Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 265. (Read 46401 times)

In my opinion, Croatia is one of the strongest teams in the world. They have consistently been in the top four strongest teams at the last two World Cups. Modric is the strongest player in the world and he is Croatian. But in this qualifying tournament the team did not show a bright game, but still they reached the final stage of the tournament. I hope Croatia will show more spectacular and interesting soccer at Euro-24.

Well... in case of Turkey I would agree. But Wales was ahead of Croatia for a large part of the qualifier phase. In the end, however Croatia managed to secure the direct qualification to the main event with a couple of wins. During the last couple of years, Wales have fared relatively well. And they continue to do so, despite the retirement of their best player (Gareth Bale). Even now, they have a good chance of qualifying for the Euro 2024, if they can win two of the playoff matches. And that is not a very difficult target, given that their opponents are weak teams like Estonia. 

Wales did not have many chances to get out of the group. The draw with Turkey was of course decisive, including Croatia beating Armenia. But there was probably no doubt that Croatia and Turkey would top the group.

Thanks to this draw, Turkey was able to maintain first place in the group, otherwise Croatia would have had a better goal difference if they lost. For Wales the result made no difference and even with a win they would still have remained in third place as Croatia were able to beat Armenia to secure a place in the play-off stages. Croatia surprised me the most in this group stage, I thought that it would not be difficult for them to become leaders in this group.

Romania did it! They qualified 1st in their group and they did it in style by beating Swiss last night 1-0. I was watching the game with some friends and I tried all week go get my hands on a ticket but everything went sold out in just a couple of hours so I had to be happy just to watch the game on TV.

I'm surprised with Belarus beating Kosovo and take 3 points and also I'm a bit surprised as well to see Greece 2-2 against France who scored 14 goals just 3 days ago...

France has been performing really well in the Euro qualifiers this season. Most of the matches that France has played since the World Cup have gone in France's favor and in all of them, France has looked like an overwhelming team. England didn't finish the World Cup as they expected but the squad is strong enough with a mixture of young and experienced players and the team looks confident going into the Euro qualifiers. Portugal is currently in the best position with 100% wins. Winning all the matches before such an important tournament is not an easy task which Portugal has done. All things considered, France, England and Portugal look like huge favorites for this season.

In the formality match played yesterday, Wales and Türkiye drew 1-1 and completed the group matches. Türkiye had already guaranteed to be the leader of the group. Although Wales took a 1-0 lead in the 7th minute, Turkey made the score 1-1 with a penalty goal in the second half and the match ended 1-1.
Turkey, which defeated Germany 2-3 away in the friendly match, played bad football in the match played yesterday. I can't wait to see what he does in the finals in Germany.

If we look at the results after the matches played yesterday, I see that you are right. Croatia beat Armenia 1-0. Wales, on the other hand, conceded a goal from a penalty in the match which they led 1-0 for a long time, and settled for a draw. If Croatia had lost points, I thought there was a possibility that Wales could have left the group. When Wales scored the first goal, the match against Croatia was a draw. In that case, Türkiye and Wales were out. That's what football is like. There is always excitement.

Albania really surprised many people and came out of the group, ahead of Poland and Moldavia, but we must say that the team played well and deserved their exit from the group. I would also mention Scotland, who in a tough group with Spain managed to get out of the group. We are waiting for 3 more teams for a full set and I think Ukraine, Poland and Wales have the best chances to qualify. 

@Bobrox Italy has a long way to go and I don’t have much expectations from them because they’re not playing like they used to and one should avoid piling expectations on them. Furthermore I expect them to be knocked out early unless they can drastically improve but to be honest if in an important match they end up drawing then there’s not much hope left for them.

As of now, the playoff groupings are as follows. A total of 12 teams will take part in this round, and out of them 3 are going to qualify for the main event in Germany (3 teams are yet to be grouped: Iceland, Ukraine and Finland):

Group A: Poland, Wales, Estonia + 1 more team
Group B: Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina + 2 more teams
Group C: Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan and Luxembourg

As per my prediction, the teams that are most probable to qualify are as follows:

Group A: Wales
Group B: Ukraine (if they get placed in Group B)
Group C: Greece

Unbelievable with the last EURO edition winner Italy have been on weakness pot, including not impressive performance in Group stage qualifier but I don't believe with UEFA released Italy have been on the poor pot regarding they are defending EURO winner on edition 2020. Regarding finished standings as second place on Group qualifier I disagree with UEFA put Italy on very poor pot and potential will get the difficult group exactly have to face teams from favorite pot such as potential will face with Germany,  Portugal, France, Spain, Belgium, or England on Pot 1.

Regarding three playoff winner from Nation League I don't know detail which one national teams will be in the fourth pot, will any chance for teams not qualified in group stage get chance on playoff winner and will be on fourth pot?

France does seem to have a solid performance, but I see that Portugal and England are the ones that I really hope can go further. Especially Portugal, which is currently filled with young players who are very high quality and are in their best performance at the clubs they are currently working at. Cr7, who is also the captain on the field, can still make a very good contribution to his national team. And only Portugal managed to win 10 matches without a draw and without defeat in the qualifying round. And currently the English national team is also worth paying attention to. Because Kane and his friends also seem to have very good chemistry this time.

UEFA has come up with an unusual grouping system that could lead to a "group of death" scenario at Euro 2024. Following last night's matches, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) identified the 21 teams that have secured spots in Euro 2024, including the host team Germany and the top two teams from each of the 10 groups (making a total of 20 teams). The remaining three spots will be determined through the UEFA Nations League.

What's noteworthy is that UEFA didn't seed the teams based on FIFA rankings or their performance in previous Euro finals. Instead, they introduced a peculiar seeding rule, considering teams' performances in the Euro 2024 qualifiers to determine the seedings.

This led to the reigning Euro 2020 champions Italy being pushed down to the fourth seed group because of a lackluster performance in the qualifiers. Other formidable teams in Europe, such as Croatia and the Netherlands, find themselves in the third seed group. Conversely, underdog teams like Albania have been elevated to the second seed group.

The Euro 2024 seeding groups are as follows:

Group 1: Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Belgium, England

Group 2: Hungary, Turkey, Romania, Denmark, Albania, Austria

Group 3: Netherlands, Scotland, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic

Group 4: Italy, Serbia, Switzerland, three playoff winners from the Nations League

With this seeding outcome, Euro 2024 might witness some challenging groups, with potentially intense matchups between England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Italy. Similarly, formidable opponents like Croatia (Group 3), Switzerland, and Serbia (Group 4) could pose challenges to other strong European teams.

Wales gave tough competition to the other teams. But it was always going to be very difficult to qualify ahead of Croatia and Turkey. Anyway they still have one more chance remaining. There are a total of 12 teams taking part in the playoff round and out of that 3 are going to qualify for the main tournament in Germany. Exact composition of groups are not yet known, but we know that Wales will be placed in the same group as Poland and Estonia. 4th team is not yet known and will be one among Finland, Ukraine and Iceland. Anyway looks like Wales will be the strongest team from this group.

From initial theirs no day I assumed that Armenia will defeat Croatia, right from time Croatia have been taking anything concerning football very and talk less of Armenia, from the beginning of the group I knew that Armenia is going to lose the match even though they come with all their best players Croatia will definitely defeat them, If Croatia lose match against Armenia that means maybe they are not prepared or they want to sell wining to Armenia. Turkey and Wales, when you looked at the competition you will know that both team is just trying their best to defeat each both when you talk of football calculations in both team you will see that Wales was tried their best to pressure Turkey and win but they lack courage, because already Wales suppose to win Turkey in that match, shall a football is not predictable and a minute in football can give the other opponent a draw.

Well, I also feel a draw is a fairly fair result for this match. Because Greece, who hosted this match, really showed their readiness to face France. And if we look at the flashback of the previous meeting between these two teams, we will also be able to see that France, when they were the hosts, also had difficulties when facing Greece. So in the previous meeting, France could only win 1-0 thanks to the penalty kick they got. Without it, the result will definitely be a draw.

Albania was finish at first place and they have 15 points equal to Czech and indeed this is surprising results because before qualification stages begin most people were thought Czech and Poland will be qualified but poor performance from Poland makes them unable to play at Euro 2024 and about Albania if i am not mistaken Albania have been qualified to play at Euro cup on 2016 at that time they can able to finish at second place under Portugal on qualification stages but indeed their status on Euro 2016 as underdog team and their journey have to ended early because from group stage Albania only able to finish at 3rd place and on Euro 2024 too i think their status will not so different but Albania will into pot 2 for drawing stages

Out of all the 20 teams who have qualified directly to the main tournament so far, one team surprised me the most - Albania. I don't remember seeing them in any of the major UEFA or FIFA tournaments. This time they were lucky enough to be placed in a weak group along with Czech Republic, Poland, Moldova and Faroe Islands and they made maximum use out of it by topping the group. Czechia was the other team who qualified from Group E. Poland used to be a very strong team, but they finished at 3rd place.

First of all, I think people sometimes call him Lakaka because he is known for making some dumb mistakes and some silly misses. And definitely, there have been a lot of lakaka moments.

 But when it comes to international competition, I absolutely agree that he is actually pretty underrated. Maybe that’s because he has not done something really incredible recently in international competition. But he can certainly perform. And I can say that sometimes he cannot perform as expected because of all the criticism and Memes, getting to his Mental.