The UEFA Nations League 2020/2021 Discussion Thread

[kro55]

France 0-1 Croatia

Today I am enjoying the match of France VS Croatia. My prediction is that the match will be drawn 1-1 or 2-2. But in the first 5 minutes of the match, Croatia got a 1-0 lead by scoring a goal from the penalty spot. Since Croatia got the lead at the beginning of the match. So now they will play completely defensively and try to end the match 1-0. It will be more difficult for France to draw or win the match.

I'm really surprised to see this result at the moment. Hope that France will do something in the second half in way to end the match at least with a draw. It is really strange for them to lose against a team like Croatia.

C'mon mbappè 

The match did not end with a draw. I lost the bet. However, Benzema's gameplay has disappointed me the most. He is a devastating player in Real Madrid. Many times we have seen him break the defense of many strong teams. But his performance in the France team is very weak. Mbappe's performance was much better than Benzema's against Croatia. France expects better performances from senior players like Benzema.

[hahay]

France 0-1 Croatia

Today I am enjoying the match of France VS Croatia. My prediction is that the match will be drawn 1-1 or 2-2. But in the first 5 minutes of the match, Croatia got a 1-0 lead by scoring a goal from the penalty spot. Since Croatia got the lead at the beginning of the match. So now they will play completely defensively and try to end the match 1-0. It will be more difficult for France to draw or win the match.

I'm really surprised to see this result at the moment. Hope that France will do something in the second half in way to end the match at least with a draw. It is really strange for them to lose against a team like Croatia.

C'mon mbappè 

The match did not end with a draw. I lost the bet. However, Benzema's gameplay has disappointed me the most. He is a devastating player in Real Madrid. Many times we have seen him break the defense of many strong teams. But his performance in the France team is very weak. Mbappe's performance was much better than Benzema's against Croatia. France expects better performances from senior players like Benzema.

Croatia is not a weak team and a result like this is quite natural, because in fact France doesn't seem to have the spirit to perform well in this tournament. France is one of the teams with a lot of star players but so far haven't got a win, unlike England and Germany because the teams there are arguably more difficult. When compared to the competition in Group 1 where France on paper is at least easy to get 2 wins, but they still seem to be lulled by the title and big money they just got at the end of their respective league competitions like Mbappe and Benzema.

[herurist]

The match did not end with a draw. I lost the bet. However, Benzema's gameplay has disappointed me the most. He is a devastating player in Real Madrid. Many times we have seen him break the defense of many strong teams. But his performance in the France team is very weak. Mbappe's performance was much better than Benzema's against Croatia. France expects better performances from senior players like Benzema.

In UEFA Nations I stopped betting because I have lost several times and this is inseparable from the poor performance of the leading teams here so I am now more comfortable watching than betting there
Regardless of how the individual performances there, their team's performance was still very lacking, especially in terms of finishing which made me frustrated to see some opportunities wasted.
with this result France sink to the bottom of the standings lol

[Juggy777]

The match did not end with a draw. I lost the bet. However, Benzema's gameplay has disappointed me the most. He is a devastating player in Real Madrid. Many times we have seen him break the defense of many strong teams. But his performance in the France team is very weak. Mbappe's performance was much better than Benzema's against Croatia. France expects better performances from senior players like Benzema.

In UEFA Nations I stopped betting because I have lost several times and this is inseparable from the poor performance of the leading teams here so I am now more comfortable watching than betting there
Regardless of how the individual performances there, their team's performance was still very lacking, especially in terms of finishing which made me frustrated to see some opportunities wasted.
with this result France sink to the bottom of the standings lol

@heruist it’s clear that the top stars are tired and that’s why they’re clearly underperforming for their national teams, and hence it’s not surprising to see that the favourite teams are losing. Also I hope that France doesn’t perform this way when the World Cup begins, because I’ll be disappointed if they crash out in World Cup due to such poor performances.

[fzkto]

France never ceases to amaze in these competitions. They have not won a single match, drawn twice and lost twice. I don't know how they are going to perform in the World Cup this year, but they definitely need to change something. I understand that no one cares about Nations league, but still the favourites play much better in all groups. I don't believe that France have turned into a rubbish team.

