The UEFA Nations League 2020/2021 Discussion Thread

[snipie]

It's 87 minutes but the score is still 0-0 France-vs-Portugal match . Though both teams are playing well but lacking clear-cut opportunities.

Well both France - Portugal and Italy - Poland finished 0-0. Quite unexpected for many
I don't see surprises in the other matches. Next games are scheduled this Tuesday, Germany - Switzerland seems to be the best.

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[LTU_btc]

There was quite a lot of unexpected results today and I lost too many bets. Poland - Italy was good game to watch, but ended with goaless draw. Same can be said about France - Portugal. I didn't expected to see such Denmark win against Iceland. Hungary win against Serbia is big surprise.
About earlier games, it's worth to mention that Netherlands haven't managed to beat Bosnia and impressive 3:3 draw between Estonia and North Macedonia.

[coinlocket$]

What a useless tournament especially these days with COVID.
The part that angers me the most is the fact that the final phase will be played in OCTOBER 2021 if I have not misunderstood and therefore all championships will be distorted if they do not make the two-weeks stops for all teams in every country.

Imagine like a game Italy-Portugal, my Juventus will be without CR7 Bonucci Chiesa Chiellini 

The only positive thing about these games is that they count towards making Cristiano break all records.

[daarul50]

What a useless tournament especially these days with COVID.
The part that angers me the most is the fact that the final phase will be played in OCTOBER 2021 if I have not misunderstood and therefore all championships will be distorted if they do not make the two-weeks stops for all teams in every country.

Imagine like a game Italy-Portugal, my Juventus will be without CR7 Bonucci Chiesa Chiellini 

The only positive thing about these games is that they count towards making Cristiano break all records.

We must cut this bullshit immediately.
Nobody enjoyed this tournament , since beginning it was not entertaining and people complaining about the benefit of the tournament itself is zero. Nothing.
Unless yes that is makes sense , cristiano since turning 30 years old seems have better numbers in record , other than that it is bullshit.

[MCobian]

I am very disappointed with the results of the matches France vs Portugal and Italy vs Poland, because it was surprising that these two matches
ended in a draw. Even though I bet big enough for both matches, it's really annoying that I have to suffer a big loss. But I was quite amused,
because two of my bets were correct. My prediction is right for England to beat Belgium and Spain also to beat Switzerland.

[Slow death]

What a useless tournament especially these days with COVID.

it was really extremely reckless and damnable, I don't know how they managed to score this tournament even though they saw the danger that this pandemic is doing. I was even surprised when I saw the news that all the teams in the world are playing, at the time I thought: "What the hell does that mean?" there are countries with few cases and there are countries that have cases at a frightening level and are thinking about making football players travel to any country without any need. why didn't they wait for June next year to do that? because I believe that by June of next year there will be a vaccine available in all countries in hospitals

The part that angers me the most is the fact that the final phase will be played in OCTOBER 2021 if I have not misunderstood and therefore all championships will be distorted if they do not make the two-weeks stops for all teams in every country.

 

I didn't know that, we will have to see many breaks until October 2021

Imagine like a game Italy-Portugal, my Juventus will be without CR7 Bonucci Chiesa Chiellini 

and talking about serie A, Atalanta continues with the same behavior of scoring many goals and is in first place with 9 points while juventus is with 4 points and with a game missing. this really is not a time to have players injured because of these uefa nations league games.

It's 87 minutes but the score is still 0-0 France-vs-Portugal match . Though both teams are playing well but lacking clear-cut opportunities.

it was a balanced game, it looked like the players were saving themselves physically

I am very disappointed with the results of the matches France vs Portugal and Italy vs Poland, because it was surprising that these two matches
ended in a draw.

I didn't expect to see many goals in that game, in my opinion this result was a fair result for the way the game went

[swogerino]

I think that the teams do not take this competition that seriously based on the results of the games yesterday,I am talking about the big teams.Italy usually scores and the same for France and Portugal.Many other results are with a low number of goals scored which makes me think that I am right when I say these teams do not take this competition as seriously as Euro or World Cup.

[snipie]

Nobody enjoyed this tournament , since beginning it was not entertaining and people complaining about the benefit of the tournament itself is zero. Nothing.

Well bookies enjoyed such tournament with its weirdo results that make people mostly losing.
Of course playing without spectators isn't good too and limit the earnings but one of the most reasons to create such thing is moneh, more moneh for everyone as usual..

[Bekuciwu9]

What a useless tournament especially these days with COVID.

Sooner or later they will go back to friendly games as no one really cares about those games and no one understands for what are teams playing for.

[gabbie2010]

I am very disappointed with the results of the matches France vs Portugal and Italy vs Poland, because it was surprising that these two matches
ended in a draw. Even though I bet big enough for both matches, it's really annoying that I have to suffer a big loss. But I was quite amused,
because two of my bets were correct. My prediction is right for England to beat Belgium and Spain also to beat Switzerland.

These are matches that fans are expected to be an explosive and entertaining matches with many goals scored by both sides having paraded quality players  however its was a disappointing results allowing bookies to have a field day at the expenses of bettors I believed lack of fans in the various stadia due to Covid-19 is also a contributing factor of Lacklusture and boring performances of most of these teams.

