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Arda G\u00fcler and Robert Lewandowski,<\/strong> with an assist and a goal in the victories of T\u00fcrkiye and Poland against Romania (1-0) and Albania (2-1), <\/strong>respectively, have been the highlight of the semifinals of the European playoff for the 2026 World Cup where Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Kosovo <\/strong>The finals for next Tuesday have also advanced, where the eight qualifiers will play for a place at the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n The rhythm imposed in the game and a measured assist from Arda Guler <\/strong>which culminated with Ferdi Kadioglu’s goal, gave Turkey the victory against Romania (1-0) that places it one step away from the final phase of the 2026 World Cup, with the last obstacle being Kosovo, winner in its duel against Slovakia (3-4).<\/p>\n Kosovo recovered from two adverse scores<\/strong>reacted in Bratislava and beat Slovakia 3-4 at home to reach the final of the European play-off for the 2026 World Cup, in which they will face Turkey next Tuesday, also as a visitor, again against the odds, one step away from a historic feat.<\/p>\n And Robert Lewandowski’s header<\/strong> who jumped more than anyone else on a ball in the air for 1-1<\/strong>and a great goal from outside the area by Piotr Zielinski<\/strong>came to Poland’s rescue in the second half to keep it alive on the last occasion to reach the 2026 World Cup, whose final will be away against Sweden.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sweden woke Ukraine from sleep<\/strong> to compete in the World Cup with the United States, Mexico and Canada, a great showcase for the situation they have experienced since the invasion of Russia, and in the semi-finals of the play-offs they won in the Ukrainian exile in Valencia with a triplet of Arsenal player Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/strong> which will allow it to compete with Poland for a last ticket to this summer’s event.<\/p>\n The Swedish team, which had not won a game in the qualifying phase and had only been able to add two draws, ceded the initiative and territorial dominance to Ukraine but had the accurate pupil of Mikel Arteta,<\/strong> for which this summer the Gunners paid almost seventy million and which demonstrated once again his scoring instinct.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Italy dreams of being in the World Cup, <\/strong>with returning to the most important tournament on the planet, the one that has not disputed since 2014,<\/strong> after the victory that was achieved this Thursday against Northern Ireland (2-0)<\/strong> in the semi-final of the play-off, thanks to the so many from Tonali and Kean <\/strong>in the second half they released all the pressure accumulated in recent days.<\/p>\n Italy’s challenge was more mental than footballing despite the problems that the ‘Azzurra’ still present in their way of playing, too much gripped by recent failures, with too much pressure for a possible new elimination that would leave them without the World Cup for the third consecutive edition. But He passed the first exam. It came out reinforced<\/strong>more in terms of trust than tactics.<\/p>\n Denmark eliminated North Macedonia in ten minutes <\/strong>at the start of the second half to sign a resounding 4-0 victory<\/strong> which will allow them to play for a place in the World Cup in five days against the Czech Republic or Ireland.<\/p>\n The match It was not so easy for Brian Riemer’s team,<\/strong> who aspires to play his third World Cup in a row. He was not comfortable in the first half, but the inspiration of Damsgaard and Isaksen <\/strong>It was enough to overcome a rival who, after conceding a goal, dissolved like a sugar cube.<\/p>\n Finally, Bosnia and Czechia reached the finals <\/strong>after overcome Wales and Ireland <\/strong>in their respective penalty shoot-outs after reaching the end of extra time with two ties, 1-1 <\/strong>in the match played in Cardiff, and 2-2 in the match that took place at the Fortuna Arena in Prague.<\/p>\n Poland – Sweden<\/p>\n T\u00fcrkiye-Kosovo<\/p>\n Italy – Bosnia<\/p>\n Denmark – Czechia<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arda G\u00fcler and Robert Lewandowski, with an assist and a goal in the victories of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Its main leader is Suecia<\/h2>\n
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