Topic: ⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽ - page 20. (Read 6558 times)

My only exposure in European football was through the recent Euro 2024 championship, in which England performed greatly. Apart from that, I've got zero experience in judging how England or any other team performed, because I haven't participated in watching these championships. I don't doubt what you've said, England has a great team, and I also believe that they were a little uncoordinated and could have defended better, preventing the last goal in the last few minutes. Greece on the other hand, got eliminated in the Euro 2024 tournament, thus, this win caught me by surprise.

I'd choose draw than Portugal to win.

There were many upsets happen, top teams aren't that strong anymore except Spain.

From the last five match, Portugal can't score more than 2 goals, this is bad since they're having good attacking players over defensive players. Poland also not a bad team though, their players are played in top 5 leagues.

Before the match I predicted that Turkiye would win the match. But I thought we would watch a match with more goals. Because our defensive players have a lower profile than our attacking players. We have very good offensive players like Arda Güler, Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Kenan Yıldız. But our defensive players have been in a decline in terms of performance recently. Merih Demirel is playing in the Arab League. Çağlar Söyüncü can't even play well at Fenerbahçe. Abdülkerim Bardakçı hasn't performed as well this season as he did last season. Ozan Kabak hasn't returned to his old form after injury. For this reason, and because it had better odds, I bet on both teams to score. But I was wrong.

Last night, we were comfortable with controlling the game against Montenegro in fact but there was a serious problem. We just had huge problems on scoring the winning goal.  

I will give Montenegro that about their defending of course. They resisted very well as a team. But I still don't find our performance against them good enough. I wonder when Montella will stop using Barış Alper Yılmaz in the centre-forward position. Why wouldn't you give Bertuğ Yıldırım a chance from the start?


This using Bellingham as a striker thing started with Ancelotti. But he just wanted to do an experiment and saw it wasn't very ideal. I don't know why would Lee Carsley do the same for no reason while he has 2 great options among the substitutes?  

I chose Portugal as the winning team in this fight.
My prediction, Portugal will narrowly win. Choosing Over I don't think it's the right choice.
Both teams can score goals are options that can give us winning for betting.


Greater draw opportunities to occur. And I chose this fight a draw.


Spain win. That's my prediction. Denmark will stop from the two wins that have been obtained in home games. This time Denmark in his away match will lose.

But it is really quite crazy, the class of Hungary can hold a draw that was brought by the Dutch, he was made difficult, even the goal that was first in this match was created by Hungary, I did not expect it like this, but in the end the Dutch can equalize in the second half and that makes me a little calm, and indeed as a whole the Dutch played quite aggressively by mastering the ball almost the entire match, only they could not create a goal at once again other than the equalizing goal in the 83rd minute, maybe we are not easy underestimated the team that could be an underdog but it was crazy in fast time.

I am in line with the players attitude about this tournament, this particular tournament is very much unnecessary for crying out loud these guys ain't robots but humans. The organizers really do care about the incentives they stand to make from it than the players position about the tournament else they would have scrapped it long ago. I recall how Bukayo Saka was forced to leave the pitch due to injury sustain during the match between England and Isreal. Previously it was Odegaard. And all of these leaves players scared for their health that many had to give excuses just to avoid playing in this tournament. Isn't that a sufficient reason to halt the idea about these games for now?

Yes, probably because of Ronaldo who is always motivated and expects the same from his teammates. The quotes at the moment are as follows:

5.20 - 4.10 - 1.61

Still, I think that betting on Portugal is not justified because the odds are too low. Poland is not a weak team, this is a home game for them and as I already wrote, Portugal does not need to play strictly for a win.
In the Spain vs Denmark game, Spain's odds are rated at 1.47 and for me this looks more attractive: home game + Spain is undeniably stronger.

I could place a fortune for Portugal to win their match against Poland today, I just have this confidence in me that Portugal is going to win, Poland is in a very poor foam right now, winning just one n their last five international games, the win even against Scotland in a 2-3 score line. The Poland defense normally conceive every time they play, then imagine them facing the Portuguese venomous attack who haven't failed to score since the beginning of the nations league qualifiers. Portugal is definitely winning this one today, I hope Ronald also get to add to his tally today.

The Spain vs Denmark will be an interesting match to watch, the Spanish team will be missing some key players due to injury the likes of Dani carvajal and Rodri. These are players with alot of quality who most times dictate the Spanish style of Play, let hope the the Denmark team doesn't take advantage of the missing players and exploit them. Though if I'm to pick a bet here it going to be Denmark to score.

As for the Serbia vs Switzerland I can't say much about this match because these are teams that are almost at the same level so it going to be a hard to pick who the winner is going to be but I rather stake my bet on both team to score.

They are the clear favorites of their group and publicly say that they want to win this competition, while Croatia just wants to stay in the strongest group without any pressure to try to win this competition again. Today, Croatia is playing at home against Scotland, which is (allegedly) in big trouble with injured players (as many as 12 of them). Therefore, Luka Modric will not be the oldest player on the field, because the Scottish goalkeeper is 41.