[Daniel91]

France never ceases to amaze in these competitions. They have not won a single match, drawn twice and lost twice. I don't know how they are going to perform in the World Cup this year, but they definitely need to change something. I understand that no one cares about Nations league, but still the favourites play much better in all groups. I don't believe that France have turned into a rubbish team.

France actually disappointed me at the last European Championship because I expected a lot more from them.
Even then, it was clear that the French team has problems, primarily in the relationship between players and players and coaches.
There seem to be too many big stars on that team, with a very big ego.
Therefore, the poor performance of France in this competition is not too much of a surprise.
I think that the French team urgently needs a new coach, with much stronger authority and at the moment it's obviously Zidane and they must bring him as soon as possible, if possible before the World Cup because the current coach has no control over the players.

[BALIK]

France never ceases to amaze in these competitions. They have not won a single match, drawn twice and lost twice. I don't know how they are going to perform in the World Cup this year, but they definitely need to change something. I understand that no one cares about Nations league, but still the favourites play much better in all groups. I don't believe that France have turned into a rubbish team.

If this performance does not improve, my fear is that they will be eliminated from the first round of the next World Cup. France has very experienced and talented players. Even then their performance is very poor. They have star players like Benzema, Griezmann, and Mbappe in their forwards. The midfield has talented players like Kante and Rabiot. Even then they have managed to score only two goals in the last 4 matches. I don't think coach Didier Deschamps is doing his job properly.

[davis196]

After the end of a hard season in their football clubs, the French players are expected to give their best and win their games in the UEFA Nations League. Those footballers are playing 80 matches per season. They are tired. I'm surprised that Didie Deschamps didn't include more young players in the national team for the Nations League. Players like Benzema, Mbappe and Griezmann are not machines. They get tired.
Even Luca Modric was complaining about the exhausting schedule of the footballers. UEFA should stop pleasing the bookies, by forcing the national teams to play more games, when the best footballers need a break.

[suryana]

It was an awkward day in my opinion. Denmark did the expected thing by defeating Austria actually but France had really serious problems on having a favorable result in their home game. Croatia benefited from this opportunity in a great way by defeating them 1-0. This must be absolutely because of their not seeing this tournament as very important for themselves. Otherwise I would say that France should have won this game one way or another. France are really not a team to believe in here now.

France's 0-1 defeat against Croatia I think is not surprising even though France are currently at the bottom of the standings considering the UEFA Nations League is not a tournament that is too important for Didier Deschamps' team where they only field players who have never played with the French national team, while the Danish national team itself did extraordinary things in this tournament where earlier this morning they successfully beat Austria 2-0 while making them currently at the top of the standings with 9 points from the four matches they have played.

[Davidvictorson]

France's 0-1 defeat against Croatia I think is not surprising even though France are currently at the bottom of the standings considering the UEFA Nations League is not a tournament that is too important for Didier Deschamps' team where they only field players who have never played with the French national team, while the Danish national team itself did extraordinary things in this tournament where earlier this morning they successfully beat Austria 2-0 while making them currently at the top of the standings with 9 points from the four matches they have played.

They're missing Pogba' and Kante's influence in the midfield. Their biggest weakness is Deschamp. Going with what I have seen so far, it is very unlikely that France will have a great outing at the 2022 World Cup. Every time Deschamps tries to get them to play in a more attacking way to suit Benzema and Mbappe they concede heaps, he might have to go back to safety-first to defend the World Cup title. They need to start focusing on teamwork rather than individuality.

[Sebas.tian]

France 0-1 Croatia

Today I am enjoying the match of France VS Croatia. My prediction is that the match will be drawn 1-1 or 2-2. But in the first 5 minutes of the match, Croatia got a 1-0 lead by scoring a goal from the penalty spot. Since Croatia got the lead at the beginning of the match. So now they will play completely defensively and try to end the match 1-0. It will be more difficult for France to draw or win the match.

