FIFA World Cup: Belgium undergo shock defeat to Egypt in remaining warm-up recreation

Belgium’s preparations for the World Cup took a success on Friday as Roberto Martinez’s males suffered a 2-1 defeat to Egypt of their remaining warm-up recreation earlier than the match. Mostafa Mohamed and Mahmoud Trezeguet scored the objectives for the African workforce.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 19, 2022 08:44 IST

Martinez’ males suffered a shock defeat on Friday (Courtesy: Reuters)

By India Today Web Desk: Belgium’s preparations for the World Cup got a jolt on Friday as Roberto Martinez’ males suffered a shock 2-1 defeat to Egypt.

The African workforce had narrowly missed out on qualification for the match in Qatar had been out on a mission towards Belgium, who’re thought of to be one of many favourites to win the World Cup.

Mostafa Mohamed and Mahmoud Trezeguet had been on the scoresheet for Egypt, whereas Lois Openda scored the comfort objective for Belgium within the recreation.

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Egypt took the lead within the thirty third minute after a mistake from Belgium’s midfield maestro Kevin de Bruyne. The Manchester City midfielder was dispossessed simply exterior his personal penalty field and Mohamed made no mistake to present Egypt the lead within the match.

While Martinez’s males had higher possession than their opponents within the recreation, they could not make a lot out of it as Egypt held on to the lead heading into half-time.

The recreation restarted with a bang as an excellent go from Salah was transformed by Trezeguet to present Egypt a two-goal cushion within the forty sixth minute.

Belgium had been then compelled to throw every thing on the African workforce they usually bought one again within the 76th minute. Openda was arrange by Yannick Carrasco because the European workforce clawed their method again into the sport.

Carrasco then had an enormous likelihood to stage issues up 4 minutes later. But the Atletico Madrid man missed his alternative because the rating remained 2-1.

Belgium made a number of switches to seize the equalizer within the recreation however they lacked any type of chemistry or rhythm throughout the recreation towards Egypt.

Salah and his males had been capable of maintain to win the sport in the long run because the warm-up video games got here to a detailed earlier than the World Cup begins on Sunday.

Belgium will probably be taking up Canada of their first match within the match subsequent Wednesday.

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Nov 19, 2022