Euro 2024 qualifying roundup: Portugal, England shine; Denmark shocked

Portugal celebrate one of their goals. Photo by Getty Images. 

The international break is still ongoing this week but the qualifying matches that have been played so far give us a picture of what countries are in pole position to make it to the European Championship in 2024 in Germany.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored two braces in two matches to help Portugal record two wins in two matches against Liechtenstein and Luxemburg in Group J. The 38-year-old keeps showing why he is one of the greatest footballers ever as he keeps performing at the highest stage and breaking records at an age when most of his mates have retired. Portugal now have six points with 10 goals

England also recorded two victories home and away, overcoming Italy on Thursday and Ukraine on Sunday evening with 2-1 and 2-0 scorelines respectively. Harry Kane scored in both matches to cement his position as the greatest goal scorer for England while Bukayo Saka continued to show why he is called the “Star boy”. England top their Group C with defending champions Italy in second after recovering from the England loss to beat Malta 2-0.

2020 semi-finalists Denmark were stunned by lowly-ranked Kazakhstan when they come back from two goals behind to score three goals in the final 17 minutes to steal the victory from the Danes. Denmark find themselves in second behind Slovenia in Group H who won both their games against San Marino and Kazakhstan.

The biggest result of the weekend was Iceland’s 7-0 thumping of Liechtenstein at Rheinpark Stadion with Aron Gunnarsson hitting a hat-trick in just 35 minutes. The result, which is the biggest in the nation’s history, puts Iceland in third on the Group J table.

Here are the full results

Thursday, March 23

Kazakhstan 1 - 3 Slovenia

Denmark 3- 1 Finland

Portugal 4-0 Liechtenstein

San Marino 0-2 Northern Ireland

North Macedonia 2-1 Malta

Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-0 Iceland

Slovakia 0-0 Luxembourg

Italy 1-2 England

Bulgaria 0-1 Montenegro

Gibraltar 0-3 Greece

Moldova 1-1 Faroe Islands

Serbia 2-0 Lithuania

Austria 4-1 Azerbaijan

Sweden 0-3 Belgium

Czech Republic 3-1 Poland

France 4-0 Netherlands

Scotland 3-0 Cyprus

Israel 1-1 Kosovo

Armenia 1-2 Turkey

Belarus 0-5 Switzerland

Saturday, March 25

Spain 3-0 Norway

Croatia 1-1 Wales

Andorra 0-2 Romania

Sunday, March 26

Kazakhstan 3-2 Denmark

England 2-0 Ukraine

Liechtenstein 0-7 Iceland

Slovenia 2-0 San Marino

Slovakia 2-0 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Northern Ireland 0-1 Finland

Luxembourg 0-6 Portugal

Malta 0-2 Italy.

More matches are going to be played today.