Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 400. (Read 46401 times)

I doubt that Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to wear the national jersey again.  He doesn't want it, and the coach may not invite him to the squad again after the world cup.  Ronaldo is a football player who has left his mark on world football, and no one can claim otherwise.  He brought the Portuguese national team to the next level.  I think he will leave the task to the young players now.

Yes, I really hoped that Germany could have a very high level of football, however it is as you say, they did not show much, I think they lacked a lot to give, perhaps these times have made players take more care of themselves for their clubs, 'for not get injured and the goalkeeper passes him, although one thing that is very different is to play for the country of origin and give everything, I think that these things can be fixed with the new generations, but always with the experience of the players who are quite old, since they can give them advice to be able to face world-class commitments, this is one of the things that can influence a team, without a doubt Germany will have a good advantage for being local.


I don't think CR7 will stop playing, for me he will be a benchmark of a great example for the other players, I think he can have a great impact on all footballers who are between 38 and 40 years old, because he will show that age does not It doesn't matter if you have a great training session, in 2023 there has been a lot of speculation about him, some say that he will leave Al Nassr and yes, he will finish his career in Europe, but in which Equiop? It is not known, he may go to Portugal forever if they do not want him in the teams that are in their leagues such as the PL, Ligue 1, Bundesliga or the League.

I do not deny it, I am a fan of CR7 and I would like to see him at 41 as an example, but this time both Bruno Fernandez and his team collaborate so that they can generate better football and have better results in their national team, but yes There are selfishness as I saw in the World Cup in Qatar that is totally inadmissible.

Ronaldo has achieved so much in his career and I don't think that he is much concerned about representing Portugal in Euro 2024 or North America 2026. Even if he had any concerns, that might have vanished after the harsh treatment meted out to him by Fernando Santos during Qatar 2022. And I believe that this is the best thing to do, both for Ronaldo and for Portugal team as a whole. Because younger players need to be groomed. They need to take up responsibility, so that they will be ready for the 2026 World Cup.

I think it's the end of the story for Ronaldo to play in the national team. From the manager of Portugal, but also from Ronaldo himself? At the last World Cup it was clear that there was no starting place for Ronaldo anymore. And Ronaldo won't feel like it anymore either. Moreover, he is now also continuing his career in Saudi Arabia, where the level is a lot lower than in the competitions in Europe where he and his current teammates played. And his age is gradually starting to play a role as well. You can't stay on top forever, even if you want to. Germany has a lot to put right after both eliminations and exits from the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in which they were knocked out in the group stages both times. They are playing all games at home, the biggest advantage you can imagine.

Well, I would take France into account, I would see Portugal as a great opportunity to wage war against this tough competition, even though we are seeing that this is before 2024, that is already upon us, when we see it, this year goes by quickly As for the teams, I would like to see a fairly strong Portugal again, that they give CR7 the opportunity, and this time that they make the most of the way he will arrive, because Saudi Arabian football is bringing joy to him, He is recovering it, despite the fact that he has not yet been able to play, I think that this year and the next will be prosperous for him, also the good news is that the new technical director considers CR7 in the squad.

Will be interesting to watch Italy, after they failed to qualify for Qatar 2022. England and Netherlands disappointed their fans during Qatar 2022. England went down against France in the quarter-finals and during that match there was a lot of issues in co-ordination between the players. And before that, they performed poorly during Euro 2020 as well. Now coming to Netherlands, the thing that irritates me the most is that they always resort to rough play. The Dutch needs to realize that football is not like kickboxing or MMA. Remember the foul made by Frenkie de Jong against Cheikhou Kouyaté? De Jong intentionally crushed the private parts of Kouyaté and the latter had to be carried off the field in a stretcher. And the Dutch do this everytime. Battle of Nuremberg is still in everyone's memory.