It was a great surprised to Croatia fans, because many people has concluded that France will use all their strategies to defeat Croatia to make their fans happy but Croatia defeated France 1-0 for the favour of Croatia. I think, France coach need to work on their strikers because they really missed many opportunities that would have make them to defeat Croatia 3-1 but they missed used the opportunity both the first half and the second half that made them not to achieve any goal from the match. Croatia defenders and midfielders really helped their team because France strikers tried their possible best to get a goal from the match but the defenders didn't allow such thing to happen.

[CryptocurencyKing]

It was an awkward day in my opinion. Denmark did the expected thing by defeating Austria actually but France had really serious problems on having a favorable result in their home game. Croatia benefited from this opportunity in a great way by defeating them 1-0. This must be absolutely because of their not seeing this tournament as very important for themselves. Otherwise I would say that France should have won this game one way or another. France are really not a team to believe in here now.

France's 0-1 defeat against Croatia I think is not surprising even though France are currently at the bottom of the standings considering the UEFA Nations League is not a tournament that is too important for Didier Deschamps' team where they only field players who have never played with the French national team, while the Danish national team itself did extraordinary things in this tournament where earlier this morning they successfully beat Austria 2-0 while making them currently at the top of the standings with 9 points from the four matches they have played.

Overall, it was a drab and unconvincing display by France, one that certainly did not warrant maximum points. Croatia played like a team oblivious to these statistics. They went toe-to-toe with France and registered their first-ever win against them. The defeat against France ended France’s Nations League campaign, with them remaining at the bottom of the group with two points after four games. Denmark are currently atop the standings with nine points, making it mathematically impossible for France to dethrone them with only two games to play. I think Didier Deschamps needs to solve this riddle if France are to defend their crown in the FIFA World Cup in Qatar later this year.

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France 0-1 Croatia

Today I am enjoying the match of France VS Croatia. My prediction is that the match will be drawn 1-1 or 2-2. But in the first 5 minutes of the match, Croatia got a 1-0 lead by scoring a goal from the penalty spot. Since Croatia got the lead at the beginning of the match. So now they will play completely defensively and try to end the match 1-0. It will be more difficult for France to draw or win the match.

It was a great surprised to Croatia fans, because many people has concluded that France will use all their strategies to defeat Croatia to make their fans happy but Croatia defeated France 1-0 for the favour of Croatia. I think, France coach need to work on their strikers because they really missed many opportunities that would have make them to defeat Croatia 3-1 but they missed used the opportunity both the first half and the second half that made them not to achieve any goal from the match. Croatia defenders and midfielders really helped their team because France strikers tried their possible best to get a goal from the match but the defenders didn't allow such thing to happen.

France is a lot of star-studded players but they haven't been able to win during these preliminaries, to be honest, I was really annoying even though the game was ahead of Croatia but out of all the attacks no one came in, I lost a lot more here. sad
I don't know what happened even though their squad is strong enough if you look at them, are they not solid enough to find a winning gap? But with Luka Modric's penalty in the early minutes, he was able to defend until the end.

Honestly, I don't want to see France like this in the World Cup.

[ibuddy122505]

France 0-1 Croatia

Today I am enjoying the match of France VS Croatia. My prediction is that the match will be drawn 1-1 or 2-2. But in the first 5 minutes of the match, Croatia got a 1-0 lead by scoring a goal from the penalty spot. Since Croatia got the lead at the beginning of the match. So now they will play completely defensively and try to end the match 1-0. It will be more difficult for France to draw or win the match.

It was a great surprised to Croatia fans, because many people has concluded that France will use all their strategies to defeat Croatia to make their fans happy but Croatia defeated France 1-0 for the favour of Croatia. I think, France coach need to work on their strikers because they really missed many opportunities that would have make them to defeat Croatia 3-1 but they missed used the opportunity both the first half and the second half that made them not to achieve any goal from the match. Croatia defenders and midfielders really helped their team because France strikers tried their possible best to get a goal from the match but the defenders didn't allow such thing to happen.

