Topic: ⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽ - page 10. (Read 8300 times)

I always liked Germany's style. When he scores 4-5 goals against his opponent, he doesn't say that's enough, let's not score more. He tries to throw whenever he gets an opportunity. The same thing happened yesterday and they scored 7 goals against Bosnia and Herzegovina. They also missed 4 clear positions. If they had scored, it would have been a historic score. In the past years, there have been matches where teams like San Marino and Gibraltar conceded a lot of goals, but I don't remember such a thing happening for a team like Bosnia and Herzegovina.

I would like to open a parenthesis about Bosnia and Herzegovina. I can say that the generation that started with Edin Dzeko has come to an end.
Now they too need restructuring (if they have the means).

The missed penalty is really bad, they have a bad luck in this match.

Enes Unal is useless, he can't even perform in Bournemouth. They should brought their old striker like Cenk Tosun, even he's already 33 years old, but if Turkey don't really have a striker, he can still fill this role.

There will be no another Cristiano Ronaldo, in the past there are less entertainment, but now there are so many entertainment which make people can't focus completely focus and discipline.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a legend. Most people who are managers are still playing football. I can give Ruben Amorim as an example. Amorim, who took over Manchester United, is the same age as Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo scores goals for the Portuguese national team. That's why I can say he is the best player football has ever played. Of course, I share this title with Messi. I don't think there will be another Cristiano Ronaldo in the world of football.

From what I have observed, Cristiano Ronaldo plays with excitement and enthusiasm in all the matches he plays for his country. This was also the case in this match. He received a yellow card for a violent objection to the referee in one position. Apart from that, we can say that he put on a show in the match. Especially the goal he scored was amazing. I cannot believe that this man is still performing like this at the age of 40. He may be the greatest talent to ever come to world football.

When there is a player like Orkun Kökçü who uses the balls well in the team, it didn't make sense to me that Kerem Aktürkoğlu took the penalty. It was a penalty after Arda Güler left the game, if Arda had been in the game, Arda would probably have taken the penalty. Actually, we can see that Kerem shot the right side, but since he couldn't adjust the force of the ball well, the ball hit the post and went out. This caused our country to lose three points. Now, we will complete the group with the Montenegro match we will play on Tuesday and we must definitely win that match. Montenegro has no more claims and they couldn't get any points in the group. Maybe they can be on the field with extra concentration to get their only point. Because the match will be in their own stadium. In fact, it is a difficult match in terms of looking easy.

We expected Turkey to win. But Turkey failed to win this match too. The away match against Wales was also a goalless draw. Wales's goal in this match was to get 1 point by any means. Wales played defensively from the start of the match. I did not see any attempt to score a goal from Wales' players.

Turkey's players did not perform badly in this match. Turkey's players dominated the match with 63% ball possession. They attacked a lot and tried to score a goal. But even then, Turkey's players could not score a single goal. Even in the 89th minute, Kerem Akturkogu failed to score from the penalty spot. If he could have scored this goal, Turkey would have been able to win this match 1-0.

I was waiting to see Arda Guler's performance. Even though he could not score any goal or assist, Arda Guler was able to perform excellently in this match. I don't know why Ancelotti doesn't give Arda Guler enough chances in the Madrid squad.

Actually we managed to dominate the match. But we didn't score because we didn't have a good striker. And we didn't win the match. Barış Alper Yılmaz is not a striker. He is a winger. And he plays as a striker in the national team. His performance in this match was not good enough. But Enes Ünal, who came on in his place, did not perform better than Barış Alper Yilmaz. I think Barış Alper Yilmaz is still the best striker for us.


These names are promising. But they don't get enough playing time yet, even in their club teams. I can't blame Montella for not giving them playing time.

Yes, in terms of ball possession, Poland is indeed behind Portugal, however, Poland also still has many opportunities to score goals. Yes because they also have around 12 shots and 5 shots on target as attempts. however, there is only 1 goal. Portugal is not only strong in the front line but also strong in the back line and that is enough to stop attacks from Poland.

Really, Germany really humiliated Bosnia in this match. Bosnia is that bad, so far the club has never won even once, only drew 1x, and the rest are defeats. Even worse, they can only get 3GF and instead get 16GA, I am really surprised with this national team, this is the worst of the other lower teams.


Source: FT | Germany defeat Bosnia and Herzegovina 7-0!!!

Turkey - Wales match ended in a 0-0 draw. We played well in this match but we couldn't score.
Yunus Akgün played very well, he was the player of the night.
Kerem Aktürkoğlu missed a penalty in the last minutes and we tied.

Germany and Holland beat their opponents by a large margin tonight.

I believe we had plenty of chances to win against Wales, we did come up with many shots and some of them were big opportunities as well. The proper striker being a problem for us is the key reason why we are having this much trouble with scoring if you ask me, we do not have a proper striker, we always make due with whatever we have. Enes Unal finally came back from injury, but he is not really used to playing with this squad, so that wasn't really something we saw for too long. I believe we need someone better too, someone who could do much more. At the end of the day, we need to figure out a way to make this work for us, otherwise it will not make any sense at all. In the end, we are doing fine, its still good enough.

Some things is just more important than football. Fomer Hungary player and one of coaches now Adam Szalai collapsed during Netherlands - Hungary game. Fortunately, fast reaction from staff anddoctors let to save his life and Szalai is in stable condition now:
https://onefootball.com/en/news/hungary-coach-adam-szalai-stable-after-collapse-in-nations-league-tie-40317694
But it was scary to watch whole this situations on TV, usually they don't show such things. Game was resumed, Nethlerlands won it 4:0, I think for Hungary it was difficult to focus on game after this situation.
Germany destroyed Bosnia 7:0 and I'm not really sure what Bosnia is doing in Division A.
Only interesting game today was Georgia Ukraine which ended 1:1. Well, Georgia played a bit better, while Ukraine probably will relegate to Division C. Not so long time ago they were in Division A.

