I was surprised by England's performance, they lost against their opponents Greece. England's performance in the game was not good, so the team lost the match, only Jude Bellingham managed to score a goal. Although this was England's first defeat against Greece, England will probably try to improve their game in the future.
Belgium and Italy drew the match 2-2, although Italy had the better of the game from the start and scored in both first halves. But after the red card of the Italian player left the field, Belgium made a strong attack which resulted in a draw in the match.
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At the end of the round, despite a few weird results seems that looking over the statistics and the SP bets, only one underdog managed to score a surprise, and that's Greece, no other favorite lost a match, at maximum a draw, quite interesting stuff and I saw this in the last round too, for most of the time the Nations League it's quite predictable. I wonder why this is happening, either the bookies have a better algorithm or because the matches don't matter that match nobody is putting extra effort into the game and they just play for the sake of playing and be done with it.
And here is the result of an early rainy boring Saturday:
And here is the result of an early rainy boring Saturday:
Better Southgate than Carsley he put Bellingham as a striker and Foden is this following in the footsteps of formations like they play in clubs? Whereas Watkins and Solanke are pure strikers.
And this is what Nations League matches are like - sometimes games don't try as hard as club competitions - because the international break is just boring and even if we bet it will make us emotional.
And this is what Nations League matches are like - sometimes games don't try as hard as club competitions - because the international break is just boring and even if we bet it will make us emotional.
The reason why I don't like the Nations league is because of the very little incentives to do well. I mean, we have France omitting players like Mbappe. We know that for more competitive games (World cup, euros, etc), they would definitely call in their best players but it's not the caee here.
For Bellingham, he has been playing as a false 9 for a number pf times at Madrid. That role only got diminished because they have Mbappe and Endrick to fill those positions. So it's not the first time but I don't see why it should be the case because Bellingham is better off as an attacking midfielder providing his services to a classic 9 like Watkins that can score goals
It was quite disappointing to see Wales throwing away their 2 goals lead over Iceland today. Despite being a small nation with a population of just over 380,000 people, the national football team of Iceland are quite amazing with the results they produced on the field. They always seems to have no fear playing against powerful national teams and I think the players of Turkey will have to work hard in their next upcoming match against Iceland if they wish to gain all 3 points to further solidify their 1st spot in the group.
What a match, the Ukraine match against Georgia was a very interesting match to watch. This was a match full of end to end attack, proper defense, bodies on the line and goalkeppers save. Ukraine started well and they got credit for it with Mykhailo Mudryk scoring a superb goal. The Chelsea man haven't scored yet since the beginning of season, he played well and I will say he deserves the goal. Mudryk have been playing well lately even tho he is struggling for playing time under meresca but he has improved alot and he showed it tonight. Overall Ukraine had to defend well to keep the 1-0 lead intact, Georgia are a very good side too and they've proved that in the Euros and they are also proving it again. They are still top of the table tieing up with Czech Republic with 6 point and Ukraine tieing up with Albania with 3points
It a very competitive group and how i will Like to see how this one ends. They are all a good side that play a good style of football.
It a very competitive group and how i will Like to see how this one ends. They are all a good side that play a good style of football.
It wasn't that exciting with only 6 shots on target from both teams combined. I thought that Georgia would have a chance as they take the Nations League quite seriously for good reasons of course and they have impressed me in a couple of games at the EURO 2024. But Nations League is so different that I never know what conclusions to draw from that competition. Netherlands can't beat Hungary, Germany only beats Bosnia 2-1, England loses against Greece, the list is long if you take games from the past into account.
Türkiye won tonight but I think it was difficult. I expected Türkiye to win more easily.
We are currently leading the group and I think we will finish the group as leaders.
Iceland - Wales ended in a 2-2 draw, Iceland was losing 2-0 but made the match 2-2 and got 1 point.
We are currently leading the group and I think we will finish the group as leaders.
Iceland - Wales ended in a 2-2 draw, Iceland was losing 2-0 but made the match 2-2 and got 1 point.
