This afternoon, the men’s national team defeated Luxembourg 32-21 in the first group of qualifying for the European Championship 2024 in Germany, where they got practically a guaranteed place, having added this second victory, when they have to face, in March of the year Next, North Macedonia – beat Turkey and is the other undefeated counterpart in this pool, of which the first two were ranked – to determine the group’s classification.
Excellence Categories Among the formations, it soon appeared in the Luxembourg National Sports Center, where Portugal took eighth place in the EHF ranking, giving cards in the first half defense, where the size of the goals was not large, but the size of the goals reached the defense, starting with goalkeeper Gustavo Capedvil, to high levels.
Luxembourg, 28 in the hierarchy, also had in goalkeeper Chris Auger, 39, the main responsible for the goals of the Sea Champions no more. Thus, the interval was reached with a score of 5-14.
In the second half, Pedro Portela set the tone to wake up the Portuguese goals, followed by the brothers Martim and Francisco Costa, and it was the latter who cut the scoreboard in the first half. Lionel Fernandez, Victor Iturreza were both meticulously responding to the hosts’ attempts to respond, so in 12 minutes Portugal already had 22 goals and the Luxembourgers had not even reached the tenth place (9).
The home team got excited and reached the 5-0 partial to hit 20 goals, but the national team already had ten more. Diogo Branquino and Andre Gómez scored the last two Portuguese accounts, and Loic Kaisin closed the accounts of Luxembourg, who never threatened the supremacy of the Sea Champions.
Jan Hoffmann has scored the most goals for Luxembourg, with the same five goals that Victor Ituriza and Lionel Fernandez have scored for Portugal.
