The forward of the Hungarian national team of Ferencváros scored once against the Serbians and Lithuanians, while the Norwegian forward scored a double in Cyprus, but the Portuguese star’s double-double put him in front of them.
Barnabás Varga, who previously played for Austria’s Mattersburg and SV Lafnitz, as well as Gyirmó and Paks, can have an amazing year in 2023.
In Paks, he became the top scorer of the 2022/2023 season with 26 goals, and in the summer he moved to Ferencváros, where he produced amazing numbers, as he scored 17 goals in 18 matches, and scored 9 times in 10 matches in international cups. He made his debut in the Hungarian national team in March, scoring 4 goals in 7 matches.
By the way, Ronaldo managed to achieve the 153rd and 154th doubles of his career, but he is still behind the Argentine world champion Lionel Messi on the all-time list, as the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner has 156 doubles. Another statistical data related to the Portuguese national team is that they already led 5-0 in the first half as guests of the Bosnians, which is the largest halftime advantage in their 102-year history.
In the European Championship qualifiers of the past few days, two big streaks were interrupted:
the defending European champion Italians suffered defeat in an away continental qualifier for the first time since September 2006, after losing 3-1 to the English in London on Tuesday night, thus ending their streak of 22 guest matches without losing – 17 wins, five draws – ended;
And Croatia lost a European qualifier at home for the first time, of which they had played 37 at home so far and achieved 9 draws in addition to 28 successes, until the Turks triumphed 1-0 in Eszék last Thursday.
Harry Kane, who scored twice in the English national team that defeated the Italians, became the most successful player in the history of the Three Lions team at Wembley Stadium: Bobby Charlton held the record for most English goals scored in the legendary arena with 23, now Kane has 24.
Gerson Rodrigues, the striker of the Luxembourg team, handed over an almost 80-year-old record to the past, who scored the 17th goal of his national team career against Iceland, making him the most successful football player of his country. The previous record stood for 78 years and belonged to Léon Mart, who scored 16 goals between 1933 and 1945.
San Marino was able to score again after 16 consecutive matches, since Alessandro Golinucci scored for the mini-state for the first time since September 5, 2021, in a 2-1 home match against Denmark. During the more than two-year “bareback”, San Marino went 0-65 against rivals.
Denmark has a new national team record: Simon Kjaer played the 130th national team match of his career, surpassing Peter Schmeichel, who played 129 times in the Danish national team, on the all-time list.
