⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers👉Group Stage

[bitgolden]

I don't find at all funny to watch friendly games because teams are not giving everything they got and it's just a waste of time in my opinion. They also want to avoid injuries and friendly games purpose are just to make sure you can put in practice what you learned in training because there is no real prize for actually winning a friendly game.

There is also the other side , where people chose to bet on friendly games and they end up losing on odds 1.05 or 1.10 out of nowhere so it's safer to stay out of betting on friendly games. 

Not every nation takes friendly games as "friendly" as you think, most especially North American countries playing against their H2H rivals, but if you're talking about warm-up games before a big tournament, like the Euro friendlies we've been watching the past few weeks, I can't agree less - the experienced players aren't putting in as much effort as they should to avoid unnecessary injuries, while the younger players are putting in more effort to impress the coach and to have a chance.

Bet-wise it's recommended to go with low stake and focus more on the underdogs in pre-tounament friendly games or skip and just enjoy the game, it's called "friendly" for a reason 

I feel like warm up games are more like "lets see who plays how" type of thing and I still think that it is not really that important. I feel like the best thing we could do about this would be just ignoring these games and not betting on them. This is my own opinion, of course anyone is entitled to play and bet on any game they want, but that doesn't mean that they will win, it just means that they will have fun, just like any other game you could win or you could lose, there isn't really anything different.

Just because there is a chance that a great team could lose to a smaller team due to game being friendly, doesn't mean in serious games that won't be the case. Look at Spain and Germany last world cup and you know what I mean.

[Oneandpure]

Portugal is placed in an easy group, and qualifying to the next phase should be very easy for them. They were really good in the match against Republic of Ireland today. More importantly, Cristiano Ronaldo once again proved that age is just a number, with two superb goals. Portugal had an ideal mix of experienced players and younger ones for this match, and the attack was being led by João Félix and Rafael Leão in addition to Ronaldo.

Portugal in Group F and the opponent teams seems not an easy group behind Georgia as the debut national teams success qualifying to Euro 2024 and has two difficult opponent teams Turkiy and Czech Republic national teams.
First match, Portugal will face Czech Republic and the winning on friendly match against Ireland as good opportunity to secure first three points and make easily for leading the Group F standings position, has difficult opponent teams for Portugal against Turkiy on second matches in Euro 2024 but getting two consecutives winning will make automatically qualified to 16 of round.
Cristiano Ronaldo on confidence performance for the first match after success scoring two goals against Ireland last match, will be the sweet memorize for him on the last appearance in Euro 2024?

Group F teams

• Turkey
• Georgia
• Portugal
• Czech Republic

[Zackz5000]

In a friendly match with Ireland, Portugal won 3 - 0 with two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, a first goal is from Joao Felix. In his two goals, the first goal is magnificent and shows Ronaldo's great skills. I believe no goalkeeper can make a save against that shot and with two goals in a last friendly match before Euro 2024, Cristiano shown that he is good enough to appear in Portuguese main squad in this Euro.

He will have to play alternatively with young players and will not play all minutes in all matches for Portugal at this age. This match and his general performances in this season with Al Nassr in Saudi Professional League show that he is still useful for his team but the coach must use him cleverly.

Cristiano Ronaldo has been outstanding for Portugal in the past years carry the country along and also doing it currently is something that amused me at times considering his age, his brace In the international friendly game against Ireland has shown that Cristiano Ronaldo is still fit enough to participate fully in the upcoming Euro 2024 at Germany.
Cristiano Ronaldo will perform well in this year Euro 2024 competition considering his good form last season for Al Nassr I believe this Euro 2024 will be his last football dance in this competition for Portugal I believe with his efforts and other of his team mate Portugal will go thus far in this year Euro 2024.

Cristiano Ronaldo is fit enough to play this season, but he is slowly weakening in the future due to the only age barrier. However, no other player can perform as well as Cristiano Ronaldo has been performing so far. Especially Ronaldo performed much better than the youngsters, but even though he performed well enough for Portugal, the Portuguese team became much weaker when he competed with other exceptionally strong teams.  Because the attack department is strong because of Cristiano Ronaldo but the defense department is very weak.

We are on the same track mate despite his age he still play more better than other younger players adding with his football experience too. His two goals against Ireland in the international friendly game shows he is fit enough to perform very well in the upcoming Euro 2024 and also with his performance with Al-Nassr Fc shows Cristiano Ronaldo will perform better in the Euro 2024 the Portuguese team will also be happy having Cristiano Ronaldo in their squard. But this Euro 2024 will be Cristiano Ronaldo last dance in the competition so i believe he will do his magic as usual to make sure Portugal goes far in the competition.

