Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 166. (Read 46401 times)

Germany and Switzerland will most likely advance to the next stage and I agree about Germany winning and being first on this group. Switzerland isn't that good from what I saw until now.
Scotland will face Hungary which didn't win any game and will leave regardless of this match result. Yet they might surprise Scotland with a draw or even winning against them.
This group has the most obvious results this last round comparing to the others.

The team that benefits from the VAR decision will be happy but the one that is disadvantaged will feel annoyed, and I agree with you that sometimes the use of VAR is too excessive so it becomes annoying to see the use of VAR.

I saw the post and laughed. Several strikers who were predicted to shine have not shown that, Harry Kane has only scored 1 goal so far, even Mbappe has not scored a single goal, and both countries have been unproductive favorite teams so far and with his nose injury perhaps Mbappe will not perform as expected

That was a stupid mistake and this mistake was enough to disrupt Turkiye's game even though in the second half there was still resistance but they failed to penetrate Portugal's defense, thankfully for Turkiye who were still ahead compared to the other two teams in group F, and in the third match a draw would be enough to take them as runnerup in group F, because Portugal may not play at full strength against Georgia but will take care not to lose

I think Turkey had some good moments and Portugal had some defense holes. Final score reveals much. It was clear that Portugal was the better team, and Turkey's "opportunities" were really just half-chances against a Portugal team happy to keep the game under control instead of attacking. Don't forget that Ronaldo's help in setting up Bruno's tap-in was more of a bonus than a mistake on defense

This group is for Portugal. Even if they haven't been performing well, they have the potential and experience to win. Turkey, Czech Republic, and Georgia are fighting for scraps, and the remaining qualification positions will be difficult to win. This isn't the "Group of Death"

Switzerland will be third in the group at worst. I don't think this match will be the end of everything for them. And they are very likely to finish 2nd in the group. They are doing well under Murat Yakın and I believe they can get better results. On the other hand, Germany will undoubtedly be the favorite of the match. They will have the home advantage in this match. They also have a better squad quality than Switzerland. I think they will win this match and finish the group in 1st place. They are definitely the favorites on paper. They performed very well in the first two matches.

The group seem to be the must dangerous group of they tournament because all the teams have equal chances, apart from goals scored and conceded goals, all the the remaining items in the table are the same, what the teams will put emphasis on is to have many goal so the it will increase chances of getting to the next level, Belgium really fought hard to replace the disallow goal from their first game to make it really this time around, Belgium next match against Ukraine will be tough one, I can't still predict the winner but to my own expectations Belgium stand a chance to win it

Meanwhile, this is a list of the temporary top scorers for Euro 2024 and as we know, many own goals have been scored so far. It's really unreasonable for a competition as big as the Euros to produce so many own goals and sometimes these goals are very unexpected. Perhaps what is quite memorable in my mind is Riccardo Calafiori's own goal when Italy played against France, where in this big match only one own goal resulted in France winning. Even though we want something more exciting, such as scoring more than the normal 2 goals.

Apart from that, there was also the funniest own goal so far that came from Turkey's match against Portugal last night where the Turkish defender intended to pass to the goalkeeper but instead the goalkeeper stepped forward and left his position and that was a fatal mistake from a communication perspective. Even though at that time Turkey was still 1 goal behind after Bernardo Silva scored and Turkey still had a chance to catch up, but because of this mistake, it was certain that Turkey would have difficulty at least playing a draw. In the end Portugal won with 3 goals without reply.

Anyway, Lukaku might be the only unlucky player so far and he could have been the temporary top scorer with his 3 goals but all of them had to be disallowed by VAR for offside. Lukaku's fate was really unfortunate even though he played quite well in several matches and had several opportunities. Apart from that, the rest are several players who have managed to score 2 goals in Euro matches so far and it feels like the competition for top scorer will still be open.

Everything that happens cannot be blamed or harmed, indeed technology should be used to make work easier, but it cannot be denied that there will be one of several matches that will be considered dirty which is caused by Var, so from there we must be able to reviewing how referees were in the past without Var it is very difficult to determine decisions, but with Var there are many events that can be allocated by the referee, not all of them but almost all of them are good this is a process that is being improved in the world of football so I think Var is very helpful to the line judges.

The situation in this group is the most difficult, each team has 3 points after two games. If we evaluate the performance of the teams, for me the Belgian team remains the favorite, in the match with Slovakia they were simply unlucky, although they had a lot of opportunities to win this match. Ukraine also shouldn’t have lost to Romania, but it happened and now everything will be decided in the last game. I will assume that Slovakia and Belgium will play in the playoffs, Romania is not strong enough to beat Slovakia, and I also doubt that Ukraine will have the strength to do anything against Belgium.

Belgium managed to perform well in the match against Romania and these were the first 3 points which were quite important for Belgium to open up their hopes of qualifying from the group, even though from the start Belgium was quite the favorite, but we can see that getting through this group will not be easy, now in Group E all have the same chance to qualify for the group phase and I think Belgium has a large percentage because in the 3rd match they will face Ukraine and in terms of quality Belgium is slightly better.

Belgium team are very talented with a very good squad and from the beginning of Euro Belgium has already been recognized to be very strong and seeing there performance on there group they are not doing bad at all and is good for them to have won there last match with Romania if not it would have become a challenge for them to progress on there group, however there performance on that match was so interesting because they dominated the match from the beginning to the end and giving Romania a very difficult time, so right now they currently have 3 points though they would have actually have there 6 points intact but because of there poor effort on there match against Slovakia they had to lose and now all the teams on the group E has an equal chances on qualifying.