I was not impressed by France and I don't see them as favorites in the European Championship, at least not as main favourites.
At the last European Championship, they were very bad and lost to Switzerland, and in the last edition of the League of Nations, they also played very badly and almost dropped out of the elite group.
At the world cup, they managed to reach the final, but they were not very convincing to me and they were also lucky.
It seems to me that the relations between individual players are not the best, especially between Mbappe and Benzema and this conflict probably affects the whole team.
I think that England, Holland and Italy will also have a great chance at the European Championship.

The group C can be very much interesting and just like other people, I cannot wait to see the matches starting between teams like Italy and England, especially after I saw how well England performed in the recent world cup I think England is very much motivated for this UEFA cup, but in the other hand in group B we hand Netherlands and France where I can expect to see amazing matches between the team on that group, So I think people are exciting for both groups in 2024 when the tournament starts.

I don't know whether the change in management will have a big impact. The biggest problem for Germany is that they are unable to replace their star players who are close to retirement - such as Manuel Neuer,    Thomas Müller and Marco Reus. Look at the other European teams. Most of them have promising players rising through the ranks - examples are Mikkel Damsgaard (Denmark), Bukayo Saka (England), Kylian Mbappé (France), Federico Chiesa (Italy), Matthijs de Ligt (Netherlands), Erling Haaland (Norway) and João Félix / Rafael Leão (Portugal). Even Spain have Ferran Torres and Eric García. Unfortunately for Germany, there are no capable younger players coming up the ranks.

After the disappointing performances of the German national team in Russia and Qatar, the management team of the German team is finally being revamped. Thank god. It was really about time.

Since sports director Oliver Bierhoff left the national team already, Rudi Völler will be his replacement. His contract starts on 1st February 2023.


Source: https://twitter.com/iMiaSanMia/status/1616150764757319701

IMHO, some fresh faces are really good for the national team (that goes for the management and the players aswell ofc), it's time for the team to get back on track. Germany as a football nation cannot allow itself another weak tournament tbh.

One of the countries that have a lot of football and a good one is Germany, honestly I have only played a couple of times and they are really impressive before, in amateur football they have very good resistance, and they are quite fast, and at a professional level that is what they show, clearly this team has a very good presence throughout all the years, it doesn't matter that Germany has come out of the World Cup in such a strange way, I think they are a pretty strong team, they should improve many things yes, that's something Obvious, however I quite believe that the Germans will look for a way to be stronger and they will demonstrate that without a doubt, I even think that they could be above the French.

I agree, for 80 minutes it was pure Argentina and I really enjoyed watching it that way too, just to see a team win and it was world cup finals so it wasn't really a bad game, sometimes it just one team winning.

But then Mbappe happened and suddenly we got a very close game, not even just that but after that 3-3, we had one position where Kolo was against Martinez and everyone looked at that as a sure thing, even French players got inside the field for a short meter or two to celebrate and then Martinez saved it. All in all it was the craziest game I have seen in a long time. 99% sure that France could be easy winners for this Euro, they are still quite young to keep winning.

Well.. it was fun to watch. With just 10 minutes remaining in the regular time, France was nowhere in the picture. Argentina was having around 70%-80% possession. Ever since I started watching the world cup in 1998, I have never seen such a one-sided final match. But then things changed with the penalty kick in 80th minute. And a few minutes before that the Argentine coach had withdrawn di Maria after getting overconfident. What happened after that is history and everyone were glued to their seats for the next 40-50 minutes.

