⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽

[Lidger]

Main game tonight is obviously France - Italy. Don't know, I'm surprised or not that bookmakers are giving such low odds for France win. Yeah, they're great, but Italy is criminally underrated IMO.

France vs Italy is definitely the match of the night, but we'll be watching Wales game. I wonder what Türkiye will do against Wales. Craig Bellamy spoke ambitiously before the match. But Türkiye's new squad selection looks very good and balanced. It remains to be seen how the team will react after the Euro 24. In the Nations League we need to qualify for League A. We are the better team against Iceland, Montenegro and Wales. Of course, being better doesn't mean anything unless it's reflected in the score. I expect a win today in a difficult away game. I don't think Türkiye will play for a draw.

Italy has not been performing well recently which is why before the start of the France vs Italy match everyone was in favor of France and many bet on France but the result went completely in favor of Italy. Against Italy, France lost by a huge margin of three goals to one. But there was no happy ending for those who watched the early game especially the France supporters as Barcola scored the first goal for France after just one minute and it was their last goal of the entire match. 

After just one minute of scoring, many thought that Italy would be beaten by France by a large margin, but from the 30th minute it was full time in Italy's favor and they managed to put three balls into France's net from the 30th minute to full time. As a result, Italy secured an easy win against France.

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I still think this is just another money grab from UEFA, trying to cram as many matches a possible in their calendar and earn more from tv rights and so on!

Still can't wrap my head around stuff like a match between Luxemburg and Belarus sending one team to group B and one to group D, while a team that gets beaten by the Czech Republic and Englan ends up in group C, if you're going to make at about promotions and relegations just make it another championship with 30 games with each team playing against every single other in the league and have 3 football matches a day one for the nation league, one for the national clubs, one for the uefa clubs and so on!

Well, at least we had a marvelous event, San Marino managed to get their first win in a fierce match against Liechtenstein and right now we can enjoy these four battling for...whatever

For today, I would single out the match between Ireland and England because of their mutual rivalry.

I was surprised to hear that in nearly a century they only played 16 times and that this is their first non-friendly game in 33 years!

[Rikafip]

I still think this is just another money grab from UEFA, trying to cram as many matches a possible in their calendar and earn more from tv rights and so on!

That's without a doubt what this is all about. They didn't like countries and players not taking friendly games seriously, so they created this nonsense and added some incentive.

It's funny how in Croatia no one really cared about the Nations League when we were shit. But the moment we started playing well and managed to reach the final tournament, it suddenly became important to win it (which we didn't).

The only thing I care tonight is Havertz scoring vs Hungary as I need it for BSFL. 

[Unsoldier]

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Will we see a big upset in Ireland vs England too? both of them didn't have good results and Ireland never beat England so far.

Although England is the favorite, Ireland shouldn’t be written off despite their struggles in Euro qualification. Additionally, many Irish players compete in the English leagues.
England reached the Euro final but displayed an unconvincing performance, losing to Spain. The team is currently under the temporary management of Lee Carsley. England is certainly stronger, but an easy victory is unlikely due to the motivation and historic rivalry between the teams. My prediction: a hard-fought win for England, with a score of 1-0 or 2-1.

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

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Will we see a big upset in Ireland vs England too? both of them didn't have good results and Ireland never beat England so far.

Although England is the favorite, Ireland shouldn’t be written off despite their struggles in Euro qualification. Additionally, many Irish players compete in the English leagues.
England reached the Euro final but displayed an unconvincing performance, losing to Spain. The team is currently under the temporary management of Lee Carsley. England is certainly stronger, but an easy victory is unlikely due to the motivation and historic rivalry between the teams. My prediction: a hard-fought win for England, with a score of 1-0 or 2-1.

England have reached the final of the last two European Championships. Southgate was sacked without a trophy. Lee Carsley replaced Southgate. But he came in on a temporary appointment. But also Ireland have a new manager. Heimir Hallgrimson has taken charge of the Ireland national team. The England national team are the favorites in terms of squad quality. But both teams have new coaches. Both teams are in a period of transition. Both teams may fall short of expectations in this match. I don't like betting on such matches.

