‘Much better second half’

Josko Gvardiol continued his scoring streak to earn Croatia a 11 home draw with Portugal on Monday that allowed them to squeak into the Nations League quarterfinalsPortugal had already sealed top spot in Group A1 The draw allowed Croatia to finish one point above Scotland who continued their late surge with a 21 win over Poland in WarsawSpain beat Switzerland 32In Group A4 Spain already assured of qualification beat lastplaced Switzerland 32 in a match of penalty kicks in Tenerife Yeremi Pino a Canary Islander sent Spain ahead on home territory after 32 minutes after Pedrirsquos penalty was saved Joel Monteiro levelled for Switzerland but a few minutes later Bryan Gil stole the ball back to restore Spainrsquos lead Andi Zeqiri fired home from the spot after a foul by Fabian Ruiz in the 85th minute but Bryan Zaragoza won and converted a late penalty ensured Spain could finish a spectacular year on a highDenmark secured second place in the group with a 00 draw in SerbiaAlso Read Ronaldo scores 133rd goal for Portugal in 31 win over PolandIn Split Portugal took a 33rdminute lead when Joao Felix neatly finished a sharp counterattack Rafael Leao then missed the target when clean through With Scotland winning in Warsaw after a thirdminute goal from John McGinn set up by teenager Ben Doak Croatia were heading outGvardiol ghosting at the far post had a header on 62 minutes disallowed for offside He repeated the move three minutes later sneaking in unmarked and onside to squeeze a closerange shot through Jose SaGvardiol a defender has three goals in his last six Premier League games for Manchester City ldquoIt felt like two different games for usrdquo said GvardiolldquoIn the first half we seemed a bit tired and needed to make changes The second half was much better mdash we had more energy better control of the ball and created more chances and we managed to score a goalrdquo he addedPolandrsquos Piatkowski scoresAlmost simultaneously in Warsaw Kamil Piatkowski rocketed a cross shot into the top far corner of the Scottish goal to level for Poland In the 73rd minute in Split leftback Nuno Mendes nearly emulated Gvardiol for Portugal but goalie Dominik Livakovic blocked In Warsaw Andy Robertson headed home in added time to give Scotland a second win in four days but Croatia comfortably saw out the drawThis 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