Türkiye failed to beat Wales again. The first match ended 0-0, this match also ended 0-0. Kerem missed a penalty in the last minutes. Even if he had scored, Türkiye had not played well enough to win the match. Wales must have been happy with the draw because they didn't attack at all. Türkiye had 25 shots and only 3 of them were on goal. The lack of strikers in the offense was felt again. It's obvious that this will not work with Montella. He is a very bad manager. Türkiye needs to play with a striker. A game without a striker doesn't bring goals. The players are running around the pitch like bees that don't make honey. Arda Güler was also very bad today. Although 1 point seems good, Türkiye needs to win games of this difficulty level comfortably.

I see it as a walk over match for Germany as they are already leading 6-0  on the 66th minutes with a brilliant goal scored by Sane, they German side has dominated the since the first as they were leading Bosnia Herzegovina 3-0 in the first half and with the way the game is still going we are going to see more goals from the German side before the end of the game as Germany is leading in all corner both in ball possession and goal attempt.
Germany and Holland has already qualify in group 3 which was supposed to happen because they are the big names in that group though Germany has been unbeaten in that group while Holland lost only game, I believe that both Germany and Holland will meet a stronger side in their next round.

In the 50th minute, a further goal added by Germany to make it 4-0 stood to underline their utter dominance over Bosnia in the match. Having gained this comfortable lead, Germany then continued to show full control in the second half, both through ball possession and organized attacks.

More goals are likely to flow, considering the intensity of Germany's attacks, which are hard to contain because the Bosnian back line is also having some problems. On the other hand, it would appear that Bosnia is finding it hard to get out of pressure and even to create meaningful opportunities. If this were to continue being the trend of the play, then they can widen the gap even further; essentially proving their class as one of the really strong favorites to negotiate a passage from this group.

It's halftime already in the Germany vs Bosnia game with the home team leading by three goals to nil against their visitors. I don't think Bosnia stands any chance of getting any point from this game at the moment but instead of conceding more goals, it'll be better for them to try maintain the current goal deficit or better still reduce it if they can in the second half. Just like you said, I think it'll be the Netherlands and Germany that'll be qualifying from their group while Bosnia and Hungry will be going home.

This picture is capable of sparking a lot of discussions 
Ronaldo is criticized for "padding statistics", "easy goals into empty nets", etc. But for some reason only he can do this, while forwards of such strong teams as Spain, England, Germany, France (Mbappe hehe) can't even come close to these numbers.
As for the game with Croatia, the result has already been made, Portugal took first place in the group, so several players (including Ronaldo) were sent to their clubs. So Croatia has a chance.

Germany Vs Bosnia Herzegovina

It's over 40 minutes of the first half now and Germany is leading the game with 3 - 0 with last goal netted by Havertz couple of minutes ago. The assist made by Florian Wirtz was a lovely and selfless one. Havertz made the way for himself but needed that 1-2 pass to finish the game and Wirtz was mature and generous enough to make it happen.

It's almost half time now but I'm pretty sure this match may end up even more brutal for the Bosnia because Germany doesn't seem to relax on their strong tackles right now. It's quite obvious that Hungary and Bosnia will be going home soon while Germany and the Netherlands remain qualified to the next round. Germany have been unbeaten while they left a draw match out of their four games played.

We had good positions in the first half, I don't think Wales got into the game much during the match. I skipped the first half, Kerem Aktürkoğlu should have scored that penalty in the second half, it was very necessary. A well-deserved match ended in a draw. But I couldn't quite understand why Kerem Aktürkoğlu took the penalty, anyway if he was taking it, there was a high probability that he would miss it and he couldn't take it.

I don't like picking sides when I hear people bragging about Messi and Ronaldo. All I can say is, that both of them are good players. At the international level, they have done marvelously well for their country. Messi was able to guide the Argentina players in winning the last World Cup. Ronaldo has put in a similar effort but to no avail. The reason is because a tree cannot make a forest. Messi was opportune to play alongside talented players who are well known in the top league. The work became less easy for him as they worked together to achieve that. While Ronald has managed to push the strength of the team alone. If he had the opportunity to have talented players from his country trust me, the World Cup would be something he would boast of.

However, the goal scored by Ronaldo looks easy but deep down a lot of professional strikers would miss the goal if they were in that position. One thing I learned after watching the highlight is that Ronaldo still has his talent, but nature has limitations on everyone, and age is the highest of it all. I think the fans are only happy that Ronaldo can push himself to that extent at this age. Wishing time can go back to the past, so we can watch him one more time in his prime. Those days when football was football.

The GOAT is still the GOAT despite the age issue in the end Cristiano's performance is still too perfect for a 39-year-old player because apart from his goal-scoring instincts which are still quite good, in the end his role is now also more flexible where he always provides space and opportunities for several other players to try their luck in scoring goals.

Cristiano's 2 goals including an excellent overhead kick and 1 assist in this match still show that he is still one of the most entertaining players in his old age.
To be honest when it comes to today's game I don't have any doubts because the Portugal squad does contain some above average players but the difference in today's game compared to the previous one seems to be that for now we can see that finally there is a good development especially for some of the players who seem to be less constrained in the shadow of Cristiano and that makes the cooperation more comfortable.