Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 378. (Read 46401 times)

If you were to look at the FIFA ranking and individual quality, then Serbia has the advantage, although it should be taken into account that Montenegro has the advantage of the home field, and that it started well in the qualifiers with a victory against Bulgaria away from home. In addition, this match is a little more than football because Montenegro has been fighting against the strong influence of Serbian politics for years and the relations between the two countries are quite tense.

Because of all this, the domestic football association and UEFA declared this match as a match of increased security risk.

Individually Ronaldo deserved to celebrate the brace he did in the last two matches. But as a team, I still can't say anything because the opponent they are facing is not a worthy opponent. But I'm sure that under the new coach, Portugal will still be the top seed in Group J. For Martinez, this successive victory made his sweet debut record with the Portugal national team. Portugal played attractively in the first two matches. It's just that, looking at the level of Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, Portugal's consistency has yet to be tested.

The previous match between Montenegro vs Serbia where Serbia won was just a friendly match, any club will face a same opponent for 2 times. Serbia is more popular because they have duo Dusan: Vlahovic and Tadic, one is a play maker and another one is an executor.

Until now all of matches in Euro qualifiers are goes like everyone predictions where the higher rank in FIFA will always win. I think betting below 3.5 or 2.5 seems better because both of clubs aren't won with big margins.

First game it's cancelo who was huge second it's Nuno. It's going to be really monstrous when we put both on the same game. Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fernandes, who play higher, really changes the whole team. We talk a lot about Cristiano but I think he is there especially because he is very complementary with Felix who is clearly at ease.


Denmark went in being the favourites.
Infact, they dominated the game until the 72 minutes when the tables turned when Kazakhstan became magical. It was just unbelievable to watch them destroy Denmark in the closing minutes of the games. I love this game because it is just absolutely unpredictable. The most important rule is to never look down on your opponents.

It will be interesting to see how Montenegro plays against Serbia today... Serbia of course is a higher class team and I would bet on their win with a good odds of 1.8... But I'm surprised that there have only been two matches between these countries in which Montenegro lost... They seem to be neighbours, but it's strange that they have such small stats...

After a very bad result in the previous European Cup, Turkey's victory over Armenia was still nothing special, especially since they still conceded so that further shows that Turkey has not experienced good development so I doubt Turkey will be able to get point, even if it's only one point, indeed Croatia was not good enough when they finally only drew with Wales but if Croatia draws again with Turkey this will make it difficult for them, because in group D there are 3 national teams that can be considered compete to be able to qualify, so the three teams like Turkey Wales and Croatia will try to beat each other to secure positions, but Turkey will probably be a team that will face more difficulty qualifying than Croatia and Wales.

I think surprising result was happened on group H that one of the strong candidate in this group Denmark was lose from weak team Kazakhstan and about the game actually in the first half Denmark was leading the game 2-0 and i thought this will be more easy for them even i expect Denmark can added more goals but apparently Kazakhstan can performing better on the second half and make epic comeback and gets their first 3 points in this competitions and this is Kazakhstan first winning from Denmark

On the other hand i have seen Netherlands schedule today they will fight against weak team Gibraltar and i expect they can able to bounce back through this match after humiliated by France in the first match even if possible they should win by a big score

Maybe they are not impressive wins but as long as they get the three points their job is considered done,even if you score 4,7 or 10 goals the end result is the same and is 3 points and I doubt Portugal will have to fight on who has scored more goals to qualify in this group.When playing against such teams like Liechtenstein and Luxembourg of course the motivation of the players is very little as they already know that they will win against such weak opponents.We cannot judge Portugal with such opponents,we have to see when they will clash with a strong team and see the results and evaluate the team then,I think Portugal will qualify easily here.

Ronaldo has perfect skills and experienced enough to convert opportunities he has to goals. Young players will face with impatiently finishes that lead to opportunity wasting. Ronaldo is different as with his long career and experience, he is more calm than young players that help him to shot better.

He needs a good system to serve him and this is his biggest issue at ending phase of his career. If a club, a national team can have a system which matches with Ronaldo, he can play well. However if the system conflicts with Ronaldo best contribution and his weakness, he will be not chosen by his coach. It seems Martinez is using Ronaldo well enough with his first two matches as Portugues coach. However we must wait for bigger matches to assess Ronaldo contribution for Portugal.

Luxembourg is weak and Ronaldo was given two great chances to score goals. It is surprising if he can not score goals in those situations. The first goal looks very easily but not all players have ability to smell good space which helps them to get good passes and opportunities. In the past we have Super Pippo Inzaghi who is very good in 16m50 especially 5m50 and can exploit off-side trap of opponent.

I would also like to note the interesting victories of the always unpredictable Slovakia over Bosnia and Herzegovina and the difficult, but hard-fought victory of the Finnish team over Northern Ireland.

Apart from Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, in theory all the teams can claim to be out of the group. Though with a 60-70% probability Portugal will take first place, but the fight will be tough, even Iceland, despite the defeat in the first game 0:3, now has a positive goal balance, scoring 7 unanswered goals to Liechtenstein.

