Topic: ⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽ - page 12. (Read 6531 times)

Belgium played very well, I even liked how they played in attack even more, despite the absence of De Bruyne and Lukaku. If Tielemans had scored a penalty in the first half, everything could have turned out differently, but France managed to take the lead again in the second half and they managed to win. I think that the decision of some players not to play in the Nations League could have somehow influenced the result, but I did not notice it from Belgium's play, although as I said, their absence could have been decisive.

The golden generation of the Belgian national team has now aged. Belgium now has players of slightly above average quality. However, the quality players of the De Bruyne, Courtouis, Naiggolan, Kompany era are no longer there, and when players are injured, they cannot be replaced. France, on the other hand, continues to play with quality even in the absence of Mbappé. Even if they are missing, they know how to compensate for this, and the players who replace them continue to contribute to the team's defense.

The Belgium team will be disappointed on the match outcome, especially missing a penalty  and playing 11 against 10, when A. Tchouaméni  was sent off in the 76'mins. Though it was expected for the Belgium to lose against France since their team has not been consistent with their performance and injury of kevin de bruyne and Thibaut courtois, while France has much squad depth to fill in for absent or injured players and how much more doing well than Belgium, though not even in their best but Belgium is a shadow of their golden generation which is coming to an end.

I got 7 out of 10 matches right, not bad.
I also predicted that Türkiye would win, but I thought it might end in a draw because of their defensive weaknesses. As I thought, the score was 2-2, but in the last moments, in an interesting position, the referee didn't call a foul and Türkiye scored the winning goal. Then there was another goal in extra time, but the game could have ended in a draw.
Hungary won the match, that match could have gone either way, it was hard to predict.
Albania's win was the only surprise of the day. I think it was a good day, everyone should made good money.

Wales managed to beat Montenegro 1-0 in the match where they played superiorly from start to finish. Montenegro's ball bounced off the post and Wales had their chance.
Wales also continues their way undefeated in the group and has 8 points.

He will play a very important away match against Türkiye in November and he will definitely win this match. If Türkiye wins, Türkiye will become the leader of the group without the need for the last matches and A talent will rise.
Everything may become clear in November.

What a game by France against Belgium, I loved their performance because both countries played very well but France performed more than Belgium, it looks like France's performance has improved more than before, France's last two games they played against Israel and Belgium's was very good and I think if France keeps having this performance in the world cup they will reach the final stage of the competition, it also shows that France should give some young players chance to play for their country. Mbappe and Antony Griezman are not in the match but France's performance looks very good and from my point of view I think France needs to rely on the young players, if France uses the young players in the last Euros game I believe their performance will be better than what they do in Euros.


Turkey may lack a good striker player but Turkey has many young best players, if you watch every game that Turkey plays you will know that Turkey will be among the teams that will soon lift a World Cup trophy, Turkey's players are too good and they know how to attack very, I have watched their last two matches and I believe the country will be among the countries that will win a trophy, although they don't have a very sharp striker for me the remaining position in the squad is good.

After a victorious encounter against Poland away from home, Portugal would be playing against Scotland today also as a visiting team and they're yet again still favoured by the bookmakers to win Scotland despite being the visiting team. Well, I have no doubt about the Bookmakers putting Portugal ahead of their opponents cause they're the leaders of the (Group A ) in this tournament and asides that Portugal are taking this competition more seriously than any other team I've seen so far, so I believe they'll still be victorious and it would be much easier than their encounter against Poland. Cristiano Ronaldo have been in a very good form lately and even scored in their last encounter with Poland and for the records he's on the road to his 1000th career goal so I believe he'll try to find the net today and add to his record. Well, Portugal is ahead of Scotland, based on their previous encounters so I strongly believe they'll win the match.

England's first goal was very nice and Finland could have scored an equalizer, they wasted a great opportunity and in football when one team wastes an opportunity, the other team scores a goal, that's what happened in this game, England scored the second goal and Finland's situation got worse when England scored the third goal. At least Finland managed to score 1 goal. But I must say that this was an easy game for England on paper and this victory does not mean that England is strong.


I agree with everything you said. To be honest, it's very difficult for me to watch every England game in full. If my memory serves me right, the last time I watched a full England game was their last game in the last World Cup. They need to improve their style of play, it seems like they're copying Mourinho's style from the past, because at least Mourinho at AS Roma and Fenerbahce is improving.


I also agree that they need a good coach, I hope they choose a coach who has a nice style of play

It was really an interesting game between Belgium and France yesterday Belgium played well yesterday despite they lost against France, Belgium would have won the game in the first half if Tielemans were able to convert the penalty in the 23 minutes of the game. Belgium performance in there last recent tournament is not impressive I remember when Belgium was to be among the top 5 football country in the world imagine that Belgium is in the relegation zone in the ongoing UEFA Nation league I believe that the absence of Kelvin De Bruyne is somehow affecting the team though France is also a strong side when it comes to football there level of experience made them to win the game at last despite playing with 10 men at the finishing point of the game. I think Italy and France will come out 1st and 2nd position in that group respectively.

