Wirtz downs 🇨🇭, Uruguay frustrate 🏴 and more in pre-Cup friendlies | OneFootball

Several World Cup-winning national teams were already in action this Friday (27), packed with friendlies ahead of the tournament.

Two of them faced off in England versus Uruguay at Wembley.

The standout performer was Florian Wirtz.

Who did EVERYTHING to help Germany win a seven-goal thriller against Switzerland.

Check out a full roundup of the main matches below. 

🇬🇷 Greece 0 x 1 Paraguay 🇵🇾

Gustavo Gómez (Palmeiras), Junior Alonso (Atlético) and Bobadilla (São Paulo) started among the XI for La Albirroja. 

The only goal came seven minutes into the second half through Diego Gómez.

Mauricio, also from Palmeiras, came on shortly after, making his debut after being naturalized. 

🇩🇿 Algeria 7 x 0 Guatemala 🇬🇹

A future Argentina opponent at the World Cup, Algeria made light work of the Guatemalan national team.

Gouiri (twice), Mahrez, Abada, Aouar, Ghedjemis and Benbouali scored. 

🏴 England 1 x 1 Uruguay 🇺🇾

Tuchel called up more than 30 players and decided to take a look at several of them, fielding an alternate England side against La Celeste at Wembley.

Bielsa, meanwhile, included the “Brazilians” Varela (Flamengo), Piquerez (Palmeiras), Arrascaeta (Flamengo) and Canobbio (Fluminense) in the starting XI.

Piquerez was the first to leave the game after twisting his right ankle - causing concern for Verdão.

The opening half also saw Madueke go off with a possible injury.

And England were the better side - but without posing any real danger.

La Celeste came back better for the second half. But still without forcing Trafford into action.

Then came the first goal of the game. 

Back with the national team after four years, Ben White pounced on a rebound from Muslera - who had also been called up again - to score (81'). 

Bielsa made his final moves - Arrasca and Canobbio, for example, were taken off. 

The same Ben White strengthened his role as protagonist shortly afterward by conceding a penalty on Federico Viñas.

Which Valverde converted by beating debutant Trafford (94'). 

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There was still time for some pressure from La Celeste.

🇳🇱 Netherlands 2 x 1 Norway 🇳🇴

Without Haaland, it was Schjelderup who scored for Norway thanks to a brilliant solo goal (26'). 

Without Memphis, who watched the match only as a fan, the Dutch national team equalized through van Dijk (35'). 

The comeback - which sealed the result - came through Reijnders.

🇨🇭 Switzerland 3 x 4 Germany 🇩🇪

There was plenty of excitement already in the first half of the clash played at St. Jakob-Park.

Ndoye opened the scoring after a good move (17').  

Tah leveled it after a perfect cross from Wirtz (26').

Embolo - also with a header - put Switzerland back in front (41').

But Wirtz made the difference again by setting up Gnabry, who equalized once more before the break (47'). 

After two assists, Wirtz decided to get on the scoresheet himself.

And he did it in GREAT style (61'). 

Switzerland grabbed another equalizer through Joel Monteiro (79').

But there was a Wirtz on the other side. And he scored another one from the edge of the box (86').

🇪🇸 Spain 3 x 0 Serbia 🇷🇸

The clash between Spain and Serbia kicked off later (5pm Brasília time).;

And La Roja had no trouble getting the better of an opponent that is out of the World Cup. 

Special mention to Mikel Oyarzabal. The Real Sociedad star scored the first two.

He reached 24 goals for the Spanish national team, breaking into the Top 10 all-time scorers. 

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Osasuna's Victor Munoz completed the scoring in the second half. 

🇲🇦 Morocco x Ecuador 🇪🇨

One of Brazil's World Cup rivals, Morocco had Mohamed Ouahbi making his debut in charge.

And they faced an opponent featuring players who play in Brazil.

Such as Alan Franco and Minda (both from Atlético) and Plata (Flamengo), who all started. Preciado, another Atlético player, came off the bench.

Ecuador went ahead after Yeboah was picked out by Enner Valencia, combined with Plata and scored (48').

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Morocco had the chance to equalize soon after, but El Aynaoui missed the penalty.

It was up to El Aynaoui himself to make amends in stoppage time. Corner kick, and he scored after getting the better of Plata's marking (88').

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.

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