021, and several matches would be held in Budapest, at the Puskás Arena.

Hungary and Iceland played in a group in France at the last European Championship and drew 1-1 with each other.

Federal captain Marco Rossi became a coronavirus, in his absence Zoltán Gera, federal coach of the U21 team, joined the crew. For a long time, the team’s shooter Dominik Szoboszlai was also unable to be present at the meeting, as his team, Austria’s Red Bull Salzburg, also tested positive for six players. The midfielder was quarantined but tested and the result was negative.

The framework of the Hungarian national team:

THE FRAMEWORK SELECTED BY HUNGARY

Goalkeepers: Dénes Dibusz (Ferencváros), Péter Gulácsi (RB Leipzig – Germany), Lajos Hegedüs (FC Paksi)

Defenders: Barnabás Bese (Oud-Heverlee Leuven – Belgium), Endre Botka (Ferencváros), Attila Fiola (Mol Fehérvár FC), New Year’s Eve Ant (Mol Fehérvár FC), Ákos Kecskés (FC Lugano – Switzerland), Ádám Lang (Omonia Nicosia – Cyprus), Gergő Lovrencsics (Ferencváros), Loic Nego (Mol Fehérvár FC), Willi Orbán (RB Leipzig – Germany), Attila Szalai (Apollon – Cyprus)

Midfielders: Tamás Cseri (Mezőkövesd), Holender Filip (Partizan Beograd – Serbia), Zsolt Kalmár (AC Dunaszerdahelyi – Slovakia), Ádám Nagy (Bristol City – England), András Schäfer (AC Dunaszerdahelyi – Slovakia), Dávid Sigér (Ferencváros) (Ferencváros) Dominik Szoboszlai (Red Bull Salzburg – Austria)

Forward: Ádám Gyurcsó (Hajduk Split – Croatia), Norbert Könyves (TE FC de Zalaegerszeg), Nemanja Nikolics (Mol Fehérvár FC), Roland Sallai (Freiburg – Germany), Ádám Szalai (Mainz – Germany), Kevin Varga (Kasimpasa – Turkey )