It seems like an easy victory for Croatia, although the Scots can sometimes be a tough nut to crack, they showed it in the last game against Portugal. The question is whether Croatia will finally start functioning in attack or whether they will continue to score a maximum of 2 goals per game.

Portugal always play seriously in any competition. If they are able to get 3 points in this match, they will be more comfortable in the standings and in the next match they can rest some of their main players to provide physical fitness.
It is not wrong to take Portugal to win on a bet in normal time or what we know as a 1x2 bet.
I am hesitant about betting on the Spain vs Denmark match. A draw is the most likely scenario to happen.

These three matches have potentials of three points by the big teams; Portugal to win away from to keep their winning streak, Switzerland to also win away from home, while Spain to win at home. Adding other games to this can be very risky even though these once are not guarantee, but if everything go as expected, these teams are suppose to win their games.

Denmark vs Spain game will be a tough match, a battle of first and second position in their group because Denmark already has six points as they won their first two matches; while Switzerland will battle for a way of getting there first three points because they lost their first two matches, so they will try their best to win their match against Serbia.

I also thought that betting on Portugal made sense, but: despite Portugal's serious approach to the matter, this is the League of Nations. Portugal is already comfortably leading and today they only need to play a draw (to win in the return game), so in my opinion the risk is not worth the profit. And if you make a reliable bet on Portugal double chance, the odds will be negligible.

Poland vs Portugal
Serbia vs Switzerland
Spain vs Denmark

Three match options ready to be bet on. I think if the three matches meet the odds to be bet on, then I will not add another match to chase bigger odds.
Portugal wants to continue their winning record. If they win over Poland, then they in the group continue their 3 wins in 3 matches.
Serbia wants 3 points to anticipate Spain losing to Denmark. Playing in Spain does not necessarily mean Denmark can get points.

The worst thing is how the players treat the Nations League, this tournament was not the most important before, and now the players openly say that they do not want to play for the national team in this tournament. I can understand why this is happening, we are already seeing how some players are starting to get injured, perhaps because of the very busy schedule. And those who do not refuse to play clearly do not want to strain themselves too much in such games, and watching such games is also not fun.

Recently many players have started to publicly show their discontent and there have even been talks about a strike. I would be glad if this happened, besides the fact that these garbage games are killing the health and strength of the players, they also disrupt the rhythm of the national championships. All tournaments are getting crumpled. What nonsense - 7-9 games have been played in the championships, we are already on our second break.

England defeat to Greece was due to poor coordination between players. They managed to dominate the match by recording 60% ball possession, but their attack was very bad. In my opinion, the Greek victory due to England is still trapped in the same hole, the England coach always has difficulty forming a balanced team, although there are many star players, but when they are put together in a team, it has not been able to show positive results. England's starting XI included Cole Palmer, Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka and Anthony Gordon, but all of them were disappointing.
Congratulations to Greece for this win.

Even though Türkiye had a difficult time in the match, they managed to win 1-0.
The winning goal came in the match thanks to Kenan and İrfan, who came into the game later.
Montella started the match with the wrong squad. I think it is a big mistake for Barış Alper, who is out of shape, to take the field as a striker.
It wouldn't be a lie if I said that Barış Alper did not score any goals in national matches, especially in the European championship.
If he puts the faulty squad he brought out yesterday on the field against Iceland, the match against Iceland will be very difficult.
I would like to open a parenthesis about myself. Betting requires luck rather than just knowledge and skill.
I was blindly expecting 2.5 or even 3.5 goals in yesterday's match, but it ended 1-0. If I had made a coupon, I would have lost. Sometimes you can win by not betting.

Greece where able to capitalise on almost every errors made by the England players, Pickford and the defense did poorly in this game, another game to show how poorly England's defense and goalie can be, they where lucky not to concede more in regarding how bad the defense did performed, I think they lack connection in the defense, also there were less attacking threats from England team.

Jude Bellingham is an excellent player and he scored really lots of goals last season might just be the reason Lee Carsley  to try him as a false 9, though this shouldn't be done here since there're other available 9 outside Kane doing pretty well in their various clubs. He was limiting the team performance with his strategy and performance.

I don't often know if when coach becomes the England senior team coach their of thinking becomes weird, because even if he did use Jude Bellingham as a false 9, this should have been only for the first half since it was obvious Jude didn't do well in that position and often times he is outside the box, causing threats, with his shots to the goal. This was obvious reason to make some substitution and bring a proper 9 but he had to stay with something obviously not working, underestimating the current Greece performance, he deserves what he got.

Greece are competing as one of the best teams in UEFA Nations League Group Two and they have already played three matches where they have won three matches. The last time they managed to win yesterday's match was 2-1 against mighty England. However, in this match, Greece took the lead in the 49th minute through the goal of their player E.Pavlidis. Jude Bellingham then equalized with a goal for England but it did not last long as Pavlidis scored another goal for Greece in extra time to put his side on the verge of victory. England won the first two matches but suffered their first defeat against Greece in the third match.