Topic: The UEFA Nations League 2020/2021 Discussion Thread - page 10. (Read 17145 times)

3:2 very nice game

edit  3: 3  very very nice game now

this is a really crazy match . but really good for the fans in the stadium. the fans will see a lot of goals today.

I'm surprised that Italy plays so well. The team is completely new after failing to qualify for the World Cup. Only 4 players are still with them from those games. Wilfried Gnonto in the forward with 18 years, this is also surprising. But they are doing well, or better than The team in last year.

2:2 and now a nice game

Results in Nations League are a turn off for most people. Very random!
Italy is leading with 2 goals vs Hungary right now with 20 minutes left in the game making Hungary comeback very hard.
I agree that Italy should try to win something and this league is an opportunity regarding how pity the performance of most teams..

England 1-2 Germany, things are going fast there, yet England odds is 15 right now

So, if the games end with the current score, then England will finish last in the group with 2 points, and a goal difference of 1-9   An excellent result for one of the favorites of the World Championship!
I wonder if FIFA has any ideas to raise the prestige of this tournament? It is absolute nonsense what is happening now with this tournament.

Wow, England managed to score one goal! The score is 1-2 at the moment.

England : Germany 0:2        70 minute

i didn't expect that. does England have a new coach soon? 20 minutes left to play. but who will score the next goal ?
the 90k fans are damn quiet today  

edit  1:2 72 Minute

edit : 2 :2    super goal !!

I m even surprised seeing Germany scored 2 over England, and Italy 2 against Hungary I never expected this to be so but was wondering how England was given 1 zeros from my observation they aren't making move,  Germany plays more confidently without being in any pressure.

60 minutes of time passed and Italy now took the lead with a score that was quite difficult for Hungary to follow.
2 Goals from young Italian players Raspadori and Dimarco seemed to be the end for Hungary because it was difficult for them to follow behind with their current condition even though the Hungarian resistance and the games they played were actually always entertaining.

Think we have to understand that beating England post Euro doesn't really say as much about the qualities of the winning team more than it does about the English. Dropping your most creative players by far (TAA and Maddison) despite not being able to create a single goal in what will now be 6 games?

Hungary a decent team and being in League A is testament but Italy, while having a somewhat barren streak themselves, remember came on the back on an incredible run of form, and with youngsters lighting up Serie A.

Scores right now with half an hour to go, not a surprise given this week's results.

I had no doubt that Italy would beat Hungary today, but I didn't risk betting on them to win because there's a lot of unpredictability in the Nations League in recent matches... Although the odds on Italy's win were over 2... Of course, the game is not over yet, but it seems to me that Hungary have no chance left, maybe if only by one goal... Now it's nice to see Italy at the top of the standings... Maybe at least they will win something since they didn't qualify for the World Cup...

England were the weakest link of the group, they only scored one in goal in five matches and they are playing the sixth one now, and they are losing 1-0 to Germany, if England have any respect for their fans they should at least score a goal today, I'm betting on them to score in this match, they didn't do a lot in this match but I think they can at least score @1.73, a decent bet I suppose.

At half-time, Italy 1-0 and they now better than Hungary. In the first match, Italy won 2:1. Now with a win Theo got the 1st place. England at 4th and Germany on 3rd place. The semi-final on 14.06.23, but many will forget the Nation League. Italy with a little more luck in the game, but is getting better and the chance of the 2:0 is getting higher.

On the day the groups were announced, everyone made comments such as the last place finish for Hungary, the group of death. They gave the necessary answer to everyone with the score table they created by defeating their top rivals such as England and Germany. I really have great respect for Hungary. They managed to come out of the group leader when there is England, Germany and Italy. This is truly a great success story. A team that shows that football is not just about football players, it is a team game. It is very sad that Hungary is not in the World Cup. Such a good team would add greatness to the tournament.

Deschamps needs to get back the team to their best form because the recent results they're having is totally unacceptable by the fans. France have lost and draw several games even though it's not essential but they need to start winning games. Deschamps formation would have come into a well effective action only if he's favorite players were present in the games. The world cup coming up and I expect the defending champions to come back in actions because they still have the necessary number and qualities of Players.

