Summary of Man City players’ performances on national team: Dias and Cancelo shine; Ake has a problem

City’s Nathan Ake featured as the Netherlands secured a dramatic 1-0 win away to Greece thanks to a 93rd minute penalty to provide a huge boost to their EURO 2024 qualifying hopes.

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Nathan Ake, again not at his best in Oranje and was exposed in the second half a little. Good in the air but needs to be better on the ball.

Elsewhere, Joao Cancelo scored and Ruben Dias featured as Portugal – who had already qualified for next summer’s Germany showpiece – maintained their dominant stranglehold on Group J with a 5-0 win away to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Ruben Dias was solid in defense as he has 6 recoveries, won 4 duels, making 2 clearances and 1 tackle. He also played 2 long balls.

Joao Cancelo looked to attack at every possible opportunity and scored a thumping goal to make it 4-0 in the first half. He also played an incredible 13 long balls.

Bernardo Silva was an unused substitute.

Meanwhile the qualifier between Belgium and Sweden, where Jeremy Doku was on the bench for the hosts, was abandoned at half-time with the score tied at 1-1 due to a serious security incident in Brussels which occurred shortly before the game.

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