Ronaldo scores as Portugal defeat Hungary in UEFA World Cup qualifier

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Portugal earned a 3-2 triumph astatine Hungary successful their UEFA World Cup qualifier connected Tuesday, with Joao Cancelo scoring a precocious winner, 2 minutes aft the hosts had equalised, to enactment them successful power astatine the apical of Group F with 2 distant wins from two.

The visitors came from down to pb acknowledgment to Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty, but astir fto the 3 points gaffe erstwhile conceding precocious connected earlier Cancelo’s extremity rescued the triumph to adhd to their 5-0 occurrence successful Armenia connected Saturday.

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Hungary took the pb successful the 21st infinitesimal erstwhile Barnabas Varga met Zsolt Nagy’s inch-perfect transverse into the container with a header which went successful disconnected the upright, earlier Portugal drew level 15 minutes aboriginal done Bernardo Silva’s close-range effort.

Portugal went successful beforehand aft Varga handballed a Ronaldo flick-on successful the area, and the 40-year-old buried his spot footwear into the bottommost corner.

The extremity took Ronaldo level with Guatemala’s Carlos Ruiz arsenic the joint-top scorer successful World Cup qualifiers connected 39. He besides extended his planetary grounds to 141 successful 223 games.

Hungary, who drew 2-2 distant to Ireland connected Saturday, looked to person done the aforesaid successful Budapest erstwhile Varga headed his 2nd of the nighttime six minutes from time, but the hosts were incapable to clasp on.

Two minutes later, Cancelo struck a first-time changeable from extracurricular the country aft a Bernardo Silva walk to permission Portugal apical of the radical standings connected six points.

“It’s ne'er casual erstwhile you autumn behind, and we showed a batch of character, conscionable similar against Germany and Spain [in the Nations League] successful June erstwhile we were losing but managed to travel back,” said Silva.

“Today, erstwhile again against a pugnacious team, we managed to travel back. Even erstwhile they scored aft 80-something minutes, we inactive managed to people the winner.”

Armenia, who bushed Ireland 2-1 earlier connected Tuesday, are 2nd with 3 points, with Hungary and Ireland connected 1 point.

Norway registry double-digit triumph against Moldova

Norway’s Erling Haaland scored 5 goals and substitute Thelo Aasgaard added 4 much arsenic they hammered hapless Moldova 11-1 to instrumentality different immense measurement towards qualifying for the World Cup for the archetypal clip since 1998.

With 5 games played, the Norwegians apical Group I connected 15 points, six up of second-placed Italy, who person a crippled successful hand. Moldova’s worst decision leaves them bottommost of the radical with nary points.

The radical winners suffice automatically for adjacent year’s World Cup, portion the runners-up spell into a playoff.

Haaland’s beautifully cushioned walk teed up Felix Horn Myhre to interruption the scoring deadlock with a sixth-minute tap-in, and Martin Odegaard should person made it 2 a infinitesimal later, but helium blazed the shot implicit from adjacent range.

The Norwegians did not person to hold agelong for different extremity arsenic Haaland rattled location successful the 11th minute, snapping up a escaped shot successful the container and sweeping it into the acold corner.

Haaland slotted location his 2nd to circular disconnected a Norwegian counterattack successful the 36th infinitesimal and completed his hat-trick earlier halftime.

Moldova keeper Cristian Avram forced him to spell wide, but Haaland recovered the shot and chipped it brilliantly successful astatine the acold station to marque it 4-0.

Odegaard netted a 5th successful first-half stoppage time, and 7 minutes into the 2nd half, Haaland struck again, scoring his 4th with a header arsenic Norway ran riot successful beforehand of their location fans.

Substitute Aasgaard struck twice, either broadside of an ain extremity by Leo Ostigard, and helium got his hat-trick from the punishment spot successful the 79th infinitesimal earlier Haaland added the 10th, his ninth extremity successful 5 World Cup qualifiers.

Aasgaard completed the rout with a flicked decorativeness successful second-half stoppage clip to implicit a uncommon double-digit borderline of victory.

England predominate Serbia

England took a immense measurement towards automatic qualification for the World Cup, with skipper Harry Kane paving the mode for an awesome 5-0 triumph distant to main Group K rivals, Serbia.

Criticised for a laboured location triumph implicit Andorra astatine the weekend, England produced their champion show nether Thomas Tuchel to instrumentality afloat vantage of a timid Serbia show and support their 100 percent grounds successful the radical without conceding a goal.

Kane headed England’s opener from Declan Rice’s country successful the 33rd minute, and minutes aboriginal Noni Madueke scored his archetypal elder planetary extremity to treble the lead.

Seven minutes aft the break, it was Ezri Konsa’s crook to unfastened his England relationship and enactment the visitors successful cruise power with a close-range finish.

Serbia’s nighttime went from atrocious to worse erstwhile Nikola Milenkovic was sent disconnected successful the 73rd infinitesimal for a foul connected Kane, and from Rice’s resulting escaped kick, Marc Guehi arrived to marque it 4-0.

Substitute Marcus Rashford rounded it disconnected with a precocious punishment aft a foul connected Ollie Watkins as England moved to 15 points from 5 games and a seven-point pb implicit Albania.

Serbia’s archetypal decision successful the radical leaves them 3rd connected 7 points, with a crippled successful hand.

The radical winners suffice for adjacent year’s finals, with the runners-up going into the playoffs.