Belgium He didn’t have an easy game, but he won with the slightest difference on Canadameeting corresponding to the Group F, held this Wednesday at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, where the archer shone Thibaut Courtois when recording a penalty.
The only goal of the match was the work of Michy Batshuayi, in front of Turkish Fenerbahceat minute 44, after a first half dominated by the Canadians.
With this result, Belgium adds its first three points and dominates the Group Fafter the goalless draw between Morocco and Croatia; while, C.anada is out of points on the first day of the sector.
The Canadian team started like a gale the game and within the first 10 minutes he stepped on the Belgian area in danger. At 11 o’clock’, Tajon Buchanan fired a shot that ricocheted off the hand of Yannick Carrasco and the Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe scored a penalty, after reviewing play in the VAR.
Yannick Carrasco deflected a Tajon Buchanan shot with his hand in the 11th minute.
Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe reviewed the game in VAR and decreed the maximum penalty.
The Canadian figure Alphonse Daviesa player from Bayern Munich, took the ball, placed it in the penalty spot and took a deep breath to face one of the best goalkeepers in the world such as Thibaut Courtois, Goalkeeper of Real Madrid.
Alphonso Davies, Bayern Munich player, received the maximum sentence, but missed the great opportunity to put his team in front.
And the mileage Belgian goalkeeper (2 meters high) leaned to his right to save a punch Davies gave him wrapped in cellophane, bow and card.
Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois leaned to his right and saved his team.
After stopping Courteousthe second penalty saved in the World Cup, and the cries of the Spanish coach Robert Martinez, the belgians came Ahmad bin Ali Stadium and they tried to level the proceedings of the meeting in front of some Canadians thrown to kill or be killed without measuring the consequences.
Thibaut Courtois brought his team into the game with some shouting.
Canada, first place in the concacaf, did not lower the intensity, sought to injure the Red Devils in a nice home-and-away match with Courtois as the great figure of the Europeans in the first half.
Axel Witsel took on Atiba Hutchinson, but the Zambian referee didn’t have the courage to score the second penalty of the match, nor to review the game in VAR.
Without inferiority complex, those led by john shepherd they scared the Red Devils again in the 38th minute, when Axel Witsell down Atiba Hutchinson in the Belgian zone, but the The referee did not score a penalty or review the game in VAR.
Referee Janny Sikazwe did not score a penalty bigger than the stadium.
But, “The goals you don’t score, they will score for you”, said the footballer. And at 43′, a shot from 70 meters came to the fields of Michy Batshuayiwho took out a left-footed shot, despite the better rating of two defenders, and left without having the possibility of milan borjan basically.
After the break, the Canadians have regained control of the meeting in front a crouching, patient Belgian team, aware of their firepower with their great figures like Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard.
Belgium was able to seal the match with a second goal, but the counterattacks ordered, above all, by De Bruyne, art.e remained an approximation, due to poor control of his teammates or a Canadian saving leg.
Kevin De Bruyne commanded the Belgian counterattacks in the second half.
In stretching at home, the The Canadian team blamed the great physical exhaustion, reduce the intensity and The dangerous arrivals as part of Courtois have been spaced out, despite playing, almost always, in three quarters of the field.
Cyle Larin had a chance to equalise, but his header was weak and in the hands of the Belgian keeper.
The next meeting of Belgium will be against Morocco on Sunday, November 27, the same day they will collide Croatia and Canada
Case
Group F / Date 1
Belgium 1-0 Canada
Stadium: Ahmad bin Ali Stadium
Referee: Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)
Goals
1-0 (44′).- Michy Batshuayi (44′)
Compositions
Belgium
Thibaut Courtois
Toby Alderweireld
Jean Vertonghen
Leandre Dendoncker
Axel Witsell
your tiemans
(Amadou Onana, 45′) (Yellow, 56′)
Yannick Carrasco (Yellow, 9′)
(Thomas Meunier, 45′) (Yellow, 53′)
Timothy Castagne
Michy Batshuayi
(Lois Openda, 78′)
Eden Hazard
(Leandro Trossard, 62′)
Kevin De Bruyne
Technical Director: Roberto Martinez
Canada
milan borjan
Steven Vitoria
kamal miller
Alistair Johnston (Yellow, 83′)
Stephen Eustaquio
(Jonathan Osorio, 81′)
Atiba Hutchinson
(Ismael Koné, 58′)
Alphonso Davies (Yellow, 81′)
richie laryea
(Sam Adekugbe, 74′)
jonathan david
Junior Hoilet
(Cyle Larin, 58′)
Tajon Buchanan
(Liam Miller, 81′)
TD: John Herdman
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