France is a lot of star-studded players but they haven't been able to win during these preliminaries, to be honest, I was really annoying even though the game was ahead of Croatia but out of all the attacks no one came in, I lost a lot more here. sad
I don't know what happened even though their squad is strong enough if you look at them, are they not solid enough to find a winning gap? But with Luka Modric's penalty in the early minutes, he was able to defend until the end.

Honestly, I don't want to see France like this in the World Cup.

France Nations League results very upsetting, and the score line says everything regarding. France eliminated from the Nations League in a not so great kind of way. Does big team like France taking this tournament as a mere preparation for the world cup? Their strategies or procedures didn't show their opponents their full power. Actually I don't get it, the players need to rest. Croatia put a unimaginable collaboration and a strong guard to deny France to get through. Luka Modric sensational performance as usual.

[Barcode_]

I did not expect to see Romania getting stuck at the bottom of this group after 3 games played, I think the quality of the players in the Romania squad are strong enough to contest against other teams placed in this group for the top spot. Romania could not afford to lose any more points at this stage and I guess there is a high chance for Romania to beat Montenegro at the final whistle today.

[muratsink]

France never ceases to amaze in these competitions. They have not won a single match, drawn twice and lost twice. I don't know how they are going to perform in the World Cup this year, but they definitely need to change something. I understand that no one cares about Nations league, but still the favourites play much better in all groups. I don't believe that France have turned into a rubbish team.

France currently comes with the status of defending champion of the UEFA Nations League but we never expected what happened to France at this time where in four matches they only won two draws and swallowed 2 defeats where France itself is currently ranked fourth standings with 2 points, the status of world champions on the shoulders of France made them crumble in the UEFA Nations League where they have not won at all, but we are not at all surprised by France's achievements especially since this is only a friendly tournament so it is natural that the national team France didn't go all out in this tournament even though they fielded a lot of starting players

[coco23]

France never ceases to amaze in these competitions. They have not won a single match, drawn twice and lost twice. I don't know how they are going to perform in the World Cup this year, but they definitely need to change something. I understand that no one cares about Nations league, but still the favourites play much better in all groups. I don't believe that France have turned into a rubbish team.

I don't  believe that France has turned into a rubbish team. However it looks like they have a problem of motivation, tactics or do not function as well as a team as before. The tournament might not be important, but with bad results like we have seen so far it can become a precursor to a disastrous world cup tournament in a couple of months.

[KTChampions]

franca is very disappointing, looking at this:



franca has:

1 - The highest paid player in the world, Mbappe

2 - They have Karin benzema, one of the guys who scores a lot of goals, a true deadly striker

So what is missing for franca to win the games? they are in a group of weak teams, but unbelievable that they are in last place with only 2 points. this is regrettable and shameful, that way they can have the same low performance in the world cup and they won't get far

After the 4th round, the situation only got worse and now the prospect of dropping into League B is becoming very real. LOL - top contender for the World Cup.
I wonder if it makes sense in the remaining games to bet on the victory of France - in theory, they should be motivated to win in order to at least calm the criticism against them a little.

[YOSHIE]

France Nations League results very upsetting,

I think i'm the only one with bad luck in this UEFA championship Qualification bet this time but i'm not with france, but who would have guessed Denmark vs. Turkey (1-2), this is ridiculous, I don't think Turkey can beat Denmark, facts say otherwise, for sure Turkey will meet Lithuania and Luxembourg in the next match, obviously Turkey will lead, if I look.

The next UEFA Championship qualifier Wales vs Gibraltar, even worse, if I pay attention, just look at 1 minute' F. Stevens Wales has scored 1 goal, Good, keep Wales.

[fuguebtc]

I did not expect to see Romania getting stuck at the bottom of this group after 3 games played, I think the quality of the players in the Romania squad are strong enough to contest against other teams placed in this group for the top spot. Romania could not afford to lose any more points at this stage and I guess there is a high chance for Romania to beat Montenegro at the final whistle today.

Romania had lost the previous match 2-0 against Montenegro. Romania's performance against Montenegro was poor. They didn't get a chance to attack too much. Romania also lost to Bosnia. However, in the last match against Finland, Romania played quite well. So hopefully they will continue this continuity. But I guess the match will be a 1-1 draw.