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What a match? Croatia is not how they play because even though the performance remains the same,  they seem to lose momentum and keep conceding the ball . The first half wasn't very good for them which is a blunder that makes it difficult now.   The rest of the time Spain really gave a good account of themselves. They lost possession but they were able to create their own rhythm which made Croatia fall into the trap of their own schemes .  

Now 3 goals in and with this I doubt Croatia will be able to make a difference. although there might be at least 1 goal for them,  but it wont make a difference because Spain's play in the second half has been very confident and they won't be easily shaken mentally after the current 3 goal lead .
I didnt expect Croatia to fall behind like this but with the scoreline the way it is now its likely they'll struggle to get their mental faculties up even if they try to keep attack .
Left ten minutes later and Spain still lead over 3-1 against Croatia, its not Croatia national team we know how easily defeated by Spain although their starting line up most of debut and youth players such as Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams and Robin Le Normand.
Its nice opening match for Spain almost success securing three points and lead awhile of Group B to make easily for upcoming two matches left against Italy and Albania.

The match statistic, Croatia performance not really bad had dominance ball possession but get difficulty for scoring goals although had 13 shots with 4 shots on target. I think get difficult for Croatia if loss three points on the first match because still has difficult opponent teams against Italy  on last phase group match.
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Croatia didn't start the game badly indeed.
I was expecting a good fight from Croatia, but they are not playing up to the mark. It looks like the 2nd half is boring. Still no score and significant attack too. Hopefully there will be one or two more goals. Let's see.

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Missed penalty but scored but then VAR, no goal. Nothing is going in Croatia's favor.
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What a match? Croatia is not how they play because even though the performance remains the same,  they seem to lose momentum and keep conceding the ball . The first half wasn't very good for them which is a blunder that makes it difficult now.   The rest of the time Spain really gave a good account of themselves. They lost possession but they were able to create their own rhythm which made Croatia fall into the trap of their own schemes . 

Now 3 goals in and with this I doubt Croatia will be able to make a difference. although there might be at least 1 goal for them,  but it wont make a difference because Spain's play in the second half has been very confident and they won't be easily shaken mentally after the current 3 goal lead .
I didnt expect Croatia to fall behind like this but with the scoreline the way it is now its likely they'll struggle to get their mental faculties up even if they try to keep attack .
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Am still learning how this Croatia defense could let Spain get the ability to get in three goals behind their net within the first half. The game was as good as over right from when the third goal by Carvajal was secured in the added time before the half time.

Spain are calmly set up, so direct with the ball in this game, playing  so clinically with intense pressure on Croatia which got me thinking that there's a possibility for more goals to come in for Spain. This game is beyond the strength of Modric and it's just going to be a right thing to do if the Croatia coach could substitute him and bring in a younger player because Modric to me he's just not giving that impact as he's known due to age. However, am not seeing any signs of a comeback from Croatia.
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Spain are leading the game with two goals, scored within five minutes, and knowing this Spain team, I say that Croatia surely has no way back from this because Spain will push to score more goals as they usually do. Spain team are showing lots of vibrancy with the young, hungry and experienced players that they have mixed in their team. This points will be important for Spain because they have Italy in their group, and even Croatia who are loosing currently cannot still be ruled out. Croatia and Italy remain a strong threat to Spain's plan to qualify past this stage.

Croatia clearly had no way out after falling behind, especially since Spain added to their number of goals scored by Dani Carvajal. Because of this, we can confirm that the first 3 points in group B belong to Spain. Maybe Croatia could have scored their first or second goal in the second half, but that would be meaningless because Spain would definitely play defensively in the second half.
Carvajal scored the third goal for Spain on the last minute of the extra time to seal up the first half. Yesterday Germany ended the first half with 3-0 in and scored to total of 5 goals in Group A. Maybe Spain will do the same in Group B today.

Croatia is a big team and I did not expect to see this intimidation on them from Spain. I hope that Croatia will be able to put themselves together in the second half, but I don't think that they will be able to equalize all three goals. Spain will not defend in the second half rather they will attack like the first half.

