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Several World Cup-winning national teams were already in action this Friday (27), packed with friendlies with an eye on the World Cup.
Two of them faced off in England versus Uruguay at Wembley.
The standout performer was Florian Wirtz.
Who did EVERYTHING to help Germany win a seven-goal thriller against Switzerland.
Check out a roundup of the main matches below.
🇬🇷 Greece 0 x 1 Paraguay 🇵🇾
Gustavo Gómez (Palmeiras), Junior Alonso (Atlético) and Bobadilla (São Paulo) started among the XI for La Albirroja.
The only goal came seven minutes into the second half through Diego Gómez.
Mauricio, also from Palmeiras, came on shortly after, making his debut after being naturalized.
🇩🇿 Algeria 7 x 0 Guatemala 🇬🇹
A future Argentina rival at the World Cup, Algeria made light work of the Guatemalan national team.
Gouiri (twice), Mahrez, Abada, Aouar, Ghedjemis and Benbouali scored.
🏴 England 1 x 1 Uruguay 🇺🇾
Tuchel called up more than 30 players and decided to take a look at several of them, fielding an alternative England side against La Celeste at Wembley.
Bielsa, meanwhile, included the "Brazilians" Varela (Flamengo), Piquerez (Palmeiras), Arrascaeta (Flamengo) and Canobbio (Fluminense) in the starting XI.
Piquerez was the first to leave the game after twisting his right ankle – causing concern for Verdão.
The first half also saw Madueke go off with a possible injury.
And England were the better side – but without creating any real danger.
La Celeste came back better in the second half. But still without making Trafford work.
Then came the first goal of the game.
Back with the national team after four years, Ben White pounced on a Muslera rebound – with the veteran keeper also back in the squad – to score (81').
Bielsa made his final changes – Arrasca and Canobbio went off, for example.
The same Ben White then underlined his starring role by conceding a penalty on Federico Viñas.
Which Valverde converted by beating debutant Trafford (94').
There was still time for some Celeste pressure.
🇳🇱 Netherlands 2 x 1 Norway 🇳🇴
Without Haaland, it was Schjelderup who scored for Norway thanks to a brilliant individual effort (26').
Without Memphis, who was only watching as a fan, the Dutch national team equalized through van Dijk (35').
The comeback – which decided the result – came through Reijnders.
🇨🇭 Switzerland 3 x 4 Germany 🇩🇪
There was already plenty of drama in the first half of the match played at St. Jakob-Park.
Ndoye opened the scoring after a good move (17').
Tah equalized after a perfect cross from Wirtz (26').
Embolo – also with a header – put Switzerland back in front (41').
But Wirtz made the difference again by setting up Gnabry, who leveled it once more before the break (47').
After two assists, Wirtz decided to get on the scoresheet himself.
And he did it in GREAT style (61').
Switzerland grabbed another equalizer through Joel Monteiro (79').
But there was a Wirtz on the other side. And he scored another one with a strike from the edge of the box (86').
⏱️ Still ongoing…
The match between Spain and Serbia kicked off later (5 pm Brasília time)
Morocco versus Ecuador, meanwhile, kicked off at 5:15 pm.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.
