It’s 200 and won for Portugal legend Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo marked his 200th international appearance with a winner as Portugal beat Iceland 10 in Euro 2024 qualifying on Tuesday while Erling Haaland netted twice for NorwayElsewhere Belgium brushed aside the Thibaut Courtois captaincy row by seeing off Estonia thanks to a Romelu Lukaku double in Tallinn and Moldova came from two goals down to stun PolandPortugal appeared to be heading towards a drab goalless draw in Reykjavik until Willum Thor Willumsson was sent off late on Ronaldo struggled for much of the match but repaid coach Roberto Martinezrsquos faith by slotting home from Goncalo Inaciorsquos knockdown in the 89th minute ldquoIt was a nice script for Ronaldo There was incredible celebration the first menrsquos player ever in world football to get 200 international gamesrdquo Martinez told uefacomThe former Real Madrid and Manchester United starrsquos recordextending 123rd international goal was initially ruled out for offside before being awarded by VAR ldquoFor me itrsquos an unbelievable achievement itrsquos amazingrdquo said the 38yearold Ronaldo ldquoAnd of course to score the winning goal itrsquos even more specialrdquo Portugal remain two points clear of Slovakia at the top of Group J after a fourth straight winLukaku stars for BelgiumWith Courtois back home Lukaku was named skipper again and responded by scoring two goals in a 30 success which helped Belgium stay second in Group FAustria remained three points clear in first place albeit having played a game more than Belgium as Christoph Baumgartner scored twice in the last 10 minutes to clinch a 20 win over Sweden Norwayrsquos Haaland two goodHaalandrsquos brace helped Norway bounce back from their dramatic defeat to Scotland at the weekend with a 31 victory against CyprusThat kept their slim hopes of reaching a first major tournament since 2000 alive although they only sit third in Group A and just one point ahead of Spain having played two games more than the threetime champions Poland fell to fourth place in Group E after blowing a twogoal lead to lose 32 to Moldova in ChisinauMoldova who had won only one of their last 43 Euro and World Cup qualifying matches appeared to have been safely dispatched by firsthalf goals from Arkadiusz Milik and Robert LewandowskiBut Ion Nicolaescursquos double left Poland reeling and Vladyslav Baboglo who plays his club football for Ukrainian team Oleksandriya headed past Wojciech Szczesny to score a dramatic 85thminute winnerAlso Read Records all EuroundThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever