While Belgium, Portugal, France and Switzerland easily and unconstrainedly confirmed their status as favorites, Belarus once again stumbled on Luxembourg, and Bosnia and Herzegovina too early believed in the victory over Cyprus.
The fact that for all Europe a sensation, for Belarusians - a sad reality. Luxembourg has always been and, as it turned out, to this day remains one of the most uncomfortable rivals for Belarus. Outsiders of group A met 10 times already: on the account of Belarusians 4 wins, 4 draws and now 2 losses.
It's interesting that the only goal scored in the 60th minute by Da Moto interrupted the nine-match losing lot of Luxembourgers. By the way, of these nine matches in only one Luxembourg could play a draw - against. Belarus in the first round of the qualifying tournament of the 2018 World Cup!.
And in the confrontation of the middle peers of Group H, we saw a classic example of how one team achieved rapid success and too soon believed in their victory, and the second decided to fight to the end and succeeded.
Two goals scored by guests before the break, did not break the hosts, who in the second half answered three and outflanked the opponent in the standings.
Luxembourg - Belarus 1: 0 Goal: Yes Mota, 60.
Luxembourg: Joubert-Martins (Ostrowski, 78), Jans, Philipps, Janisch-Rodriguez (Turpel, 54), Skenderovich, Holter (In. Til, 67), O. Til - Joaquim, Yes Mota.
Belarus: Chernik-Politevich (Savitsky, 46), Sivakov, Filipenko-Aliseko, Dragun, Maevsky (Saroka, 77), Balanovich, Matveichik-Gordeychuk (Polyakov, 62), Laptev.
Warnings: Rodriguez, Philipps - Balanovich, Dragoon, Polyakov.
Cyprus - Bosnia and Herzegovina 3: 2 Goals: Christofi, 65, Laban, 67, Sotiriu, 80 - Shunich, 33, Vichcha, 44.
Cyprus: Panayi - Demetriou, Catelaris, Merkis, Margasa (Castunos, 72) - Artimatas, Laban - Christofi (Alexander, 80), Kiriyaku, Charalambidis (Abraham, 46) - Sotiriou.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Begovic - Bichakchich, Shunich, Vranjesh, Kolashinac - Pyanich, Tsimirot (Zhazhalo, 75) - Vishcha (Milichevich, 64), Ibishevich (Hodzic, 80), Lulich - Dzeko.
Warnings: Artimatas, Avraham - Pyanich, Hodzic.