Topic: ⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽ - page 30. (Read 8338 times)

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

The results of Lee Carsley's first two games as the coach of the Three Lions was impressive but I think his tactical approach in the game against Greece yesterday was poor. He made some bad decisions which I think was the reason England lost at Wembley against a Greece side that's never beaten them ever in history of football before yesterday's game. But as an inexperienced manager who probably wanted to experiment his new ideas, I think it's understandable as to why he decided to make a surprise team selection in that game. Now that he's seen it didn't work, I'm sure he'll not want to repeat same style again.

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.

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.

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 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.