BELGIUM is going to a major tournament for the third straight time Nike Air Max 270 Wit Oranje Aanbieding , and this once-in-a-lifetime team could thrive all the way to the World Cup final.
With two games to spare, Belgium became the first European nation to qualify for next year’s tournament in Russia. And it did so on Sunday by the measure that has marked so many great teams: winning ugly.
For 70 minutes, Greece held the star-studded Belgium team in check with a strategy that can only be called super defensive — a tactic which the Belgians deployed to near perfection whenever they considered themselves an underdog. Then, two sparks of brilliance, capped with a glancing header from Romelu Lukaku Dames Nike Air Max 270 Light Grijs Zwart Sale , led the way to a 2-1 victory.
With that, there is no more hiding from its role as a World Cup favorite. “Of course we go to Russia to win,” Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois told the Het Laastste Nieuws daily. “You always want to be the best.”
The Chelsea goalkeeper, like so many others on the squad, has a proven record at club level. But internationally Kopen Heren Nike Air Max 270 Elemental Goud Zwart , he and others have underperformed.
The creative quartet of Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne, Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, Napoli’s Dries Mertens and Manchester United’s Lukaku, along with defensive mainstays Courtois, Spurs’ Jan Vertonghen and City’s Vincent Kompany Kopen Heren Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit KPU Blauw , reached the last 8 in Brazil three years ago. But back then, the excuse was still youth and inexperience as they lost to Argentina.
The 2016 European Championship in France was the next test, but