Georgia surprises Portugal and the football world
In the match of group F, Georgia won with 2:0 (1:0).
Portugal, who had already secured a place in the Round of 16, started the game with eight more starting players compared to the previous match.
Already in the second minute, Georgia took the lead. Antoniu Silva made a mistake in the pass, the ball was won by Georges Mikautadze, who passed it further to the left to Hvic Kvaracheli. Kvarachelia ran into the Portuguese penalty area with the ball on the left side and sent the ball on the ground into the far corner of the goal – 1:0 in favor of Georgia.
In the 17th minute, the goalkeeper of the Georgian national team, Giorgi Mamardashvili, saved the ball after a free kick by Cristiano Ronaldo, as the ball flew under the crossbar.
In the 28th minute, after Franciskus Konceisaan’s kick from the penalty area, the ball just misses the right post of the goal.
In the 35th minute, Ronaldo had a shot from the corner of the goalkeeper’s area, but the ball was blocked by Giorgi Gvelesiani.
In the 53rd minute, Antoniu Silva brought down Otara Kiteishvili with a leg kick in his own penalty area, and after watching the video replay, the referee awarded a penalty kick.
Mikautadze sent the ball from the 11-meter mark into the lower right corner of the goal. Djogu Košta jumped in the same direction, but did not reach the ball – 2:0 in favor of Georgia.
After playing 61 minutes, Georgian player Luka Lochoshvili was injured and had to leave the field.
Georgian Anzor Mekvabishvili received a yellow card four minutes after entering the field, and he will have to miss the next game.
The Portuguese national team attacked, but the ball did not fly into the Georgian goal.
In the only match between them in 2008, Portugal had defeated Georgia 2-0 in a test match.
The Czech Republic quickly finds itself in the minority and loses to Turkey
Turkey defeated the Czech Republic 2:1 (0:0), playing in the minority since the 20th minute.
Already in the 20th minute, the Czechs remained in the minority, when striker Antoníns Baraks earned the second yellow card within ten minutes.
In the 34th minute, Czech forward Patrik Šik earned a yellow card while on the bench. He would have to miss the match if the Czech Republic reached the round of 16.
In the 45th minute, David Jurasek had a shot from the penalty area, but the ball flew right into the middle of the goal, where it was caught by the Turkish national team goalkeeper Mert Ginok.
In the 51st minute, Kenan Yildiz’s shot in the lower left corner of the goal was blocked by the goalkeeper of the Czech national team, Jindrzih Stanek, but as the attack continued, Ismail Jiksek passed to the left in the penalty area to Hakan Calhanoglu, who sent the ball on the ground into the right corner of the goal – 1:0.
In the 55th minute, the injured Czech goalkeeper Jindržich Stanek was replaced by Matejs Kovarž.
In the 66th minute, Tomasz Soucek sent the ball rebounding to him into the goal, making it 1:1, after which Calhanoglu received a yellow card, who will have to miss the next game.
However, Turkey won, with Cenk Tosun scoring on a counterattack in the fourth minute of stoppage time after a pass from Orkun Kekçi.
Both teams earned a total of 18 yellow cards and two red cards in this match, with Tomas Hori getting a red card after the end of the match.
In the duel between the Czech Republic and Turkey, both teams had won after 11 games with five wins before Wednesday’s match. The goal ratio was better for the Czech Republic (21:15). The last time the two teams met was in 2022, when Turkey prevailed 2:1 in a test match.
Georgia won 2-0 in the parallel match between Portugal and Georgia in Gelsenkirchen.
In Group F, Portugal finished first with six points, Turkey was second with six points, Georgia collected four points, and the Czech Republic – one point.
Switzerland will meet Italy and Germany and Denmark on June 29, England and Slovakia and Spain and Georgia on June 30, France and Belgium and Portugal and Slovenia on July 1 and Romania and the Netherlands and Austria and Turkey on July 2.
24 national teams, divided into six subgroups, participate in the final tournament of the European Championship. The winners of the first two places in each subgroup and the four best national teams that finished in third place entered the elimination tournament.
The 2024 European Championship will be held in ten German cities from June 14 to July 14. The new European champion will be determined at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
The current European champion is Italy, who in 2021 beat England in the final in London in penalty kicks.
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