The national team of Lithuania will be the opponent of Romania in Group C2 of the League of Nations in football, after defeating the team of Gibraltar with the score of 1-0 (0-0), on Thursday evening, in Faro (Portugal), in a play-off match for the League C of the competition, writes AGERPRES.
Gibraltar – Lithuania PHOTO: Facebook/LTUFutbolas
The goal of the match was scored by Armandas Kucys (60), and Gibraltar will play in League D.
Both teams had one player sent off, Gibraltar on goalkeeper Dayle Coleing (26), for a foul on Fedor Cernych, and the Baltics on Edvinas Girdvainis (71).
Lithuania, whose goalkeeper Edvinas Gertmonas (Cluj University) was a reserve, had two goals, through Gvidas Gineitis (58) and Fedor Cernych (69).
Group C2 will include Romania, Kosovo, Cyprus and Lithuania.
The Romanian team will meet Kosovo, away, on September 6, in its first match of the 2024-2025 edition of the League of Nations. The Tricolors will end the campaign with a home match, on November 18, against Cyprus.
Romania's match schedule established by UEFA is as follows:
Friday, September 6, 2024 (9:45 p.m.): Kosovo – Romania
Monday, September 9, 2024 (9:45 p.m.): Romania – Lithuania
Saturday, October 12, 2024 (9:45 p.m.): Cyprus – Romania
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 (9:45 p.m.): Lithuania – Romania
Friday, November 15, 2024 (9:45 p.m.): Romania – Kosovo
Monday, November 18, 2024 (9:45 p.m.): Romania – Cyprus
According to the regulations, first place means direct promotion to League B of the next edition of the League of Nations, while second place leads to the barrier for promotion. At the same time, the 4th place leads to direct relegation to League D, while the 3rd position keeps the national team in the same value echelon of the competition, League C, for the next edition as well.
The UEFA Nations League 2024-2025 will also have an impact on the European qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. The best 4 group winners in the Nations League, excluding the teams that finished in the top two places in the groups in the qualifiers, will participate in the play-off matches for World Cup, along with all 12 second place teams from the classic preliminaries.
Thus, there will be four play-offs, each with 4 teams, which will be contested in a semi-final-final system, and the last 4 European national teams participating in the WC will be determined from the United States of America, Mexico and Canada.
