Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 339. (Read 46458 times)

@Sithara007 I totally agree on these because during the Nations League matches player’s were happy to lose the game rather then play with more intensity and win the match and if this competition gets scrapped then it would provide big relief for the player’s. Furthermore if it doesn’t get scrapped and World Cup is held every two year’s then we will be seeing multiple squads for these competition as star player’s won’t participate in all the competitions.

In the end players are suffering from increased workload. Clubs are getting more demanding now, as they are paying huge amounts as salaries. Apart from the national leagues, the clubs are participating in increasing number of matches such as friendlies and other competitions such as the FIFA Club World Cup. At the same time, international duty has also increased. FIFA has expanded the world cup, number of international friendlies have gone up and the tournaments being organized by different confederations such as UEFA are also expanding.

The National league is like practise match to the top players before going to the World Cup and Euro leagues.Some players use to take rest till the game of Euro and World Cup.Because this two games will give good name to the player and explosure.The most important one for the player is to injury free and should recover from the injury in the short period of time.The football need of huge stamina as compared to the cricket game.Because in cricket player will get some rest time during the batting time of their team.Because only two will use to bat at a time.But football need of full stamina to all the player except the goal-keeper.The National leagues all the time make the player to get injury before the Euro game most of the time.

The biggest problem if you ask me was the defense. They were too far up the pitch in both goals and took time to get back. Look at the first goal, it was a penalty and a fault of the defense, you do not do that on the world cup finals, it wasn't like a tackle or anything neither, it was just pure mistake. Look at the second goal, defense was nowhere to be found when Argentina started their counter attack, you see them get the ball, start hitting back already, stop with the offisde trick.

All in all I believe that we are going to probably see them have better defensive understanding, they need to be planted better and they need to do better. Offense was great all game long and I do not see any issues with that at all.

I doubt that UEFA will admit their mistakes, especially considering that other players in the market are promoting their crappy tournaments (FIFA with its Club World Cup + World Cup every 2 years). And besides that, there is still a danger from the Superleague. So this tournament will continue to exist, but it will mean no more than friendly games.

France's performance in the first half of the 2022 World Cup was not at all satisfactory but when France picked up several players from the starting XI, France bounced back against Argentina. 

When Ousmane Dembélé, Giroud Griezmann were taken off the field in the second half, France played brilliantly and Mbappe was unstoppable. If Karim Benzema had been present in the final match, France would have gone a step closer to winning the World Cup. Only one save at the very end of the game denied France the World Cup and their penalty shootout was not at all satisfactory which saw them lose the final match. France can do quite well with the team they currently have.

The Nations League is definitely an unnecessary format. It is like it has been created to tire players even more. There are very crucial tournaments like Euro and World Cup on one hand. It is very important for teams to keep their players injury-free and fully fit for those big tournaments.

The next Nations League tournament must be in the 2024/25 season if I'm not wrong. This will just increase the risk of getting injured or cause them to become extra tired before Euro 2024. Most of the teams would like to rest their main players of course and this would make the Nations League even more boring.

UEFA should think of removing this tournament.

I agree. I think that UEFA is giving much more importance to the fans than to the players. Friendlies were played for a reason - to prepare the team for the upcoming competition, to introduce new players to the team and so on. It's normal that the best players doesn't want to play in the Nations League or doesn't give their 100%.

If the intent was to replace the friendlies, then this has been a huge failure. Friendlies are played when the players get a break from the league matches, or when the association feels that there is a need to prepare the team ahead of a major tournament. Fixing these sort of matches way ahead is not going to work. And we saw this during the Nations League. A lot of the main players pulled out of the competition, and even those who agreed to play didn't gave much importance to these matches. I guess UEFA need to stop meddling everywhere.

Well, it's respectable, we all have a perception of the players, and we can issue an opinion, at first when CR7 made himself known I didn't like his style, I thought he was a very self-centered person and that bothered me, besides I didn't like him because he cried a lot, according to this one creates a perception of a player, after seeing his plays I liked his plays better because he showed a style almost free style and he was not afraid of any player, after I saw a little more of him, as he was, his personality, charity work was something that I liked and I determined that he is not a bad person, at some point when we as players go to play soccer we come across people who believe a lot and dislike them, but They turn out to be good people.

There are fans of CR7 who hate Messi, and fans of Messi who hate CR7, what they don't know is that they are two great legends that we should take advantage of our times so that we can enjoy more of their plays.


