Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 144. (Read 46401 times)

Both matches in group D had surprising results, Poland with their 2 losses was able to draw against France, even though even if they win, they will not go anywhere, this shows Poland that they're also not a team that gives up despite the pressure they have very heavy. Apart from that, we also have Austria who was able to beat Netherlands with their even squad composition.

Sabitzer became the hero for Austria in this match with a goal in the last 10 minutes of the match. Netherlands were lucky because even though they were in third place, they would still go to the knockout rounds.

France drew 1-1 with Poland. While we expected France to come out of this group as the leader and the Netherlands as the runner-up, Austria surprised us with their results. Although France played a good game against Poland, it was not easy for them to win. France, who took the lead with Mbappe's penalty goal, could not prevent Lewandowski's penalty goal.
Netherlands lost their chance to get out of the group by losing to Austria. I must say it was an interesting match. The Netherlands would have been out of the group if they hadn't lost in this match, but Austria did the hard thing.

Sad to see Serbia finishing at the bottom of Group C. They never realize their full potential in major tournaments. Have to agree that they were placed in a very tough group along with England and Danmark. But I expected them to win against Slovenia. That didn't happened and they conceded a draw. In the end, Danmark qualified to the next phase without winning even a single match (they have 3 points from 3 matches, as all of their matches were draws). And now it looks like Slovenia may qualify as well, being one of the top-ranked 3rd placed teams.

But still, even though England didn't have enough motivation in this match, the way they played was not as expected. but let's see how England fares in the round of 16. Will my estimate be right or wrong. But what is clear is that I no longer have high hopes for this team.

Spain, Germany and Portugal, well they were all extraordinary in the group stage. And yes, the real challenge starts in the round of 16. Because they will meet other strong teams in that round. But yes, I think it is almost certain that Germany and Spain have the greatest chance of going further. Likewise with Portugal. oh yes today we have to see Portugal against Georgia. Even though Portugal has secured a ticket to the round of 16, I hope Portugal still doesn't lose motivation to win. Because I'm sure many will bet on them.

England got a ticket to round of 16 with a very late goal of Italy but they had one task to complete by themselves. Winning a last match and get a first position in their group, to avoid strong opponents next stages. They did not win against Slovenia and will have to play next stages with potential strong opponent like Italy.

I believe this is main reason their fans shown their angry against Southgate when that match ended. England actually tried to win the match but they did not make it well and first, it shown problems in England team and second but more important, it creates lot of fear before Round of 16 match.

Germany and Spain are most impressive teams in this Euro but we need to assess Spain in next matches. With young players, Spain might suddenly have bad performances as with young players, it's hard for them to maintain stable good performances.

I have more belief in Germany with big advantage as a host of Euro 2024 and good combination of old, experienced and young players.

Group C matches ended without a goal. With these results, Denmark and England made it out of the group. Denmark's draw in all 3 matches shows how consistent they are. Slovenia also managed to finish the group with 3 draws. It's a pity that England didn't win against Slovenia even though they were heavy favorites. They were superior in possession and goal positions, but they couldn't find a goal. Serbia didn't have many goal positions against Denmark. Both teams looked like they were playing for a draw. Denmark couldn't push too hard either.

Spain has proven its quality, they have beaten Italy and Croatia, this is truly an extraordinary performance shown by Spain in the group phase.
And it wasn't just Spain who managed to show a stunning performance in the group phase even though they didn't get 9 points, but Germany also showed a very good performance, I think.
And Portugal is also very strong, little by little we can see the strength of the teams in the group phase but that cannot be used as a reference because the real proof is when these teams face strong teams from other groups in the round of 16.

Croatia is the unluckiest team in my opinion at this Euro, in 2 consecutive matches they failed to win because of a goal back in the last minute, against Albania the score was equalized in the 90+5 minute and against Italy the same thing happened, it was really painful.
And this is the last Euro for Luka Modrić which is quite sad.

Is it because of the draw against Slovenia?
I don't think that can be used as any reference, England are already guaranteed to qualify for the round of 16 so the match in round 3 doesn't have any motivation for them.

England team are usually like this in big tournaments and they shown some improvements in latest World Cup and Euro but they tend to repeat their poor performances in the past. Southgate did 'good' jobs with England recent years, helped the national team went far in World Cup and Euro but this Euro can be a last chance for him to stay with England team.

I guess his task is to win Euro title with England team so whatever happens, no title means he will see the exit gate. With poor performances of England so far and the negative sentiment, the exit gate becomes bigger for Southgate. There is less reason for FA to keep Southgate if there is no Euro final match, no Euro title this summer.

Rangnick was frankly surprised, now I’m starting to think that it was not in vain that Bayern wanted to get him as a coach. Austria was the discovery of this Euro, and France is so far unexpectedly weak in attack, with only one goal in three matches, scored from the penalty spot (another was an own goal in the match with Austria). Well, perhaps this is how they gradually approach saving their strength for the playoffs, where they will be able to show their full potential.

If Belgium and Romania win their matches, Slovakia and Ukraine will have three points each. In this case, the third placed team will be Ukraine and the last team will be Slovakia.
Take note that if two teams are equal in points, they are ranked by their head to head match.

Belgium have already had a few goals disallowed (rightly but very narrowly), so I assume that Belgium will step up a gear and win against Ukraine, but in the second game of the group I think Romania could narrowly make it, the goal difference would then eliminate Ukraine and the other three would probably progress.

I think Turkey and Czech Republic are more likely to draw as Turkey will progress with the draw, but like yesterday the games are very difficult to predict, would you have thought of three draws and an Austria win yesterday?