I think am a bit surprised watching this particular match and seeing the current score between the two teams, I was expecting to see a very tough game between Spain and Croatia and I had already picked 1:1 or 0:0 to be the final score but Spain shocked me by scoring 3 goals in the first 45 minutes.

The Germany and Scotland match yesterday can't be compared to the ongoing match between Spain and Croatia because Germany is a more balanced team than Scotland and the red card that was given to the Scotland player made the game more easier for Germany to gain for domination and score a lot of goals. I wasn't expecting Croatia to concede this number of goals in this game because they have a very good team but maybe they will get better in their next game because from the performance of Spain in this particular match, I think they will only allow Croatia to enjoy the possession while they keep hitting the ball at the back of the net.
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Today’s first match in EURO 2024 was between Hungary and Switzerland, with Switzerland winning the match 3-1. Making his debut as a national coach in a major tournament, Murat Yakin’s Switzerland showed greater ambition and emerged as a strong contender for qualification. With this result, Switzerland ranks second in Group A with a goal difference after Germany, while Hungary is third with zero points.
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Carvajal scored the third goal for Spain on the last minute of the extra time to seal up the first half. Yesterday Germany ended the first half with 3-0 in and scored to total of 5 goals in Group A. Maybe Spain will do the same in Group B today.

Croatia is a big team and I did not expect to see this intimidation on them from Spain. I hope that Croatia will be able to put themselves together in the second half, but I don't think that they will be able to equalize all three goals.
Croatia's defense was very poor, that's why they failed to prevent conceding 3 goals in the first half. The Spanish players were very intense in building attacks, they didn't even waste any opportunities they had. Croatia will certainly improve their attack instead of strengthening their defense, so they will try to improve it in the second half.

So far Croatia have also threatened the Spanish defense in the second half, but again they still failed to score. Spain's defensive concentration was still good, but there were several weaknesses that were exploited on the right side of the defense, although they still failed. Yamal almost scored the fourth goal for Spain, but his shot was saved by Dominik Livakovic.
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Spain are leading the game with two goals, scored within five minutes, and knowing this Spain team, I say that Croatia surely has no way back from this because Spain will push to score more goals as they usually do. Spain team are showing lots of vibrancy with the young, hungry and experienced players that they have mixed in their team. This points will be important for Spain because they have Italy in their group, and even Croatia who are loosing currently cannot still be ruled out. Croatia and Italy remain a strong threat to Spain's plan to qualify past this stage.

Croatia clearly had no way out after falling behind, especially since Spain added to their number of goals scored by Dani Carvajal. Because of this, we can confirm that the first 3 points in group B belong to Spain. Maybe Croatia could have scored their first or second goal in the second half, but that would be meaningless because Spain would definitely play defensively in the second half.
Carvajal scored the third goal for Spain on the last minute of the extra time to seal up the first half. Yesterday Germany ended the first half with 3-0 in and scored to total of 5 goals in Group A. Maybe Spain will do the same in Group B today.

Croatia is a big team and I did not expect to see this intimidation on them from Spain. I hope that Croatia will be able to put themselves together in the second half, but I don't think that they will be able to equalize all three goals. Spain will not defend in the second half rather they will attack like the first half.
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What a performance from Spain in 1st half  Shocked. It's the best half of Euro by far until now and I think it will take a while until this performance will be topped. If 2nd half Croatia won't wake up , I think Spain will score 2 more goals at least without Croatia being able to score once because they play poor football today.  Shocked

Spain are definitely going to show how good they are but one thing about the Croatia team is how they handle any game when it comes to the second half, to me the away team (Croatia) sees every game as a final so is not too late to get an equalizer no matter the score line (3-0). I feel the Croatia team will come out stronger than how they were in the first half, they hardly hold the ball and some little opportunity they have was thrown away without hitting the target, but expect more from them in the second half and I don't think we would be having a repeat of what happened in the Germany game yesterday in terms of goals(6 in total).
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After watching how Scotland got thrashed by Germany yesterday, I think Albania might be the next team to concede a lot of goals when they play against Italy. Being the weakest team placed in Group B, all of the other 3 teams will want to earn points from the hands of Albania and they are surely going to be playing offensively against Albania right from the start of the match, I guess Italy will be able to beat Albania easily today.