[Palakka]

I agree with you because friendly matches are considered not be too serious because is just like a match were players decided to warm there legs and also most clubs normally use it as an avenue to try there younger players in other to know if they will be able to perform well if being introduced on the main matches, so just like you said betting on those matches is very risky because it may not actually play the way you will expect it and also most of the coaches will not even care if they win or lose because there major targets is just to try the performance of there Younger players, though there are some friendly matches that normally use all there major players so in a case like that betting on that match will be advisable.

Friendly matches, of course, cannot be our reference to judge how much strength the team has, because basically the coaches make friendly matches only as a warm-up or to maintain the fitness of the players more intensely to prepare their teams to compete in official matches later, so that sometimes the coaches do not instruct their players to appear all out in the match to avoid possible injuries Betting on a friendly is of course something risky because we can't evaluate the actual strength of the two teams in the match.

Playing friendly matches is an important thing for coaches to do, because that way he can find the right lineup to be able to fill the main starting lineup that he will play in official matches, besides that friendly matches are often an experiment for coaches to test the right game schemes and strategies for them to use in the game later,  Apart from giving young players the opportunity to play, because indeed the main focus of friendly matches is for player development and strategy, not just winning.

[Gallar]

In a friendly match with Ireland, Portugal won 3 - 0 with two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, a first goal is from Joao Felix. In his two goals, the first goal is magnificent and shows Ronaldo's great skills. I believe no goalkeeper can make a save against that shot and with two goals in a last friendly match before Euro 2024, Cristiano shown that he is good enough to appear in Portuguese main squad in this Euro.

Ronaldo is different from other footballers, because even though he is old, he is still able to play a very good game and is also still able to be a very great goal scorer. So he really deserves to be included as a starter in Portugal for the upcoming Euros. Apart from that, Joao Felix also played very well in this match by scoring one goal against Ireland. I think he will be a very valuable asset for the future of the Portuguese national team. The reason is that currently Joao Felix is ​​still very young, so he can definitely continue to develop his talents and abilities to become even greater.

Apart from that, when talking about the Euro, Portugal is in group F with Türkiye, Georgia and the Czechs. In my opinion, Portugal's chances of qualifying for the round of 16 are quite big. Because in Group F, the only country that might make things difficult for Portugal is most likely Turkey. Meanwhile I believe Portugal and Czech can easily beat Portugal. Moreover, with Ronaldo's ambition to present his last Euro title to Portugal, it is certain that he will perform optimally at this Euro.

He will have to play alternatively with young players and will not play all minutes in all matches for Portugal at this age.

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I think Ronaldo is still capable of playing the full 90 minutes at the moment. Because with very disciplined training, his stamina remains strong even when he is old. So in my personal opinion, at the next Euro, Ronaldo will definitely be irreplaceable while he can still play. The reason is, Ronaldo's role is definitely needed on Portugal's front lines. Apart from that, we already know that Ronaldo is a very ambitious figure so he definitely won't want to be replaced, especially if for example Portugal is in an unsafe situation.

[Hvdv]

Portugal is placed in an easy group, and qualifying to the next phase should be very easy for them. They were really good in the match against Republic of Ireland today. More importantly, Cristiano Ronaldo once again proved that age is just a number, with two superb goals. Portugal had an ideal mix of experienced players and younger ones for this match, and the attack was being led by João Félix and Rafael Leão in addition to Ronaldo.

Portugal in Group F and the opponent teams seems not an easy group behind Georgia as the debut national teams success qualifying to Euro 2024 and has two difficult opponent teams Turkiy and Czech Republic national teams.
First match, Portugal will face Czech Republic and the winning on friendly match against Ireland as good opportunity to secure first three points and make easily for leading the Group F standings position, has difficult opponent teams for Portugal against Turkiy on second matches in Euro 2024 but getting two consecutives winning will make automatically qualified to 16 of round.
Cristiano Ronaldo on confidence performance for the first match after success scoring two goals against Ireland last match, will be the sweet memorize for him on the last appearance in Euro 2024?

Group F teams

• Turkey
• Georgia
• Portugal
• Czech Republic

Portugal is in great form. They had an easy match against Ireland, winning 3-0. Legendary player Ronaldo shows us that age does not matter by scoring 2 goals in this match. Portugal is clearly the favorite in the group. There are important young people in Turkey, but we had bad results in the friendly matches. We lost 2-1 against Poland and drew 0-0 with Italy. Portugal is the clear favorite of the group and I think they will advance to the round by making 3/3. The fight for second place will be very tight. Our first match will be against Georgia and I hope we win.