Turkiye continue to do good and they are leading their group especially after the draw between Wales and Iceland. Wales couldn't resist in the second half and this team is dropping in performance over the years in my opinion.
Same goes for England, they lost their match in front of Greece and that late goal didn't allow them to stay in front. Now they are second behind of Greece.
We should have beaten Montenegro comfortably with a different score, but we were able to win with only a single goal. İrfan Can Kahveci's goal was enough to get 3 points. If Montenegro had scored a goal in the last minutes, we would have lost 2 points. In order to rule out such possibilities, it's necessary to get 2 different scores against such weak opponents. I didn't like the game in general, this team needs to be more productive in offense. There are problems in finishing. The players who wasted the goal positions generously got away with it today, if the score was 1-1, those wasted positions would have been talked about a lot. You don't have a chance to play like this against better opponents.
Türkiye will lead this group as they should. It's important to make it to League A. That's where we have to play every time.
Türkiye will lead this group as they should. It's important to make it to League A. That's where we have to play every time.
What a match, the Ukraine match against Georgia was a very interesting match to watch. This was a match full of end to end attack, proper defense, bodies on the line and goalkeppers save. Ukraine started well and they got credit for it with Mykhailo Mudryk scoring a superb goal. The Chelsea man haven't scored yet since the beginning of season, he played well and I will say he deserves the goal. Mudryk have been playing well lately even tho he is struggling for playing time under meresca but he has improved alot and he showed it tonight. Overall Ukraine had to defend well to keep the 1-0 lead intact, Georgia are a very good side too and they've proved that in the Euros and they are also proving it again. They are still top of the table tieing up with Czech Republic with 6 point and Ukraine tieing up with Albania with 3points
It a very competitive group and how i will Like to see how this one ends. They are all a good side that play a good style of football.
It a very competitive group and how i will Like to see how this one ends. They are all a good side that play a good style of football.
Lee Carsley, the interim manager, had a really poor day. I didn't even like that 4-2-1-3 formation. Besides why would you prefer Bellingham as the main striker while you have options like Solanke and Watkins?
For me today and easy pick is Spain to win against Serbia. Im from Serbia but our team dosent have at least 5 start players in our first team. Plus we arent playing good at all so i think Spain will probobly destroy us. The entire attack of Serbia isnt playing Mitrovic,Vlahovic,Jovic,Kostic,Milinkovic-Savic… so this should be an easy win for Spain with a huge odd of 1.55 currently.
Yeah, not even taking into account the fact that Serbia will be without 5 players, the Spaniards look very good as it is, they have a very good form and squad to win, I think even a draw is unlikely. Although they did draw last month. Let's see how they play tomorrow against Denmark, I think it's obvious, but if something goes wrong and Denmark can win or snatch a draw
Türkiye won tonight but I think it was difficult. I expected Türkiye to win more easily.
We are currently leading the group and I think we will finish the group as leaders.
Iceland - Wales ended in a 2-2 draw, Iceland was losing 2-0 but made the match 2-2 and got 1 point.
We are currently leading the group and I think we will finish the group as leaders.
Iceland - Wales ended in a 2-2 draw, Iceland was losing 2-0 but made the match 2-2 and got 1 point.
Hungary had a problem with their attacking lines because from 2 latest matches in Nation League Hungary was unable to scores and their last match against Bosnia and Herzegovina is not too satisfied because they only playing draw with scores 0-0 and for their opponent Netherlands has same points with Germany because they can collect 4 points from 2 matches and the latest is Netherlands can able to gets draw result from strong team Germany and i am sure this result is boosted their motivation to collect 3 points from this match
The odds for Netherlands is @1.69 and actually this is good odds considering Netherlands status as the favourite but i just thinking other option for this match just like over 2.5 goals and this option has better odds compared to Netherlands win and why i was thinking to pick over 2.5 goals is because Hungary defensive lines is weak they even in the first match lost with final scores 5-0 from Germany so i think Netherlands can win too with at least 2 goals margin or more
The odds for Netherlands is @1.69 and actually this is good odds considering Netherlands status as the favourite but i just thinking other option for this match just like over 2.5 goals and this option has better odds compared to Netherlands win and why i was thinking to pick over 2.5 goals is because Hungary defensive lines is weak they even in the first match lost with final scores 5-0 from Germany so i think Netherlands can win too with at least 2 goals margin or more
I had similar thoughts to yours about the match but the result was not what I expected. Netherlands got 1 point with Dumfreis' goal in the 83rd minute. I didn't think that Hungary would get points from this match because I thought that the Netherlands would win easily. Today Hungary proved many people's predictions wrong and got 1 point.
