With everything in favor for the Portugal National Team and to be able to qualify directly for the next World Cup, those commanded by Cristiano Ronaldo succumbed against a complicated Selection of Serbia that beat them back at the Da Luz Stadium, in the city of Lisbon.
With a goal scored by Renato Sanches at minute 2 of the match, the Portuguese began the road to victory surprising everyone in the stadium, In addition, with defensive problems and a Portuguese attack that was not going to shine, those led by Fernando Santos began to close in the background to prevent the Serbs from finding weaknesses that would lead to a draw .
Without Pepe , due After a sanction, the Portuguese team did not feel very safe in the defensive background and without attacks clear passes for Cristiano Ronaldo, the Manchester United player began to get frustrated and coun turn his companions with his despair.
28 minutes more late, the Serbs achieved equality after a long distance shot by Dusan Tadic, being deflected by the Portuguese Danilo and who could not stop the guard Rui Patricio . In this way, Fernando Santos’ speech was useless, after having declared last week that he was not going to speculate on a result to qualify directly for the World Cup.
In the second half, Serbia began to corner Portugal causing nervousness at every attack opportunity and it was until the minute 89 ′, when Dusan appeared again Tadic and sent a cross into the area for his teammate Aleksandr Mitrovic to finish off a header to give the ticket to Qatar 2022.
Portugal must seek their pass to the World Cup via playoffs
It seems that the classification to the Soccer World Cups by Portugal, it must be this way, after qualifying in 2014 and 2018 by the same route, after beating Sweden and Bosnia & Herzegovina , respect tively. Now, for the third consecutive time, those captained by Cristiano Ronaldo will have to look for their pass in the month of March to arrive when entering Qatar 2022.
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