It's also good to see that Cristiano Ronaldo hasn't lost motivation and is still scoring in official tournaments. Such an athlete will be the jewel of the upcoming tournament, if Portugal qualifies successfully.

I was confident Turkish team would get clean win against Armenia. But it had hard time. Considering Croatia is one of the strongest nations of Europe and considering Turkish national team lacks motivation I can hardly say it will be draw. I feel like it won't be huge disaster so not anything drastic like 0-3. But I would bet on Croatia winning against Türkiye. I don't see any chance Turkish team winning, only possibility is draw in my opinion.

Ronaldo played as happy as if he was the same age as Joao Felix, Bernardo Silva as he led Portugal to their second win. Behind Cristiano Ronaldo's personal achievements with Portugal and at the age of 38, Portugal got a fairly easy team in group J for them to face to qualify.

Oh yes, congratulations to Roberto Martinez as the new coach who has made Cristiano Ronaldo and company win 10 goals without reply to two different teams at the international level.

I can't say anything about Portugal last 2 wins because the opponent is not a formidable opponent compared against Liechtenstein they won 4 goals
and yesterday Iceland won over Liechtenstein 7 goals meaning that Portugal's win was not very impressive because Iceland scored more goals , we can conclude when Portugal had to fight Iceland because they are more equal opponents.

Already 2 times Ronaldo has scored a brace in this qualifying round, before he also made his name against Liechtenstein. Great results from Ronaldo for his contribution to Portugal so far, but I think it's thanks to the cool hands of new coach Roberto Martinez who has made Ronaldo even sharper up front with his teammates. Moreover, other players also listed their names on the scoreboard such as Joao Felix, Bernardo Silva, Otavio and Rafael Leao in the match against Luxembourg.

I think it would be a shame for Ronaldo not to score for a weak team like Luxembourg... That match was an easy one for Portugal... Although I also thought Ronaldo had finished his career with the national team, the two goals he managed to score were no surprise to me...

So many people doubt that Ronaldo can't create any goal for the national team because of his age. but all speculation is clear after he created an opening goal which make the squad get the motivation spirit to add more goals. I believe, Ronaldo still can create any record and achievement until 2024, or maybe even the world cup in 2026 if a coach still has to believe in him, and also his performance still fits like this.

2 goals are perfect for his age, not many attackers can do like him. congrats

I thought that Ronaldo ended his national team career by the last World Cup. However I have found out with this Luxembourg game that he hasn't ended it yet.

He was really effective in this game by scoring two goals. That 6-0 win was really impressive despite the opponent's being a much smaller team. Ronaldo would like to become a winner in a big tournament with Portugal before his retirement I assume. But I don't know if Portugal can give him this. We need to see their performances improving in big games as well. This is only the qualifiers for now but it is very important to join the main tournament of course.

as expected england won the game, the interesting part is that england does not concede goals easily, they are showing that they have a very solid defense, in this game for example they managed to score 2 goals and did not concede a goal, it's ok that ukraine not well due to the war, but even so it is already very positive that england won without conceding a goal. with this victory in the group england became leader, there are 2 games, 2 wins, 4 goals scored and only 1 goal conceded. italy is in second place because they managed to win in the game against malta, something that was already expected to happen


I don't know the two teams very well, I didn't watch the game, but it's something very hard to concede 7 goals, Iceland managed to score 7 goals against an opponent that Portugal only managed to score 4 goals, I don't know if that can be a bad sign for portugal when they play against Iceland, but in any case it's good that portugal is more cautious in defense, I don't know what happened so that suddenly Iceland's attack managed to score 7 goals, portugal will need to be cautious in defense


i must confess that i am very surprised that ronaldo is scoring goals for the portugal team, because i thought that when he went to play in the saudi arabia league he would lose his rhythm and would not be able to keep up with his portuguese teammates, but it seems he went to play in the Arab league has done well for him

So far, from the beginning of this qualifiers, 10 matches ended with a score bigger than 3 goals to 0, without counting those with the opponent team scoring a goal or more. Interestingly there is respectable teams like Netherlands that happened to be with the other weak, very weak in fact teams.
I don't know if I could say that Portugal was lucky to be in a group containing Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. Starting the competition with 2 victory, scoring 10 goals without receiving any is something optimistic for the nation. Even the other teams in that group aren't that dangerous for them.

There were plenty of goals in Group J today.
Iceland managed to score 7 goals against their opponent. It must be said that they played a dominant and beautiful game from the beginning to the end of the match. They played better in the second half compared to the first half. They found more scoring positions in the second half and this led to more goals in the second half.
Portugal beat their opponent 6-0. Cristiano Ronaldo scored 2 goals in the match. 4 of the goals came in the first half. With this win, Portugal increased their points to 6.
Slovakia was the team that met with 3 points in its second match in the group. They managed to defeat their opponent Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-0 with a good game.