Who knows... England haven't won a game in this group and with such crazy fan support they have to do it tonight! Although I also want Germany to win because it's not a big game for England, but I think tonight will be a battle... But still a win for prestige is essential for England, despite the fact that they play against not weak Germany...

looking at these two teams that in my opinion are not giving value to this competition, I believe that this will be another game in which they will not take it seriously, for these two teams this game will be like a friendly game, and they will enjoy rotating players or so they will prefer to do some experiments to see how each player can do in certain conditions, knowing that the world cup is very close, these two teams will avoid showing the strategy they want to implement in the world cup. if I were the coach of these two teams I wouldn't risk playing seriously in this competition either knowing that we are very close to the world cup


if you were france's coach, you would say to your players: "play a lot seriously, we need to win" and at the end of the game 5 players get injured, and you as a coach even before that game you already had a large number of injured players, then the world cup arrives and you don't have good players to play with, would that be a good strategy? I do not think so! The best option is not to take this tournament seriously and save the players for the world cup, because the world cup is a serious competition where all teams will be taking it seriously. franca's coach is looking to the future and what is more important

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After I lost money in the last few games, this time I decided not to bet on these games today, I prefer to just watch the game, if the game proves to be something interesting. I'll watch for a few minutes and then decide whether to continue watching or not

So you was wrong  Another shameful result from France and only thanks to Croatia they kept their place in League A. I don't even know how to comment on this - maybe France is really that bad and will fail in the World Cup? I'm not sure of anything anymore.
And I'm more and more thinking that FIFA and UEFA have produced a monstrous inflation in football - too many games, too many tournaments. A significant part of them can be removed and no one will grieve.

Southgate stated that the World Cup was the most important thing for the team and he wouldn't be put under pressure by England administration after relegating from their Nations League group by the Italy defeat. He is right actually but the fans don't think the same of course. He made another statement on this topic that he understood the reaction from the fans. People want to see positive results from their team to be more hopeful about the World Cup in the end.

But they should understand one thing also that Southgate needs to do his best to keep their players away from long-term injuries before the World Cup starts in two months.

I don't know if you are right about Deschamps' position on the importance of the League of Nations, but if you are right it is a very dangerous position. After a series of failures in an "unimportant" tournament, fans will expect the team to perform not just better, but much better in an important tournament, and it seems to me that if France does not reach at least the semi-finals in the World Cup, this will lead to Deschamps being fired.
Even in an unimportant tournament, such star players, simply due to their level, should have better results than France currently has. This is a sign that the coach is doing something wrong.

It is pretty difficult to predict the results today.

England and Germany both don't have any goal left in the group now. I just wonder if England would like to finish their last League A match with a victory at least. They have the home advantage also. Their last head-to-head ended 1-1 and England saved one point by Kane's goal in the last minutes. I don't think that this match will be comfortable for them either. My expectation is a 2-1 win for England in this. Hence England win at 2.42 and both teams to score at 1.76 are my preferences.

Hungary - Italy is an even more difficult match to predict. Hungary have improved their performance incredibly much. They beat England and Germany both before but lost to Italy. Maybe it is time to have revenge on them now. Hungary would play a controlled game and look for benefiting from their chances in the best way. If they get ahead first it would be quite difficult for Italy to score against them. Because Hungary are very good at maintaining their score advantage recently. They are very durable. I'll still give both teams to score a chance at 2.14.

The English team had already been relegated so winning their match today in front of 90K fans at Wembley stadium wouldn't make a difference, they just needed to win for consolation and perhaps help Gareth Southgate to access as well as select his 26 man squad for the upcoming World Cup in November, this was a poor outing for the English team so far winless in five matches is absolutely incredible for a team whose players were selected from one of the best league in the world with so many quality players in their defence, midfield and attack yet the team struggle against country such as Hungary. I hope the improve before the World Cup.