Topic: ⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽ - page 17. (Read 8300 times)

England will fight against Greece on November 15 but they had facing serious problem because confirmed at least 8 players who decide to withdraw because of the injured and they are Cole Palmer, Levi Colwill, Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Aaron Ramsdale and just like we see that all of those players is important for England but unfortunately they won't be available for international break

But Lee Carsley will called other players as the replacement and the players such as Morgan Rogers, Jarrod Bowen or Jarrad Branthwaite confirmed will be available and Lee Carsley also had added 2 more players Tino Livramento and James Trafford which this is their debut match with England and i think this is big lost for England because they have to playing without some of their key players and i highly doubt they can win over Greece

Türkiye and Wales are playing a very important match on Saturday. A draw is enough for Turkey. Wales must leave the field with a victory so that their chances for the next round continue.
In Turkey, Ferdi was removed from the candidate squad. Mert Müldür is expected to play at left back instead of Ferdi.
I think Turkey will win with goals. Wales is a good team, but their strength is not enough against Turkey. Of course, this is football, but Türkiye is the heavy favorite.

The last match between Croatia and Poland was undoubtedly an interesting match where we saw attack after attack from the start. Poland took the lead in the first five minutes against Russia but later Croatia managed to score three more goals against Poland but surprisingly Poland scored again against Croatia in the 45th and 68th minutes to equalize and then neither team managed to score against the other team.

Croatia's manager and experienced players must have failed to win this match because after leading by two goals, I don't know how they managed two more goals from Poland. However, it would have been great for Croatia to get full points in this match, but they were unable to do so even when they had the chance.

Ronaldo had many opportunities to score but he misfires and made the wrong decision with the opportunity that he had. Younger Ronaldo would have made better decision and would have scored a goal with even lesser chances. Ronaldo is not as sharp as he used to be but there is no doubt that his presence in the team still accounts for something.

There is a lot of talk about the new English coach not being an original Englishman but a German, I agree that there are no English men more capable to take the job and even if they were patient enough to go for Pep, he's still not an Englishman and England would have still ended with a coach that is not a native of the country either they like it or not. Tuchel can do well, England already have the players, he can become the coach.

The main reason he is keeping them in the team becuase they are also covering his back too, so its a mutual relationship between those two parties.


I don't think that he would get sacked even if we don't go to WC in 2026 (I am pretty sure that he would get one more chance due all the success he had in the past) but I do think that he would leave by himself. Or at least I like to think that.


Keep in mind that it will be easier than ever to reach next WC due expansion so I don't expect us having much issues qualifying. After all, we probably gonna end in Pot A which will make us avoid majorify of the strongest teams.

I still don't think there's a better English candidate better than Thomas Tuchel for the job, any name to mention? Could it be Eddie Howe? Graham Potter? Frank Lampard? Thomas Frank? Are they're even tactically sound coaches? Maybe the Gary Neville yapping should go give a trail. Asides, Josep Pep Guardiola, Thomas Tuchel is the right man for the job. He is a no nonsense coach and will do with whatever he has up in his head. The likes of Mason Mount, Marcus Rashford are players he talks about a whole lot, I'm certain they'll be getting a call up under him. Good luck to him and I want to see him thrive against the odds.

He has been the coach of the national team for 7 years, and will be as long as he achieves success - his stay depends on whether he succeeds in taking the national team to the next world championship and if he succeeds, what kind of result he achieves there. Until then, he is practically untouchable (because of his old glory) and has his dream job - 1.5 million EUR per year, even if he loses all his matches in the next 2 years.

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There is no doubt that players like Modric and Perisic are players who deserve the eternal thanks of all Croatians, but using them in such a way that you keep them on the field for all 90 minutes in two games in a span of three days is insane. In the match against Poland, their fatigue and lack of concentration was definitely visible, and they bear part of the responsibility for some of the conceded goals.

