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

[Lordhermes]

England destroyed Northern Macedonia.England scored 7 goals in total and we can say that England got a very good win.I can say that he actually managed to break the match with the 3 goals he found in the first half.Saka managed to score a hat-trick by scoring 3 goals. England managed to take 10 accurate shots throughout the match and managed to convert 7 of them into goals.Macedonia could not shoot throughout the match and such a heavy defeat was inevitable.England made 4/4 with this win in a group that we can call such a difficult group and maintained its leadership.

In their match against Northern Macedonia England had an amazing performance achieving an emphatic victory with a commanding effort. An indication of their attacking skill was the English team ability to score seven goals in all. Notable in particular was their outstanding first half effort during which they managed to score three goals thus turning the contest in their favour. Saka incredible hat trick showcased his individual talent and made a big difference in England victory. England demonstrated their precise finishing throughout the game scoring on seven of their 10 accurate attempts demonstrating their effectiveness in front of the net. Northern Macedonia on the other hand had trouble producing scoring opportunities and was unable to make any shots. Unfortunately they had to expect to suffer this crushing setback. With this convincing victory England keeps their pristine record of four victories out of four games in what may be regarded as a difficult group securing their place atop the standings.

England is always like that, when it comes to qualifier matches they will play very well, but when the competition starts they will reduce in their performance.
They did well yesterday, but no one expected a challenging match because Northern Macedonia is no mate to England, so there's nothing to measure their performance untill they met their mate. Northern Macedonia is a very small team but I expected them to score a goal against England,but they stumbled.

[bering]

Portugal journey for qualification matches seems very smooth that 13 goals from 3 matches and still cleansheet proven they are strong candidate to qualified and so far in group J only Slovakia who considers as strong contender for them but i think Portugal without any problem can able to beat Slovakia if these teams will meet later because on the paper and squad quality Portugal is much better than Slovakia

Today Portugal will attempts to resumes their winning streak by facing Iceland and this should be easy match especially Iceland is not in the good shape because they had just lose from Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina so Portugal had good chances to collect 3 points today although they will playing for away match but Portugal still too strong for Iceland and for betting options Portugal has odds @1.31 this is not the best odds but i think this is safe pick

[shogun47]

The fact that they don't have Gareth Bale is a big disadvantage for them.Wales is a country that became popular because of Bale and I think Bale's departure from football has affected them a little bit.No matter how good their defenders are, football is not a sport where you win by defending.You can't win games unless you keep the ball forward and you can't defend for 90 minutes.
I agree with you.Wales should feel lucky to be in the semifinals of the Euro 2016 because with the way they are playing it is difficult for them to achieve another success like this.They probably won't get out of this group because their opponents are in a better position.

I mentioned the defense because that is what we have seen against Turkey. They defended with everything they had and even more so after they received the red card. I think that games against in general will end with not many goals as long as the attacking team doesn't score a fast goal. They are going to park the bus and try to keep a clean sheet and maybe win a point from a draw, but it won't be any attacking football like it still was at times when Bale was still around. It helped them a bit to also put some pressure on their opponent themselves, but now that possibility isn't there anymore.

[Barcode_]

Even though Iceland will be playing against Portugal at their home stadium but it will be extremely difficult for Iceland to keep a clean sheet against Portugal today. The quality of the Portugal national football team have certainly improved tremendously in the past few years and I think even when Cristiano Ronaldo were to retire from international football, the current squad of Portugal players will still be able to perform at a high level. I think Portugal will be able to beat Iceland easily today.

[Stepstowealth]

Even though Iceland will be playing against Portugal at their home stadium but it will be extremely difficult for Iceland to keep a clean sheet against Portugal today. The quality of the Portugal national football team have certainly improved tremendously in the past few years and I think even when Cristiano Ronaldo were to retire from international football, the current squad of Portugal players will still be able to perform at a high level. I think Portugal will be able to beat Iceland easily today.

There are many younger players in Portugal that can be depended on to deliver when Ronaldo is having a bad day. These players are capable of carrying on with the legacy of the Portuguese National team when the older players retire and it is good because of how other teams like Spain, Brazil, England, Netherlands also have young players taking over. Players like Bruno Fernandez, Rafael Leao, João Félix, Bernando Silva and others are very capable players. In their game, they will win against Iceland and unlike their last game, Ronaldo will score.

