Sportsbet.io UEFA Nations League Prediction Pool Discussion Thread

[morvillz7z]

So, the big Saturday upset will be ... ? I think Italy could be a good contender for upset of the day,, bit of a special match for both England and Italy after their last meeting in the Euros. England have a score to settle, but Italy are showing some signs of improvement in the last couple of matches

Don't forget the match will be played at Molineux without fans, as England is serving a two-game ban from UEFA:

source: https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/11/england-vs-italy-why-will-there-be-no-fans-in-attendance-at-molineux-16809446/

Saturday’s match at the home of Wolverhampton Wanderers comes 11 months on from the night where the Three Lions suffered penalty shoot out heartbreak at Wembley against the Azzurri.

England’s first major final in 55 years was marred however by serious unrest ahead of kick-off. Fans fought with stewards and police as they attempted to force their way into the stadium without tickets, causing havoc with a number of arrests made.

As a result, the FA was fined €100,000 with England handed a two-game stadium ban – with the second game suspended for two years.

It is the first time the national team has received a punishment that has resulted in a home match being played behind closed doors.

Regardless, it's a lineups check for me before i put any money on Italy...don't trust them too much, even though visiting teams tend to perform better when matches are held behind closed doors...

[casperBGD]

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Regardless, it's a lineups check for me before i put any money on Italy...don't trust them too much, even though visiting teams tend to perform better when matches are held behind closed doors...

closed door or not, I do think that England will be motivated to win, due to EURO final loss
this competition is not worth much, and teams are playing shabby football, no matter line-ups, some players that usually play great for National teams are playing better, but most are just trying to work this out

is Poland set for another 3+ goal loss against Netherlands, they play their first home match, after two away wins

[morvillz7z]

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Regardless, it's a lineups check for me before i put any money on Italy...don't trust them too much, even though visiting teams tend to perform better when matches are held behind closed doors...

closed door or not, I do think that England will be motivated to win, due to EURO final loss
this competition is not worth much, and teams are playing shabby football, no matter line-ups, some players that usually play great for National teams are playing better, but most are just trying to work this out <...>

It's coming home! Lol

Italy starting center-back pair is a Serie B player (Gatti from Frosinone) + 34-year-old Acerbi who can bearly walk/run. Unlikely to be the upset of the day. 

[buwaytress]

I got watching the Netherlands game as it's the one shown, so much lol and they're behind, just now thanks to Matty Cash (I keep forgetting he's Polish!). Thankfully, skipped them on my ticket, though none of the 3 on mine are ahead (England, Germany, who allowed Hungary to score hahaha, and Turkey).

Yeah, I know Turkey's not in Group A but if they can't win, I'll never bet on them again for a year.

[casperBGD]

I got watching the Netherlands game as it's the one shown, so much lol and they're behind, just now thanks to Matty Cash (I keep forgetting he's Polish!). Thankfully, skipped them on my ticket, though none of the 3 on mine are ahead (England, Germany, who allowed Hungary to score hahaha, and Turkey).

Yeah, I know Turkey's not in Group A but if they can't win, I'll never bet on them again for a year.

regarding Netherlands, I put goals on my bet, although thought that home win is more secure, but odds were low
now it should pass goals (over 3.5), if they win in the end

regarding Turkey, I would not underestimate Luxembourg, they are solid squad at the moment, with two wins (agree that Lithuania and Faroe Island are not prominent teams), but Luxembourg being bookie favorite as away team against anyone made me to look at their squad, and it is solid, far from recreational team that I thought, their keeper is actually from runner-up in Belgium league, Union SG

[swogerino]

I got watching the Netherlands game as it's the one shown, so much lol and they're behind, just now thanks to Matty Cash (I keep forgetting he's Polish!). Thankfully, skipped them on my ticket, though none of the 3 on mine are ahead (England, Germany, who allowed Hungary to score hahaha, and Turkey).

Yeah, I know Turkey's not in Group A but if they can't win, I'll never bet on them again for a year.

Yeah the games so far started pretty badly for us,I had Netherlands 2-0 a clean sheet in the pool prediction and also Germany as 0-2 also a clean sheet,both crushed within just some minutes after the game started.I think that England vs Italy may as well end 0-0 or 1-1 like it happened in the finals of the last Euro cup which Italy were the winners.Belgium I think it is going to win but they have taken things slow as they think Wales is no threat to them.

I hope Netherlands turn things back together with Germany otherwise we are going back to the first days of the Nations League where these kind of results were the "normal" ones.

[ILuckyGuyI]

The first half of the Netherlands - Poland game was quite interesting. Netherlands had a quite big dominance against their competitor but this still didn't help them much. Poland are still 1-0 ahead at the end of the first half. I made a prediction like a 3-1 Netherlands victory for this game and I'm having high doubts about it now.    Actually Netherlands can find one or two more goals when they score the equalizer but we will see. They need to keep this performance level at least.

