Switzerland's Renato Steffen scored a hat-trick inside the opening half hour to lead his team to a 5-0 win over Belarus at the start of their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign on Saturday.
Captain Granit Xhaka and substitute Zeki Amdouni added the other goals in the Group I game behind closed doors in Serbia.
The 31-year-old's first goal came after four minutes with a tap-in at the back post, the second was a left-foot finish as goalkeeper Andrei Kudravets parried the ball to him in the 17th and the third was an easy touch from Ricardo Rodriguez’s cross. Belarus striker Vladimir Khvaschinski had hit the woodwork in the first minute at the Karadjordje Stadium but that was as much as the hosts offered as they were thoroughly outplayed.in the last 16 at the World Cup in Qatar in December.
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