[AprilioMP]

Portugal is in great form. They had an easy match against Ireland, winning 3-0. Legendary player Ronaldo shows us that age does not matter by scoring 2 goals in this match. Portugal is clearly the favorite in the group. There are important young people in Turkey, but we had bad results in the friendly matches. We lost 2-1 against Poland and drew 0-0 with Italy. Portugal is the clear favorite of the group and I think they will advance to the round by making 3/3. The fight for second place will be very tight. Our first match will be against Georgia and I hope we win.

In Group F, Portugal is the favorite team. I agree because the other three teams still cannot be above Portugal according to analysis which is confirmed because Portugal's performance has been in a positive trend so far. However, I am not really sure that at Euro 2024, Portugal can compete fiercely after the group stage is finished considering that there are other teams in different groups that have more promising players and team performance, such as Spain, England, France and Germany.

No matter how strong Portugal's mainstay player like Cristiano Ronaldo is, he will not have an impact that can make Portugal progress to the final round. Even getting to the semifinals is still questionable.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Why did you have so much confidence of Croatia to win or draw against Spain?
I don’t think Spain will lose their opening match of the tournament, but just as Spain wouldn’t want losing, Croatia will also be willing to win or the point in the match but it will be difficult for them.

Hungary on the other hand might not even play a draw against Switzerland.

I don't have a lot of confidence in these bets. Like I said I just wanted it to be more exciting to follow. It is just for fun in short. 

Croatia are a really unpredictable team. They have capable players and their style surprises bigger favourites from time to time. I'm just trying my luck, who knows. We will see how prepared these teams are.

Hungary had a really good qualification phase. The odds for two sides are like 3.35 for Hungary, 2.26 for Switzerland. I can't say Switzerland are also a very clear favourite so I'm just taking my chances. 

[Gencecikmen]

I have a fondness for underdog teams. It’s always exciting to see how underdog teams perform and whether they can replicate the fairy-tale runs of past teams like Denmark in 1992. Could you predict an underdog team for this tournament? Taking Denmark’s surprising victory in Euro 1992 as an example, it seems every Euro tournament has its dark horse. In this tournament, I believe Albania, despite being in the so-called ‘Group of Death’, could be the ideal underdog.

[Zackz5000]

Portugal is placed in an easy group, and qualifying to the next phase should be very easy for them. They were really good in the match against Republic of Ireland today. More importantly, Cristiano Ronaldo once again proved that age is just a number, with two superb goals. Portugal had an ideal mix of experienced players and younger ones for this match, and the attack was being led by João Félix and Rafael Leão in addition to Ronaldo.

Portugal in Group F and the opponent teams seems not an easy group behind Georgia as the debut national teams success qualifying to Euro 2024 and has two difficult opponent teams Turkiy and Czech Republic national teams.
First match, Portugal will face Czech Republic and the winning on friendly match against Ireland as good opportunity to secure first three points and make easily for leading the Group F standings position, has difficult opponent teams for Portugal against Turkiy on second matches in Euro 2024 but getting two consecutives winning will make automatically qualified to 16 of round.
Cristiano Ronaldo on confidence performance for the first match after success scoring two goals against Ireland last match, will be the sweet memorize for him on the last appearance in Euro 2024?

Group F teams

• Turkey
• Georgia
• Portugal
• Czech Republic

The Portuguese has great squad to qualify top in that group F though the group looks some how difficult for them but with there current form adding with player like Cristiano Ronaldo In the team the highest point any other team in that group F will get from Portugal is 1 point which is draw because I believe Portugal will win all 3 game with 9 point toping the group F.

[buwaytress]

If a gambler goes to a 1X2 bet, OFC the favorite team will be the choice, that will be a real differentiator even though then will only get odds that tend to be smaller. For gamblers who dare to take risks, it's very unwise to go for a 1X2 bet & choose a team that's not the favorite, because the possibility of that happening is impossible (IMO).

I'm not the only gambler who likes to go for the underdog, especially when the favourites are overestimated. In fact, any odds you see are likelier even less value (due to lopsided markets where most bets are on the favourite) so you actually get less and less value the more you bet on heavy favs.

Unwise to go for 1x2 against the favourite, you say?
Possibility is... impossible you say?

Are you sure you know what you're talking about?

[CLS63]

Portugal in Group F and the opponent teams seems not an easy group behind Georgia as the debut national teams success qualifying to Euro 2024 and has two difficult opponent teams Turkiy and Czech Republic national teams.
First match, Portugal will face Czech Republic and the winning on friendly match against Ireland as good opportunity to secure first three points and make easily for leading the Group F standings position, has difficult opponent teams for Portugal against Turkiy on second matches in Euro 2024 but getting two consecutives winning will make automatically qualified to 16 of round.
Cristiano Ronaldo on confidence performance for the first match after success scoring two goals against Ireland last match, will be the sweet memorize for him on the last appearance in Euro 2024?

