Topic: The UEFA Nations League 2020/2021 Discussion Thread - page 88. (Read 17145 times)

Spain's performance so far has been poor so I consider this match to be the same as yesterday's Belgium vs England match. Germany will control the game and win the match.
2-1 might make sense basically Germany scored more than 1 goals, so the second option is both teams to score.

Spain-Germany will be a very competitive game. I can't wait to see it. Germany are at the top in the group with 9 points and Spain are on the second place with 8 points. The last match between them ended 1-1. I think this time it will not end in a draw. Germany are playing better than Spain now. In my opinion, Germany will win the match 2-1 and advance to the playoffs.

Covid really changed a lot of things in the sports world, and football coming back this quickly without any problems that could stop them in their tracks, it is a wonder. Considering numbers are looking scary right now, it is shocking to see football even being a thing. I would have assumed just because players are allowed to do anything they want and only consequences they get is not playing, it is a very risky move that has been paying very well.

Mo Salah has tested positive as well for example which wouldn't affect nations league but it does affect premier league a lot if you ask me. As long as we continue down this path, it is going to be like a year where many teams have many "injured" players and that is it, nothing too substantial about the period, compared to rest of the world where pandemic closed down so many things in life.

The next turn will be the last one. FINALLY!



source: https://www.uefa.com/uefanationsleague/news/025b-0ed7ed02a153-4a89ef7e7eff-1000--fixtures-and-results/

Big game? Span Germany 1 game for 1 slot for the finals.

@Trofo and @ty:  Unfortunately you're right. Modern football anyway. Offense wins you games and gets you far, but every winner of a tourney and league generally has a solid defence. That's simply math. And that's why I worry this season Liverpool won't get any joy in any competition.


All due respect, agree. Grealish is awesome but it's hard to argue he'll ever get to the level of KdB even on his best day. I know I said things too quickly in retrospect, looking at all these games, but also really important to say for me that this season's play and form is a completely vague variable, and I hate to say it, but it's almost a direct impact of covid and people playing far more than they should.

I know it's only Nations League but every team almost was playing with absolute lethargy on the games I watched. Sharpness is almost gone from every player (I don't have stats but I'm sure if someone did a survey they'd find levels dropped off). Goals are still coming as the defensive lack of sharpness makes up for the loss of offensive sharpness but we're not seeing teams playing at their best, anywhere.

Very strange odds, I think neither Spain nor Germany has big chances to win next Euro..

Anyway. Back into Nations League for me biggest disapoitment was Poland..
I cannot believe team with Lewandowski, Szczesny and few young talented players plays so terribly weak..
Poland's coach isn't the most professional - maybe it is a reason?
But I saw post regarding extra high odds for Poland, it is very strange...

As expected lol.
Belgium has taken control of that UNL Group now. They pretty much outclassed England in all departments. If you look at the England squad, it’s one of the weakest I have seen over the years.

Looking at those odds, England definitely overvalued by big margin. No way they are first favorites of the EURO but as you said it is a consequence of a plethora of British guys placing bets

Belgium has great squad but not the winning mentality so maybe overvalued a little as well.

If I was placing bet at this moment I would go with Portugal. They are what I consider ultimate tournament team. Strong in the back with heaps of experience and a couple of extraordinary individuals. And you always have get out of the jail card in CR. That odds of 14 look like good value.

Other teams look priced about right to me.

first half they had 4 corners, and then in the 2nd half they had one single corner even though they were 2-0 down, just enough for my bet to win, oof!

the Azzurri bet also hit with the exact amount of goals to win the full handicap https://i.ibb.co/6JTtqL5/win.png (btw, that was hands down the worse Poland performance i have ever seen)
thay's 3/3 wins this weekend with the Germany bet from the other day    will post my picks tomorrow, we'll have some crucial matches to decide who advances to the Final Four...i'm already expecting many goals, many corners and possibly many yellow cards

England defeat thwarted my parlay only left in this match    Harry Kane is one of the players who actively scores goals in all competitions somehow he didn't do it yesterday
Next England must compete with Denmark in group A2  It's so hard to guess who will take 2nd place.