It started as one of the most lop-sided final matches, and ended up as one of the most exciting ever.

even before the world cup started france, brazil and argentina were the only teams that had any chance of winning the world cup, there is no such thing as luck in having been in the group of weak teams or having played against weak teams, frankly there are excellent players in their team, they would beat any team in the world cup, even if franca had played against other teams that they consider strong, franca would have won, everyone knows that in the draws of these events there are always 2 strong teams and 2 considered weak in each group, of course this is only on paper

as for portugal, it was very clear that they would not have great achievements even in the group stage of the world cup portugal was very close to not being able to qualify for the world cup, it was evident that the biggest advantage of france in relation to big teams like Brazil, Spain, Belgium, England were in the coach, all these teams that I mentioned have good players but there were coaches who made decisions that were incomprehensible to me


 

france 2 - 1 england

france scored 2 goals that weren't thanks to a penalty, england scored only 1 goal thanks to a penalty, in a soccer game you don't win by luck, the best team wins, there's no such thing as luck on the field, there's only competition. the team that is better concentrated, scores goals and defends better will be the winning team. this isn't luck, it's hard work, england didn't even have a chance of winning the world cup in my opinion, they have a lot of problems. As for Benzema's situation, I don't know the details, but it seems to me that Franca's coach doesn't like Benzema and everything got worse because Franca's coach will remain in charge, so Benzema could only retire from France's team

about argentina vs france

as I said before in the game and everything about strategy, DI Maria was causing problems in the defense of franca for this reason that franca started to play in defense because it was very difficult for them to be able to contain messi and di mario at the same time, but as soon as the DI maria left the field immediately, france dominated the game and argentina had no more space to play, argentina's advantage is that they had many good strikers, and on france's side it was only the mbappe that caused danger

I can actually agree with you.
At the last European Championship, France played very poorly and was eliminated early from the competition.
In the last competition of the League of Nations, they almost fell out of the elite group and were saved by Croatia's victory against Austria.
There have been long talks about certain problems in the relations between the players in the team, and it is an open secret that the main players of the national team practically kicked Benzema out of the team at the World Cup in Qatar.
They had a lot of luck against England at the World Cup, and in the final against France, Argentina practically won the game in the regular part and unnecessarily complicated everything.

I disagree with you 100%.

France was lucky and avoided quality opponents in most of their matches. During the group stage, they were placed in one of the easiest groups along with Australia, Tunisia and Danmark. For the Round of 16, they got a weak opponent in the form of Poland. The only tough match for them before the final was the quarter-final clash, where they had to play against England. Even during the semi-final they got the weakest possible opponent (Morocco). IMO, Croatia and Portugal performed better than France during Qatar 2022. Probably Netherlands as well.

I am sorry but that was 8 years ago. I know 2014 feels like just yesterday but pandemic started about 3 years ago, 3 years! Time just flies very very fast and 2014 was 8 even 9 years ago, I confused it with 2022, so even I mistook it, it was 9 years ago!

But world cup wise, it was in 2022 so it was 8 years difference. This is why it's normal for Germany to be not as good as they used to be, it's not the same players, sure some of the players were same, but they were 8 years older and some of them were younger and newer players that didn't play in 2014. It means basically a whole new team at that point and we shouldn't expect them to do the same.

Indeed, one of the big problems for the German national team is the regeneration of young players, but if you look at the names in the Bundesliga or in other European competitive leagues, there are actually so many good names to fill out the German squad. But again the role of the coach determines who will be called upon to defend the German national team. When talking about Neuer, it should be time for him to retire, even though on the bench there are still good names like Ter Stegen, but I don't know why coach Hansi Flick chose Neuer over Ter Stegen.

I agree seeing the World Cup performance of France that it was even without Pogba makes one think as clearly it was the best performing team from Europe.Now they are playing in the Euro and in here I think they are the team to beat,if Pogba is added to the team this means only much more quality to the already one that France has.It is a dream attack with Mbappe and Pogba just behind supporting him,I think as it stands,the teams with the actual players France is the main favorite to win this upcoming Euro cup.

@Daniel91 the only advantage Germany has that it can expect more local fan's for their matches, but their fan’s too will stop cheering after a certain point if they see their country player’s constantly playing sloppy football. Lastly I personally believe that France will have the advantage in the form of Pogba who had to miss the World Cup due to injuries, and I’m sure that he would like to make up for it by helping his country win this tournament.