⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers➡Group Stage➡1/8➡QF➡HF➡FINAL

[rendravolt]

Half Time:
Scotland 1 vs 0 Spain
Turkey 0 vs 2 Croatia

Among the ongoing matches, these two matches are interesting. For a while it may be beyond our initial prediction.
Scott McTominay surprised the Spanish fans as in the 7th minute the Manchester United midfielder put Scotland ahead.

Kovacic also surprised the Spanish fans as in the last minute before half time, the score changed from 0-1 to 0-2 against Turkey.

I'm not surprised if Croatia will win easily in this match over their opponent Turkey with the main half scoring advantage. But what surprised me was that Spain had to concede in the early minutes against Scotland. I think Scotland is indeed quite a difficult opponent to beat in this match, if coach Del Fuente doesn't apply a new strategy in the second half it is likely they will lose and it will be very difficult to turn things around in the second half.

Anyway, McTominay scored the second goal in the 51st minute, while the score for Scotland vs Spain was 2-0.

[Rruchi man]

Scotland 1 vs 0 Spain

Scotland now two goals ahead with Mctomminay making use of the opportunity that Scotland were able to create to double their lead and advantage against Spain. Spain now has more work to do to be able to turn this game around against the home team. Scotland have been all around impressive, the way they have been able to put pressure on Spain and not let them play their usual midfield dominating game.

[safari88]

Turkey is 0-2 behind against Croatia and that seems to me to be the end of the game. Still, you never know for sure, almost all of us have probably seen what happened to Denmark. Leading 0-2 and then still losing 3-2. So it can really happen. As someone else predicted, Scotland made what seems like a liberating 2-0 against Spain and now Spain have a serious problem in this game. And the clock is also ticking, there is not much time left to solve it in this match. This could be a black day. The advantage for Spain in this group is that the numbers 1 and 2 both qualify, so there is absolutely no pressure yet.

[sana54210]

Nevertheless the biggest surprise of the evening yesterday night was without a doubt Czech Republic not being able to win against Moldova at Moldova home,the odd of them was 1.18 to win,this shows that the ball is round and that we should not bet based on odds but based on our knowledge.

Yeah, that was, in fact, the only upset of the night. I'd lost money on a number of games, Estonia actually made it to half time with the lead but Austria set things right -- this one should have been at least 5/1 on double chance or handicap, sort of a shame I overlooked it, but you know, who doubts the Czechs after their recent form?

Georgia is actually only a bit of the underdog vs Norway. Sign of the times, huh?

Sometimes that type of games happens, and even though it is rare individually, it is common as a concept. I mean like Czech team doesn't get 1.18 that commonly, and if they ever do, they win that game and it is very very rare for them to lose that type of game. So when you look at that individually, what happened was a rare thing.

But, if you look at "a team that has 1.20 odds to win, ended up losing" deal then it becomes a bit more common and that is why I believe that in general as a concept it's not rare at all. Last year I had a parlay, a ticket that had 8 games, and 7 of those were under 1.40 odds, and you would expect the single game with high odds to make me lose right? SIX!! of the teams with 1.40 chance ended up losing, it happens.

[emrecemsan]

Things could have really been much better for Turkey against Croatia in this match. Indeed Turkey were much better in the first half than their opponent. But they still couldn't score any goal despite having many goal attempts. Croatia were really lucky to get ahead like that. It reminded me of a Turkish team, Fenerbahce, that they also played great against Sevilla but lost the match anyway. Turkey are about to have a similar scenario here as well.

Maybe Turkey need a better management I don't know. Kuntz's time might run out faster if they continue to get results like this.

[swogerino]

Things could have really been much better for Turkey against Croatia in this match. Indeed Turkey were much better in the first half than their opponent. But they still couldn't score any goal despite having many goal attempts. Croatia were really lucky to get ahead like that. It reminded me of a Turkish team, Fenerbahce, that they also played great against Sevilla but lost the match anyway. Turkey are about to have a similar scenario here as well.

Maybe Turkey need a better management I don't know. Kuntz's time might run out faster if they continue to get results like this.