It is very normal for national teams to lose points when there is no team cohesion, even if there are star players in the squad. Sometimes it takes football luck to get the ball into the goal.
There were good matches in the Nations League today. I also gave priority to the Turkey and Montenegro match and I am following the match. The first half ended in a goalless draw. Turkey made many attempts, accurate shots, effective attacks ended in goalless matches. Montenegro closed down more and tried to defend.
In the second half, Irfan Can Kahveci entered the game and scored the first goal of the Turkish national team 5-6 minutes after entering the game, the match is still ongoing, minute 90, I hope we do not make a mistake and finish the match like this.
In the second half, Irfan Can Kahveci entered the game and scored the first goal of the Turkish national team 5-6 minutes after entering the game, the match is still ongoing, minute 90, I hope we do not make a mistake and finish the match like this.
The first half was really not good at all. We tried but failed to score every time. Montenegro were pretty good with defending. In the second half this was seen again for a long time as well. But finally İrfan scored the winner. I think replacing Kerem with Kenan was a good choice. Because Kerem wasn't good enough. We should have started with Bertuğ instead of Barış Alper too. At the end we won by 1-0. But I didn't like the general effort very much considering the number of goal chances we wasted.
There are some good matches today. For example, Hungary vs Netherlands looks like it will be a good match or Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Germany. But I will watch the Turkiye - Montenegro match. Turkiye have 4 points in the group, Montenegro have no points. Turkiye are the leader in the group, Montenegro are last. On paper everything is in favor of Turkiye. But I think Montenegro are not an easy opponent. Prosineçki had worked in Turkiye before. And he left good impressions. I will bet on both teams to score in this match. Because Turkiye have some problems in defense. If Montenegro score one goal, everything will be easy for my bet.
There were good matches in the Nations League today. I also gave priority to the Turkey and Montenegro match and I am following the match. The first half ended in a goalless draw. Turkey made many attempts, accurate shots, effective attacks ended in goalless matches. Montenegro closed down more and tried to defend. In the second half, Irfan Can Kahveci entered the game and scored the first goal of the Turkish national team 5-6 minutes after entering the game, the match is still ongoing, minute 90, I hope we do not make a mistake and finish the match like this.
There are some good matches today. For example, Hungary vs Netherlands looks like it will be a good match
Are you still watching this match? now Netherlands is behind one goal and the match has been running 80 minutes, although Netherlands dominated the match up to 80 %, they seemed to have difficulty to equalize the score of course we don't think Netherlands were defeated today but this is the fact, the situation is worse when the second yellow card for Van Dijk This means that Netherlands's chances are lower to score goals.
Lee Carsley, the interim manager, had a really poor day. I didn't even like that 4-2-1-3 formation. Besides why would you prefer Bellingham as the main striker while you have options like Solanke and Watkins?
Better Southgate than Carsley he put Bellingham as a striker and Foden is this following in the footsteps of formations like they play in clubs? Whereas Watkins and Solanke are pure strikers.You know in national matches, the coaches just tries to reshuffle players in different positions as against how they position in league games but players also needs to adapt since sometimes it's really difficult for a coach to identify a particular position that will fit in so well for them individually.
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And this is what Nations League matches are like - sometimes games don't try as hard as club competitions - because the international break is just boring and even if we bet it will make us emotional.