One way that I have thought of making this tournament worthwhile, which is not bad, but I think that sometimes there are opportunities that coincide with great competitions is that they give incentives, for example, the country that wins the Nations League to be given a place in the World Cup, that is a good incentive and that would raise the nicvl of this competition, I think that if it does something like that it will stop being rubbish, although that is not descriptive for me, but I understand why what they say

This is very similar when they do the Euro, or when they do the Copa América in South America, they don't give incentives, it doesn't make any sense to win the Copa América if they say they are the champions of the Americas, but without places in the World Cup, it can happen that a team X wins the Copa América but does not qualify for the World Cup and it has happened, the same thing happens with the Euro and the Nations League, so it would be interesting if they put it to use in that way, winning the trophy and a place in the World Cup.

Personally, I always like to watch the matches in Europe, the countries have a high level, especially the team that gives the most talk, in this case I think everyone, I would like Italy to play a good role, because Italian football is one of the most beautiful and hardest in the world, the history of Il Calcio is beautiful.

It is extended over 2 years. If, for example, some team is in League B, then it must first get into League A, then win the group and only then win the playoffs. As I understand it will take 4 years. If we are talking about a team from League C, then we are talking about 6 years. For example, Greece, which was the European champion, is now in the C League. Broken format.

If I'm not mistaken, the Nations League tournament was suppose to replace friendly games that were played. Those games had small number of spectators so UEFA wanted to make them more competitive. The problem with that is there is no clear goal that nations are fighting for in the Nations League. If they change the format to super-cup (knockout games), then all nations that drop out will have to play friendly games. That defeats the purpose of the Nations League.

I'm not saying that I enjoy watching Nations League games. They would definitely be more attractive if there was more incentive for nations to win.

I agree with you guys on UEFA Nations League. It is a garbage tournament and needs to be shelved. If they want, they can expand the Euro Cup. But the Nations League is pure rubbish. Anyway, how can we even follow a tournament that is spread out across two years? And what is the need for such a tournament when we have the Euro Cup? If they still want to retain the Nations League, then they should change the format to super-cup (i.e all the matches being playoffs with no group stage), and complete the tournament in one to two weeks.

Yes, this is a garbage tournament and even its format is completely garbage - no one will look at a tournament stretched out over a couple of years. The bad news is that this tournament is not "isolated" but affects other important events like the Euro. And the ticket distribution format for the losers also causes great annoyance - to understand it, I studied Wikipedia for about 15 minutes and also read comments on other sites. I do not understand how it was possible to come up with this stupid format with three paths.

Well, good that you bring this up with those alternative ways to qualify for the Euro 24, but I can tell you that I am not a fan of al these formats the FIFA and UEFA have created. Just to find out what the chances are for a team to qualify for the Euro or not, how many websites do you even have to visit these days and how many tournaments to follow? The League of Nations is stupid. Nobody values it unless a team is dependent on it to qualify for the Euro. But it has no meaning in terms of the results there. Just look at France, 5 points out of 6 games and 7 and 8 points behind Denmark and Croatia, respectively. England 3 points out of 6 games, not a single win in all those games and 7 points behind Hungary. What is the point of this stupid tournament? It is not because those teams are bad, it is because they give a shit about the League of Nations. I can't remember whether I ever watched a game of that tournament.

Every prospective country has its prominent individuals and, most importantly, the players capable of leading the club to triumph. The Euro 2024 is just around the corner, and I can't wait to see how these countries fare. France has always been my favorite club; they have a good group of skilled players that are looking for a ShowOff during games. Kylian Mbappe is a big name right now; he delivers at both club and national levels, which has swayed enough people to trust him with the new era leading version. Mentioning Benzema in country games, he doesn't even have a space there, because he never delivers in country games.

Kylian Mbappé is just 24 years old. Already a lot of people are comparing him with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. IMO, such comparisons are premature. He has just started his career and has a long way to go. It will be better not to put additional pressure on him, by comparing him with legends. And regarding the role of Benzema, I am confident that Mbappé will be able to replace him. Benzema is already 35 years old and he has moved out of Europe by signing a 3-year contract with the Saudi club Al-Ittihad.

It will be super funny if the current European champion, after missing the World Cup, also misses the European Championship itself 
But for some reason it seems to me that even if they do not take one of the first two places in the group, they will get a ticket from the additional tournament in which they will 100% get - they have the bronze of the League of Nations, so they will have the highest rating among the rest of the losers.

Kylian Mbappe is really a big chance for France. They have to make the best use of him, which they did in the World Cup and after extra time they lost the World Cup on penalties. I am now convinced that France is the strongest team for Euro 2024. Of course, Benzema is a good player, but Mbappe is a player who can fill his void. They will need to keep Mbappe at the top.

Yes but sometimes even the teams who were easy to beat back in the days turn out to be harder opponents than expected. Iceland is one of those teams and even Luxembourg is doing so much better than what we were used to. Italy is one of the negative examples, even failing to qualify for the World Cup altogether and another dangerous situation could be on the horizon for them if they don't manage to beat Ukraine in the Euro qualifiers in the fist leg against them. It would come down to a showdown on the last day of the qualifiers.