Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 341. (Read 46401 times)

Hey Lucius, I'm sorry I took so long to answer, I didn't see your mention (it's time to me to use the notification bot)

I confess I didn't know about this boycott they are trying to get Modric not to play for the national team anymore, he has 1 year to retire more or less.
I thought it was all right since they had testified in court and were absolved.

I find it particularly difficult to understand these things without living in the country (as is my case), but I know how the media / politics work when they want to interfere in something and even without being right, they manage to damage reputations or harm many people

I hope everything works out again and both players can prove their innocence and Modric can finish his career in the national team in a dignified way as he has been so far.
The bad thing about this is that things like this can shake the structure of a team

In your opinion, are there any real chances that either of the two players will actually be arrested?

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Both teams, Belgium and Netherlands have a lot of similarities: great players, great structure, good results during the qualifiers, good results in the FIFA ranking, and they even manage to beat some bigger teams along the way, but there is still something missing that cannot be explained, it seems like that tradition thing, like Real Madrid does in Champions League even though they are bad during the season

I've seen Netherlands play historic games that they looked unbeatable, they've had teams that could even win the world cup, like in 1994, 1998. And Belgium too, in 2014 and 2018 I thought they could win the world title, but they didn't

Both teams can make a good euro 24 and reach at least quarter-finals

I am not sure if they will be as good, but they already won a world cup so I do not think that it will matter all that much. They do have a decent number of players but I do not think that they are good enough to win anything anymore, it's not just about Messi or not, you can put a 30 year old Messi into this club and it would still be hard.

It's a marvelous achievement that they won the world cup, it was definitely a great success but I do not see their team talented enough anymore, they just do not look like it to me. Maybe I am mistaken, after all they won the world cup title, so they must be good, but to me the roster itself is not that amazing, look at the roster and valuations to see what I am trying to say here.

I never really liked Ronaldo.... Yes, of course as a player he is one of the best in the world, but his behaviour in the team did cause a lot of controversy.... There were even rumours that when he played at Real Madrid, he could tell the coach which player would play and which would not be in the team.... But luckily now there is a new generation of good footballers growing up in the Portuguese national team....

Argentina will continue to exist without Messi just like they continued their national team existence without Maradona many years after his retirement. Many players were considered as new Maradona but only Messi came closely to Maradona or we can say he is already bigger than Maradona?

Next few years, after Messi announce his retirement, we will see more young players considered as new Messi, Messi Jr. This will put more pressure on those youth players and not only few of them can grow up their career well. Maybe only one player will surpass Messi but will it happen soon or we will have to wait like 50 or 100 more years to see such player?

Only Julian and Enzo are young enough to have good fitness in World Cup 2026. Allister is not old but three more years can change many things for a football player and he is not too young like Julian and Enzo.

Argentina always have many football talents but they might have some years with crisis like Brazil now. A good team have to play well without star and super star players because firstly they might not have such players and they can suddenly miss those players by injuries.

I only suspect that hope arises because the rankings of the two countries are close together in the world, France is second after Argentina and England is fourth after Brazil. England has indeed performed well in recent years, while France need not be doubted because even though they failed at the World Cup they provided resistance which was not easy for Argentina at that time, but for some reason I always doubted England, they had not won a title in quite a while, the previous European Cup was the best chance they had but failed and that was quite painful, and this time the European Cup I also thought the same that they would not be able to become champions even though it was too early to say that, English players often performed below expectations unlike when at the club.
This time the European Cup has Germany as the host and they have also performed poorly for a long time, maybe there will be surprises that will be shown later, and can become one of the challengers for the championship unless there is no improvement after failing several times in the European Cup and World Cup.

I know that and forever Ronaldo will remain an idol and a legend in the history of Portuguese football.
While playing for the Portugal national team, Ronaldo scored 122 goals in 198 matches and this is an extraordinary achievement that Ronaldo has given to the Portugal national team.
But on the other hand, from his great achievements, he is also often a controversial player and has always been a hot topic of conversation by all football fans and observers.

