2023-04-30 19:29:01
EURO-2024 QUALIFICATIONS For their final meeting in these qualifiers, the Luxembourgers fell heavily in Portugal (36-18).
Four days after showing a very good face against North Macedonia, the Roud Léiwen wanted to confirm and return just as good a copy against Portugal, an opponent “still a level above”, according to captain Tommy Wirtz who was living his last match with Luxembourg. But in Coimbra, Maik Handschke’s band was no match for the ogre of group 1 (36-18).
If they had started the game well (6-5, 10th) unlike all their previous meetings (except the one against the North Macedonians), the players from the Grand Duchy then experienced a huge air hole, not scoring for nearly 16 minutes and conceding, during this time, a terrible 8-0. Irreversible against a nation of such a level.
Despite a small improvement at the end of the period, Ben Weyer, Raphaël Guden and others joined the locker room ten units behind (18-8, 30th). After the break, the Lusitanians continued to go it alone to win a sixth victory in as many days (36-18, 60th), thus qualifying for Euro-2024 (from January 10 to 28 in Germany). For its part, Luxembourg ends this campaign with six defeats.
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