Winner: Erling Haaland
Is he really human? The tall Norwegian missed two penalties in the encounter with Israel, yet finished with a hat-trick. He has just crossed the symbolic 50-goal mark for the national team and has done it in just 46 games.
No player in history has ever achieved this as quickly, not even the greatest football icons like Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar or Kane. That's not the end of the enumeration, as Haaland has been ruthlessly effective in recent times both for Norway and Manchester City. He has scored at least one goal in as many as 17 of his last 19 matches, reaching five in a single game on one occasion.
Losers: San Marino
Two defeats in two matches played come as no surprise to San Marino. But during the October training camp, the national team is in triple pain. Firstly, they have conceded as many as 14 goals in two matches. They have not received such a severe beating for four years. Secondly, they failed to score any goals, although there were opportunities to do so. In the match against Cyprus, the hosts could have come away with a 1-1 draw, but comically, Filippo Berardi put himself in the goal instead of the ball and fell over painfully.
And this is not the end of San Marino's misery: the paradox of the current UEFA qualification system means that the team needs to only lose by a few goals to Romania in November and 'help' their rivals to finish second in the group. This gives San Marino a chance of bargaining through the Nations League.
Winners: Faroe Islands
Another tiny national team continues to amaze the football world. There are fewer men capable of playing football in the Faroe Islands than in a single district of Prague, and yet on Sunday the Faroe Islanders achieved the impossible, beating the Czech national team 2-1 at home.
Admittedly, the visitors were painfully ineffective and gave away the decisive goal with a mistake, but the Faroe Islands' success cannot be taken away. This is their third win in a row (they have never achieved this in their history), having previously beaten Gibraltar and Montenegro. In three games, they have scored seven goals, losing only one. Yesterday, they basically condemned the Czechs to the play-offs, and climbed to third place themselves. The only downside: their chances of making the play-offs remain slim.
Loser: Lucas Bergvall
The 2-0 defeat to Switzerland ends the Swedes' World Cup dreams, even though their rivals did not play great. Apart from the avalanche of criticism raining down on selector Jon Dahl Tomasson, this match will weigh on the Tottenham playmaker. He had a chance to give the Swedes the lead going into the changing room, but before the open goal, he shamefully tripped over the ball instead of seizing the opportunity.
Winner: Ruben Neves
Also close to ignominy was Portugal, as they struggled to break Ireland's resistance on Saturday night. The big favourites at the Estadio Jose Alvalade beat their heads against a wall by the name of Caoimhin Kelleher, who even stopped Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty kick with a quarter of an hour to go.
And then in a flash, Ruben Neves, who had never scored a goal in the national colours before, opened the score. In the final seconds of the match, he gave Portugal a much-needed 1-0 victory before revealing his calf and showing a tattoo with his friend, the tragically deceased Diogo Jota. Nothing more needs to be said.
Losers: Serbia
Books can be written about Serbian-Albanian relations; one cannot escape the geopolitics of this clash. It was all the more important for the Serbs to beat a rival they were playing against for only the second time on home soil and wanted to bounce back from the defeat a decade ago. Nothing came of it, failing to score even once despite the advantage, and Rey Manaj's goal sealed Albania's win. Not only that, but it also sealed the fate of the Serbs, who may now be setting their sights on the 2030 World Cup.