Topic: ⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽ - page 17. (Read 6535 times)

I think one or the most reason that Cristiano Ronaldo is still delivering an outstanding performance for Portugal is his Mental and physical fitness.
He lives healthy and cares about his body and then on top of that only his presence strengthens the team of Portugal.
All the Fans and the supporters making the rest when he is on the field, but yeah respect what he is doing for his age.

I think one of the main reasons Cristiano Ronaldo is still delivering outstanding performances for the Portugal national team is because of the support and belief he's enjoying from the coach Roberto Martinez. I've never seen a 39- year old footballer that's been this incredible in his performances on the pitch like the Al Nassr forward and to think that he's not showing any sign of slowing down is a testament that he has few more years to play top professional football. Portugal I think are a major contender for the Nation League trophy and nothing even Croatia can stop them if you ask me.

England team will perform most aggressively in this match today, as all the gamblers are already betting more in favor of England team. And according to the squad England team has the most experienced players and they are older players. Harry Kane, Cole Palmer are the two best attacking players, and the defenders are the best. Most of the day in favor of the England team, the result of the football game can turn at any time. So in today's match I have bet on England team and squad England team players will be home team for today's match.  And opposite team Finland team is relatively less strong. However, both teams will perform aggressively for this match.

I couldn't have agreed with you more. This has started to be really annoying to me.    Portugal has really great talents in their hands but they are useless as long as they play focused on Ronaldo.

If I'm not mistaken he is planning to play in the next World Cup as well. Portugal can't achieve big success as long as they don't change their system. They are comfortable against smaller teams but what will they do in bigger matches? He is also aware of the situation undoubtedly but doesn't care. Otherwise of course I also respect Ronaldo's career a lot. He is one of the bests in history already. He should just stop trying to be the hero from now on.

Poland and Croatia will have a difficult balancing match with not too different in quality. Croatia played better than Poland in big tournaments but their golden era comes to ending and in transitional time, Croatia will need to wait several years for young players to grow and carry heavy tasks from legendary players. It takes time for Croatia to rebuild their national squad.

Poland rely too much on Lewandowski but this player could not carry them to success in latest big tournaments. It is logic with their national team failure, and it is not because of Lewandowski, their captain. Croatia had more star players than Poland but they have very good team working and surely better than Poland. Team working and ambition are biggest strength of Croatia in World Cup, Euro and Nations League tournaments in last 10 years.

In next several years, I see Poland has bigger risk to fall down than Croatia.

it's true that Poland lost in the game but they played too well and could have had a win if Portugal didn't follow them up in an aggressive way like the way they did. Raphael leào was definitely exceptional and instrumental to all the major things that played out and even the goal that Ronaldo scored was supposed to be his if not that it hit the bar and deflected back to Ronaldo's part and he scored. His energy is just amazing and the way he constantly drives the ball from a far distance into the danger zone shows the quality in his kind of play. The way they played and subdued all the effort of lewandoski shows that they are becoming more solid by the day and assuming B Fernandez scored the tap in Ronaldo gave to him, they would have not just remained top and unbeaten in the group but would have also had 5 GD while toping the group. Ronaldo might have aged and his energy in winning balls might have slowed down but when it comes to scoring goals, the legend is still at the top of his play and will still continue banging goals for his country as long as he continues playing.

Yeah I know. I lost a bet for that LOL
Now I have Slovenia already scored and Kazakhstan to score to have the both team to score bet to win.

Cyprus - Romania 0-3 and what a game it was! I'm so proud of my national team for having 3 victories in a row , dominated every game so far but also displaying a very offensive football which is very unusual for our country when it comes to football.

Today , can England erase the defeat of last game and make a grand victory today against Finland ? In theory they should but it seems England really doesn't care a lot about this competition 

It is very hard to see many players have a good performance in old age but Ronaldo is still having a good performance at the age of 39, Ronaldo has scored in the three matches he has played with the national teams and is also among the top scorers in Saudi Arabia league, this show that Ronaldo indeed a player that no one can play like the way he did, at this age there are some player's that can not play very well and score goals but he keeps turning up for his team and country by scoring a goal to make sure they win the match.

In yesterday's game of Portugal against Poland Ronaldo performed well to the extent that he was trying to make sure his teammate scored a goal in the match, many people who criticize Ronaldo will now believe that Ronaldo is trying to make sure his teammate scored a goal because he gives some assist to Bruno Fernandes and he misses the chances, Ronaldo deserves more respect and we need to give him, some Messi fans are saying why he didn't score this goal in the world and win the trophy and if Ronaldo didn't score in a single game they will complain that why didn't score.

The thing is, I hate shitting on Ronaldo or any other footballer. He's proven himself, we all know he's great. But we also know he's barely half the player he was.

The thing isn't about being able to deliver. He can score goals. But for him to do that, the whole team has to sacrifice talents and play to get him to score.

What he's doing to Portugal is selfish. And they cannot evolve away from the way they play until he goes.