Turkey was expected to have a tough time against Croatia after barely managing to win against Armenia,nevertheless this was expected as Croatia were the favorites to win this game.I think that Spain f*cked up all of us in today betting they could not even score a goal and they lost the game,the game was neither a both teams to score and neither an over 2.5 goals game.At least all of the other games came as expected,I mean the favorites like Wales,Romania and Switzerland all won their games which is great for bettors.For few bettors I mean that have been really pragmatic and just bet on money lines and not like the rest of us trying to get as many high odds as possible by combining over 2.5 goals and both teams to score games.

I forgot Kosovo made a really big mistake at their home by not being able to beat Andorra at an odd of 1.18 or something like that,so yeah football was not good with us tonight,better luck tomorrow hopefully.

[yayayo]

A big blow to Spain indeed, but I don't think they are panicking now. Incidentally, Spain is now also building a new team. All the big names of the last few years, almost nothing is left of them. The team that Spain now has must become the future of Spain, so in that respect it is perhaps not surprising that they run into these kinds of defeats. And Scotland isn't that bad of course. A number of players are active in the EPL, although not at the absolute top, you can easily lose on a bad day. Norway will also smell blood in this group. They may be disappointed last weekend that they lost 3-0 to Spain.

ya.ya.yo!

[snipie]

Scotland now two goals ahead...
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Epic result and a disastrous defeat for Spain with all respect to Scotland team and how good they did to beat Spain badly!

Edit: Turkey 0-2 Croatia  

Turkey should pressed to get a point from Croatia but they failed after all. With Wales victory vs Latvia today they passed to the second place and Turkey to the third one.
The fight between these three teams will continue and the result of every single game will count since there will not be a big difference in terms of points by the last match tho

[Slow death]

It's a tough match for Turkey to win but a must-win.

turkey lost, conceded 2 goals and failed to score at least 1 goal in this game, something very strange considering that turkey in recent games has managed to score at least 2 goals in most of their games, it is true that turkey's defense in the last games it has been shit, in the last games turkey conceded a goal in all games, but the crown also conceded a goal in almost all its last games, but finally the game ended and turkey lost and with this result they are in third position with 3 points


spain 0 - 2 scotland

 

so far i can't believe this result, what went wrong with spain?

ball possession:

spain = 75%
scotland = 25%

spain had greater possession of the ball, but was unable to score a goal and win the game and what is most shocking is that i cannot understand is why the spain coach did not put Gavi, alvaro morata, nico williams, dani carvajal right at the beginning of the game? Does this coach from Spain really know Spain and has any intention of winning games? just because he won in the game against scotland and he went to put the guy who scored 2 goals right at the beginning of the game and left nico williams, gavi, morata and dani carvajal on the bench, it looks like the spain coach is doing experiments with the team, in my opinion spain won't go far with this coach like that, it won't take long to dismiss this coach at this rate.

[MinoRaiola]

Scotland now two goals ahead with Mctomminay making use of the opportunity that Scotland were able to create to double their lead and advantage against Spain. Spain now has more work to do to be able to turn this game around against the home team. Scotland have been all around impressive, the way they have been able to put pressure on Spain and not let them play their usual midfield dominating game.

McTominay won the game for Scotland. Spain made a lot of changes to their starting line-up, thinking it would be an easy game. Against Norway the game look like much more structured, today was turbulent and was punished directly. Spain had the ball in play a lot and scored 9 times, but they were no Champions on the field. With Georgia and Cyprus, the next games are not difficult, but Spain can not lose another game.

[LTU_btc]

For Kosovo draw with Andorra at home is shameful result. And looking at xG stats, it looks that Kosovo didn't had big advantage today. For Andorra it was rare chance to get point in qualifiers, if we don't pay attention to results in Nations league, they usually lose games, unless they face San Marino.
Big statement from Croatia, they won against Turkey 0:2 away and ruined my BTTS bet.

