Doumbia comes out of the bank in Italy's guild, France smiles and Gyokeres shines

ANDthis Monday was another night of the League of Nations phase, with results for all tastes. Starting with group A1, the selection of Italy, again oriented by Roberto Mancini, reached the first victory and then a win, by 4-1, at home in Turkey. France has already achieved a late triumph in Belgium.

Let us begin with the match that was played at Bursa Buyukşehir Belediye Stadyumu in the Turkish city of Bursa. With former Benfica Orkun Kokçu and former Sporting Merih Demiral in the initial eleven, the Turks played a first part to forget, suffering three goals in less than half an hour.

The azzurra squad show began at the 9th minute, this after, following a corner kick, the central Alessandro Bastoni threw to the bottom of the nets in Altay Bayindir's guard.

Davide Frattesi extended the advantage of the Italians to 22 minutes, before Francesco Pio Esposito met Michael Kayode in the Turkish area to sign the third of the visitors on top of the 27th minute.

Baris Yilmaz relaunched the match with a straight shot at 47 minutes, but three minutes later, at 50′, Francesco Pio Esposito fixed the final result in Turkey with a nice shot inside the area. Shortly thereafter, sportsman Issa Doumbia would be launched in the field by Roberto Mancini.

In the other game of group A1 which was held on the night of Monday, France, which had won in the premiere of the era of Zinédine Zidane, achieved a sweaty triumph, by a ball to zero, on the way home from Belgium. The French were superior during the match, but only managed to break the Belgian resistance at the last breath. Michael Olise scored the only attempt at King Baldwin Stadium in Brussels on top of the 88th minute.

On the Belgian side, it highlights the fact that Dodi Lukebakio, Benfica, was launched at 63 minutes. In the time he was in the field, the eagles' advance had a flagrant occasion to mark at 73 minutes, but ran into a great defense of Maignan. Zeno Debast has not been used.

Accounts made, France follows in the leadership of the six-point classification table, plus three more than Belgium and Italy. Turkey has not yet scored and is the last of the group.

Gyokeres smiled at Bednarek and Kiwir

In the League B of this League of Nations, Sweden expanded its invincibility series after winning Poland by 3-1 at the Strawberry Arena in the Swedish city of Solna.

With the former Sporting Viktor Gyokeres holder in the formation of the house and the Polish Jan Bednarek and Jakub Kiwior, FC Porto headquarters, on the defensive axis of the visitor set, the Swedish goal scored the inaugural goal at eight minutes, with Captain Victor Lindelof turning his head towards Benjamin Nygren, who headed for the bottom of the goal.

The goal suffered seemed to awaken Poland, which tied before the break through Szymanski (43 minutes). Sweden reacted well in the second part and, after an excellent move by Viktor Gyokeres, Yasin Ayari reassigned the Swedes to win. To close the accounts in Solna, the Arsenal's advance shot from first to last try of the match to 72′.

Sweden added the second consecutive victory in the League of Nations and isolated itself in command of the group with six points, two more than Bosnia that tonight won in Romania by 4-2.

In this League B, also highlights Trubin who defended the goal of Ukraine in the visit to Georgia, on the second day of the League of Nations Group B2, in a game that ended without goals. If, on the one hand, the guardian of Benfica was evidenced with various defenses, Sudakov was not even summoned and saw the game of the bench.