Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 66. (Read 46364 times)

Easily might not be the word here but, I sure enjoyed how Türkiye played today than in their previous game against Austria. They understood the challenge and was very aggressive defensively as well as did their most to be more dangerous when they went forward. They pressed high but, you can’t deny the might of the Netherlands. Their win might have come out of an OG but, they were already the loosing side, pressed high to force an own goal out of the Turkish team.

An interesting turn of events however, given how Türkiye was able to handle the Netherland team, they weren’t matched in quality but, the Turks sure played like they wanted this win as they evidently did.

It was the only game that wasn’t didn’t go into the extra time like we have it in all other of the quarter final matches. Netherland was just how far the Turks could have gone and it was a good tournament for them if I may.

England on their part haven’t been really good this far but, they get to play Netherland in the Semi and should get there game in order else, it’s just going to be as far as they could go.

Although Turkey lost today but i still impress to see their performance and in the last 10 minutes of second half Turkey could force the Netherlands to play more defensively and they even can gets several chances to scores but unfortunately Netherlands defense is very solid which make them cannot utilize those chances to scores and for Netherlands congratulations for them and this result is very special for Netherlands because finally after 20 years they can able to advances to the semifinal again and next match would be so interesting because Netherlands will fight against England and just like we know England has just advances to the semifinal after beat Swiss through an penalty kick so this is hard match for both teams because they want to go further especially England that as the finalist of last tournament they want to repeat their achievement and for betting option i haven't checked the odds yet but i assume Netherlands a bit the favourite than England

That's a huge amount of pressure. Even top players have failed. Let it be, because no matter what, they have done their best even though they haven't gotten the best. Big respect for all players. Regarding how people out there talk about losing players and especially Felix, it's bound to be there. And whoever it is, of course there will still be people who curse, whether they win or lose, there will definitely be insults and pros and cons, so that when I saw the various negative comments, I thought, there are still many people who can easily type their fingers to hurt other people's hearts, especially those who are fighters for their country.

They exactly had the chance. They were leading the match at first with a goal in their first-half by Samet Akaydin assist by A Guller, A very satisfying goal. and that lasted until the 69th minute, the Turkish defender was also quite good, trying to repel all attacks and being able to maintain his position quite well. It's just that they had to stop in the 69' minute, and it was even more painful when Mert Muldur's OG happened, this seemed enough to make Turkey's mentality drop a little at that time.

If you look at the solidity and consistency of the matches so far, Spain is indeed better than the three teams. It's just that this has reached the semi-finals, and of course that will make each team compete at their best. Mbappe has quite big ambitions for this. And is it possible that he will be able to lead France to win at Euro 2024?

Between Spain vs France, again it was like a final at the start. what if the final is France vs England? The representatives: Mbappe and Dembelle vs Harry Kane and Bellingham.  

I fell he got too comfortable with the scoreline after they were leading by one goals. Even after the equalizer, he was still waiting for the team to turn things around and lead back again since they’ve been ahead for a longer time than expected from the first half. It was really a game they could have won but they just messed things up and lost to Netherlands. The manager should be blamed for this defeat because some intellectual changes should have been made to revert this that have happened.


Spain and France were my two best picks to win the trophy of this years Euro but along the line, I saw some improvement in England and they stand amongst he favourite to win the title also. The semifinals draws have this teams separated with two meeting each other. While I foresee England making it to the finals after beating Netherlands, Spain or France still stands an equal chance to make it to the finals to meet with England.

In this tournament, France is playing bad, England is bad, Netherlands is bad, but they all reached the semi final. Spain is by far playing the best football. It would be a surprise if Spain doesn't become champion. Underdog teams like Türkiye, Switzerland and Austria played much better than these teams in this tournament. As a result, the cup will go to one of the favorite teams again, this is clear.

We could have easily beaten the Netherlands but I think we played with 2 players missing.
Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Kenan Yıldız were not on the field, if they had taken at least 1 striker instead, we would have been thinking about different things right now.

Montella and Hamit Altıntop should be sent off this team, they are both harming the team.
Montella is one of the most incompetent coaches, he does not play very good players even though he has them.

What difference does it make what’s on paper if in fact England and France are playing sadly? And I'm not saying that the Netherlands are better than these two teams, why do you attribute this really strange assumption to me? I'm saying that the quotes are unfair, the Netherlands could be quoted at the level of England/France or a little worse, but not almost twice as bad.
As for Spain, there is no question about assessing this team - they are favorites based on results and play.

Yes it was again one of these close games, but as you said, nobody thought Turkey would take the lead. Once teams take the lead, everything is possible. It was a fun game in the end, but the 0-0 was so boring, like France - Portugal, it was annoying. The Netherlands deserved the win. Fine as it went!

I thought the same thing but it was still an interesting situation and Turkey even scored first which I think was an unexpected situation.
Even if we compare the Netherlands vs Turkey match, it was actually better than the previous England vs Switzerland match where this match was more interesting with many opportunities and a very neat exchange of attacks.

Turkey didn't play badly in this match but the Netherlands played better. The Netherlands knew that in the end Turkey would try a quick counter-attack with a build up from the bottom so they tried to cover this with ball possession and increased penetration of some of the fast players the Netherlands have. The results were clearly favorable although in terms of actual opportunities Turkey were superior but with a more complex composition of players from the Netherlands and the experience they have made the Netherlands succeed in the semi-finals for this time.

