The UEFA Nations League 2020/2021 Discussion Thread

[MAAManda]

We had really crazy games today in the Nations League to be honest. Germany - Italy and England - Hungary games were really insane! England's lineup wasn't as bad as Italy's actually but they somehow lost this game with an embarrassing score like 0-4 home. Congrats to Hungary for this enormous victory. They fought very hard. Germany destroyed Italy 5-2 in the other game but this wasn't a very hard game for Germany though. Italy had a really bad lineup in this game which showed they weren't giving any importance to the game at all.

It's quite surprising to see England lose by a fairly large score to Hungary, as you said, even though their line-up is not a bad line-up. Several important players played in this match. Apart from that, they also dominated the match with more than 60% possession of the ball. The goddess of fortune is very much in favor of Hungary today. In other matches, we can see Germany winning by a big score. They deserve it because they played their main players in this game.

[Gencecikmen]

There were Argentina-Estonia match at last night. Estonia were defeated so badly by Messi. Messi showed the whole world that he is the Goat. He is a really alien. Messi scored 5 at last night. He gave an spetacular performance. We are so lucky to have watched him.

While Messi's performance was truly impressive, I wonder how the Argentinian team will play against stronger opponents. It is easy to play brilliant if your opponent lets you do it. Estonias FIFA rank is 110th, way worse than the ranks of the teams qualified to the World Cup. It remains to be seen how strong Argentina really is. I don't think they will have problems in their group (Saudi-Arabia, Poland and Mexico), but they will need to be strong if they want to survive the knock out games.

I think Messi is the best player by far. Messi is something of spectacular. Because apart from being a playmaker, a scorer, he performs excellent defensively and he is complete football player. But a star shines well when he is found in the midst of team work and good play. That's why the Argentina team should help Messi. If Argentina team help Messi, Messi will give everything in this World Cup, since it will probably be his last World Cup and more than ever he wants to win it.

[Yogee]

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Nothing feels sweeter in football than England getting walloped, alongside the noisy English media getting silenced.

Come one be gentle now hehe. Most of their media or pundits really loves to hype up their players as if they're the best in the world. It's probably hard for them to be critical to their team and address their weakness until they actually lose. I have nothing to say against the fans since they are supposed to be noisy while supporting their team anyway.

[snipie]

7 goals in one game .Germany:Italy 5:2 . that's a bit crazy.
but what is england doing ? have they gone completely mad ? they lose 4-0 to hungary at the Molineux stadium in Wolverhampton .
it's really a crazy evening of football .but the neutral football fans at home had fun today  

England gets jealous from France repetitive failures and it is trying to pass here on that too
Both teams have 2 points after 4 games, kina copycat in stats except goals received by England which is higher thanks to the shamefull defeat with 4 goals today...
Italy too took a huge loss today but they managed to score 2 goals at least.

[trendcoin]

We witnessed a very interesting result in the match played between Germany and Italy. Germany first took a 5-0 lead against Italy and they won the match 5-2. Italy suffered a bad defeat against Germany. Teams at this level should definitely not get such bad results. The first thing that comes to my mind is the sensational 7-1 victory of Germany against Brazil. Such results not only disappoint the fans of the teams with bad results. Such results disappoint all football fans.

[Velvet78]

This was a very delightful day in the Nations League in my opinion. We saw very unexpected results at the end of two big games. I wasn't expecting Italy to have this kind of a starting eleven too. This was the main reason why they lost by a very bad score, 5-2. Things were even worse for England because they lost their game against Hungary by 4-0. I was waiting for England to win this game so I was really shocked after seeing this. The Nations League is just very hard to predict now.

[coinlocket$]

What a disaster for Italy against Germany.

The way for the rebuilding will be a long path.

[ygsmaguduru]

Being able to watch so many goals in one day felt great. But the results weren't very satisfying for me. However I think Italy definitely deserved it by not even having a strong lineup in this game. Germany destroyed them easily. England - Hungary was also very surprising and Hungary got an unbelievable win in this away game. England had good players in the lineup but it wasn't enough.

[coco23]

7 goals in one game .Germany:Italy 5:2 . that's a bit crazy.
but what is england doing ? have they gone completely mad ? they lose 4-0 to hungary at the Molineux stadium in Wolverhampton .
it's really a crazy evening of football .but the neutral football fans at home had fun today  

Really mad to see what has done my Italy this evening. It is awful to take 5 goals from Germany.