[Mr.suevie]

Portugal journey for qualification matches seems very smooth that 13 goals from 3 matches and still cleansheet proven they are strong candidate to qualified and so far in group J only Slovakia who considers as strong contender for them but i think Portugal without any problem can able to beat Slovakia if these teams will meet later because on the paper and squad quality Portugal is much better than Slovakia

Today Portugal will attempts to resumes their winning streak by facing Iceland and this should be easy match especially Iceland is not in the good shape because they had just lose from Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina so Portugal had good chances to collect 3 points today although they will playing for away match but Portugal still too strong for Iceland and for betting options Portugal has odds @1.31 this is not the best odds but i think this is safe pick

Yeah I also believe this will be an easy victory for them although Iceland can be of surprise sometimes but as you said there current form is really poor and they don't stand a chance against this Portuguese side. Even the mention Slovakia side won't be able to defeat this Portugal team as they are very strong and  have been performing very brilliantly.

[emrecemsan]

Belgium are still unable to make a big improvement in their general performance. Their win in their first match in the qualifiers made me think about if they were better as of then. However the point loss against Austria caused all of my curiosity to be gone all of a sudden. It was a really poor performance about even shots on goal - 2 out of 17. This very unbalanced look prevents me from thinking positive about their future in such big tournaments. After having a disappointing run in the World Cup a similar thing might happen in Euro 2024 as well.

But let's evaluate the situation match by match so tonight I hope to see them getting a comfortable win against Estonia to improve their morale.

[Oluwa-btc]

England are very dominant in their group now. They even defeated Italy away as well. I think we can already assume they will finish the group as the leader. This win over North Macedonia by 7-0 isn't surprising at all. There is a huge quality gap and England just showed it in action. Saka's hat-trick was really lovely to watch and Kane also played solid as always. The qualifiers stage is easy for them maybe but they need to keep this up in the main tournament as well. Because they have no titles achieved in a Euro tournament in their history.

In fact this team have such a capacity to win this tournament. They have a squad full of very skilled players. It is all about management as a result. Southgate has been managing them since 2016 but there is still no achievement. If he fails again I think they should start over with a new coach.

Just to be clear, if you think they're winning a trophy with Southgate as manager then, that's the area you get it all wrong. ( Yeah I know you didn't say so )
Garreth Southgate is the another Harry Maguire, they have nothing to offer, they're just being protected. They have a great squad but they can't win because they don't have a good shepherd to lead the sheep's. ( This ain't bout sheep's )

Great game yesterday by the way, beautiful goals and good team work. It's a game you can predict the end evens before the kick off.
In thr first half, they just lacked creativity, wasn't comfortable with the usage of Alexander Arnold as a midfielder. Southgate no different from these half baked coaches in Africa.Super Saka, Harry Kane and the rest of the squad...... Fantastic!

[Woodie]

Belgium are still unable to make a big improvement in their general performance.

And am here watching the game thinking how these guys found themselves into the top 5 footballing nation..

Estonia has looked more dangerous whenever they go infront of goal and Belgium is really struggling to snitch together some good passes...maybe the absence of Kevin De Bruyne has left the team without that creative touch to it   but this Belgium team is disappointing.

Do I think they will win here, not a chance Estonia looks like a team with a plan and they will catch Begium on a counter!!

Inplay prediction: Draw
Off to see Portugal destroy Israel, hope Cr7 will be on the scoresheet

[rdluffy]

Do I think they will win here, not a chance Estonia looks like a team with a plan and they will catch Begium on a counter!!
Inplay prediction: Draw

Belgium is one of the most curious teams in recent times
In theory it is an extremely good team, they even ended in good positions, as in the 2018 world cup, in 3rd place. They have already eliminated the Brazil team, which was VERY good at the time, but in the decisive matches something is always missing. And in the last World Cup it was very clear that they were not a united team.

In this qualifiers I bet Belgium is easily 1st in the group, but because of their opponents.