However, unlike the Euro, some young players like Baturina, both Sucic and Matanovic get a lot more opportunities and I think they will get better with time. For those who wonder why Kovacic wasn't there - his wife was in labor and that's why he didn't play - so some in Croatia joke that even babies have an influence on the starting line-up

Rikafip and Lucius, one of the best things about the forum is being able to have direct contact with users from different countries who can better explain some things that we can't find on the internet, even with tons of news about football
News channels often don't show the reality or the real opinion of a fan, it's nice to hear from you guys

Even though some players have made a lot of history and helped the team a lot, it's worth thinking about whether it's worth continuing in this way or giving room for new players to form a solid base to compete in the next major championships (Euro and World Cup).
I think it's worth keeping 1 or 2 older players in a young team, to give them experience and respect from other teams, but too many players over 30 (unfortunately) makes it difficult to play against stronger teams

Statistics will be useless if the result is not being able to score goals and losing. All of that will be in vain.
Spain's 30 total shots are a combination of those made in the 1st and 2nd. The first half (1st) only had 9 total shots. That means in the 2nd Spain made 21 total shots. After the Serbian player received a red card, Spain forced Serbia to face a barrage of Spanish shots.

Serbia should have conceded more than 3 goals. From this we can conclude that the Serbian goalkeeper worked very well.

Poland and Croatia had an enthralling match yesterday where both team gave their best effort and showed great performance. The 1st goal Scored at 5th minutes by Piotr Zielinski behalf of Poland team. But his effort was get down when Croatia took the leading control and scored 3 goals within 7 minutes where Borna Sosa scored 1st goal at 19th minutes, Petar Sucic at 24th and M. Baturina at 26th minutes respectively. After such performance by Croatia, they made the Poland supports silanced but 1st half result isn't enough for a team to be a winner. 2nd half started and Poland already scored total 3 goals by their effort and made the match more challenging to win for their opponent. Croatia player Dominik Livakovic got a red card at 76th minutes and from this moment i think the situation was changed for Croatia. But Poland failed to take the advantage and missed many opportunities. And finally the match get draw with 3-3 score. Apart from that, Scotland vs Portugal match also draw with 0-0 score. As a CR7 Fan, I had a lots of expectation from Portugal specially From Cristiano Ronaldo. But i didn't found the Old GOAT,  time is not going well for him. Even other players of his squad refused to pass the ball to him, many time which is not new. Portugal dominated the match more than 70% time but their performance, strategy, their misfortune didn't help them to score a single goal against their oppennt

C'mon, let's be frank. Yes, Ronaldo is amazing but not quite right now, actually. Portugal will miss old Ronaldo, not current one because it's clear that current one doesn't perform well and as I see, his teammates also refuse to give him the ball most of the time.

By the way, to my mind, World Cup means nothing for an athlete. If an athlete plays in a trush team, they can't win a World Cup because football is a game of 11 people, not 1. One person can't beat 11, even if he is the best.
I also don't like the idea of comparing Pele and his achievements to Ronaldo or Messi because football was very different during Pele's time. Football wasn't competitive sport as it is today. Now, footballers have to be top athletes with top talent to be competitive while years ago the bus driver was playing in club's defence

Dalic can be a good coach and he actually achieved big things with Croatia recent years. It's all about his past achievements with Croatia national team and it is contributed from their second golden player era, after a first era with Boban, Suker, Bokšić and Tudor. They worked and achieved these great things together but when players are older, not only passing their 30s, but 35s or nearly 40s, it's time for them to stay mainly on bench or retire their national career.

Dalic, by his sayings and too much privileges to old players in Croatia team, shows that he will fail in coming years. First he takes out all chances for young players to play and become more mature to carry their national team. Second very old players will have worse performances with time and Dalic's wrong approach like this will cause both short term and long term bad results for Croatia.

After all, he is the coach of the national team and bears the greatest responsibility - and when he says on national television that the senators (that's what they call senior players) will play as long as they want and as much as they want, it clearly depicts the situation in the national team. You cannot build a team around players who are over 35 or almost 40 years old, or have Kramaric as your main attacker even though he is mostly invisible on the field.