France won the match as many people predicted. But Belgium really put up a fight which I thought was quite impressive. And the match could be said to be very fierce. And I think Belgium was just unlucky in that match. And luckily I gave up my intention of initially betting on Belgium.

Another match that I initially watched was the Germany vs Netherlands match. Initially I wanted high tension from this match. because these two teams have equally strong performances. But I felt a little bored with the match. and move channels. But I still feel happy because it looks like my bet was also successful in that match. Germany won even though it was only by a narrow score as expected.

True talk, this was a very interesting match, I would probably say it is the most interesting match I have watched since the international break. It's a big match and alot was expected, high intensity, goals, end to end attcak, crutial block, and so much more. Belgium lost the match 2-1 but you can't take anything out of their performance, alot of reasons where behind their maybe if Tielemans had scored from the penalty spot the result would have been different, just over 10min when he missed the penalty kolo Muani scored from the spot also and gave France a 1-0 lead but the lead didn't last long as opennda continue to prove his fine foam and scored. The first half ended in a 1-1 draw.

The second started well and both team where looking for a way to lake the lead but kolo Muani and find the back of the post and make the score Line 2-1, the Belgium team continue to find a way true and almost got their reward as tielemans was played true with a good pass by openda but Tchouameni brought him down and got his second yellow card and was sent off. The match ended in the 2-1 win to France. A very good match to watch overall.

This match was marked by 2 penalties and 1 red card, France had to work hard to bring home three points at the home of Belgium who played very dominantly at the start of the first half. Belgium also had a series of opportunities through Leandro Trossard, Lois Openda, Jeremy Doku, and Youri Tielemans, including a penalty in the 23rd minute which Youri Tielemans failed to execute perfectly. France had to play with 10 men from the 76th minute after Aurelien Tchouameni received a second yellow card, but they played disciplined and managed to maintain their lead until the end of the match. Belgium were really unlucky this time because they faced a team that is very experienced in dealing with pressure.

Netherlands didn't even play good in the last few match, they not won against Hungary and England, they also shots less than Turkiye although they won. I thought the match will end in draw because both Germany and Netherlands aren't in shape, at least Germany had a tough defense.

France was lucky they can win, Belgium actually played better than them.

I think Belgium will enter relegation qualification, because they must win 2 upcoming match in order to secure the playoff ticket, but it's really hard especially they will meet Italy.

We feel the lack of a forward. Bertuğ is a tall forward but he does not have enough experience yet. Semih Kılıçsoy is far from his old form. Arda Güler is doing great things despite not playing for his own team. Kenan Yıldız and Kerem were magnificent in this match. The match was very enjoyable despite the freezing weather in 3 degrees Celsius.

 Who would have thought that Germany will silence Netherlands so much that the Dutch could only register one shot on target for the duration of the game. Although I wouldn't say the Germans were on their best but Netherlands just couldn't penetrate through and that was a match many felt there'd be so much action being that it's a game between two stubborn heads but I guess expectations were really cut short.

Another game I least expected to see much action from was the Belgium vs France game. These two sides usually disappoint when you expect them to do better but last night, their game was so action packed that even with a red card given to France, they still maintained their lead despite how much pressure Belgium mounted on them.

Türkiye beat Iceland 4-2. Irfan Can Kahveci and Kerem Aktürkoğlu scored great goals.
Türkiye played really well despite the weather conditions.
Kenan Yıldız was very good last night.
We still have a striker problem, we see this lack of strikers in every match.
All the goals we scored were from outside the penalty area.

France vs Belgium was a 1-2 win for France, but the game between the two teams was very interesting at the start. However, France secured a win against Belgium, and they are in second position in the points table with 9 points. Although Italy is at the top of the points table and then France, these two teams will be selected for the playoff matches as they have more points than the other two teams. Moreover, Group 2 has Belgium in the relegation playoffs and Israel in the relegation zone.

Cristiano Ronaldo performance at the ongoing UEFA Nation league is very impressive as he has scored 3 goals and among the top scorer in the UEFA Nation league even at his age I think he is doing wonderful for the Portuguese, it seems to me that the more Cristiano Ronaldo grow in age the more he performs well.
I believe the coming world cup will definitely be his football dance in his country side Portugal because with the strength and experience his is playing with he will perform for Portugal in the coming world cup tournament.
The performance against Poland on Saturday was a top notch as they dominated the game both first and second half of the game both in ball possession and goal attempt the could possibly win the UEFA Nation league if they still continue like this without having any injuries in there present squad.

Maybe he was tired after clubbing at a nightclub in Stockholm. he doesn't care about his country so he enjoys his own life amidst his partner's struggle on the field. He got protected by Deschamps, he may not be on the team because the coach thought Mbappe still not fix after a thigh injury.

I saw that France played and Mbappé was not in the line up and neither did he feature in the match. Was he left out because of the statement he made to the France National team that he will only be playing the important matches in order to have enough energy to win the Balon D'or which is his priority.
Did the France team just obeyed him?