A big blow to Spain indeed, but I don't think they are panicking now. Incidentally, Spain is now also building a new team. All the big names of the last few years, almost nothing is left of them. The team that Spain now has must become the future of Spain, so in that respect it is perhaps not surprising that they run into these kinds of defeats. And Scotland isn't that bad of course. A number of players are active in the EPL, although not at the absolute top, you can easily lose on a bad day. Norway will also smell blood in this group. They may be disappointed last weekend that they lost 3-0 to Spain.

ya.ya.yo!

Damn, I'm glad that I missed to make bet on this game, I already lost enough on other games. Yeah, Spain is new team, but still, loss against Scotland is huge upset. And in general, this group looks very interesting. Spain still favorites here, while all Norway, Scotland and Georgia can fight for 2nd place. And Cyprus isn't weakest team too.

[Uruhara]

Croatia really didn't let us down in that they were able to beat the hosts Turkey quite well. even though Turkey has built more attacks, Croatia's defense is still as tight as at the 2022 World Cup. Luka Modric is still performing quite well even though he is now 37 years old. victory with a score of 0-2 is quite deserved by croatia.

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but the surprising result actually happened in the match Scotland vs Spain. Scotland as the host has been able to beat Spain. of the 3 opportunities they were able to convert 2 of them into goals. Spain couldn't even score with their nearly 75% possession. this will be a pretty tough step for Spain to play in the next matches. Scotland's strategy to strengthen their midfield which can balance between the defense and attack lines has effectively silenced almost every attack that Spain would build. however I have misjudged Scotland. because I have predicted that Spain will win this match quite easily. but it turns out I was wrong. Scotland, who are the hosts, really know how to dampen Spain's game in this match.

[ingiltere]

Croatia really didn't let us down in that they were able to beat the hosts Turkey quite well. even though Turkey has built more attacks, Croatia's defense is still as tight as at the 2022 World Cup. Luka Modric is still performing quite well even though he is now 37 years old. victory with a score of 0-2 is quite deserved by croatia.
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but the surprising result actually happened in the match Scotland vs Spain. Scotland as the host has been able to beat Spain. of the 3 opportunities they were able to convert 2 of them into goals. Spain couldn't even score with their nearly 75% possession. this will be a pretty tough step for Spain to play in the next matches. Scotland's strategy to strengthen their midfield which can balance between the defense and attack lines has effectively silenced almost every attack that Spain would build. however I have misjudged Scotland. because I have predicted that Spain will win this match quite easily. but it turns out I was wrong. Scotland, who are the hosts, really know how to dampen Spain's game in this match.

First one wasn't a surprise result but Scotland to beat Spain was a pretty surprising result for me. Scott McTominay played one of his best games. Scotland needed something like that to beat Spain. This loss of Spain surely hurt Norway and Georgia more. Because Spain will one way or another will advance from this group but Scotland have a huge advantage now.
For Croatia it was important to not lose the game as they draw in first game against Wales. Now they beat Türkiye at away game they recover previous point loss. After beating Latvia, Wales is the leader but six more games will be played so Wales better not to celebrate early.

[uswa56]

A big blow to Spain indeed, but I don't think they are panicking now. Incidentally, Spain is now also building a new team. All the big names of the last few years, almost nothing is left of them. The team that Spain now has must become the future of Spain, so in that respect it is perhaps not surprising that they run into these kinds of defeats. And Scotland isn't that bad of course. A number of players are active in the EPL, although not at the absolute top, you can easily lose on a bad day. Norway will also smell blood in this group. They may be disappointed last weekend that they lost 3-0 to Spain.

ya.ya.yo!

This is a surprising result in my opinion. Spain, which was predicted to have rediscovered its game spirit with a new coach, turned out to be able to be slaughtered by Scotland. Had high hopes in yesterday's opening match but Fuente had to give up and learn a valuable lesson in this second match. The presence of Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea stars proved to be insufficient to prevent the defeat.

The defeat against Scotland was also the result of making several changes to the starting 11. Luis de la Fuente, the new Spain coach, seemed to be doing an experiment by playing Dani Ceballos from the start, resting Alvaro Morata who played as captain and center forward in the first game. Dani Carvajal, who was previously a starter, this time only came on in the second half of the game and failed to make the desired impact. Then there were not two Barcelona players on the starting list, while Gavi and Alejandro Balde started the first minute in the match against Norway. Balde played as a left back, Gavi as one of the attacking midfielders on the left. The de la Fuente experiment ended up being very expensive.

