Euro qualifying: Borges Sanches and Ranos go home empty-handed

Borussia players Yvandro Borges Sanches (Luxembourg) and Grant-Leon Ranos (Armenia) both suffered defeats in European Championship qualification on Monday.

Luxembourg

Yvandro Borges Sanches (photo: imago images / Schmit), who played the full 90 minutes, and Borussia U19 goalkeeper Tiago Pereira Cardoso, who sat on the bench, suffered a heavy defeat in their sixth Euro qualification game with Luxembourg. The visitors were hammered 9-0 in Portugal, with Goncalo Inacio (12’, 45+4’), Goncalo Ramos (18’, 34’), Diogo Jota (57’, 77’), Ricardo Horta (67’), Bruno Fernandes (83’) and Joao Felix (88’) all finding the back of the net for the Group J leaders. Luxembourg sit third with ten points behind Slovakia (13).

Armenia

Grant-Leon Ranos’ Armenia team put up a great fight against 2022 World Cup third-placed side Croatia, but in the end suffered a narrow 1-0 loss. The Borussia attacker was again included in the starting line-up and played 68 minutes. Andrej Kramaric scored the winning goal in the 13th minute. After five matches, Armenia sit third in Group D with seven points, behind second-placed Turkey (10).

Germany U20

After having made a brief debut in the 1-1 draw against Italy, Lukas Ullrich earned his first start for the German U20 side during their 1-1 friendly stalemate in Poland. The hosts went ahead in Legnica through Tomasz Pienko in the 36th minute, while Germany equalised through Ben Bobzien on the stroke of half time.

Italy U19

After last week’s 3-2 victory over Northern Ireland, Fabio Chiarodia’s Italian U19 side lost 2-0 to the Netherlands in another friendly. Antoni Milambo in the 31st minute and Jaden Slory in the 58th both struck for the Oranje. Chiarodia came on at half time with the score at 1-0.