House E will reach a boiling point on Wednesday (19:00, Sport1) with the final round of the close group stage. The reason for the big drama is following Belgium’s victory tonight (Saturday) 0:2 over Romania, which raised them to second place in the home table, with 3 points – just like Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.
The Red Devils stunned the Romanians after just one minute and 12 seconds (the third fastest goal in the history of the tournament), when Romelu Lukaku set up an outstanding goal for Yuri Tillmans. The striker left a ball for the midfielder on the edge of the box, and Tillmans fired the quick advantage into the Romanian net. The tempo dropped very quickly later with many ball losses in the center of the field, with the exception of a good chance by Dodi Lucbakio, Belgium mainly held the ball and built on the speed on the wings.
It was the Romanians who started the second half better with Dennis Mann’s threats towards the goal of Quan Castells, but on the other side, Kevin de Brauna was stopped by Florin Nietzsche and Lukaku continued to miss. The moment of redemption had already arrived for the Belgian striker in the 63rd minute when he subdued Nitz, but at the moment of De Brauna’s pass he was in the gap and the goal was disallowed for the third time for him in the current tournament. In the 80th minute, nothing prevented Belgium from celebrating when a long ball from Castells reached de Brauna, and the captain finished from close range to start the celebrations.
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