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[execijutiere]

Norway had to endure a draw in the match in which they took the lead.Norway was the more dominant and better playing team, taking the lead with alexander sörloth in the 15th minute.But unfortunately, they could not make use of the positions they found and although they had more ball at their feet, they could not make use of them and unfortunately they were left with one goal.The Georgian team equalized the situation after 15 minutes in the second half.Thus, I can say that Norway has reduced its chances of getting out of the group by getting 1 point in the two matches played in the group.
Another strange result was Scotland's defeat of Spain.Although Spain dominated the match, it was Scotland who scored the goals. It is necessary to say that Spain played a dominant football from the beginning to the end of the match, but they could not convert this into goals. The team, which fell behind 1-0 with the goal in minute 7, was defeated with the goal at the beginning of the second half.

[1miau]

First one wasn't a surprise result but Scotland to beat Spain was a pretty surprising result for me.

It's really surprising to see Spain struggling massively again.
Already in World Cup, Spain had lost to Japan and finally to Morocco (which is a good team but still Spain needs to win of course).
And Scotland made a very good game, could have scored even more goals against Spain.

Spain might have some changes in their squad but honestly, such a weak appearance against Scotland, where Spain didn't score a single goal is too bad even for a shuffled squad...
Kudos to Scotland for a great game.

[CryptocurencyKing]

First one wasn't a surprise result but Scotland to beat Spain was a pretty surprising result for me.

It's really surprising to see Spain struggling massively again.
Already in World Cup, Spain had lost to Japan and finally to Morocco (which is a good team but still Spain needs to win of course).
And Scotland made a very good game, could have scored even more goals against Spain.

Spain might have some changes in their squad but honestly, such a weak appearance against Scotland, where Spain didn't score a single goal is too bad even for a shuffled squad...
Kudos to Scotland for a great game.

Scotland showed they're not to be underestimated by top teams like Spain. What an incredible win, long overdue but worth the wait. It was the best time to play Spain. They are in transition and missing their key players. They are not the force of old. In fact, there was nothing forceful about them at all here. I just hope the new coach does something about it in quick time because teams are lining up t face them.

[BlackBoss_]

McTominay won the game for Scotland. Spain made a lot of changes to their starting line-up, thinking it would be an easy game.

It can be a most memorial match in Scott McTominay career, what a game!

Spain again dominated the game with very high ball possession but it's not a first time they stuck with their domination but fail to score goals. It's bad for Spain as Scotland not only successfully prevent Spain to score goal but they score two goals against Spain. It's a shock defeat for Spain and so far we have two big shocks from Denmark and Spain in Euro 2024 Qualifiers.

spain 0 - 2 scotland

 

so far i can't believe this result, what went wrong with spain?

ball possession:

spain = 75%
scotland = 25%

I would like to ask what's wrong with McTominay 

It's unbelievable to see he scored winning goals for Scotland and not only one goal but two goals. He helped Scotland to get a first win against Spain after 39 years which is a very long period.

[Sithara007]

The victory by Scotland over Spain was nothing short of a miracle. Scott McTominay was simply exceptional yesterday and he scored twice against the Spaniards. Spain is in the process of rebuilding their team after some of the senior players retired recently, so actually there was room for these upsets. Still their qualification to the main tournament is not under threat AFAIK. The other teams in Group A are not that strong (perhaps with the exception of Håland's one-man army). But Spain can't afford too many upset defeats now, since they have 3 points from 2 matches.

[Pierre 2]

In not very surprising result, Turkiye lost to Croatia at home. Honestly I expected draw or loss from Turkish side before match. Turkish team was lackluster in match against Armenia. But even if they lost, I think Turkish team was definitely better playing side tonight. Turkiye could get one penalty and result could change a lot so quickly. Croatia focused on resisting and they were able to. I still think Croatia will be leader in this group and Turkish team will follow at the end.