I was expecting Belgium-England to be the best match of the night but it wasn't too good. England were too clumsy and couldn't score even one goal with that dominancy after Belgium got ahead.

I second that - offense wins games, defense wins Championships. It's a bit of a meh saying, but carries a lot of truth. Defensively the german NT is really pathetic since a long time. This was kind of expected after Boateng/Hummels (were) retired from international duties, but what worries me the most, is that there seems to be no improvement after such a long time. Boateng/Hummels were a terrific duo for a long time, but the quality is still there with Süle/Rüdiger/Tah, they just can't get their act together. This is also due to Löw always taking a very offensive approach, which I like, but if you have 75% of the team in an attacking state of mind, you as a defender are doomed and often look poor. Lahm is also missing a lot after all those years, what a player he was.

Another problem is the lack of leadership on the pitch. You have all these skilled players, but no real boss, like for example Schweinsteiger was and Müller still is (at Bayern). Kroos should normally be that guy, but it's against his temper in the end and you can't force it out of a player.

There is lots of work to do defensively and in terms of team spirit, offensively it's a beauty to watch all the time though. But Germany has always been a team, that excels during a tournament and other nations have their own problems.

Just a look at the Euro2021 odds already tells you, how wide open this tournament will be:


Source: https://orbitexch.com/customer/sport/market/1.145971579

England at 6.2 though....but they are always low on Betfair, because of the majority of customers being british. Beliiiiiiiiieeeeeeevvvvvveeeeeee

Is it just me or it seems that the odds for this last Nations League round were completely messed up? Let us leave aside Kosovo - Albania (match-fixing), what about the other odds? Nations League please disappear and evaporate! Useless competition 😊

I heard that it is a possibility they will perform a drawing and it is possible Norway will even get winning (!)
Crazy covid times. It was hard to imagine such scenario not so long ago..
I wonder if it will be a  betting for such kind of matches ^^

When politics get mixed with soccer. Isn't that match a "friendly" one?
In Nations League Kosovo didn't win a single game, a draw vs Moldova even.. while Albania won 2 games, 2 draw and 1 defeats. I dunno but if a friendly match is fixed then the result will be the less favourite team to win not the best imo, no? In other words most people will bet for France winning vs Finland but when I see the final score, I wonder know the names of the winners who bet for Finland  
I am talking in general of course and comparing the two events when a normal win is suspicious and a surprised one is normal.

It happened exactly like I said, Russia's red card affect most though, it's good to see your bet winning in 30th minute.

Turkey got their first win this year, it was important. Now we need to win Wednesday at Hungary. It's hard but there is no other choice for Turkey. Russia and Hungary have 8 points, Turkey has 6. Turkey need to win no matter what and wait for Russia to lose against Serbia.

I wasn't surprise with England losing two goals down against the well organized Belgium,  the English team had been parading bunch of overrated players who cannot match Belgium despite all the media hypes and attention given to them in EPL. it was Jack Grealish that performed excellently well and was technically sound, both Rashford and sterling became shadow of former self they hardly tested Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, despite their holding possession and their hope of reaching the Nation league final is now dashed.

I live here in Albania because of my work.I have lived in all Western Balkan countries before.From what I hear from the locals the match between Albania and Kosovo was not fixed.However they are now afraid that the upcoming game with Belarus is sold by Albanian Football Federation when everyone here expect a victory over Belarus and winning the group and continuing further for the first time in Nations League.

Belgium are definitely the better team. England were lucky to win the first match, but arguably Belgium were lucky to win the second given the goals they scored, a deflection and a suspect free kick.
The reaction with England is always so extreme. If they win a match, they're the best team in the world, if they lose a match they are terrible. The truth is somewhere in between, they have some decent players, some areas where they're weak. Overall a middling team, the sort that in major finals will progress beyond the group but struggle in knock-out matches... the same as it has always been!

in the end, Italy ended up showing why the odds were very high, Poland failed to score even one goal. it was a defeat that ended up putting them in third place


you got it wrong at Lewandowski, but you got it right at  Belotti


and belgium won and whoever bet on belgium must have many reasons to celebrate because the odds were very good. I am surprised by this England team, they are a little inconsistent in the nations league, but they are performing well in games involving the euro