Spain Overturns England and Croatia Dominates Czech Republic in UEFA Nations League
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The English team paid dearly for the missed penalty by their captain Harry Kane, suffering a bitter loss to their Spanish visitors with a score of 2 - 3 at Wembley Stadium in London, for Group 1 of Level 1 in the UEFA Nations League. Spain extended their historic series of unbeaten matches within 90 minutes to 39 consecutive games.
The world champions started the match strongly as the promising star Lamine Yamal capitalized on a serious error by defender Marc Guehi to open the scoring for Spain in the second minute. Despite the repeated dangerous Spanish attacks through Ferran Torres, England managed to turn the game around before the end of the first half thanks to a goal by Anthony Gordon following a pass from Jude Bellingham, then Kane's header that hit Marc Cucurella and went into the net.
At the beginning of the second half, the referee awarded a penalty to England after Rodri's foul on Bellingham, but Kane slipped during the execution and the ball hit the crossbar. The Spanish team immediately took advantage of this decisive moment, with Alex Baena equalizing the score, before Michael Oyarzabal completed the Spanish hat-trick with a brilliant touch over goalkeeper James Trafford, securing the victory for coach Luis de la Fuente's squad. In the same level, Croatia defeated Czech Republic with two goals to one.
In Level 2, Switzerland defeated North Macedonia with a clean sheet of three goals, while Albania beat Belarus with two goals to none in Level 3, as did Slovakia against Moldova.