Argentina will survive without Messi. They have good depth in player pool. But I can't say whether they will be able to defend the trophy in 2026 without Messi. They have a very well balanced team with youngsters like Julián Álvarez, Nicolás González, Alexis Mac Allister and Enzo Fernández providing enough support to veteran players like Ángel Di María, Rodrigo De Paul and Messi. France also have a similar setup, but then the ci-ordination between different payers is not that great. Argentina on the other hand has excellent team cohesion.

Argentina is a great team developing itself in these last years with Messi as an even greater team,they lost the final of the World Cup in 2014 and they won it in 2022 so their form was excellent and it was the best team of the whole World Cup.In the Euro though France yes it is the most promising team to win the Euro but let's not forget Germany who is the host and is playing in front of their home fans willing to ask a forgiveness for what they achieved in the last years and wanting to be one of the most prestigious teams like they deserve too,then of course England is the best team,let's also not forget a very young age as a team for Spain who are growing together,I think it will be disputed between these teams the Euro 2024.

France have a very strong team but it does not guarantee titles for them. They won World Cup 2018, failed in Euro 2020 and played well in World Cup 2022. They have a very golden generation that can help them to win more titles in Euro and World Cup.

England are a bit far behind France and they need to win one title to be recognized. A runner up in Euro 2020 is not enough. They can hope that a treble winning of Manchester City including Champions League will help their national team gain big success. We see Spain, Germany got a lot of positive impacts from their club success.

Argentina will have to face with uncertain future without Messi. He does not want to play for Argentina in another World Cup and even he wants, Argentina have to prepare for a future non-Messi future.

There is no doubt that France is the strongest team in UEFA at this point. And only England can give them some sort of a competition. But there is no guarantee that France will be able to maintain their dominance in the long term. We all saw what happened during the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals. Argentina completely dominated the match for the first 80 minutes, as there was hardly any co-ordination between French players. Having good players alone will not work, if the players doesn't bond together as a team.

Considering how well they have done so far, I am guessing that everyone is favoring France easily, yet the biggest threat they have is that a lot of their players are young as well, not all of course but plenty of young stars in that team which means that they are going to be favorites for many upcoming tournaments, at least until 2030 world cup.

In the end, France and England has proved everyone how good they were but they could meet again like last time and that could cause them not to face at finals, and that would be a shame but it gives another team a chance. If you meet either of them on the finals, it doesn't matter which team is playing, at the final game it's just one win takes it all situation and anything could happen.

Well, it is obvious that each person has a way of thinking about CR7, personally if I consider that he is one of the best in the world, what does his temperament have? Yes but why? because he wants to win all the time, which he will say, if you are in the Portugal team you have to give it all, that nothing is left, that your soul remains on the field, as it should be, it is your country that you are representing, And when he sees that his teammates don't give it their all, he gets like that, and I understand it, how many of us haven't gotten like that when we play soccer and see that others don't feel like it? are we happy? maybe when you play for the sake of playing, but in a championship you have to give everything, and that he has played 700 legal games with his country, that he scored the goal, that is worth seeing, for me he is still the best in the world next to Messi , and personally no other player of the quality of the two of them has come out.


What they say is very true, I believe that France will always be one of the favorite teams to win any cup, and I also share what they think, Croatia is one of the strongest teams in the world, Italy will undoubtedly show a lot, for me Italian football is eager to do what they always do, win, and we cannot forget the Portugal team, it is a very complete team with good players, with great quality, this is something that could be said that Europe continues to rise level in soccer.

What I like about the teams in Europe is the training and the Schools they have for the children, because they are trained with good technique , that is why European football has always been of a high level, unlike the South American teams. that in a few countries there is excellent quality training, the teams have training on the streets, and it is incredible , it seems that this helps much more, you just have to look at BRAZIL, the case of Anthony, raised in the favelas , where his only objective it was to give his family a better life , now he is in Europe at the MU at the level of the Europeans , excelling from time to time , so the opportunities in Europe should be well taken Advantage of.