England's match against Slovenia was an exciting match even though there was no such thing as returning goals. and honestly I was amazed by the defense made by Slovenia which was finally able to make the score until the end of the match a 0-0 draw.
Honestly, I thought that before England's match started against Slovenia, I predicted that England would win because if you look at the squad, of course there is no doubt. and I also suspect that the goal scored by Bukayo Saka was a valid goal but unfortunately the goal was invalid because Foden was offside.

However, if you look at England's matches in the group phase, it's a shame that England couldn't score many goals even though the English players were top class players. But of course England's struggle in the group phase produced good results because England is now the champion in Group D. And of course England has now got a ticket to the round of 16 and of course this brings happiness and pride to the British people.

In my opinion, Gareth Southgate certainly has to be able to make England's players even better because I see that so far in terms of utilization of England's forward players it is still not optimal, so in 3 matches England was not able to score many fantastic goals. Meanwhile, now England will definitely be faced with tougher opponents in the last 16 because of course the teams in the last 16 are definitely very strong, so I hope that Southgate can make his men perform even better in the upcoming match.

But it looks like Denmark will not be lucky in the round of 16. Because if we look at the round of 16 match schedule, we can see that Denmark will face one of the favorite national teams at the Euros this season, namely Germany.

And considering that the opponent that Denmark will face is Germany, I feel that Denmark's chances of being able to continue their progress to get further in the Euros are very small. Because we have both seen how Germany played with great quality at this Euro. T.Kroos and his friends are really at their best. So I'm pretty sure they will be able to continue going further.

We are also really looking forward to this match because the result of this match is very important for Turkey, a draw is enough for Turkey to accompany Portugal to the round of 16, but Turkey must consider this match very important for them to prevent the mistakes that occurred when they were defeated by Portugal. Montella must choose players who can be relied on in all lines so they can continue to pressure the Czechs throughout the match. Turkey has the greatest chance of qualifying compared to the Czechs and Georgia, they must take advantage of every opportunity to win.

Of course, the games in group E are very exciting and attract the most audience interest because all teams still have the same chances. This match is like a final, every team really needs to win.

Disappointment and cheering are the results that any team will receive in a championship match. Croatia may be the team that disappointed the most with the results they received. It is very wrong to blame someone in a game involving a team.

Modric is the icon of the Croatian team. If he feels guilty for the team's failure, then it is appropriate and normal considering him as the team captain. Modric also shows a leader who is loyal to the good and bad of the team.
Modric's failure to execute a penalty kick was the initial predictor that predicted Croatia would have bad luck at Euro 2024 until Italy finally scored a goal in the final minutes.

Maybe Croatia is not the only team that failed because in other groups there are also teams that will suffer the same fate as Croatia.

To blame Modric for what? Croatia cannot blame Modric in their game just because he missed the penalty, we believed he missed the penalty, but he corrected his mistake to score a goal and put Croatia ahead by one goal. This is football, and everyone made a mistake. Missing penalties didn't start with Luka Modric, many football legends missed penalties during their careers, including Cristiano Ronaldo who has the talent for taking penalties. I think Modric should stop taking penalties at this age, this is how he made a mistake in the Champions League by missing a penalty against Manchester City, he should allow the young players to take the penalty.


This is how I expected the matches to end, but we are disappointed with the results. France had the opportunity in the first half, they could have scored more than two goals, but they wasted their chances. However, I believe that in this competition, the team with the best chance of winning the championship performed poorly in the group stage. France also drew with Poland, and we believe they are the worst team in Group D. England has only won one of their three group games. In my opinion, none of these teams will win this competition.

Still, the biggest surprise is the weak game of France - one victory in three games is not the result that was expected from one of the main favorites of the tournament. Now France finds itself in the same part of the tournament bracket as Germany, Spain and Portugal, and in the 1/8 it will play with the second place in Group E. Moreover, in Group E the situation is quite funny: all teams have three points. It would be interesting if in the last round all the teams played a draw and then in the 1/8 we would see a pair of France - Belgium.

Spain is truly extraordinary. Because they can qualify for the round of 16 without any difficult obstacles. And they finished all the matches in the group stage without conceding a single goal. And currently only Spain has managed to qualify for the round of 16 with 9 points. But there is still Portugal who have never lost even in the group stage, and maybe today Portugal will also get 9 points if they succeed in beating Georgia.

About Croatia they are not lucky this time. And they had to go home with quite a suffocating disappointment. Modric even seems to be holding back tears if we look at several interviews. Well it was a not so smooth ride for Croatia.

For the England national team, I have now stopped hoping for them. When I hoped there would be a significant change in yesterday's match. But it turns out the result is still the same and yes they did qualify for the round of 16 but I'm not sure they can go further than that.

One of the last matches of EURO 2024 Group C was played between Denmark and Serbia. Although Serbia needed a win to progress, they failed to score a single shot in an extremely dull first half. However, both teams tried to put pressure on in the last minutes. Unfortunately, no goals were scored, and the match ended in a 0-0 draw. As a result, Denmark advanced to the next round in second place, while Serbia bid farewell to the tournament.

A pathethic performance was shown by France. As far as I can tell, France's performance has been inferior to that of the 2022 World Cup. France's goal came only through OG and penalties. Moreover, this team lacked sufficient open play scoring capability. This is quite terrible, given that they have a lot of elite players on their team. Given the fact that they'll be facing so many strong clubs, finishing second will be a boomerang for France.

That was quite a sad day for the masked mbappe because his first goal came from a penalty. Finally, France showed a significant decline in Euro 2024 since they were not as good as when they qualified to the final in WC 2022 and were rarely creating golden chances.