Italy might be the favorite in this match and they have a chance to win because they have a more promising squad than Albania, but I guess that it will not be easy for Italy just to beat Albania. What I see is that Albania has a fairly consistent performance and they even came out on top in group E while they were still in the qualifying phase. In that group phase, Albania showed that they had a fairly solid defense that was tough to break down (Albania only conceded 4 goals, and it was much better than Italy which had 9 goals conceded).
This is another stage in the competition that is why Albania will find it difficult in this stage. It is obvious that Albania is no match for any of the team in this stage and of course they will be leaving the competition after all the matches have been played. The remaining 3 teams here in this group will do all means to get complete 3 points from Albania and sure it is a game i will be certain to bet on and the goals will be more than 3 to 4 goals i each of the matches.
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What a first half result from Spain 3 goals down, the game was quite though for Croatia in this first half their actaking force was not strong enough to break Spain defense line although they are finding it difficult to hold ball, Spain really dominate the first half and they were able to break Croatia defense line, however I think Croatia really need to improve in this second half half to avoid consived another goals.
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What a performance from Spain in 1st half  Shocked. It's the best half of Euro by far until now and I think it will take a while until this performance will be topped. If 2nd half Croatia won't wake up , I think Spain will score 2 more goals at least without Croatia being able to score once because they play poor football today.  Shocked
I thought Spain vs Croatia would be a tough match with a level of difficulty for both of them to score goals. It turned out that was not true because Spain had no difficulty at all so that 3 goals were scored in the first half even though Croatia had the ball possession advantage up to 54%.
The first half was quite bad for Croatia. A fragile back line and a front line that was unable to convert opportunities into goals.

The second half will begin. What I want to see now is not Spain, but Croatia's ability to equalize the score. If nothing changes, Croatia will probably be like Scotland yesterday.
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What a performance from Spain in 1st half  Shocked. It's the best half of Euro by far until now and I think it will take a while until this performance will be topped. If 2nd half Croatia won't wake up , I think Spain will score 2 more goals at least without Croatia being able to score once because they play poor football today.  Shocked
Spain deserved a score of 3-0 in the first half because in terms of dominance they were superior, Croatia had minimal opportunities, this was because Croatia front line was not sharp enough to penetrate the Spanish defense. We know that Yamal was the difference in this match and was able to move freely through the Croatian defense. the assist he created provide proof that at his young age he has appeared very mature with the national team. Carvajal last goal was quite difficult to predict because it was in the final seconds until the referee finally whistled after the goal. Croatia had 1 chance but unfortunately the ball was too late, it was already in front of the goal but they were unlucky.
In the second half it looked like Spain was still trying to add to their goal collection, the Spanish players were still hungry for goals, maybe Lamine Yamal could score a goal in the second half.
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What a performance from Spain in 1st half  Shocked. It's the best half of Euro by far until now and I think it will take a while until this performance will be topped. If 2nd half Croatia won't wake up , I think Spain will score 2 more goals at least without Croatia being able to score once because they play poor football today.  Shocked
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I don't find at all funny to watch friendly games because teams are not giving everything they got and it's just a waste of time in my opinion. They also want to avoid injuries and friendly games purpose are just to make sure you can put in practice what you learned in training because there is no real prize for actually winning a friendly game.

There is also the other side , where people chose to bet on friendly games and they end up losing on odds 1.05 or 1.10 out of nowhere so it's safer to stay out of betting on friendly games.  Grin
It is natural that you will not get maximum performance in unimportant matches. Win or lose in friendly matches doesn't matter here so teams will definitely want their players to finish the game injury free and they won't get 100 percent performance when they enter the field with these thoughts in mind. I am just waiting for the main stage match to start. Euro competitions are always tough, especially from the group stage matches in all these tournaments. After a few matches in the main stage we can say which team can do well in this tournament or which team's performance can be consistent. Since friendly matches are taking place till now we have to enjoy only these matches and we have to be serious about the main phase matches.
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Spain are leading the game with two goals, scored within five minutes, and knowing this Spain team, I say that Croatia surely has no way back from this because Spain will push to score more goals as they usually do. Spain team are showing lots of vibrancy with the young, hungry and experienced players that they have mixed in their team. This points will be important for Spain because they have Italy in their group, and even Croatia who are loosing currently cannot still be ruled out. Croatia and Italy remain a strong threat to Spain's plan to qualify past this stage.