At the moment Belgium is beating Estonia 1 x 0
Edit: now 2 x 0


I couldn't place the bets before the matches start, but I will do as soon as the first half is over.
Portugal is still 0-0, and is at 1.55 odds for the win.
I think you can wait a little bit to raise to 1.70 or more and bet on victory, I do not believe it will give a draw, especially Portugal that is scoring many goals

[flyingcarpet]

Do I think they will win here, not a chance Estonia looks like a team with a plan and they will catch Begium on a counter!!
Inplay prediction: Draw

Belgium is one of the most curious teams in recent times
In theory it is an extremely good team, they even ended in good positions, as in the 2018 world cup, in 3rd place. They have already eliminated the Brazil team, which was VERY good at the time, but in the decisive matches something is always missing. And in the last World Cup it was very clear that they were not a united team.

In this qualifiers I bet Belgium is easily 1st in the group, but because of their opponents.

At the moment Belgium is beating Estonia 1 x 0
Edit: now 2 x 0


I couldn't place the bets before the matches start, but I will do as soon as the first half is over.
Portugal is still 0-0, and is at 1.55 odds for the win.
I think you can wait a little bit to raise to 1.70 or more and bet on victory, I do not believe it will give a draw, especially Portugal that is scoring many goals

It's always difficult to predict how Belgium will play. They are now 2-0 up and the second half has started. Both goals have come from Lukaku. The game goes to 2.5 goals over. Estonia is not resisting.

If it was me in the Portugal match, I wouldn't count on a Portugal win. Iceland is not a bad team. I chose to stay away from this match in betting. Even if you want to take a risk, as you said, it makes more sense to wait for a while and enter when the odds increase.

[snipie]

Even though Iceland will be playing against Portugal at their home stadium but it will be extremely difficult for Iceland to keep a clean sheet against Portugal today. The quality of the Portugal national football team have certainly improved tremendously in the past few years and I think even when Cristiano Ronaldo were to retire from international football, the current squad of Portugal players will still be able to perform at a high level. I think Portugal will be able to beat Iceland easily today.

50 minutes played in the game and Iceland didn't received a goal yet vs Portugal which are dominating the game. I doubt they will resist until the end of the game.
Meanwhile Bosnia are 1 goal behind of Luxembourg, that was quite surprising! Otherwise the other games are running as expected with the favorite team dominating and leading their matches.

[Rengga Jati]

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The real surprise for me was that Armenia beat Wales 4-2 away. Croatia and Wales seemed to be favourites. Turkey is lucky to beat Armenia because they will play Wales in their next match. If they can also beat Wales, they will be the second closest team to exit the group after Croatia. They were lucky to get 3 points yesterday because they played poorly and Latvia had also found a draw in overtime.

It's really surprising to see the results of the matches in Group D. Yes, that's right, Croatia and Wales are the top 2 most favorite clubs to qualify for the next round. however, what happened, this was really surprising, especially for Wales, he even lost to Armenia. I don't know because they underestimated it or because Armenia is currently in their great performance. but it's still early in the qualifiers and they will have to do even better in the future. Although in truth, Wales at this time may not be as strong as in previous years.

[Slow death]

Iceland 0 - 1 Portugal



It was a very strange game in my opinion, I think it's strange because before the game I looked at Portugal as the favorite who would win this game without any difficulty, but on the field I saw everything different, in the 1st half Portugal just reached the goalkeeper's zone opponent they couldn't score goals, portugal hardly managed to cause any danger to the opponent, and time was passing and all I saw was portugal without any good form of playing, I had no idea how to cause great danger to the opponent. I confess that until then I accepted the fact that in this game there would be no goals, unless it was a goal coming from the opponent's side

the 1st half ended, in the 2nd half portugal entered with another attitude, they were more determined to score a goal and win the game, with that they started to cause danger in the opponent's zone, but they could not score a goal, ronaldo was the most dissatisfied, until the coach made some changes that thanks to these changes portugal managed to score a goal, ronaldo scored the only goal of the game and with that portugal won the game. despite this victory i see that portugal with so many good players are playing very badly, they should be able to easily win this game, if they want to win the euro then they will need to improve a lot

[LTU_btc]

Only thing that I can say about Poland today - Kurwa mac ja pierdole. How you can let mighty Moldova to win when you're leading game 0:2. And now they even let Moldova ahead on the table.
Iceland - Portugal, I already didn't believed that Portugal will score. But it's simply impossible that Ronaldo won't score when he become first player in the world to play 200 games for his national team. That record and dramatic goal on last minutes - perfect scenario.
I'm not really sure that Luxembourg win against Bosnia can be called as big upset. It's enough to look at clubs of Luxembourg players and you will understand that's good team. And seems that they're going to give fight for spot in EURO.

