Football | Switzerland’s Renato Steffen scored a hat trick in 25 minutes

Switzerland won a convincing 5–0 victory over Belarus in the European Championship qualifiers.

Swiss striker Renato Steffen was the star of the first European football qualifying matches played on Saturday night.

The 31-year-old Steffen completed a hat-trick as Switzerland claimed a 5-0 away victory over Belarus in the match played in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Belarus has to play its home matches on a neutral ground and behind closed doors, because the country supports Russia, which is waging a bloody and full-scale war of aggression in Ukraine.

“I’m proud, but the first and most important thing is that we won as a team. If after that I manage to crown my performance, then it feels all the better,” Steffen commented to the Swiss magazine Tages-Anzeiger by.

Steffen needed only 25 minutes for his hits. He struck for the first time in the 4th minute, continued his scoring streak in the 17th minute and completed his hat-trick in the 29th minute.

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To four The last time Steffen scored for Switzerland was in October 2021 against Lithuania. In his first 29 caps, he spent 1,152 minutes scoring one goal. The 30th international match was a huge success.

The striker from Lugano already became the third player to score a hat-trick in the European Championship qualifiers.

of Denmark Rasmus Højlund scored a hat trick in Finland’s net in Thursday’s 3–1 home win and Belgium Romelu Lukaku scored all the goals in a 3–0 away win in Sweden on Friday.

Belarus and Switzerland were eliminated from the European Championships in Group I, where Israel and Kosovo played a 1-1 draw early Saturday evening.

During the early evening, two other matches were also played. In Group A, Scotland beat Cyprus at home 3–0, and in Group D, Turkey beat Armenia away 2–1.

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