However, Dalic is a man who does not tolerate criticism and does not see too many problems in his team's game - and he knows that all he needs to do in order to continue to be a coach is to qualify for the next world championship. This will be a very difficult mission considering that in the last 6 games, Croatia clearly shows that they have big problems in defense (they did not concede a goal in only one game), and that they also do not function well in attack.

When it comes down to ex-players, media and pundits, England have always had it worse, their ecosystem is full of toxic individuals, most of who were not so much of a significant impact player doing their days, while some have also failed miserably when they tried their luck with coaching as well, and the others are just blatant knuckleheads with zero clue, all they have do is find fault, spark controversy and never really support the national team truly, I like Tuchel for the job, not because there are no other qualified candidate of English or British origin, but rather because there would be almost zero sentiment or less conspiracy theories as to why he calls certain players up over some others.

Before Serbia got a red card, Spain was already ahead and had scored 2 goals. Moreover, Serbia got a red card in the 77th minute, their game dropped even more. Luckily for Serbia, they only conceded 1 goal after they started playing with only 10 players.

Moreover a goal by Alex Baena Free kick, really stunning.

Source: stunning free-kick Baena

Not really sure, because most of the ex-english players are not really happy about the appointment of Thomas Tuchel as head coach. Quick to come out and say what they feel about the news has got to be no other than Man Utd and Liverpool ex-players, Jamie Caragher and Garry Neville. The same way they are quick to criticize the appointment is the same way they attack no british managers and players in the premier league competition. This is not the first time nor will it be the last time. S.Gate did, qualifying and playing two finals for them was great, but he was never a great manager tactically. Like I said before, Thomas Tuchel is indeed a better upgrade.

While Portugal is a great football nation and they will end up being good in the future as well, I do not think they will be as good as they have been in the last fifteen or so years for a long long time.

There aren't any players like Ronaldo, not at Portugal, not at any other team in the world and this means Portugal will miss Ronaldo's contribution to the team without a doubt. With him, they had someone who could score easily, this dude is literally the highest goal scorer of all time, Pele and his family is making up numbers but Ronaldo is the highest scorer, while I do agree if Messi wants to keep going until after Ronaldo, because of the age gap, there is a possibility Messi could take that spot, right now Ronaldo is godly when he is playing and even at 40 years old he is great.

Portugal will not have someone like him, when he retires, he will not be replaced by anyone even remotely as good as him, and this will make Portugal a worse team for a long time until they find another talent maybe closer to him.

Spain was a head and shoulders above Serbia in this match. Maybe the latter had some problems with their line-up, but I think that even if they didn't, their performance wouldn't have been much different from what they had during the match. Spain completely outplayed them and deservedly scored their three goals and won. Serbs are good, but not this time.

Turkey have left 4 matches behind in League B and we are leading our group with 10 points. I know that we aren't in a difficult group because of being in League B. But it is still nice to see our progress as of Euro 2024. Montella was criticized quite much in the first times. But now I believe there is less criticism on him. By the way we have so many really talented players in our squad which also makes big difference. They take a big responsibility in these wins.

Honestly nothing is "expected" in this kind of world, and I feel we are going to end up with a lot of trouble for the time being and I am not expecting any team to have a guaranteed win, we are going to end up with a lot of issues and troubles if we are not careful and we are going to bet on the teams we want to, and still be open to shock.

In any case, this is now over and we can go back to team football back again, but nations league will come back not too late, we are going to have some soon again, and this is going to be fun to bet on.

I like it more than team betting in many cases, because these are open to shocking results, these people get together less than club players, so getting used to each other is harder, and this opens up chances for underdogs to end up getting some wins.

While Spain managed to beat Serbia without any issues and obviously the better team, if somehow Serbia ended up winning against Spain, this wouldn't be some unheard of situation neither, we could say these type of games do happen as well. Haven't we seen any underdogs beat any favourites before? Just this week we have seen a few examples, that's why I like betting on these games a lot.