Group F teams

• Turkey
• Georgia
• Portugal
• Czech Republic

This is my country's group at the same time which is Turkey. We don't have an easy job to do to be honest. Ronaldo is still a really good finisher at the age of 39. Our most challenging opponent is Portugal obviously. I expect them to finish the group as the leader. In that case we must finish right behind instead of risking it with the best 3rd team in all groups. We should be able to defeat Georgia. Czechia match might be challenging but I hope to see us winning with our skilled young players. 

[MK-74]

I think our team is in a bad situation(Tukey), I don't think we can get out of this group. Our squad is still not fully determined.
The game we played in the friendly matches is terrible.
Melih Demiral has no place in the squad. He should go and play in Saudi Arabia.

I still haven't figured out Vincenzo Montella's system, no one knows what he wants to do.

[Sunderland]

This is my country's group at the same time which is Turkey. We don't have an easy job to do to be honest. Ronaldo is still a really good finisher at the age of 39. Our most challenging opponent is Portugal obviously. I expect them to finish the group as the leader. In that case we must finish right behind instead of risking it with the best 3rd team in all groups. We should be able to defeat Georgia. Czechia match might be challenging but I hope to see us winning with our skilled young players.  

Yep, any team in group F definitely wants to become the winner of the group because runner up will face the winner of group D (France, Netherlands, Poland, Austria).
The 3rd best team (if any) will face the winner of group A (Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland) B or C, while the winner of group F will face the 3rd A/B/C.
I dont underestimate Turkey, but it would be better if they could avoid France/Spain/England in the round of 16.
Turkey must be able to beat Georgia and Czech with lots of goals and at least be able to hold Portugal to a draw if they want to win group F.

[hosseinimr93]

The 3rd best team (if any) will face the winner of group A (Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland), while the winner of group F will face the 3rd A/B/C.

The third placed team of group F (if qualified to the knockout stage) will face the winner of group B or the winner of group C.
The winner of group A will face the the second placed team of group C.

Source: uefa.com

[uchegod-21]

I have a fondness for underdog teams. It’s always exciting to see how underdog teams perform and whether they can replicate the fairy-tale runs of past teams like Denmark in 1992. Could you predict an underdog team for this tournament? Taking Denmark’s surprising victory in Euro 1992 as an example, it seems every Euro tournament has its dark horse. In this tournament, I believe Albania, despite being in the so-called ‘Group of Death’, could be the ideal underdog.

I have a fondness for underdog teams. It’s always exciting to see how underdog teams perform and whether they can replicate the fairy-tale runs of past teams like Denmark in 1992. Could you predict an underdog team for this tournament? Taking Denmark’s surprising victory in Euro 1992 as an example, it seems every Euro tournament has its dark horse. In this tournament, I believe Albania, despite being in the so-called ‘Group of Death’, could be the ideal underdog.

It is true that in every competition, there is this underdog factor. But in most of the competitions, the underdog factor is very small and most times ends immediately after the group match. But in some of the tournaments, the underdogs are so dominant that they could make it to the semi-finals and even the finals. I have carefully studied the season that under dogs normally emerge. Underdogs come to play when there is no much individual title in that season to win. Just like the ballon d'or will likely be determined by the efforts of Vini Junior in Copper America, Mbappe and Jude in Euro. Those guys will give their best and thereby not make the season an underdog season.
However, I am not totally writing off the underdogs, but they won't be dominant this time.

[Docnaster]

Portugal in Group F and the opponent teams seems not an easy group behind Georgia as the debut national teams success qualifying to Euro 2024 and has two difficult opponent teams Turkiy and Czech Republic national teams.
First match, Portugal will face Czech Republic and the winning on friendly match against Ireland as good opportunity to secure first three points and make easily for leading the Group F standings position, has difficult opponent teams for Portugal against Turkiy on second matches in Euro 2024 but getting two consecutives winning will make automatically qualified to 16 of round.
Cristiano Ronaldo on confidence performance for the first match after success scoring two goals against Ireland last match, will be the sweet memorize for him on the last appearance in Euro 2024?

Group F teams

• Turkey
• Georgia
• Portugal
• Czech Republic

This is my country's group at the same time which is Turkey. We don't have an easy job to do to be honest. Ronaldo is still a really good finisher at the age of 39. Our most challenging opponent is Portugal obviously. I expect them to finish the group as the leader. In that case we must finish right behind instead of risking it with the best 3rd team in all groups. We should be able to defeat Georgia. Czechia match might be challenging but I hope to see us winning with our skilled young players. 