Anyone would be skeptical and not really expect much from a player who is 39 years old, maybe even almost 40 years old. But Cristiano Ronaldo is different from other players who are at that age. Cristiano Ronaldo's quality may not be as good as before. But he still has sharpness at a top level that sometimes exceeds other young players. In the Portuguese national team he proved that he could still contribute very well. What I like most about Cristiano Ronaldo is that his steps are always effective. What I mean is that he may not move as much as other players but he is always good at putting himself in very good positions which always manages to break down the opponent's defense.

Actually, winning with a score of 1-3 against Poland was a result that was beyond my predictions. Because even though I was sure Portugal would win, I didn't expect the Portuguese national team to score 3 goals against the Polish national team. Because we know Poland also has many quality players. But Portugal really dominated the match and made it difficult for the Polish national team from the start. Now Cristiano Ronaldo has collected 3 goals from the 3 matches he has played. And I think Cristiano Ronaldo will score goals again in the next matches. Maybe against Croatia will be a difficult match. but I still believe the Portuguese National Team will excel and remain at the top of Group 1. This will be the same as at Euro 2024.

His spirit and talent have not faded and are still almost like other young people even though he is already 39 years old and even almost 40 years old because he was born in February. And in the match at the Narodowy stadium in Poland, Cristiano Ronaldo was able to score one goal before Jan Bednarek's own goal. This means that Cristiano Ronaldo still has good enough abilities to be relied on by the Portuguese national team in the UEFA Nations League event 2024/2025.

We can conclude that Croatia is not playing nearly as well as before - and that the victories against Poland and Scotland are actually more the result of luck than good play. The Scots put up a good resistance and if they had been a little more lucky, the result would have been 2-2, given that VAR canceled their goal in stoppage time. At the moment, Croatia is struggling with teams like Albania, Poland or Scotland, and I don't think they can expect to win against any stronger team.

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It will be a difficult match for both teams, considering that in my opinion the teams are quite even, regardless of some individual qualities that Croatia has. What is repeated from game to game of Croatia is that they cannot keep a clean sheet, and that they also cannot score more than 2 goals per game. If Poland managed to score at least 2 goals, it would most likely mean that Croatia would not win that match.

Lewandowski also did not move due to the lack of supply from his team-mates. The performances of Ronaldo and company are now much more promising, Leao who in some matches was not able to penetrate the defence, now he is able to make a difference, trying to create opportunities for the umpteenth time Portugal still needs Ronaldo, I know he is no longer young but his presence is still important to provide motivation for the Portuguese players. Ronaldo is still the heart of the Portuguese national team, 3 goals is not an easy thing for a 39 year old player, only he has been able to do that so far.

Poland played really bad in this match, Poland only had one chance, while Portugal had six chances. Actually this game looks really easy for Portugal, they even smiling after made mistakes, if it was serious they will not act like that.

The upcoming match Poland will meet Croatia, this would be the most important match for both of them. If Croatia win, Polandia almost have no chance to automatically qualified for playoff.

Finland vs England and Austria vs Norway are the best matches of the day. Ralf Ragnick's Austria beat Kazakhstan 4-0 in their last match in the group and moved up to the second place in the group. On the other hand, Norway beat Slovenia 3-0. Haaland scored 2 goals in that match. Sörloth and Haaland are showing very good performances in the last matches. They make Norway the favorite for this match. The two of them give defenders a hard time. I think Norway will win this game and consolidate their lead in the group.

Roberto Martinez still believes that Ronaldo has something to offer, and the 39-year-old striker has not disappointed. He was heavily criticized for his poor performance in the last European Championship, where he failed to score a single goal. Ronaldo knows how to handle critics, and he has done it through his records: three goals, three games. Poland was no match for Portugal, considering the statistics of the game, and has to remain in the third position with three points, while Croatia is three points behind Portugal.

It's surprising to see Ronaldo at 39 years old scoring goals. The goal he scored against Poland is making it the 3 goals he has scored this season against three countries. If you add the goals he scored for club and country this year alone, it sums up to 11 goals. That doesn't stop yet because I believe that Ronaldo is not retiring from football this season, and his scoring habit of his in most matches will still happen over and over again. However, for the record, Ronaldo appears to be the top male international scorer in history.



Croatia can only try to challenge Portugal for the first position, but they won't succeed in taking the first position from Portugal because Portugal is leading the Group 1 table with 9 points, 3 points ahead of Croatia, which has 6 points. In Portugal's previous meeting against Croatia last month, Portugal won by 2-1

Looking at the match I don't know why I bet Bulgaria could beat Luxemburg, probably because in my mind Luxemburg would not break their row of now scoring a goal and maybe, maybe Bulgaria would manage to score at least once on their home turf? At least it's way less disappointing at a loss than if I had taken a shot at the Netherlands two days ago!

Changing tactics, I'm placing this beauty, going only for 'life or death" matches /s:

Many people started to think that Ronaldo career with the Portuguese national team was over, that he should no longer be called up to defend his country at international level, but he was able to overturn all of these skeptical opinions with impressive performances. He continues to be a difference maker and a leader for his teammates, always performing optimally, his sharpness in scoring goals can still be relied on, in the last three matches against Scotland, Croatia and Poland, he has always been able to score goals. Ronaldo is very motivated to appear in the upcoming world cup, he continues to work hard to maintain his performance, he really showed his class when destroying Poland.