Norway and Haaland warn Portugal. Klopp and Xavi stall at the premiere

ANDthis evening there were two more relevant international baptisms, by German coach Jürgen Klopp and Spanish coach Xavi Hernández, in charge of the selections of Germany and the Netherlands, respectively, which tied 1-1.

Norway, which benefited from Erling Haaland's gulp vein to beat neighbouring Denmark in Oslo, won Denmark.

The powerful spearhead won at 18 and 75 minutes after Oscar Bobb opened the countdown at 14, in a game in which Benfica's Norwegian Fredrik Aursnes and FC Porto's Danish Victor Froholdt held their respective selections, while the advanced Benfiquist Andreas Schjelderup was an alternate used in the hosts.

Despite having suffered two goals in the initial phase of the match, Denmark did not rest until it was tied, thanks to the midfielders Mikkel Damsgaard, at 25 minutes, on the exemplary marking of a direct freeman, and the advanced Rasmus Hojlund, at 60, but it was no longer time to capitalise on the expulsion of the Norwegian defense David Wolfe, at 90+3, to match again.

A confrontation between the Netherlands and Germany would be the strong dish of any football menu in the last decades of the 20th century, but today the two selections far from that glorious past. Today's meeting in Amsterdam just didn't end as usual in those days – with Germanic victory – because Cody Gakpo marked off hours for the Dutch.

The straight shot of the advance, at 90+2 minutes, restored justice to the marker, which had been inaugurated by Germany at 32, through the middle Felix Nmecha, in the face of the failure of Dutch players, outraged because the opponent took advantage of the injury of the advanced Brian Brobbey and the hesitation of the hosts to put himself to the advantage.

The Netherlands, which exchanged Ronald Koeman with Xavi Hernández, and Germany, which replaced Julian Nagelsmann with Jürgen Klopp, second Greece in Group A2's classification, following the triumph achieved by the Hellenics in Belgrade by 2-1 over Serbia, which reached the interval in advantage.

The average Andrija Zivkovic, former Benfica player, inaugurated the scorer at four minutes, but the visitors turned the result around, with goals from the advanced Christos Tzolis, at 74, after assistance from the advanced Benfiquist Vangelis Pavlidis, and Anastasios Douvikas, at 90+5.

Like Pavlidis, the best scorer of the Portuguese League, with eight goals, also the sportsman defense Georgios Vagiannidis was the holder of the Greek selection, while Fotis Ioannidis, advanced from the ‘lions’, entered the field at 63 minutes, in time to participate in the turnaround in the Serbian capital.

In the League of Nations B, Austria and Kosovo entered to win in Group 3, in the receptions to Israel (3-1) and the Republic of Ireland (1-0) respectively, while in the ‘Red Lantern’ League D Malta and Lithuania assumed command of their groupings by winning Andorra (2-1) and Liechtenstein (2-0).