This is what I hate about VAR, even 1mm-1cm offside may kill the whole game, FIFA really need to review their rules about offside and VAR.
VAR usage should be limited in a single game and I think it should be done by request only from the team that feel of being aggrieved by the decision of the referee or line judge.
Frankly speaking, I feel that the usage of VAR is too much now and it makes the game looks really bad unlike before when there was no VAR.
Technology should be used to make the game better and fairer but now it makes the game worse than before.
 

Portugal has confirmed qualifying for the 16th after successfully crushing Turkey. Portugal has a very complete squad and like there is no gap for opponents to make it difficult for them. Indeed, Portugal has not received a serious challenge because in Group F there are no teams that have quality that almost equal their strength. While Turkey must be able to reach the numbers in the final match for tickets to qualify for round 16, but the Czech also has the opportunity but Turkey remains a favorite.

I couldn't agree with you more. Portugal was terrible and still made careless passes, but Turkey was far worse. Because Turkey launched its attack on Portugal without adequate planning, and Portugal was able to simply launch a counterattack across the long pass.
As far as I can tell, Portugal's defenders were constantly putting Arda Guler in their pocket after he was substituted in. Finally, Turkey isn't good at attacking or defending, but I'm glad my bet was correct.


By comparison, the data revealed the reverse things. The Czechs knew how to defend when playing Portugal, but they could not attack successfully. By contrast, the Turkish team was quite underprepared for either attack or defense, and Turkey was quickly diverted as soon as its attack got close to the penalty zone.
The result versus Portugal underlines the Czech team's better defensive performance than Turkey's. Between the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Gorgia will be the last group stage game.

It's now a toss-up for Group A as to who will qualify between Switzerland or Scotland as Germany have already qualified early.

Switzerland vs Germany we know this match is easy to guess unless Germany field their second squad but I'm not sure they will still win this match even though they have qualified, while Switzerland will try hard to win even a draw is good for Switzerland so they can qualify if they lose, it means waiting for the Scotland vs Hungary match.

Hungary has no more gaps, while Scotland will try to win because there is still hope where hoping Switzerland loses and Scotland wins later will determine the goal while for points will be the same.

Belgium managed to recover in this second round match after playing very badly in the first match. This victory was not surprising because Belgium was the favorite.
For the Round 3 match, Belgium will face Ukraine, this will be a difficult match for both of them and I don't really favor Belgium in the match against Ukraine because I think Ukraine also has almost the same quality as Belgium.
The competition in Group F is indeed quite fierce with 3 points achieved from the 4 teams, so everyone still has the same chance of qualifying from the group phase.

Portugal played better in the match against Turkey compared to their game when they won against Czech. But I see Portugal's compactness as a team is not so strong, especially players like Bruno and Joao Cancelo in the match against Turkey. Bruno's third goal against Turkey was a valuable lesson shown by Ronaldo. A lesson about selfishness.

Portugal is safe. Competition will occur between Turkey and Czech although the third position is still relatively safe because they can qualify too.

The most important thing is that this episode did not affect the final result of the match, Belgium achieved victory and now, as I previously assumed, all teams in the group have 3 points. But before the last round, Ukraine has a very difficult situation, because they have to play with strong Belgium and I doubt that they can count on a victory, at best a draw, I also think that Slovakia will beat Romania. Ukraine's mistake in the first match with Romania cost them too much, it is very difficult to count on the last match...

For me, my expectation was really met, Portugal performance wasn't a really a surprise for me, no doubt they are the best team in that group and from the beginning I knew they were going to win all their group games. Turkey knew they can't compete with Portugal from the beginning so their aim has always been to come out second in their group, and they are still on course for that despite the outcome of that yesterday match against Portugal. Turkey are still in second place with 3 points, so if they can just manage a draw against Czechia in their next match. My biggest disappointment was that Czechia couldn't win Georgia. My initial prediction was that Czechia will win against Georgia and have same point with Turkey so that the game between Turkey and Czechia will be epic. Though the game will still be tough, but Turkey will still have the upper hand in this match. Czechia will be playing aggressively because if they can win Turkey they will take over the second spot. It will be an interesting match between Turkey and Czechia.

Belgium who were previously doubtful to achieve positive results against Romania can finally breathe a sigh of relief now after they were able to win their first 3 points in the match, achieving 3 points in the match certainly keeps Belgium hopes of being able to qualify for the round of 16, all teams in group E have currently played two matches with all teams winning 1 and 1 loss so indeed all teams are currently collecting 3 points And of course the last match will be decisive for all teams to be able to ensure their passage to the round of 16, Belgium will face Ukraine in their last match and of course it will be a difficult match for Belgium considering Ukraine also has a good squad to face Belgium later.

I think offside is still offside and even when the toe of their shoe slightly crosses the line line of 4-dimensional technology, Lukaku can clearly see his hand in an offside position when receiving a pass from De Bruyne, I don't think we can blame the referee for that because of the fact that it is indeed an offside violation rule, when if the referee approves the goal, of course he will get criticism from other parties because it is obvious Lukaku position at that time was in an offside position, so indeed the referee's job today is quite difficult in making decisions to act fairly on both teams.

Portugal didn't even have to play well. Turkey just helped them score goals very easily. Normally none of those goals would be conceded this easy by a team which know how to defend. Turkey are still lacking in defense too much.  

Therefore I can't say Portugal were impressive for real. If Turkey improved their defending there would be a huge chance for them to get at least one point. Remember the Portugal - Czechia game. Czechia knew how to defend and Portugal had huge difficulties. They barely won by a goal in the stoppage time. Turkey have a much bigger player quality than Czechia. They wouldn't lose like Czechia did if they played decently.

Lastly this is on Montella... His player preferences were like a joke.