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Didn't expect Italy can destroy France, although Spalletti was successful with Napoli, but they weren't able to win against Switzerland and Croatia. So, I would say France is under perform instead of Italy improved, France have used all of their best players.

Will we see a big upset in Ireland vs England too? both of them didn't have good results and Ireland never beat England so far.

Italy just bitch-slapped France, and it was GLORIOUS! Though they came out swinging, some believed they would roll over. France came early. Did not matter. Italy turned the script upside down, raised the intensity, and dominated. This was heart not only strategies. Spalletti's has these lads playing with fire in their gut. It's beautiful

Ireland vs England. England ought on paper to sweep the floor. But both teams have been sucking lately. The pressure is on, and it can cause odd behavior inside a team. Ireland's opportunity to astounds the globe is here. Football is more about who wants it than only about ability

First goal from France came super fast:

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Didn't expect Italy can destroy France, although Spalletti was successful with Napoli, but they weren't able to win against Switzerland and Croatia. So, I would say France is under perform instead of Italy improved, France have used all of their best players.

Will we see a big upset in Ireland vs England too? both of them didn't have good results and Ireland never beat England so far.

Italy just bitch-slapped France, and it was GLORIOUS! Though they came out swinging, some believed they would roll over. France came early. Did not matter. Italy turned the script upside down, raised the intensity, and dominated. This was heart not only strategies. Spalletti's has these lads playing with fire in their gut. It's beautiful

An amazing match in my opinion with the quick goal created by France surprised many people including myself, but unfortunately France seemed to lose concentration until they conceded three goals and here we have to see that the French defense is not so good compared to the defense owned by Italy, Didier Deschamps must find a defender who is good enough to support the French defense which is not so solid and easy to penetrate, but congratulations to Luciano Spalletti who was able to bring Italy to win the match against France which is considered to have great players in it, compared to the Italian players there are very far no famous names there but it was able to overthrow the French players.

[Majestic-milf]

Ronaldo was able to get his 900th goal for club and country when he netted Portugal's second goal thanks to a beautiful assist from Nuno Mendes and I think this action alone has helped to ward off critics. Even though Portugal were the favorites to win last night, I still had the belief that Croatia could come back and draw the game because they added pressure whenever they had the chance and if they had utilized their opportunities, they could have levelled if not won the game since Portugal sort of relaxed after getting the second goal.

Portugal played well against Croatia and from the beginning of the match you will notice that Portugal came into the game with full confidence that they were going to play very and score goals, the first goal of Portugal was scored by Dalot and that was an amazing goal, and the mighty Ronaldo score the second goal for Portugal and make it 2:0, Portugal and Croatia match end in the first half of the match because both teams score goals in the first half of the match and the second half no any team could able to score goal again.

They will certainly have much confidence going into the game because between them, Portugal has got more wins in their h2h than Croatia and even though during the Euros Portugal weren't impressive, that didn't stop them from beating Croatia, but compared to previous meetings, the Croatian side had more effort at goals and threatened Portugual and they were even hoping to level scores if not for the timely interventions of the defense and also the keeper.

[Lucius]

I still think this is just another money grab from UEFA, trying to cram as many matches a possible in their calendar and earn more from tv rights and so on!

Money is always the main motive of the story, but the question is how many clubs and players can stand this kind of rhythm, and if I'm not mistaken, I read somewhere that some of the powerful clubs are protesting against it.

For today, I would single out the match between Ireland and England because of their mutual rivalry.

I was surprised to hear that in nearly a century they only played 16 times and that this is their first non-friendly game in 33 years!

I didn't know about that information, and in that case this match has even more importance for both teams. Not that it's a conspiracy theory, but as if some higher power prevented them from meeting a few more times - but there are still situations in which great rivals meet very rarely.

[Abbatty]

Very strange games and results in today amtches for the National league competition.

What happen with France? They started in a super way wining the game since the begining of it and ended up losing it badly against a not so good Italy, and in the other side.... what is this Italy? Always the same they do games like this and in the next one they drop points against some shit national team.