About England, I guess that this depends from the fact that they are not so interested in Nations League because they will play World Cup.

I wouldn't be a fan of Italy (like me) or England at the moment 

Omg, I am quite shocked by the results. Both my bets against Germany and for England lost, and not by a narrow margin. Congrats for the people that predicted such clear results and the right direction. The only positive surprise in this group is the performance of Hungary so far. They could now even win the group. Meanwhile England follows France in the level of embarrassment

[CryptocurencyKing]

It’s surprising how Hungary beat England 4-0. And Hungary, against all odds, are leading the group with seven points, one ahead of Germany and two more than Italy, with just two games remaining. Much like in their previous three outings, England were listless from the start, struggling to create clear-cut chances and looking woeful in defense. There's no doubt about England’s quality, but their performances in the Nations League games have once again doubts over their ability to perform collectively. England need to find their way back before the World Cup begins.

[hd49728]

Omg, I am quite shocked by the results. Both my bets against Germany and for England lost, and not by a narrow margin. Congrats for the people that predicted such clear results and the right direction. The only positive surprise in this group is the performance of Hungary so far. They could now even win the group. Meanwhile England follows France in the level of embarrassment

It looks like a third position in World Cup 2018 and a runner-up position in Euro 2020 are highest achievements for this generation of England national football squad. They have reached to their highest ability and performance. Lack of luck to win trophy and they are moving on a downside.

If this squad can not get any title in coming 2 years, they will end with nothing and England will have to wait for another golden generation to hope for titles, the first one since World Cup 1966 that was hosted in England.

What a disaster for Italy against Germany.

The way for the rebuilding will be a long path.

It is a terrible defeat with 5 conceded goals. Italy have issues with scoring goals in World Cup qualification round months ago. Now they show other issues with their defense system. Chiellini contributed his last best things in Euro 2020 and now he retires from the Italian team. Bonucci is older too and will follow Chiellini in next few years. In Italy, I think Mancini (Roma) is good replacement in future for Bonucci. He has good passing skill and can create Pirlo/ Bonucci moment like he made a key pass to Zaniolo in Conference League final.

[Jody.Drummer]

What a disaster for Italy against Germany.

The way for the rebuilding will be a long path.

True, this is a disaster because it is like they were taught to play in this match and the German game was really beyond expectations because indeed in the previous 3 matches they only played with draws and their game was so monotonous but for this match they really surprised me because they like a different team.
At least with 2 goals in the first half and 3 goals in the second half really made Italy slump even though they were indeed able to get consolation goals.

[gabbie2010]

We had really crazy games today in the Nations League to be honest. Germany - Italy and England - Hungary games were really insane! England's lineup wasn't as bad as Italy's actually but they somehow lost this game with an embarrassing score like 0-4 home. Congrats to Hungary for this enormous victory. They fought very hard. Germany destroyed Italy 5-2 in the other game but this wasn't a very hard game for Germany though. Italy had a really bad lineup in this game which showed they weren't giving any importance to the game at all.

It's quite surprising to see England lose by a fairly large score to Hungary, as you said, even though their line-up is not a bad line-up. Several important players played in this match. Apart from that, they also dominated the match with more than 60% possession of the ball. The goddess of fortune is very much in favor of Hungary today. In other matches, we can see Germany winning by a big score. They deserve it because they played their main players in this game.

Soccer matches is absolutely unpredictable I never imagine England being beaten or defeated by Hungary with a four goals margin, this is incredible their worst defeat while playing at home and four games without a win and this also is a major setback towards their prepation for the next world cup, the hungarians were well determined and worked hard and it paid off, while Bellingham was the only English Player that played brilliantly well others were shadows of former self despite the experience star-studded players of the England team that played the match.

[hahay]

Congratulations to Hungary for being the group leader in this hellish group, Hungary being a great team in this group and Germany, Italy especially England, it seems that the three teams below are only dark horses. Who would have thought Hungary could be the top team in this group, and no one seems to think Hungary could do it but the truth is Hungary can win 4-0 against a mediocre team like England. Because if England is a great team with a great squad even if they are not serious, at least a great team can still put up a fight at least for a draw. But in reality England is nothing more than a mediocre team, very different from their league (epl) which is very popular in this era.

[3meek]

England drew with Germany and Italy but lost twice to Hungary, while yesterday was a humiliating loss by a big score... 7 Hungarian shots and 4 goals, that's a fantastic result for this team... Probably a lot of people lost money on bets again yesterday...