Croatia clearly had no way out after falling behind, especially since Spain added to their number of goals scored by Dani Carvajal. Because of this, we can confirm that the first 3 points in group B belong to Spain. Maybe Croatia could have scored their first or second goal in the second half, but that would be meaningless because Spain would definitely play defensively in the second half.
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Croatia didn't start the game badly indeed. But the score says it is 2-0 advantage for Spain anyway. The goals came by a short interval and Croatia are in shock after a good start. Do you think they can come back from this situation? Honestly I don't think it would happen. Spain are really good at securing wins in this kind of situations.

I'm enjoying the game just as expected.  Smiley  There is a high tension and I hope to see it until the end. I was thinking of betting on Spain win & both teams to score and the odds must be quite high as far as I remember. If it happens I will be sad for not betting on it.  Sad
Croatia basically created several good chances to score, but so far in the first half they have not been able to convert into goals. Spain led the first half with a 2 goal lead scored by Morata and Fabian Ruiz, that was as expected. Unai Simon has had to work hard to maintain his team's lead against Croatian pressure and opportunities, so far he has managed to do it perfectly. Oh just now, Yamal delivered a beautiful assist to Carvajal for the third goal. 3-0 now.

My guess is that Spain can secure this victory until the match ends. Spain is still very likely to score additional goals in the second half, but they also have to maintain concentration on defense so as not to concede.
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The first half was 3-0 to Spain, Shocked this is hard for Croatia to stop I'm not sure I can get back all those goals even in the second half to add more.
It is possible that in the second half Croatia can reduce the goal but it is difficult to equalize, I believe Spain can maintain this victory until the end, but at least with the bet choosing Spain has quite high odds.
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Today's Euro's opener was marked with interesting highlights; Germany scoring six goals and Scotland getting a goal without a shot on target. I think this is the highest number of goals of in the history of this tournament.
And, Scotland's only goal was an OG by Rudiger. This is a gift for Scotland, at least getting 5 - 1 goal, better than 5 - 0 .
But indeed, judging from the abilities of each individual in the club, in every line, their movements, how their coach manages their tactics, the difference between the top team, Germany and Scotland, is clearly visible. Yes, they only had one chance to shoot on target and they also missed it. Then look at how Germany dominated the ball throughout the match. it doesn't seem even, so at the start of the match, it seems to be quite boring to watch. but then. german did it excellently.


Source: UEFA Euro 2024 Germany vs Scotland

It was a very good start to the match and a very good start to the EURO opener for Germany, but on the contrary, very bad for Scotland.
Lolz. You can say Scotland were the sacrificial lambs used by Germany. You can also say Julian Nagelsmann released his German machines on the poor Scottish teammates and it was really painful to watch as nothing the visitors did could yield a positive result, more like they did not train for this game.
 It's safe to say that Germany have set the bar for the other participating teams in this tournament as they will be looking to outnumber those goals gotten last night.
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Croatia didn't start the game badly indeed. But the score says it is 2-0 advantage for Spain anyway. The goals came by a short interval and Croatia are in shock after a good start. Do you think they can come back from this situation? Honestly I don't think it would happen. Spain are really good at securing wins in this kind of situations.

I'm enjoying the game just as expected.  Smiley  There is a high tension and I hope to see it until the end. I was thinking of betting on Spain win & both teams to score and the odds must be quite high as far as I remember. If it happens I will be sad for not betting on it.  Sad
Both Spain and Croatia are big names and honestly I did not expect 2 goals in first half in favour of one side. If I have dreamt of HT 2 goals, I would have predicted that they share the goals. I am not able to view the match, I am in transit but I have managed to see the line up now. I think it is high time Croatia began to feature younger players in their national team. A player like Modric was supposed to come in after the round of group matches where his experience will be needed. A younger and vibrant person is needed for physicality. The Croatia of them world cup finals I know is very different from the Croatia we have now. There's no how the world cup runner up Croatia will conceed 2 goals in HT.
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