Belgium 5-0 Estonia: Lukaku nets brace in big victory, Trossard on target

Romelu Lukaku showed no ill-effects from a lack of playing time this season as he hammered home two goals in as many minutes for Belgium as they beat Estonia 5-0 in their European Championship qualifier in Brussels on Tuesday.

Match Report

Veteran defender Jan Vertonghen, marking his 150th cap, put Belgium ahead after four minutes, getting a slight touch to head home a corner from Yannick Carrasco.

Leandro Trossard was allowed time to dribble across the edge of the penalty area before unleashing a strong right-footed shot into the top corner for Belgium to extend their lead in the 18th minute.

Estonia’s Henri Anier hit the woodwork in the 24th minute with a rare effort for the Baltic country, who have only one point from their five qualifiers.

Lukaku thrashed home his first of the night as he ran onto a defence splitting pass from the midfield in the 56th minute and then turned with his back to goal and hammered home his second with a typical target man’s effort in the 58th minute.

After Lukaku's brace, Belgium’s fifth goal came two minutes from the end from substitute Charles De Ketelaere who cleverly dribbled himself into position at the near post but his angled effort needed a slight deflection to go in.

Belgium’s win kept them top of Group F, on goal difference from Austria, who won away at Sweden. Both have 13 points from five matches in the tussle to qualify for the finals in Germany next year.

Line-ups

Belgium XI: Vertonghen, Lukaku, Casteels, Trossard, Carrasco, Castagne, Wout Faes, Mangala, Amadou Onana, Jérémy Doku, Arthur Theate

Subs: Thomas Kaminski, Sels, Batshuayi, Tielemans, Dodi Lukébakio, Openda, De Ketelaere, Olivier Deman, Ameen Al-Dakhil, Hugo Siquet, Johan Bakayoko, Zeno Debast

Estonia XI: Henri Anier, Konstantin Vassiljev, Joonas Tamm, Henrik Ojamaa, Nikita Baranov, Karol Mets, Artur Pikk, Mattias Käit, Markus Poom, Karl Hein, Maksim Paskotsi

Subs: Ken Kallaste, Sergei Zenjov, Matvei Igonen, Märten Kuusk, Vlasiy Sinyavskiy, Rasmus Peetson, Martin Miller, Karl Andre Vallner, Erik Sorga, Tunjov, Alex Tamm, Rocco Robert Shein