The group F of the summer UEFA Euros Championship I don't think should give us issues when we want to predict the teams that going to progress from the group. Portugal undoubtedly possesses the strongest squad in that group and I don't expect them to struggle from qualifying to the knockout stages. Turkey on the other hand I think stands a better chance that any of Czech Republic and Georgia to reach the knockout stages as well.
Though it's easy for us to predict but in football, anything is just possible and that's why you could see a team that's underrated go all the way to shock everyone. If we should expect any shock in group F, then it'll definitely be between between Turkey, Czech Republic and Georgia shocking themselves but I don't think there's anything that's gonna stop Portugal from winning the group.

[joniboini]

I have carefully studied the season that under dogs normally emerge. Underdogs come to play when there is no much individual title in that season to win. Just like the ballon d'or will likely be determined by the efforts of Vini Junior in Copper America, Mbappe and Jude in Euro. Those guys will give their best and thereby not make the season an underdog season.

Can you share the data that form this analysis? I feel like this sidelined a lot of things such as group stage, overall team performance, match-ups, etc. I'm not sure how motivated Mbappe and other brilliant players to win individual awards, but I doubt it affects how other countries perform in other groups. I guess you can also redefine what is considered an underdog season. I believe any underdog exists in every competition, but they won't make it past the semis in most scenarios. Even qualifying past the group stage can be an incredible achievement depending on which teams you're looking at.

Btw, I believe you accidentally made a double post. You can delete the previous one since it respond to the same post.

[OcTradism]

Can you share the data that form this analysis? I feel like this sidelined a lot of things such as group stage, overall team performance, match-ups, etc. I'm not sure how motivated Mbappe and other brilliant players to win individual awards, but I doubt it affects how other countries perform in other groups. I guess you can also redefine what is considered an underdog season. I believe any underdog exists in every competition, but they won't make it past the semis in most scenarios. Even qualifying past the group stage can be an incredible achievement depending on which teams you're looking at.

Btw, I believe you accidentally made a double post. You can delete the previous one since it respond to the same post.

Underdog teams from clubs to national teams don't appear too often. In Euro, we can recall some underdogs like Denmark, Czech, Greece and in Coppa America we can recall Chile but they don't usually appear and win Euro title or Coppa America title.

Strength of a team from club to national level, comes from many players and coach team, a single star player is hard to carry a whole weak team to success and title. Modern football is different than decades ago when one star player with a magnificent tournament was able to carry his team to title. In modern football, a star player is only a piece of a team that need to be strong as a block and not only eleven debut players but alternative players on bench too. With latest changes in total substitutions for each match since Covid-19 pandemic, importance of alternative players becomes bigger. If a team don't have good alternative players, it's more difficult to succeed against competitors.

[Uruhara]

Portugal is placed in an easy group, and qualifying to the next phase should be very easy for them. They were really good in the match against Republic of Ireland today. More importantly, Cristiano Ronaldo once again proved that age is just a number, with two superb goals. Portugal had an ideal mix of experienced players and younger ones for this match, and the attack was being led by João Félix and Rafael Leão in addition to Ronaldo.

Portugal in Group F and the opponent teams seems not an easy group behind Georgia as the debut national teams success qualifying to Euro 2024 and has two difficult opponent teams Turkiy and Czech Republic national teams.
First match, Portugal will face Czech Republic and the winning on friendly match against Ireland as good opportunity to secure first three points and make easily for leading the Group F standings position, has difficult opponent teams for Portugal against Turkiy on second matches in Euro 2024 but getting two consecutives winning will make automatically qualified to 16 of round.
Cristiano Ronaldo on confidence performance for the first match after success scoring two goals against Ireland last match, will be the sweet memorize for him on the last appearance in Euro 2024?

Group F teams

• Turkey
• Georgia
• Portugal
• Czech Republic

Portugal, which is in group F, may have the potential to qualify from group qualification. But not because this is a group filled with easy teams. Because there are Türkiye and the Czech Republic which are also quite strong. but indeed Portugal has a FIFA Rank above these three teams. Georgia is at the bottom of the FIFA rankings. But the quality of the national team may be different from their ranking in FIFA. So the results will remain difficult to predict.

But maybe we are all optimistic that Portugal will be able to qualify from this group stage. And actually I want to see Cristiano Ronaldo get sweet memories at Euro 2024. Because maybe this could be his last Euro with the Portuguese national team.