[Joca97]

Belgium are still unable to make a big improvement in their general performance. Their win in their first match in the qualifiers made me think about if they were better as of then. However the point loss against Austria caused all of my curiosity to be gone all of a sudden. It was a really poor performance about even shots on goal - 2 out of 17. This very unbalanced look prevents me from thinking positive about their future in such big tournaments. After having a disappointing run in the World Cup a similar thing might happen in Euro 2024 as well.

But let's evaluate the situation match by match so tonight I hope to see them getting a comfortable win against Estonia to improve their morale.

They won the match easily but they still need fresh legs in their team. The team is really old and used up and in 3-4 years those players wont be able to do anything at all. But i still dont see any young prospects that can carry Belgium in the next couple of years. We seen that this experienced old players didnt do anything on world cup

[Sithara007]

They won the match easily but they still need fresh legs in their team. The team is really old and used up and in 3-4 years those players wont be able to do anything at all. But i still dont see any young prospects that can carry Belgium in the next couple of years. We seen that this experienced old players didnt do anything on world cup

LOL.. this is a team which was once ranked #1 as per the FIFA ratings. Their main issue is that they are overdependent on a few players such as Romelu Lukaku. When these players are out of form, the team performance get impacted. One-man armies don't perform consistently in general. Apart from Belgium, Portugal and Norway are also good examples for this. Anyway, Belgium has managed to get to second spot in Group F, above Sweden. Sweden is another team that is on the decline, so Belgium should not worry too much about qualifying for the final tournament.

[TheGreatPython]

Even though Iceland will be playing against Portugal at their home stadium but it will be extremely difficult for Iceland to keep a clean sheet against Portugal today. The quality of the Portugal national football team have certainly improved tremendously in the past few years and I think even when Cristiano Ronaldo were to retire from international football, the current squad of Portugal players will still be able to perform at a high level. I think Portugal will be able to beat Iceland easily today.

50 minutes played in the game and Iceland didn't received a goal yet vs Portugal which are dominating the game. I doubt they will resist until the end of the game.
Meanwhile Bosnia are 1 goal behind of Luxembourg, that was quite surprising! Otherwise the other games are running as expected with the favorite team dominating and leading their matches.

Portugal were completely in control of this match with having 12 shorts on goal but still they were able to score their winner in 89th minute thanks to veteran Ronaldo which give winner to his team with this win now they have four consecutive wins in this event and not concede any goal which is impressive from their side now we will have next match after three months.

Bosnia lost their match at home which is their third defeat after having first win in their first game and Luxembourg were really at his best throughout this match after taking lead in just four minutes of the game and after this missed penalty was also big disappointment for them Luxembourg have just three shots on goal and these were enough for them to score two goals and have another win in this campaign.

[OcTradism]

Portugal were completely in control of this match with having 12 shorts on goal but still they were able to score their winner in 89th minute thanks to veteran Ronaldo which give winner to his team with this win now they have four consecutive wins in this event and not concede any goal which is impressive from their side now we will have next match after three months.

They controlled the match and created many opportunities. The veteran striker Cristiano Ronaldo got some chances and made some good finishes and at late minutes of the match, he scored the only goal which brings three points to Portugal.

In the last few months, since World Cup 2022, he shown that he is still good enough to play well in Saudi Professional League and when he returned to Europe with his national team, he still shows that he can play well at highest level. Despite of Cristiano good performance, we must recognize that he is no longer as good as he was a few seasons ago. He is older and his age is affecting his performance more negatively. We still have time to enjoy Cristiano performance with awareness that he will retire his player career in near future.

[Sithara007]

Bosnia's loss to Luxembourg was completely unexpected. And it is the same Luxembourg that went down against Portugal by a margin of 0-6. Perhaps their overdependence on Edin Džeko is becoming a disadvantage now and younger players are not filling the vacuum left by the retiring ones. At this point, they are at 4th position in Group J, behind Portugal, Slovakia and Luxembourg. Iceland has also disappointed so far in the same group. Out of their 4 matches, they have been able to win just 1. Looks like Portugal and Slovakia will qualify to the next round, as there is not much opposition from the other teams.