And in low tier games.... what made Norway always be so shit having super players like Haaland Odegard Sorloth ? How you cant score a single goal against a super weak Kazajthan?

Maybe you are still judging this France team with the quality players they have but in terms of team play, build-up, breaking of line and creating of chances this French Team is still finding it very difficult. France only scored just a goal in open play in the Euros that shows that their creativity is very bad and just yesterday they were able to score from open play, making it 2 goals from open play in 7 games, I think that very bad for a team having such qualities of players. Again this Italian team knows how to defend and can strike you from counter attacks and that was exactly way they did to france yesterday. You can write this Italian team off, they are a team that play with plan and strategy.

Well Norway player out there heart heart yesterday but just that somedays it not just meant to be, chances were created and even Halland was unlucky because he went on to hit the woodwork when he should have scored. They are a good team and they will win matches that I'm sure of.

[Out of mind]

This England vs Ireland League B Group 2 match is taking place and in the first half the England team has given a much stronger performance. In this first match of UEFA nation league, England team is performing well against Ireland, although England team has already managed to score two goals and they are ahead. Moreover, the way they are playing in today's match, surely the England team players will ensure victory till the last moment. However, if the Ireland team can make a strong attack against England, it will be possible to equalize the match, but it will not be very easy against England. The island team may never be able to come back in today's match against England because England will already play with a stronger performance. Moreover, after halftime, England team will definitely be tougher and attack stronger, in this case, England team will win today's match and collect 3 points.

[Adiljutt156]

San Marino won an official match for the first time in its history. San Marino beat Liechtenstein 1-0 tonight.
This win is a huge win for the guys because they have never experienced this feeling before. They celebrated as if they were champions.

Portugal won their first match in the group by beating their strong opponent Croatia 2-1.
Poland won the match 3-2 with a goal scored in the last minutes.

Yes. San Marino national football team did well in this match and they did first goal luckily and  they adopted the defensive attitude and they did not take attacking position because they knew that they could lose this match if they tried to take attacking position. Liechtenstein national football team did not play bad and they gave their hundred percent to do the goal but San Marino national football team estimated all the situation because that was a golden opportunity for San Marino  team to win this match and they availed it . The shots of that team were good and the possession percentage of that team was also good and passes were also more in number but they could not do any goal in the end of match after giving hundred percent.

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Didn't expect Italy can destroy France, although Spalletti was successful with Napoli, but they weren't able to win against Switzerland and Croatia. So, I would say France is under perform instead of Italy improved, France have used all of their best players.

Will we see a big upset in Ireland vs England too? both of them didn't have good results and Ireland never beat England so far.

France surprised with a quick goal and the only consolation goal until the referee blew the long whistle, it can be said that this is not France's best performance with a myriad of talented players, I see Deschamps' team is not creative enough in building attacks too monotonous so that it is easily anticipated by Italy, unlike Italy they can maximize their attacks into goals. And as you said Italy's performance is difficult to predict, sometimes it can be on fire, sometimes surprising when facing a weak team, always having difficulty.

Talking about the Ireland vs England national team, the temporary score is 2-0 for the England national team's victory scored by Declan Rice and Jack Grealish, it looks like England will win easily and maintain the score until the end of the match or another possibility in the second half later England will add to their goal tally because it is clear that Ireland is unable to match England's game. We'll see in the second half later.

[CLS63]

The Nations League can be really unpredictable. The result of the France - Italy match is a wonderful example for that. You know how strong France are in defense. We saw it in Euro 2024 as well but they couldn't do much against Italy this time. Italy are really hungry for achievements. After having a horrible Euro 2024 process, they must be pushing hard for success in this league. By the way Dimarco is one of the best left-backs in the world now.

[KTChampions]

I still think this is just another money grab from UEFA, trying to cram as many matches a possible in their calendar and earn more from tv rights and so on!

That's without a doubt what this is all about. They didn't like countries and players not taking friendly games seriously, so they created this nonsense and added some incentive.
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The most disgusting thing is that football officials do not care about football as a business at all - they do not care that new tournaments are devalued because there are too many games. Infantino's dream is to hold the World Cup every two years, UEFA will also switch to a two-year cycle if this happens with the World Cup. As a result, the footballers will not have the strength to play for the clubs (which pay for this whole banquet). Absurd.