[swogerino]

The first half of the Netherlands - Poland game was quite interesting. Netherlands had a quite big dominance against their competitor but this still didn't help them much. Poland are still 1-0 ahead at the end of the first half. I made a prediction like a 3-1 Netherlands victory for this game and I'm having high doubts about it now.    Actually Netherlands can find one or two more goals when they score the equalizer but we will see. They need to keep this performance level at least.

What a coincidence I would say for tonight games,all of them ended in a draw.This most probably crushed out on the bettors and bookies won a lot of money tonight by these results.Netherlands had a great chance to score with a penalty in the additional time of the second half but one of the best players of the Netherlands missed it.In the pool prediction I doubt anyone made a lot of points here unless he got against all odds and did predict a lot of draws tonight,I personally only got right the Italy vs England game which I got a close 1.5 points as I had them 1-1 as a prediction.

[tomahawk9]

4 draws today. Four

Don't forget the match will be played at Molineux without fans, as England is serving a two-game ban from UEFA [...]

didn't know about this. I would've dropped some money on Italy but at the end i decided to go with Germany moneyline, would've ended the same way tho, just me losing another bet, ffs lol

honestly, this should be the Nations League anthem in every Group A match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg also, the players from the big team should wear oompa loompa costumes and do the Carlton dance,, that should be a good preview of what's to come

i'm so salty right now 😂 but, props to the brave souls in our pool who went for draws today 👍

[Trofo]

4 draws today. Four

Don't forget the match will be played at Molineux without fans, as England is serving a two-game ban from UEFA [...]

didn't know about this. I would've dropped some money on Italy but at the end i decided to go with Germany moneyline, would've ended the same way tho, just me losing another bet, ffs lol

honestly, this should be the Nations League anthem in every Group A match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg also, the players from the big team should wear oompa loompa costumes and do the Carlton dance,, that should be a good preview of what's to come

i'm so salty right now 😂 but, props to the brave souls in our pool who went for draws today 👍

Yeah this was quite bad night for betting, to make matters worse I went with both to score and almost cashed out big. Just needed goals in England - Italy match and there could have been a few without much problems. Some incredible misses, especially on England side.

Ah well, my winning streak has come to an end after just two days. What is worse, I now believe I can win on Nations League games so I am in perfect position to loose some more in days to come

[Harkorede]

4 draws today. Four

Don't forget the match will be played at Molineux without fans, as England is serving a two-game ban from UEFA [...]

didn't know about this. I would've dropped some money on Italy but at the end i decided to go with Germany moneyline, would've ended the same way tho, just me losing another bet, ffs lol

honestly, this should be the Nations League anthem in every Group A match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg also, the players from the big team should wear oompa loompa costumes and do the Carlton dance,, that should be a good preview of what's to come

i'm so salty right now 😂 but, props to the brave souls in our pool who went for draws today 👍

As it stand, I'm out of the pool, I'm really just putting in picks just for the sake of it. How more unpredictable can a competition get, lol. I wasn't even this terrible in the La Liga pool, I just can't seem to get anything right.

I had some money on France yesterday, Germany and Belgium looked like some real value to bet on today, but it's just a different day, same old shit. This is making me almost not look so forward to the World Cup like I was a few weeks ago.

[Ulven]

Fortunately I decided not to bet for a week, it seems difficult to predict the results of the league matches for this group, especially since most of the participants in the pool were not able to score points. Tomorrow we have two matches worth watching Portugal and Spain I will start guessing from now there may be an unexpected surprise so I will focus more on Spain vs Czech Republic

[LTU_btc]

I was doing more or less fine in betting... until today. 4 draws in League A. From all these games Hungary draw with Germany is biggest upset. Though, it's already not first time when Hungary proved that they can play with big teams. Netherlands draw with Poland isn't surprise for me. IMO, Poland was understimated too much, especially after that huge lose against Belgium. Yeah, Poland after scoring 2 goals defended most of time and Depay failed to score penalty on last minutes.
England - Italy game wasn't most sciting to watch, I expected something more. Final result relfect game very well.

[Trofo]

I had some money on France yesterday, Germany and Belgium looked like some real value to bet on today, but it's just a different day, same old shit. This is making me almost not look so forward to the World Cup like I was a few weeks ago.

Don't worry about world cup, that will be much more in line with expected results since all teams will play with their absolute best. In Nations League we have a strange combination of top teams just going trough the games and maybe testing some players while smaller teams look at this as their opportunity to beat the best. That is a perfect storm for upsets.

Congratulations on your new campaign, I hear it is one of the best And it is run not by one, but two very handsome managers, what more can you ask? 

