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Francisco Trincao spared Cristiano Ronaldo’s blushes as Portugal arrange a Nations League semi-final with Germany because of an exhilarating 5-2 win over Denmark.
Portugal trailed 1-0 from the primary leg and missed a gilt-edged early probability to stage the tie when Ronaldo noticed a tame sixth-minute penalty saved.
The hosts did stage seven minutes earlier than half-time thanks a Joachim Andersen personal objective, just for Denmark to retake the lead within the tie by Rasmus Kristensen’s far-post header within the 56th minute.
Ronaldo obtained his objective 16 minutes later, changing on the rebound after Bruno Fernandes had hit the publish, however Christian Eriksen’s speedy response appeared set to ship Denmark into the final 4.
Nonetheless, substitute Trincao got here to the rescue when he lashed dwelling from simply contained in the field after Denmark didn’t defend an innocuous cross 4 minutes from the top of regular time. The Sporting Lisbon man was then the quickest to react a minute into additional time after Kasper Schmeichel was unable to deal with a Goncalo Ramos effort.
𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗔̃𝗢. 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗔̃𝗢. 🤩#FazHistória | #NationsLeague pic.twitter.com/Snzd7V8uY0
— Portugal (@selecaoportugal) March 23, 2025
His composed left-foot end lastly gave Portugal the lead within the tie, and Ramos made positive of development with 5 minutes of the additional half hour remaining.
In the meantime, Germany survived a second-half collapse in an unimaginable second leg with Italy, during which they benefited from a weird lack of focus from the Azzurri.
Germany led 2-1 from the primary leg at San Siro, however ended up clinging on to keep away from additional time after a frenetic 3-3 attract Dortmund.
That they had been in cruise management after Joshua Kimmich gave the hosts the lead from the spot after which laid on the help from a nook for Jamal Musiala to faucet into an unguarded internet following an unimaginable lack of focus from Italy, with goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and his teammates extra involved with arguing amongst themselves.
Tim Kleindiest made it 3-0 with a close-range header from an outstanding Kimmich cross simply earlier than half-time, however Moise Kean gave Italy hope with a second-half double.
There was late drama as Giacomo Raspadori transformed from the spot within the ninety fifth minute after Maximilian Mittelstadt was dominated to have dealt with within the space after a VAR examine, however Italy couldn’t discover a fourth to power additional time.
Spain and France arrange rematch with shootout wins
Spain got here from behind to beat France within the semi-final of Euro 2024, however Les Bleus may have an opportunity for a really small measure of revenge after they each received penalty shootouts to succeed in the final 4.
European champions Spain prevailed after one other fascinating encounter with the Netherlands, having left it late to assert a 2-2 draw within the first leg.
Mikel Oyarzabal’s eighth-minute penalty put La Roja in entrance, however Memphis Depay cancelled that effort out with a spot-kick of his personal 9 minutes into the second half.
Oyarzabal restored Spain’s lead 13 minutes later, the Actual Sociedad star nodding in after his preliminary dinked effort was stored out following an excellent run from Athletic Bilbao’s Nico Williams.
What are we going to do with these two?#VamosEspaña | #NationsLeague pic.twitter.com/blYapmecnE
— Spanish Soccer (@SpainIsFootball) March 23, 2025
Ian Maatsen lashed into the top-right nook to stage issues up once more and power additional time, however he was then outshone by Lamine Yamal, the 17-year-old Barca star demonstrating unimaginable management to gather the ball on the proper earlier than slicing in and arrowing a chic strike past Bart Verbruggen.
Xavi Simons transformed a second Netherlands penalty after he was introduced down by Spain goalkeeper Unai Simon to ship the sport to a shootout, during which misses from Noa Lang and Donyell Malen doomed the Oranje.
Spain overcame a miss from Yamal, with Pedri changing the decisive penalty after Malen’s failure.
France’s victory was much less chaotic, Didier Deschamps’ males erasing a 2-0 first-leg deficit of their tie with Croatia by targets from Michael Olise and Ousmane Dembele.
Each side missed two of their first 5 penalties within the shootout, however Dayot Upamecano received it for France after Josip Stanicic was denied by Mike Maignan.