England team under Gareth Southgate were playing very stable that after being an the finalist on Euro 2020 England also can able to performing well at world cup and for Euro 2024 qualification matches too England became an the team with the most goal productivity with 15 goals and their defense also very solid because from 4 matches England only conceded 1 goal so they have good opportunity to qualified as group champion

It could be good final match if both teams will met at final match of this competition later because France too has showing impressive performance lately and 12 points from 4 matches has been proven they were too strong on group B however recently England has been make a history for junior tournament that they were can able to being an the champion of Euro U-21 and England even has fantastic records they can gets the trophy without conceded goals so with this result probably will motivate England senior team to following their junior and gets the trophy from this tournament

Why not? Their match at the world cup in Qatar was very even and uncertain.
If Kane had scored a penalty goal at the end of their match to equalize the score, I have a feeling that England would have won in the end.
In my opinion, England were the better opponent for most of the game.
France won thanks to their experience and luck, but it could be a different story at the EURO.
England are now on par with France and can beat them, no doubt about that.
Apart from them, I also consider Italy, Spain and Croatia to be serious candidates for the title.
In any case, a very uncertain and high-quality competition awaits us.

Right after France I would favour England for the Euro 2024 title honestly. France are already a clear favourite now but nothing is guaranteed of course. They can always a face a team that know how to play against them to capture the advantage. Can it be England? Why wouldn't they? I watched their most recent head-to-head and England played really decently against them. Maybe France still won but it wasn't an easy one for them.

Watching a finale between France and England in the Euro 2024 would be really interesting to watch. The host country is Germany maybe but they are really in a desperate condition now with the current generation.

Yeah I agree, recently we have impressive performance from the Croatia, and they are surely one of the best country which is producing good players in last decade with this advantage they can do better in coming years as well too many impressive players are in different big clubs in UEFA which have bright future and surely with these quality players things are not bad for the Croatian national team as well which have good history in the short time.

Even there is no doubt Modric is the most impressive player, but we will have few more in coming years which will be better or lower from him but surely will give good performance for their team as already mentioned above about few which are doing good in different countries.

Erling Haaland is a player who needs support from the team, so if he doesn't have assists, it's hard for him to score goals. he actually won 1 vs 1 with the opposing defender. Only certain teams are rarely able to get this situation.

Being a striker, no matter how good, if he is closely guarded by opposing defenders (can't run freely) it will be difficult to score goals. I don't know what type of good striker to be. But in my opinion, as long as he finishes well and scores a lot of goals, he is considered a good striker. At Man City, even though Aguero and Jesus' skills were better, I saw a very big difference when Haaland was there. He can make the enemy ketar ketir. So it's true, as you said, Halland is a great player, but when playing for his country, he needs support from the team.

The development in Croatia national team over the recent years has been very impressive to observe. There's a lot of young talents in the team and that's why the performance of the team wouldn't be much affected when the likes of Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic retires from international football.
Though the much talked-about golden generation of Croatia might be leaving the international scene very soon but they surely have good replacements for them

I wouldn't completely agree with you.
Only two key players in the Croatian team are over 30 years old, Modrić at 37 and Perišić at 34. The retirement of these two after the EURO will not mean a big change of generations in the Croatian national team, although of course it will be a certain handicap.
However, Croatia still has a lot of young and talented players in the team like Gvardiol (soon to Manchester City) who is only 21 years old, Kovacic (Manchester City) who is 29 years old, Stanisic (Bayern) who is only 23 years old, Majer (Rennes) who is only 25 years old... so there is no need to worry about the future of the Croatian national football team.
I don't think this is the end of Croatia's golden generation and Croatia will be strong again at the EURO and at the next world cup.

Here I agree with @Sithara007 as they need to do something if they want to increase their quality and performance, but things are looking not positive for them with limited sources, and secondly they also have no luxury of migrant population which contribute for the better results like we have in many other European countries.

With their currently quality and performance mostly they can stand at third or fourth into their groups for the top competitions and have no fair chance for any quality event few years back things were going good, and they were doing good as well but now in last few years they are completely down and having chances for staying at this level until they have any revolutionary change into their system.