A big clash between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi was expected, and it was seen - a rather boring duel between Portugal and Argentina at "Old Trafford" in which the goal had to wait until the 91st minute.
And it was scored by the 21-year-old striker of Lorient, Rafael Guerreiro, in stoppage time on a pass from Ricardo Quaresma, thus stealing the show from Ronaldo and Messi, who, perhaps surprisingly, only spent 45 minutes on the field.
Selectors Fernando Santos and Gerardo Martino were apparently not impressed with the announcements that this is another clash between the two best players on the planet...
"What I wanted to see - I saw. We didn't excel, it was a real competitive match and I'm glad we won," said Santos, the former coach of Greece.
And at "Balaidos" in Vigo, the current and former world champions - Germany and Spain - met.
And there was a goal in the finish, and it was the work of Toni Kroos, so the duel of fairly combined teams belonged to the "Manšaft".
By the way, this is Vicente del Bosque's first defeat at home since he was the coach of the "red fury".
Scotland had big plans against England in the island classic, but it seems that this is some new, powerful Albion, so there was no dilemma at "Celtic Park" in Glasgow.
Roy Hodgson's team won 3:1, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Wayne Rooney scored twice and brought the sixth consecutive victory...
It is Albion's biggest streak of triumphs since 2006 - when they won eight times in a row.
After the duel with France on Saturday, Albania showed that it is a serious team against Italy, but had to settle for a minimal defeat in Genoa.
The only goal for "Ferraris" was scored by Stefano Okaka in the 82nd minute with the help of the opposing player Hamdi Salihi, so the coach of "Azure" Antonio Conte has reason to believe in better days of Italian football, because he gave a chance to Antonelli, Moretti, De Lisvestri, Perino , Bertolaci, Okaki, Gabjadini...
After the debacle against Denmark in the qualifiers, Serbia changed their coach, Dik Advokat was replaced by Radovan Ćurčić, and that shock therapy paid off in Greece - Radosav Petrović's header and Nemanja Gudelj's projectile from over 30 meters brought the Eagles a triumph against Helena.
"Credit to coach Ćurčić and my team. This looked much better and more serious," said Serbian captain Bane Ivanovic.
In Ljubljana, Colombia was better than the combined team of Slovenia, and the only goal was scored by Borussia striker Adrijan Ramos in the 43rd minute after Juan Quadrado and James Rodríguez made a stoppage time.
The Republic of Ireland outclassed the United States of America (4:1), while Switzerland avoided defeat in Wroclaw against Poland (87:2) with Fabian Frey's goal in the 2th minute.
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