You are right actually about players not bringing forth that much energy in country games as they do in their league games but that doesn't mean they don't give their best to see their country having a good result at the end of the day. Yes Nations league games are very complex to predict but i prefer making single bets or not many accumulations that's the only way to get some wins but if you make much accumulations it may not really work according to your predictions
There are some good matches today. For example, Hungary vs Netherlands looks like it will be a good match or Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Germany. But I will watch the Turkiye - Montenegro match. Turkiye have 4 points in the group, Montenegro have no points. Turkiye are the leader in the group, Montenegro are last. On paper everything is in favor of Turkiye. But I think Montenegro are not an easy opponent. Prosineçki had worked in Turkiye before. And he left good impressions. I will bet on both teams to score in this match. Because Turkiye have some problems in defense. If Montenegro score one goal, everything will be easy for my bet.
Hungary is not so good in performance compared to the Netherlands which is a very strong team, they are at different Levels in my opinion, this match should be quite easy for the Netherlands to beat Hungary to get 3 extra points. League A group three will be dominated by 2 teams Germany and Netherlands, those are the teams that will qualify for the next round easily because Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina are not worthy opponents for them.
Hungary defensive game is really giving Netherlands a tough game . Netherlands is a very good team and I never thought this game will be so tough for then, since their is still time in the game they may have luck to score a goal.
Lee Carsley, the interim manager, had a really poor day. I didn't even like that 4-2-1-3 formation. Besides why would you prefer Bellingham as the main striker while you have options like Solanke and Watkins?
Better Southgate than Carsley he put Bellingham as a striker and Foden is this following in the footsteps of formations like they play in clubs? Whereas Watkins and Solanke are pure strikers.And this is what Nations League matches are like - sometimes games don't try as hard as club competitions - because the international break is just boring and even if we bet it will make us emotional.
Lorenzo Pellegrini’s red card was a bad start to the win for Italy. A goal in the first minute and a second minute goal that made it 2-0 to Luciano Spalletti’s side changed to 2-2 after Pellegrini’s red card in the 40th minute.
It seems Spalletti was not prepared for the game in the middle of the match when his team received a red card. This should have been a winning streak, but it doesn’t look like it will be as Belgium are now in control.
There is still a chance of a comeback for Belgium.
Sometimes the action of one player can prove fatal to a team and in the case of Lorenzo Pellegrini I felt that foul wasn't worth it. Just let the player be and I didn't see what caused the card but I guess it wasn't a goal scoring opportunity that he stopped, or was it? Now it had to cost them their three points. At least with this one point they managed to get they were still able to qualify for the next round.It seems Spalletti was not prepared for the game in the middle of the match when his team received a red card. This should have been a winning streak, but it doesn’t look like it will be as Belgium are now in control.
There is still a chance of a comeback for Belgium.
An additional one point on the match against Belgium still made Italy lead the group because when against France in the first match, Italy indeed so that until yesterday the Italian point was still above France.
It will be easier to make sure to qualify because of the next fight against Israel.
Türkiye before the Monenegro game is predicted it will not be difficult to win, with other terms Montenegro will lose.
Until half time, the position is still 0-0. Odds has changed. There is a possibility that Türkiye still has the opportunity to win in 45 minutes the second half will be a bet that will bring in victory on the betting list if some of the chosen teams also win based on betting options.
Yeah you right.
These torunamente are only interesting for smaller teams since they give them some visibility
To biggers team this cup is just a lost of time.
I doubt that players wanna even play these games but they are "forced" to from federation. If these players refuse the call they will probably not called for the biggers games later.
These torunamente are only interesting for smaller teams since they give them some visibility
To biggers team this cup is just a lost of time.
I doubt that players wanna even play these games but they are "forced" to from federation. If these players refuse the call they will probably not called for the biggers games later.
Not even only a waste of time for top teams, but also a serious danger of injury.
Even though we talk about some of them as they don't care, I still see many huge talents in their squads here.Like Bellingham, Palmer and so on in England squad. There is a big risk of getting injured. Because this year the schedule for clubs is busier than ever.
Anyway it is halftime in the Turkey - Montenegro game... Did I enjoy the first half? Not even a bit.
We were dominant in theory but we still couldn't score any goal. It is getting more boring when I watch a game like this. I would love to see Montella starting the second half with a real striker instead of the winger Barış Alper, thanks in advance. Jump to: