Hugo Ekitike made his first senior start for France as they defeated Azerbaijan 3-0.<\/p>\n
The forward claimed an assist with a contributing touch to Kylian Mbappe\u2019s run and finish to open the scoring, and later struck the post.<\/p>\n
Ekitike was withdrawn with 10 minutes to go, while Ibrahima Konate was an unused substitute for Les Bleus.<\/p>\n
Florian Wirtz played the whole match for Germany as they eased to a 4-0 win over 10-man Luxembourg. He was denied by the woodwork, too, seeing a second-half free-kick strike the post.<\/p>\n
In the same group, Conor Bradley\u2019s Northern Ireland prevailed 2-0 at home to Slovakia. The Reds full-back captained his country and featured for all but the final moments of stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Alexander Isak also wore the armband and played throughout Sweden\u2019s 2-0 loss against Switzerland, himself hitting the post in the first half.<\/p>\n
In a friendly played in Miami overnight, Alexis Mac Allister came on for the last 12 minutes for Argentina, who beat Venezuela 1-0.<\/p>\n
At U21 level, goalkeeper Armin Pecsi played the whole game for Hungary as they drew 3-3 against Ukraine in European Championship qualifying.<\/p>\n
And in the same preliminaries, Trent Kone-Doherty was introduced from the bench in the second half for the Republic of Ireland in a 2-2 draw with Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike made his first senior start for France as they defeated Azerbaijan 3-0. The forward claimed an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[607,608,49,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,50,599,604,600,51,47,52,48,605],"class_list":["post-192362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}