[bct_ail]

FIFA considers World Cup every two years

Arsène Wenger told deutsche sport bild that the football world cup should take place every 2 years in the future. he said the unpopular Nations League should be abolished because only a few fans are really interested in the Nations League.whether this idea is good or bad can be decided by everyone.
I myself am not very interested in the Nations League and would find a wm or em much better

Really? Every 2 years. That would be great, because the chance to be the host for the world cup would be increase. Joking aside. I am not a fan from Nations League too. But a World Cup every two years is not workable.
Even now there are problems with implementation. The stadiums need to be renovated. The infrastructure often needs to be improved. Environmental protection requirements are becoming increasingly stringent.
Even now, there are always discussions about whether this expenditure is justified.
And when will be a free time slot for the EM?

[Soonandwaite]

FIFA considers World Cup every two years

Arsène Wenger told deutsche sport bild that the football world cup should take place every 2 years in the future. he said the unpopular Nations League should be abolished because only a few fans are really interested in the Nations League.whether this idea is good or bad can be decided by everyone.
I myself am not very interested in the Nations League and would find a wm or em much better

Really? Every 2 years. That would be great, because the chance to be the host for the world cup would be increase. Joking aside. I am not a fan from Nations League too. But a World Cup every two years is not workable.
Even now there are problems with implementation. The stadiums need to be renovated. The infrastructure often needs to be improved. Environmental protection requirements are becoming increasingly stringent.
Even now, there are always discussions about whether this expenditure is justified.
And when will be a free time slot for the EM?

I can't imagine that it will happen either. Maybe it is just an idea of Mr Wenger. 
Tomorrow in Cologne no spectators will be admitted. The DFB wanted to give away tickets to fans. But the public health department has forbidden that today.
There are too many corona infected people there and then the risk would be too high.
maybe Donald Trump can come to cologne . He says that even now he is immune against Corona 

[coinlocket$]

Sooner or later they will go back to friendly games as no one really cares about those games and no one understands for what are teams playing for.

Players for nothing in particular. The national teams want this tournament for a very simple reason. Money.

In the end, the reason is always to make money from advertisements and viewers.

[Bekuciwu9]

Sooner or later they will go back to friendly games as no one really cares about those games and no one understands for what are teams playing for.

Players for nothing in particular. The national teams want this tournament for a very simple reason. Money.

In the end, the reason is always to make money from advertisements and viewers.

I wonder how much of that money goes to players. While clubs are paying those players millions, and all they get from those games are injured players and ruined seasons. I wish players simply start ignoring calls from national managers, like in other sports, so maybe then those in charge will change their mind.

[babygun]

As predicted earlier I knew the

Devils has no chance against the

Lions of England with their current

form and without key man Eden Hazard

The Red Devils were the favorite to win this game, but they were not good genough (or not enough motivated). Their last loss came 2 years ago, so I expected at least a draw for Belgium. Wednesday Belgium plays against Iceland, that should be an easy win again for them.

As the others have mentioned, not so interested in this Nations League, it doesn't really bring anything.

[Daniel91]

Bosnia&Herzegovina managed to get a draw today and they even played a bit better than Netherlands who failed to impress again even with their new manager.  I expected more from them...
My other prediction is going good so far and Denmark just scored second goal against Iceland and totally deserve to win.

Lot of goals on today in other EUFA Nations League games so far and crowd is slowly returning to stadiums.

Bosnia has once again proved that they are a good team and that they can play equally with the best teams in Europe.
Unfortunately, they lost their most important game of the generation a few days ago and lost the chance to play in the European Football Championship for the first time.
I watched the match between Croatia and Sweden and I saw again the same problem in the game of Croatia as before, that they can't play at the same level the whole match and that is already becoming a serious problem for the Croatian national team.

[Trofo]

Bosnia&Herzegovina managed to get a draw today and they even played a bit better than Netherlands who failed to impress again even with their new manager.  I expected more from them...
My other prediction is going good so far and Denmark just scored second goal against Iceland and totally deserve to win.

Lot of goals on today in other EUFA Nations League games so far and crowd is slowly returning to stadiums.

Bosnia has once again proved that they are a good team and that they can play equally with the best teams in Europe.
Unfortunately, they lost their most important game of the generation a few days ago and lost the chance to play in the European Football Championship for the first time.

That is what I call mentality problem, team with lot of talent and not so much will power to grind it out "on a cold rainy day against Burnley". OK that was a Premier League reference but it perfectly paints the picture. They will always play on top limits and give problems to best teams in the world but when there is need to grind it out they will often fall short.

[Soonandwaite]

Cristiano Ronaldo tested positive for coronavirus today .he will not be at the international match against sweden tomorrow .
cristiano has no symptoms, but is naturally in quarantine .it's a funny world. on sunday he still played football and today they say he has corona
in the next days we will see which players are still infected. it is a bad time 

[onecall123]

Cristiano Ronaldo tested positive for coronavirus today .he will not be at the international match against sweden tomorrow .
cristiano has no symptoms, but is naturally in quarantine .it's a funny world. on sunday he still played football and today they say he has corona
in the next days we will see which players are still infected. it is a bad time 

Yesterday, Me and the entire world was flooded to see the bond between Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe but today he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has left the Portugal squad to isolate. This damn awful news make me sad, good thing that he is healthy man probably need to take a rest. He will come back soon, stronger than ever.

[snipie]

Yesterday, Me and the entire world was flooded to see the bond between Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe but today he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has left the Portugal squad to isolate. This damn awful news make me sad, good thing that he is healthy man probably need to take a rest. He will come back soon, stronger than ever.

Portugal vs Sweden is normally not a hard nor very crucial match for his national team. Same with Juventus, they have an easy game vs Crotone. The timing of the infection was maybe the only positive thing with this shitty virus.. Hope he stays asymptomatic