Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 197. (Read 46401 times)

It was an interesting game Czech Republic really impressed me despite losing at the end they pushed Portugal to the limit at at first i thought Portugal will lose because after conceding first and because of the way Czech Republic approached the game. Their tactics was on point and it was almost impossible to for Portugal to penetrate the defensive strategy they couldn’t keep it till the end. Portugal triumphed but i wasn’t so happy because Ronaldo didn’t score, i wanted him to score but i know he will score against their next opponent.

Portugal won but the formation adopted by Portugal’s coach made it difficult to penetrate their defense he was supposed to adopt aa 3 men attack formation rather than 2 but results is all that mattered because in the end they won. The Last changes made the difference when he brought in Neto and Concencao who both had a hand in the last goal to win the match.

My prediction of course Croatia will get its first 3 points against Albania. Croatia can learn from the previous match so as not to fail again in the match against Albania. Actually Albania also has the same motivation as Croatia in the second match of Group B, so it is not easy for Croatia to win even though I will still bet on Luca Modric's victory.

If Croatia fails to get a victory against Albania, then their chance to qualify from the group stage will be very small.
For Croatia, this match must be put to good use because Spain will face Italy. Instead of one of Italy and Spanish losing, the opportunity to maintain hopes of escaping will still be there.

Germany and Switzerland can become first two teams are eligible for a next stage. They both won their first matches and are better in quality compare to their opponents in today matches.

If they both win their matches today, they will have 6 points and their last match, facing each other will decide the first position in this group. Hungary and Scotland have high risk of saying goodbye to Euro 2024 after their matches today.

Zlatko Dalic does not have many choices to replace or rotate players and I don't actually feel Brozovic played too bad in the first match. In a match against very strong opponent like Spain, Croatia failed and in such match, it is hard to find players who had good performances in a big defeat.

Croatia recent years was built as a united team with their main strength comes from team working but it does not mean importance of star players in their squad can be ignored. Croatia must use resources they have to beat Albania to keep up their hope to take a second position in this group before a big match with Italy. Albania shown that they are not too weak and they will try to find a win against Croatia, this mentality and ambitious from Albania will create so much difficulty to Croatia.

I believe in Croatia experience and they will beat Albania as preparation for a big direct match with Italy.

Portugal has been doing very well of late and even in their last three games, Portugal did perform very well. when they played against the Czech Republic, they already knew that they would win. and the Czech Republic scored first and are still unable to win, Coming from Portugal, they should expect that, and when they scored that first goal, they were relaxed, and euro 24, you shouldn't expect less because anything can happen, and that is what happened in the case of this two teams, that Portugal will be facing Turkey and am still wondering how they are going to do it because, in the sincere truth, Turkey is going to be a tough opponent for Portugal. Portugal is indeed trying its best for now, since the competition is not yet over, and since they are at on the same point as Turkey still have serious conviction that they are going to win Portugal.

Portugal looks stronger in the group if you look at the way they played and the players in their team. I was expecting Portugal to have won the match since before the extra time, but at last the young lad made it possible on the 90+2mins extra time. The second half was very fierce as both clubs were on fire in which three goals was scored. Portugal was able to win the match from one goal down.

Czech tried their best, and I never expected their performance to be of a high stand that they almost draw the match. Turkey played to beautiful game yesterday by withstanding pressure from Georgia from the last quarter of the match till the last minute in which they took advantage of Georgia eagerness to equalize the second goal and left the back of their defense open, and scored their third goal.

There is no doubt that Germany is a strong team and of course opened the match well, but what I remember most was when Rudiger accidentally headed the ball into his own goal which resulted in a goal which ultimately gave Scotland the advantage and I am sure that if it had not happened like that then the score would have been 5- 0 for Germany's victory and of course Germany will end the opening match more beautifully.

yes indeed Spain was also very great and to be honest in the opening match they performed extraordinary and it was a shame that Croatia couldn't score a single goal because Spain's defense was also very good so it was very difficult for Croatian players to score against Spain because of the defenders. it was great and all the players worked well together. Yes, of course Modric and his friends were forced to swallow the bitter pill because they lost with a score of 3-0.Yes, even though they are in a strong group, it looks like Spain will be able to overcome everything

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By the way, of course later we will see Croatia's match against Albania and of course Albania and Croatia have the same fate because they both lost in the first match of the group phase. What are your predictions about the match? but I personally think Croatia has great potential to win against Albania.

The winning goal in injury time was very bitter for me, I had hoped for a draw (1:1) and also bet on Sportsbet. It was a great pity for the Czech team (they would have deserved the draw) and of course for me too, but that's the way it is in football, and betting on football also requires a bit of luck.

Since the Turks also won, the Czechs now have to step on the gas, the Georgians also played well and the Turks were a bit lucky not to get a draw with the pole shots on the end.

Germany is in high confidence after they won big in the first match and they are the hosts, of course they have much greater motivation to become group winners.
In terms of quality, Hungary is not much better than Germany, so it is possible for Germany to win easily in this second match.

For the Scotland vs Switzerland match, I think it will be difficult for both of them because both teams are really aiming for victory in order to still have hope of qualifying from the group and in terms of strength, both of them are not much different, so I think this match will be difficult to predict because both of them have the same possibility.

Today, hosts Germany will host Hungary and I expect Germany to come away with a decisive victory. Germany need to come out of this group as leaders without losing a game without exception. Since they are the favorites against Hungary, this match can end with a score of 2-0 or 3-1.
In the Scotland vs Switzerland match, I think Switzerland is the favorite, but I think it will not be that easy for Switzerland to win the match.

This will be an interesting match because in the first match both teams lost, Croatia lost to Spain and Albania lost to Italy. So in this match, three points are very crucial for both teams to maintain their hopes of qualifying for the next round. If we talk about the squad and player experience, it seems that Croatia is predicted to win this match.

