Istanbul / Ahmed Hassan / Anatolia

In the ninth round of qualifying for the Euro 2024 finals in Germany, the “substitutes” of the Spanish national team easily beat their Cypriot hosts by three goals to one on Thursday.

La Roja national team coach Luis de la Fuente entered the tournament with a completely different form from previous matches, after ensuring the team’s qualification for the final, he deliberately brought in a large number of substitutes and rested his key players.

Lamin Yamal, Mikel Oyazabal and Joselu scored hat-tricks in the 5th, 22nd and 28th minutes respectively to give Spain the lead before Costas Bliss scored the only goal in the 75th minute.

Spain topped Group A with 18 points after beating Scotland, level with hosts Georgia on two goals in the same round.

In the sixth group of the qualifiers, the Azerbaijan national team scored a great victory over the Swedish guests with a clean score scored by Emin Makhmudov (two goals) in the 3rd and 89th minutes and Rinat Dadasov in the sixth minute.

Austria beat Estonia away from home thanks to two unanswered goals by Konrad Leimer and Philipp Lenhardt in the 26th and 40th minutes respectively.

Austria leads the group with 19 points, Belgium is second with 17 points, Sweden (7 points), Azerbaijan (7 points) and Estonia (1 point) are in third place.

In Group Seven, Hungary qualified for the Euro 2024 finals by drawing with hosts Bulgaria after Spaz Deliv and Kirill Despotov scored for the hosts in the 24th and 79th minutes respectively.

Martin Adam and Bulgarian Alex Petkov scored through mistakes for the visitors in the 10th minute, 7+90 minutes of the match.

Hungary leads the ranking with 15 points, followed by Serbia (13 points), Montenegro (11 points), Lithuania (6 points) and Bulgaria (3 points).

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