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Goals and Highlights: Iceland 1-1 Albania in UEFA Nations League 2022
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Thank you for watching the Iceland vs Albania Nations League match, in a match with few chances, both teams come away with a point, be sure to visit VAVEL so you don't miss all the action of this great tournament.
90´
The match ends in a one-goal draw.
90´
Add 3 minutes.
89´
Olafsson receives a yellow card.
85´
Iceland came through the middle but the defense prevented the shot.
79´
Albania substitution, Ramadani replaces Abrashi.
72´
The game is still open for both.
61´
Change of Iceland, Anderson and Haraldsson for Thorsteinsson and Helgason.
54´
Albania's 9th shot but failed to hit the target.
48´
Goooooooool Iceland! Thorsteinsson controls and inside the box shoots to beat the goalkeeper.
46´
The second half begins.
45´
The first half ends with Albania in the lead.
37´
Albania continues to put on pressure with no response from Iceland.
29´
Goooooooool for Albania! Seferi takes advantage of a defensive mistake and scores the lead.
22´
Johannesson shoots but the ball goes wide.
16´
Albania play in Iceland's area and get a corner kick.
13´
Iceland tried on the right but could not find a finisher.
7´
Albania presses and gets two corner kicks.
0´
The match begins.
Albania starting XI
This is how the visiting team comes out:
Iceland starting XI
This is how the home team comes out:
Albania with absences of Broja, Uzun and Bares
"I have tried to make a group of 24 or 25 players to be at a high level and we have succeeded, I can say that the lack of these players is felt, but we have a good group to replace them."
Iceland expects good entry
The stadium entrance promises to be good:
Það er gaman að segja frá því að miðasalan á leik kvöldsins við Albaníu gengur bara prýðilega og útlit fyrir ágætis mætingu og góða stemmningu. ❤️
— Knattspyrnusambandið (@footballiceland) June 6, 2022
Til þeirra sem eru enn að hugsa málið, miðasalan er á https://t.co/iwyH4UEb7x (veljið "Íþróttir" í valmyndinni). 💪⚽️🇮🇸 pic.twitter.com/JO4KvyVlqW
There will be no relegation in the group
As is well known, the group stage matches in Russia will not be played, as decided by UEFA, and therefore no team will be relegated from the group in Division C.
Albania's DT spoke
Coach Reja said that there are no favorite teams in this group and Albania will play their chances to win the group. "Since I started my walk here in the match with Iceland, we had a qualitative increase, but also in results, we are here to achieve something better."
Observation to Iceland
Iceland is a strong team, despite the developments it is a physically very strong team. "The main thing is the fight in the air and we have to be careful in every detail, we will try to do our best, but there is no favorite on the field, we have to do our best."
We continue
Thank you for following the Nations League game Iceland vs Albania, this afternoon both teams are looking to position themselves as the leader of the group and thus face the next games without so much pressure in their quest to be a competitive team.
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Watch out for this player from Albania
Sokol Cikalleshi, an experienced 31-year-old attacker currently plays for Konyaspor of the Turkish Super League, the player has excelled in previous editions of the Nations League and in 3 games played has scored four times, he is certainly a player who is given this tournament and in case of being in the starting eleven, the opponent should be very attentive.
Watch out for this player from Iceland
Albert Gudmundsson, 24 year old midfielder, this last season played for Genoa in Serie A, in his club he had little participation and could not get rid of relegation, however in his national team with 9 games in the playoffs he scored twice and assisted on one occasion, he will undoubtedly be the player who will lead the selection in the short term in the future.
Last alignment of Albania
Berisha, Hysaj, Djimsiti, Kumbulla, Ismajli, Balliu, Laci, Gjasula, Bare, Cikalleshi, Broja.
Latest Iceland roster
Rúnarsson, Magnússon, Grétarsson, Bjarnason, Sampsted, Haraldsson,Bjarnason,Helgason,Thorsteinsson, Gudjohnsen, Sigurdsson.
Background
Albania 4-2 Iceland Euro qualifiers
Iceland 1-0 Albania UEFA Euro Qualifiers
Iceland 2-1 Albania UEFA Euro Qualifiers
Albania 2-1 Iceland UEFA Playoffs
Albania 2-1 Iceland Friendly
Arbitration quartet
Center: Craig Pawson, Assistants: Lee Betts and Harry Lennard, Fourth official: John Bankes.
Albania wants to start off on the right foot
The competitive Albanian national team was only two points away from playing the UEFA playoff to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar, now they are looking to give a great Nations League to prepare their team for the following competitions such as the Euro qualifiers, their participation in the qualifiers was intermittent as they had no problems against the lower teams but when they faced powers like England and Poland, they could do little, This team had a disastrous Euro cup in 2016 and for the 2020 edition they could not qualify, they were not even close to compete against France and Turkey, for this edition of the Nations League, not having Russia in competition despite being in the group, leaves the dispute in only three teams and a bad day can make the difference, this team must forget the failures and start preparing with a new generation.
Iceland should remember its great tournaments
The Iceland national team had been surprising all of Europe since Euro 2016, it was so much the surprise for the results and the support of its fans that they became a trend for the way they cheered, for the qualifying round for Russia 2018, the team again surprised achieving the leadership of group I overcoming teams like Croatia and Turkey, and in the World Cup began the decline not getting the expected results, Now in this edition of the Nations League, Iceland has the opportunity to prepare a new generation to seek to position itself in the most competitive teams in Europe, now in this edition of the Nations League the team debuted with a draw against Israel and to take the lead must beat Albania, which has not debuted in this edition.
Nations League resumes action in league B group 2
Group two of League B is being played in an atypical way because the Russian national team is not in competition due to UEFA restrictions, this time we will see Iceland who already played in this edition of the Nations League against an Albania that has not debuted, this group is one of the most even in the competition and we can already outline the favorite.
Welcome
Good afternoon to all VAVEL readers! Welcome to the UEFA Nations League commentary of Iceland vs Albania. The match will take place at Laugardalsvollur Stadium at 2:45 PM ET.