Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was ripped out of the starting line-up against Celta Vigo, when Zinedine Zidane at the weekend returned as Real Madrid coach.
If it was lack of self-confidence that characterized the former Chelsea goalkeeper should be unsaid, but Thibaut Courtois fumbled around on Thursday and was the fault of a Russian scoring, since Belgium in the european championship qualifying, beating Russia 3-1.
A minute after that Youri Tielemans had brought Belgium ahead 1-0, went fold down for Courtois, as he driblede around in a private field.
A Russian player put pressure on Courtois so much so that the belgian keeper sent the ball to the feet of Denis Cheryshev, who pulled over and scored in an empty goal.
Thus was equalized to 1-1, after Tielemans with a flat end from the edge of the box after a quarter of an hour had brought the belgians to the front.
Chelsea-profile Eden Hazard took care, however, for the belgian 2-1-keeping, when he in the first half last minute scored on a penalty kick, which was committed against himself.
Hazard also secured finally the three belgian points and the good start to the european championship qualifying, when he from close range kicked off Belgium 3-1 shortly before the time.
Thus, Belgium has, like Kazakhstan and Cyprus three points after the first match in group I.
The same with the Netherlands in group C, after that Holland is flat beat Belarus 4-0.
Here was Holland’s Memphis Depay the great experience with two scores and two presentations to the target.
It was also two instances of inspiration, which was the difference between the two teams in the first half, also in Rotterdam featured a big blunder.
the Belarusian Igor Shitov had a terrible start to the showdown, when his negligence was the fault of the Dutch lead in the first minute.
Shitov would lay the ball back to his goalkeeper, but the ball was not enough speed, and Memphis Depay came from and got passed The goalie and brought the Netherlands in front 1-0.
the Lead was extended after a little over 20 minutes, when Depay neat played Georginio Wijnaldum free in the field, and Liverpool-player hammered the Netherlands 2-0.
Ten minutes after the break was Wijnaldum then felled in the box, and Depay put the subsequent penalty kick for 3-0.
Four minutes before time sent Depay so the ball is in the minds of Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk, who almost could not fail to increase to the final result 4-0.