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Germany win in Nations League as 10-man Dutch rescue a Point

Deniz Undav scored twice as Germany defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 to edge nearer to the Nations League quarter-finals on Friday as 10-man Netherlands rescued a 1-1 attract Hungary.

Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz laid on a backheel for Undav’s opener after half-hour in Zenica.

The Stuttgart ahead then made it two when he turned in Maximilian Mittlestaedt’s cross.

Bosnia hit again with 20 minutes remaining when 38-year-old former Manchester Metropolis ahead Edin Dzeko headed in from a nook for his 67th worldwide aim.

The win strikes Germany on to seven factors from three video games, two forward of the Netherlands with the 2 heavyweights dealing with one another on Monday in Munich.

On the Puskas Enviornment in Budapest, Hungary and Dutch gamers, in addition to spectators, noticed a minute’s silence in reminiscence of former Netherlands nice Johan Neeskens who handed away this week on the age of 73.

Hungary took the lead within the thirty second minute when Roland Sallai scored with a close-range end after being teed up by Zsolt Nagy.

It was the right begin to the sport for Hungarian coach Marco Rossi who was taking cost for the 69th time.

Hungary had been taking a look at defeating the Dutch within the groups’ first assembly since they had been mauled 8-1 in 2013.

That prospect brightened when Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk was red-carded within the 79th minute.

Nevertheless, 4 minutes later, the Dutch made a mockery of their one-man drawback when Denzel Dumfries headed in a free-kick from Cody Gakpo.

Wales squandered a 2-0 lead to attract 2-2 in Iceland.

Brennan Johnson and Harry Wilson gave Craig Bellamy’s crew a cushty 2-0 lead on the break however Iceland hit again within the second half.

Substitute Logi Tomasson reduce the deficit within the 69th minute earlier than Wales goalkeeper Danny Ward allowed a 72nd minute drive from the identical participant to bounce off his elbow and into the online.

In the identical group, Turkey defeated Montenegro 1-0.

Elsewhere on Friday, Sweden let slip a 2-0 lead to attract 2-2 in Slovakia, a outcome which left each groups on seven factors from three video games however with the Swedes forward on aim distinction of their group.

Yasin Ayari and Ken Sema had Sweden 2-0 up after 32 minutes in Bratislava however Slovakia battled again for some extent due to a brace from David Strelec.

Tomas Chory scored twice to present the Czech Republic a 2-0 house win over Albania.

The Czechs are degree on six factors with pool leaders Georgia who misplaced 1-0 to Ukraine.

AFP

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