[Dickiy]

This England vs Ireland League B Group 2 match is taking place and in the first half the England team has given a much stronger performance. In this first match of UEFA nation league, England team is performing well against Ireland, although England team has already managed to score two goals and they are ahead. Moreover, the way they are playing in today's match, surely the England team players will ensure victory till the last moment. However, if the Ireland team can make a strong attack against England, it will be possible to equalize the match, but it will not be very easy against England. The island team may never be able to come back in today's match against England because England will already play with a stronger performance. Moreover, after halftime, England team will definitely be tougher and attack stronger, in this case, England team will win today's match and collect 3 points.

The match ended and England managed to win the match with a score of 2-0 scored in the first half. I predict England will add goals in the second half because England's game in the first half was very clearly dominant and confined Ireland, they could not do much in the first half, likewise in the second half there was no change in the Irish team, they could only hold back England's attacks. Unfortunately the English national team could not take advantage of the weaknesses of the Irish national team.

[Slow death]

First goal from France came super fast:

I have been saying for months that it was a serious mistake to keep Didier Deschamps as France's national coach after the World Cup. I honestly don't see him bringing the same good results as in the past. The French Football Federation made a mistake by keeping Didier Deschamps and France has not been consistent in friendly matches and Nations League matches. I don't bet on France in Nations League matches because they lose even against weak opponents. If they had chosen Zidane as coach they would have made a better choice.



In the last few games of the French national team, Mbappe has been very quiet, he has not been the center of attention, he has not been able to score many goals. He has not been the same since that last World Cup final against Argentina when he carried the whole team. Nowadays it is even difficult to identify him on the field.

[Chilwell]

Germany vs Hungary
Germany lineup:
Ter Stegen; Kimmich, Schlotterbeck, Tah, Mittelstadt; Gross, Pavlovic; Musiala, Wirtz, Fuhrich; Havertz

Hungary lineup:
Gulacsi; Botka, Orban, M. Dardai; Bolla, A. Nagy, Schafer, Kerkez; Sallai, Szoboszlai; Varga

Netherlands vs Bosnia
Netherlands lineup:
Verbruggen; Dumfries, De Ligt, Van Dijk, Ake; Schouten, Gravenberch; Malen, Simons, Gakpo; Brobbey

Bosnia lineup:
Piric; Radeljic, Ahmedhodzic, Katic, Bicakcic, Kolasinac; Gigovic, Krunic, Tahirovic, Hajradinovic; Dzeko

Group 3 league A are having their first match of the league and among the four teams Bosnia is the team I expected not to qualify but checking their previous performance I realised that I was totally wrong because the haven't lost in the six consecutive matches and Netherlands have faced two defeat in their last five matches but still despite that Netherlands have great super stars that can be able to take down Bosnia but I can really predict the particular game.

On the other hand Hungary has caused Germany not to make it out of the group in 2022 Nations league and now they are in the same group again, am much confident that Germany will not give a chance this time around, the match is just 2 minutes to start let see how the table will when the match ended.

[Unsoldier]

The match between Germany and Hungary is about to start. In the previous Euro tournament, the Germans had no major issues defeating the Hungarians. Germany is expected to win today as well, with their clear advantage in class and home-field support. I don’t anticipate any surprises in this match, and the victory should be comfortable, with at least a two-goal margin in favor of Germany.

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The match between Germany and Hungary is about to start. In the previous Euro tournament, the Germans had no major issues defeating the Hungarians. Germany is expected to win today as well, with their clear advantage in class and home-field support. I don’t anticipate any surprises in this match, and the victory should be comfortable, with at least a two-goal margin in favor of Germany.

We may not see the expected scores in the first matches. That's why I expect surprising results in some matches. This match may also end with a surprising score. Germany is stronger than its opponent and is playing on its own turf. It will want to use this advantage, but if the opponent scores an early goal, the result may not be as they expect.

I think some of the favorite teams in these groups will not get the victories they expect and we will watch more competitive matches in the last matches of the groups.