Israel<\/a> with 10 players.<\/p>\nAustria regained \u2060the lead in the 90th minute through \u200bPhillipp \u200bMwene, who scored via Paul \u200bWanner\u2019s cross. \u200cSasa Kalajdzic \u200badded \u200ba third in stoppage time with a close-range finish.<\/p>\n
The Republic of Ireland slipped to a 1-0 defeat away at Kosovo in their Nations League opener in Pristina. The buildup had been overshadowed by the controversy around upcoming fixtures against Israel, which the Ireland manager, Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson, had admitted many of his squad members were uncomfortable about playing.<\/p>\n
Chiedozie Ogbene had fired an early chance over before Kosovo responded to finish the first half strongly. The home side saw two shots cleared off the line before the Ireland goalkeeper Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher clawed away a header from Vedat Muriqi as Hallgrimsson\u2019s side got to the break on level terms.<\/p>\n
Ireland, who are scheduled to play Israel in Hungary on Sunday, showed plenty of spirit as they dug in for the second half, but were eventually undone with seven minutes left when the Kosovo captain, Vedat Muriqi, bundled the ball in from close range.<\/p>\n
In a Group A4 match, Norway\u2019s \u200cErling Haaland struck twice, including a 74th-minute winner, to edge his team past Denmark 3-2 in Oslo and earn their first competitive win over their opponents.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt tasted sweet. It feels great to beat our neighbours,\u201d the captain, Martin \u00d8degaard, said. \u201cThere is a lot we could have done better, but \u200beven when we were put under pressure, we found a way back and responded.\u201d<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland scores to put Norway 2-0 ahead against Denmark Photograph: Ulrik Pedersen\/Zuma Press Wire\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
The Danes had powered back from a two-goal deficit and levelled the game on the hour after first-half goals from Oscar Bobb and Haaland had put the hosts 2-0 up. Norway were also left with 10 men in stoppage time after David M\u00f8ller Wolfe was sent off following a second booking.<\/p>\n
There was drama in Belgrade where visitors Greece came from a goal down to snatch a 2-1 victory over Serbia thanks to Tasos Douvikas\u2019s winner deep in stoppage time. Malta came from behind to beat Andorra 2-1 in their League D clash, while Lithuania won 2-0 in Lichtenstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s forward Saied Abu Farchi was \u2060sent off for celebrating his goal against Austria in \u2060his side\u2019s 3-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781748","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=781748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}