Türkiye lost a game they could have won, because of Montella. In the second half of the match, when the Netherlands increased the pressure, he made no substitutions and just watched the game. He made his first substitutions after the score was 2-1 and it was too late. Montella is responsible for this defeat. He is not a technical director. He had nothing to do with the team getting this far. This team would have been more successful without him.

Spain and England are my finalist.

England team did not have a good start but slowly they improved. The confidence started to build in the match against Slovakia in the 1/8 finals. The goal from Bellingham to equalize and the Kane's goal in the extra time, England found themselves. Today they were behind but it did not look like that they were in pressure although we had to go for the paneities.

As we know the final 4, it's about time for the updated odds:


As expected, Spain is the favourite here and England is 2nd regarding chances of winning according to oddsmakers and that's because of how the teams are matched up, with France being considered a much stronger team than the Netherlands.

It wasn't a surprise to me that the Netherlands later won their quarter final match against Turkiye by scoring two goals in just 5 minutes. However, England will face Netherlands, and Spain against France in semi finals of the Euro.

The finished quarter final match was all like a finals match. Every team had their best performance and tactics to make sure they win their opponent. God of soccer favored some in their wins through penalty shootouts and some had a late goal win by surprise. The semi final game can end up that way because it will be as tough like the quarter final matches just finish playing, having Spain, France, England and the Netherlands qualify for the next round(semi finals)

But if this happens then it is likely that the champion will be Spain because looking at the history that the Netherlands still cannot change at this time, no matter how good their performance is and no matter how strong the players they have in the end they are always runner-up specialists for state competitions.

It's just that it is also very good to expect this condition to occur because although the semi-finals are still not done but seeing the performance of England and France for this euro is actually quite monotonous and it would be better if Spain and the Netherlands are in the final which is a match that will present more interesting things I think.

However, looking at the current probabilities even though the performance of England and France is still very bad but the probability of them remaining strong to be in the final at the euro this time.

the game ended with england's victory, but as i had predicted it was not an easy game for england, switzerland were the first team to score a goal and if they had had a good defense they would have left this game with victory, but they made some mistakes that They allowed England to score an equalizer after 5 minutes, it was a very serious mistake that the Swiss defense made. With that the game went into extra time and even then there was no goal and they had to go to penalties where England were better and won the game. Congratulations to Switzerland for having played a good game and performing well in this Euro, in my opinion. because it is a team that doesn't have many famous players like England, Portugal, France, Germany and yet it did well in games against Germany, Italy and England despite the defeat


I'm also asking myself the same question, it seems like they are looking at each team's squad and not each team's performance. As the Netherlands don't have many famous players so not much importance is being given, we will see on the field who is really strong, I hope to see the Netherlands beat England and Spain beat France. my prediction for the end of the euro will be:

spain - netherlands

It would be a great final game. Now if the two teams that arrived thanks to luck, I'm talking about France and England, go to the finals, we would have a very bad final game, France against England in a final will not be a game with many goals, it will be a game in which anyone of the teams will be champions thanks to luck

It was going to take more than having to contain the game the way they did to go past Netherlands. Unfortunately for them, an own goal was what let them out. They did well in the first half but, the pressure was always going to come in the second half. They really did troubled Netherland with the set pieces, Arda Güler wasn’t short on his having to carry the Turkish team like he did and nearly scored from a free kick in a most tactical way, going right around the wall with much power.
Half time commentary have it that Memphis be removed as a halftime substitute but, obviously that wasn’t going to happen and he scored the equalizer. Big teams will always be big teams and delivers the win.

England will win against Netherlands that's all I can say at the moment though Netherlands team looks more organised but I still think they win from the fact that they have performed below expectations till this point but are still in the tournament they being able to win against Switzerland who has been doing well and where organised gives me more reasons to stand on this

The Netherlands vs Turkey quarter final game in the UEFA Euros Championship tonight I think is one of the most epic games in the competition so far. Before the game, a lot of people predicted that Netherlands were going to easily win the game because of the superiority in terms of quality of players but surprisingly, it was Turkey that was leading after first half. Just like I said earlier in this thread, I know it'll be very difficult for the Turkey team to stop the Dutch team from finding an equalizer in the second half because of the intimidating quality of players in the Dutch team.
After Netherlands equalized, I know they were surely gonna get a winner before the end of full time because they were still pressurizing the Turkish team. Turkey did their best to get a win or even force the game to extra time but their best wasn't just enough. They'll leave the tournament with their shoulders high because they actually had great performances in the competition

Turkey tried their best to see how the can equalize the second goal that was an own goal but they had little time to make that happen. Towards the last five minutes of the match to the end of the extra time Turkey pressured Netherlands and has some good opportunities but it was all in vain. Dumfries did a good job today on the pitch because he stopped Çalhanoğlu last shot which would have cost them a lot.

The second half was in favor of Netherlands as they made proper use of the chances that they had which led to a successful two goal recorded for them. An interesting second half and Turkey was unable to qualify to the semifinals after scoring first in the first half. Netherlands did a welcome back to the semifinals.

On paper England and France have better squad depth than the Netherlands, but that alone cannot reflect how much time they need to win their match in the knockout stages. Spain also needed 120 minutes to win, the Netherlands were only better than Türkiye. If the Netherlands is considered better than France and England because the Netherlands won in 90 minutes against Turkey, then this would also be a strange assumption.

England vs Netherlands and Spain vs France. It's going to be two fantastic match in the semi-finals.
Do you think the odds on Spain are a trap?

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