Croatia, Germany and Netherlands Qualifies for Euro 2020 Tournament

The Netherlands, Germany and the football World Cup finalists Croatia has been included in the list of the big shots who now qualifies on Saturday for upcoming Euro 2020 football tournament. As all the above three teams blocked their places at the next summer's finals. Recently Austria National Football team also made it out to the multi-host tournament, which is going to start in Rome on June 12, 2020 as with 16 football teams are now assured of a place in the upcoming event in which 24-teams will take part and currently only four spots are available out of the main qualifying route. They are also going to include other fantasy names like the previous world champions like France, Spain, Italy and England with European champions Portugal which are only one win away from qualifying the tournament. Ronald Koeman's football team of Dutch needs just a point so as to qualify for their first ever major tournament since standing at the third spot at the 2014 Football World Cup and got what they needed in a game of goalless draw while playing with Northern Ireland at Belfast. However the Dutch team was far from the flamboyant outfit as they had very often thrilled their performance in Group C stage and was successful in surviving a huge scare when the star player Steven Davis smashed a first-half penalty high over the bar. The Dutch team over shadowed their possession over the ball and restricted the hosts from putting a single shot on target but failed to create much emphasis by themselves. Austria football team blocked their spot with a lead of 2-1 in a match to win over North Macedonia that restricted third-placed Slovenia team at bay despite of their 1-0 triumph over Latvia. They are now second in the Group G behind the Poland team, who had already qualified for going into this round of games but also maintained a three-point lead at the top of the group stage through their 2-1 win at Israel. In Saint Petersburg, the Hazard brother’s restricted Russian team as already-qualified Belgium team paced their 100 percent record of winning with a 4-1 win that put them at top spot in Group I.

By: Anuja Arora
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