However, I hope coach Zlatko Dalic can make some changes to the line-up to achieve victory. Croatia needs several changes in its players, Marcelo Brozovic, must be replaced to provide opportunities for Luka Sucic or Mario Pasalic in midfield so they can be more varied when building attacks and can score goals, because Croatia's game is actually good, but the final finishing is lacking. I predict, this match will be very tight. Croatia is the favorite to win this match but Albania could surprise them and force a draw. I agree with you that this match will end with a small score, my prediction is 1 -0 for Croatia to win.

Portugal also won against the Czech Republic with a goal in the last minutes and started the group with 3 points. The competition in this group seems to be quite high. Of course I would like Turkey to come 1st in this group but we are not expecting easy matches. Portugal seems to be the most difficult and strongest opponent here and if we beat them we will probably have a better chance to be the leader of the group.  I don't know if the situation will change, but I think Turkey needs to achieve success with this young and strong squad.

Albania can indeed be a threat when they get good opportunities. But as long as Croatia can withstand the pace of attacks built by Albania, I think Croatia will still be able to defend its goal so that it doesn't concede the ball in this match. And Croatia should be able to learn from their weaknesses that were seen in the match against Spain. I am sure Croatia will make up for their mistakes and defeat in the first match by winning today's match against Albania.

But if it turns out that Croatia couldn't score a goal in this match or the match even ended in a draw. Then we really can't hope to return to Croatia. Because the match is against Italy, I think Croatia will have much more difficulty.

Turkey managed to win against Georgia yesterday and finally start the Euro tournament with a win. This win was important for the team and we knew that the opponent was not an opponent to be underestimated. Although we managed to take the lead early against the Georgians and even scored one goal after another, the second goal was not counted due to offside and the first half of the match ended in a 1-1 draw with the goal we scored. Arda Guler's great goal gave us a 2-1 lead and Kerem scored an empty net goal in the last minute to decide the score of the match.

From three match above, only Scotland vs Switzerland is worth to bet because the odds Switzerland to win @1.85, while Germany and Croatia are heavy favorite. Scotland seems like lost their strength, they're not same like when they played for qualification match.

I'd like to watch Slovenia vs Serbia, even though Serbia has higher rank than Slovenia, but Slovenia can resist Denmark to win, Slovenia could be a new underdog in this season.

The match between Portugal and Czech Republic is incredible. The game was incredibly heated, and I was praying Ronaldo would score. But, it wasn't happening; Ronaldo was already running at full speed before kickoff. Also, I'm focusing on the commentator for this game, who is Peter Drury. With him as a commentator, the game becomes enjoyable.

Anyway, Portugal was continuously and aggressively attacking the Czech, and it saddens me to see the second goal ruled out due to Cristiano Ronaldo's offside. The game is highly appealing; in brief, Portugal has always shown very nice games, and get their victory over czech.

Despite the fact that Portugal completely dominated the game against Czech; However, Czechs once again shown their defensive prowess. In the end, no matter how hard the Czechs tried to defend against Portugal, Portugal would always find a clean space to attack and win the game.

Yeah today's match seem easy to predict especially the match between Croatia and Albania though sometimes matches doesn't work the way we expected but hopefully with the current performance of Croatia there would be a positive outcome for them on this match because they are doing very well on there group and if I'm not mistaken I believe they should be one of the best team on the group B because so far they have only lose one match against Spain but they managed to win there two matches which was against Portugal and North Macedonia, Croatia really came prepared this time because for them to win Portugal I believe they will go far.

Portugal got a quite dramatic victory in the opening match of Group F, but apart from that we can see that Portugal deserved to win this match because they played much better even though they got the winning goal at the end of the match, but before the goal was scored, the Portugal players continued to provide dangerous pressure and attacks that only produced results in the final minutes of the match.
This was a bit dramatic for me because I won the bet and it was very stressful watching this match even though in the end my bet won.

The next match against Georgia should not be so difficult for Portugal, in terms of quality Portugal is far superior and Cristiano Ronaldo is really the center of attention at this Euro, he is not young anymore but his performance is still very impressive and he still has a good physique to play 90 minute.
A pretty good first match for Portugal, and I'm also sure they can go further in this year's Euros.

Croatia really has to win the match against Albania. but with their problems in the first match against Spain, of course, it won't be too easy for Croatia to win against Albania.
Albania's game was not planned like Spain or Italy. but they can take advantage of the small opportunities they get. Look at how they scored a quick goal against Italy. even though they ended up losing to Italy in their first match.

Croatia has a big chance of winning, but I don't think there will be more goals than 2.

There are 3 matches today that I think will be quite easy to predict the results of. These 3 matches are

1. Croatia vs Albania
In this match Croatia will be the favorite. Even though Croatia failed in the first match against Spain. But Croatia's quality is actually no less good than Spain. It's just that Croatia is not good at converting opportunities into goals.

2. Germany vs Hungary
For this match, I think it is clear which team will be the favorite and will win quite easily.

3. Scotland vs Switzerland.
For this match, Switzerland is the team that I will favourite. Because I was quite impressed with their performance when they managed to beat Hungary in the first match.

The first matches really made a difference, there was not a single match with a draw except Slovenia - Denmark. Apart from that, there were 2 matches that made me confused about the results, they were the Romania - Ukraine & Belgium - Slovakia matches. I mean, how could Ukraine be destroyed with that big score, and Belgium seem to have lost its golden generation and lost to Slovakia.

Today we'll watch the second matches, which bring together Croatia - Albania & Germany - Hungary.

Croatia must be able to get 3 points here if they don't want to be immediately eliminated, meanwhile, on the other hand, if Germany gets their second 3 points, they don't need another serious match in the third matches.