[execijutiere]

Yesterday there were very different results. I couldn't follow most of the matches but I saw it when I watched the summaries. Congratulations to Hungary, this is really a great achievement. They are leading after the 4th matches in a group where they were expected to be last. When we look at the players of the other countries, they had no chance in the group, but to come this far is really a great achievement. I was not as surprised as Hungary by Germany's multi-goal victory.

[Alisha-k]

Hungary scores 3 goals against England.
What meaning can we make from this? My opinion is that they all see these matches as friendly matches.

It's now 4-0  

Nothing feels sweeter in football than England getting walloped, alongside the noisy English media getting silenced. They do care about friendlies too. Haven't you seen Harry Kane score hatttricks in them and get praised like he won a ballon d'or?

ahahaha To be honest I am not surprised.  I also agree with what you wrote.

We saw once again tonight that some teams do not care about this league, for example England.
Germany scores 5 goals against Italy.
Hungary scores 3 goals against England.
What meaning can we make from this? My opinion is that they all see these matches as friendly matches.

The Italians for sure. They have never lost a match against Germany so high, they have always won and play drawn. But today they have 12 new players in the team and the one who scored the goal for Italy is 18 years young. It was clearly a friendly match on Italy's side, and there was no worldchampion playing. In the theory, it remains a record win for Germany.

I don't know most of Italian players. There are 2 or 3 players that I know in this match, almost all of them are new players.
I think Roberto Mancini wanted to try new players in the team, but he chose the wrong match.

 Lolz. It sure was a walloping indeed! I'm sure Gareth Southgate didn't see that coming. Believe me, I thought at some point in the game, they would dominate but it seemed that goal demoralized them. I feel one of the reasons they lost is they underestimated Hungary, thinking they could turn the game in their favor at the drip of a hat, but only managed to secure a red card! What a bummer!

[muratsink]

We had really crazy games today in the Nations League to be honest. Germany - Italy and England - Hungary games were really insane! England's lineup wasn't as bad as Italy's actually but they somehow lost this game with an embarrassing score like 0-4 home. Congrats to Hungary for this enormous victory. They fought very hard. Germany destroyed Italy 5-2 in the other game but this wasn't a very hard game for Germany though. Italy had a really bad lineup in this game which showed they weren't giving any importance to the game at all.

The two craziest matches were presented this morning in the UEFA Nations League where England vs Hungary and Germany vs Italy matches produced a very striking score in the match, where England were surprisingly humiliated by their visitors Hungary with a score of 0-4 and Germany itself managed to slaughter Italy also with a landslide score of 5-2, this was a very surprising score in the UEFA Nations League event where the massacre carried out by Hungary against the host England really embarrassed FA football even though this was only a friendly tournament but the line up We can say that the England team has 80% of the core players

[lulumiya]

We have left all of the games of Round 4 behind too and the next games are going to be on late September now. The last games in the League A were really interesting though. Germany and Hungary completely destroyed their opponents, Italy and England respectively. I understand Germany because Italy's lineup was terrible and it was obvious that they would lose. As for Hungary they surprised me a lot by winning 4-0 in England. I didn't England to lose this game.

[onecall123]

We had really crazy games today in the Nations League to be honest. Germany - Italy and England - Hungary games were really insane! England's lineup wasn't as bad as Italy's actually but they somehow lost this game with an embarrassing score like 0-4 home. Congrats to Hungary for this enormous victory. They fought very hard. Germany destroyed Italy 5-2 in the other game but this wasn't a very hard game for Germany though. Italy had a really bad lineup in this game which showed they weren't giving any importance to the game at all.

The two craziest matches were presented this morning in the UEFA Nations League where England vs Hungary and Germany vs Italy matches produced a very striking score in the match, where England were surprisingly humiliated by their visitors Hungary with a score of 0-4 and Germany itself managed to slaughter Italy also with a landslide score of 5-2, this was a very surprising score in the UEFA Nations League event where the massacre carried out by Hungary against the host England really embarrassed FA football even though this was only a friendly tournament but the line up We can say that the England team has 80% of the core players

Wild results are what you get like that. An outstanding performance from Hungary as England surrenders at home. Hungary beating England 4-0 in an away match by a wide margin. Hungarians play a challenging brand of football that is hard to adapt to. Their transitions are quick and their defense is solid. Second most impressive would have to be Germany. If Sane and Timo had not made mistakes, Germany could have done more goals.