World Cup Qualifiers 2022: Slovakia – Slovenia 2: 2 – SPORT.sk

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At the Anton Malatinský Stadium in Trnava, Miha Zajc opened the scoring in the 18th minute after a nice action by Andraž Šporar. The Slovaks equalized in the second half of the penalty thanks to Ondrej Dud, when after the second yellow card Miha Blažič had to leave the field prematurely. However, the guests immediately took the lead again after the head of Mihu Mevlja, in the 74th minute the home team leveled again thanks to Dávid Strelc.

The fourth draw was born in the eighth match, the Slovaks have only won over the Slovenes so far.

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After the initial “knocking” minutes, Bero tried it first, but Oblak didn’t have much to do with his attempt. It was played mainly among the sixteen, both teams tried for a gradual combination, but their efforts were thwarted by frequent inaccuracies. After one of them, Hamšík lost the ball in the middle of the field and the guests made a quick break. Sporar skillfully ran into the free space and found Zajc in the penalty area with a great pass. He opened the score with a gentle header in the native movement of the Native. The Slovenians calmed down and tried it in the vicinity of the home sixteen on one-touch bumpers, they succeeded here and there. In the 27th minute, after an individual Maka action, Haraslín penetrated, and Blažič fouled him on the sixth line. The Finnish referee ordered a penalty at first, but after a VAR hit it was just a direct kick. The home team pushed the opponent in the end. In the 35th minute, Bero penetrated, but his return pass was not read by Hamšík. The captain of the Slovaks could equalize in the 43rd minute, after the action Maka gave him Almási in the second wave, but his bomb from the first great shot went Oblak to the corner. At the set time, after another break in the sixteenth guests, Haraslín’s shot was pushed to the crossbar by Oblak.

The Slovaks entered the second half without Hamšík, who was replaced by Duda. Škriniar made a run for the goal 52 minutes into the game, but the home team’s far left defense managed to sort the situation out in the end. In the 55th minute, after a series of blocked home shots, the referee first whistled the offside, but then got into the VAR action, which revealed the hand of the Slovenian player and resulted in a red card for Blažič and a converted Dudu penalty – 1: 1. However, the Slovak joy of the equalization did not last long and the guests led again in the 62nd minute. After the corner of Iličič, Mevlja pushed his head in the jump. The Slovaks nailed the opponent to his sixteen, who in turn waited for the chances of the breaks. In the 71st minute, Maka and Bera Suslov and Strelec came in. Strelec equalized after three minutes, when he uncompromisingly cleaned the ball to the left post after the visitors’ defense turned it towards him. The pressure of the home team continued, the substitute Jirka fired high above. The Slovenians still resisted, the Cloud destroyed Dud’s shot on the ground. The score did not change even in the five-minute set time.

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