[buwaytress]

regarding Netherlands, I put goals on my bet, although thought that home win is more secure, but odds were low
now it should pass goals (over 3.5), if they win in the end

And somehow, in the end, you were the one who got this bet, England/Italy/Germany all managed to crap on me, while Turkey, the one I was least certain of, ended up with a comfy win.

Yeah the games so far started pretty badly for us,I had Netherlands 2-0 a clean sheet in the pool prediction and also Germany as 0-2 also a clean sheet,both crushed within just some minutes after the game started.I think that England vs Italy may as well end 0-0 or 1-1 like it happened in the finals of the last Euro cup which Italy were the winners.Belgium I think it is going to win but they have taken things slow as they think Wales is no threat to them.

I hope Netherlands turn things back together with Germany otherwise we are going back to the first days of the Nations League where these kind of results were the "normal" ones.

Started and ended badly. Didn't really see the leaderboard but it seems to have not changed at all so I guess we all went for the favorite wins and died.

11 times only people in this pool won points in all 4 games last night, what a riot! That's less than 10% games predicted correctly!

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Oh and nice going on the new campaign too Harko, definitely two very good looking managers, can't do wrong!

[leea-1334]

Trofo! I cannot believe Croatia won it! I got a nice bet win, and that is after a long time for me too not taking this kind of bet, and somehow they made me happy. Just only,,, too bad I did not go bigger with the bet.

I watched the match. Modric completely changed the game after he came on, truly amazing to see how big of an impact one of the greatest midfielders of all time can have as a sub. Kovacic was immense too.

Not for the first time this year,,, last year or years before. It will not be for the last time to be sure either,,, the master practically carried Real to both titles this season, along with Benzema of course, but you feel like he used up all his credit for 2018 Ballon and then suddenly now he is so good people are looking away.

I wonder why.

[Harkorede]

I had some money on France yesterday, Germany and Belgium looked like some real value to bet on today, but it's just a different day, same old shit. This is making me almost not look so forward to the World Cup like I was a few weeks ago.

Don't worry about world cup, that will be much more in line with expected results since all teams will play with their absolute best. In Nations League we have a strange combination of top teams just going trough the games and maybe testing some players while smaller teams look at this as their opportunity to beat the best. That is a perfect storm for upsets.

Honestly, that'd probably be the case, It's however funny that to some points except chancing ML and Handicaps, the tournament have produce quite a lot of goals and BTTS that are of great value, just that there is always one team ruining the trend, could be bet worthy to parlay them on doubles or triples, and today's fixtures looks pretty decent for some BTTS bet. what say ya ?

Congratulations on your new campaign, I hear it is one of the best And it is run not by one, but two very handsome managers, what more can you ask? 

Indeed, what more could be asked for, Thanks.

I'll be joining in later today after my current one ends

[CLS63]

My parlay lost yesterday because of England. Actually, I really wasn't expecting to be at the last position in the pool. All of the matches in the League A ended up with draws and this was a really interesting incident in my opinion.

Congratulations on your new campaign, I hear it is one of the best And it is run not by one, but two very handsome managers, what more can you ask?  

Two very handsome managers are managing my campaign as well. But don't go out with them, ever! Because girls don't look at your face because of being interested in them.  

[casperBGD]

regarding Netherlands, I put goals on my bet, although thought that home win is more secure, but odds were low
now it should pass goals (over 3.5), if they win in the end

And somehow, in the end, you were the one who got this bet, England/Italy/Germany all managed to crap on me, while Turkey, the one I was least certain of, ended up with a comfy win.

that one yes, but with four draws it is almost impossible to take money
Hungary ruined my hopes, they are obviously playing with more motives than competition from the group

nevertheless, I do think that mostly favorites will proceed into next round and last rounds will bring all expected results

Swiss is my pick today, they had been all down so far

[swogerino]

regarding Netherlands, I put goals on my bet, although thought that home win is more secure, but odds were low
now it should pass goals (over 3.5), if they win in the end

And somehow, in the end, you were the one who got this bet, England/Italy/Germany all managed to crap on me, while Turkey, the one I was least certain of, ended up with a comfy win.

that one yes, but with four draws it is almost impossible to take money
Hungary ruined my hopes, they are obviously playing with more motives than competition from the group

nevertheless, I do think that mostly favorites will proceed into next round and last rounds will bring all expected results

Swiss is my pick today, they had been all down so far

It will be difficult for them against a Portugal in top form lately.They,Portugal will most likely win,if Switzerland scores a goal I will call it an achievement.Spain against Czech Republic should be a good game to watch but most probably Spain should have an easy win tonight.I don't expect any surprise in today games because I think this is normal now after 4 unexpected results yesterday out of 4 games or at least 3 out of 4 games were unexpected results.If surprise results happen tonight then Nations League is going back to the first nights of the tournament.