⚽UEFA Nations League 2024/2025⚽

[Pandorak]

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[...] For tonight's game, I think Portugal are going to beat the Croatians because it's obvious the Portuguese have a better squad and are more coordinated team than the Croatians and besides the Portuguese have won this tournament before and would be playing with more confidence tonight than the Croatians.

Well, our expectations came true, Portugal managed to beat Croatia with a score of Portugal 2 - 1 Croatia, no Croatian players scored because all three goals were scored by Portuguese players. This match was also not what i expected, i think that Portugal should be able to win by a large margin, for example 3 - 1 or 4 - 2 considering that Croatia has high attacking potential.

[Lucius]

Portugal managed to win against Croatia, which was again not even close to a serious team, and only goalkeeper Livakovic saved them from a heavy defeat with several great saves. Ronlado played a solid game and scored a very nice goal when he managed to completely outwit the Croatian defense, obviously a man of almost 40 years has more speed than a Gvardiol who is almost half his age.

Poland managed to beat Scotland as a guest, although it should be emphasized that even two penalty kicks helped them in this, the second one in the 7th minute of stoppage time in the second half. This confirms that the Scots are obviously the weakest in this group, and on Sunday, Poland will visit Croatia, so we will see which team will fight for the second place in the group.

As far as I know, Croatia will change the game system and look for some new solutions, but if they don't solve their impotent attack and improve their defense, Poland will see it as a new opportunity to claim points.



For all those whose posts were deleted, you obviously did not read the rules in the OP - this is not another classic spam topic.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

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.

They deserve to celebrate as champions, I know it’s only against Liechtenstein but they finally won a competitive game.

San Marino has a population of under 35,000 so they don’t have a lot of choice really when looking for talent, when you consider how many of that 35,000 is actually 18-40 aged males. I am happy for them.

[HajiBagi]

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.

Poland beat Scotland 3:2 and for me, the match was very tough because Poland was winning the game from the first half 2:0 and after coming for the second half Scotland changed the game and scored goals to make it 2:2 and before the match ended Poland had a penalty and win the game, Poland win the game with a penalty because they play two penalties in the match, Scotland deserves credit in the match and they are the best team in yesterday game.

[Lannakosa]

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.

Poland beat Scotland 3:2 and for me, the match was very tough because Poland was winning the game from the first half 2:0 and after coming for the second half Scotland changed the game and scored goals to make it 2:2 and before the match ended Poland had a penalty and win the game, Poland win the game with a penalty because they play two penalties in the match, Scotland deserves credit in the match and they are the best team in yesterday game.

Two goals from the Portuguese defender was unexpected, especially when Dalot scored the second goal into his own net. Portugal beat Croatia in the first half, but by the way, it seemed to me that the teams played more or less equally in the first half, and in the second half, when Croatia needed to catch up, they were unable to create anything dangerous enough. Ronaldo once again showed that he is in excellent shape and is ready to play for the national team despite his age.

[Abbatty]

The Turkish National Team will play away against Wales tomorrow. Even though Türkiye seems like the favorite on paper, Wales is a very difficult away game.
A team with a system and its own school.
Even though Türkiye did very well in the European Championship, I think it will lose points tomorrow.
Even a Wales win can be tried in surprise coupons.

Well said, the only people who can say what u just said are people who are very good in gambling, this wales team is a very difficult team to play, they build very good low Blocks at the back and play a very good counter attack immediately they win the ball, they have fast players upfront and they can do damage to you at anytime, tho the Turkish team is a very good team, they are very good with the ball and they are some good individuals who can cook up anything on there own.

I have played wales to win in a single different ticket, then on my main ticket I played it over2.5, sometimes upset like this could surprise you. Above everything it going to be a very interesting match to watch and I’m really looking forward to it.

[yudi09]

Belgium international team is another I'd love to see how good they are, after last time they played in the Euros I never expected them to be eliminated that quick but tonight's game is another chapter. Israel a new opponent to test their strength and I believe that Belgium has every tools to demolish the Israel national team, they can't withstand the pressure of Lukaku and his colleagues in the attacking department even the midfield general KDB, the Israel side can only defend but they can't do it for very long before they break their defense. The game is going to be a one sided affair which I expect to see more than 3 goals in this game.

Belgium can win easily against Israel. I have no doubt that Belgium will win in this match.
Kevin De Bruyne will be the player who is ready to provide service to Openda and Doku in breaking down the Israeli defense.
Indeed in football matches the calculations are not like that because it is possible for a team that we don't rely on to beat our mainstay team. But for this match, Belgium will still be able to beat Israel.

[yudi09]

Belgium can win easily against Israel. I have no doubt that Belgium will win in this match.
Kevin De Bruyne will be the player who is ready to provide service to Openda and Doku in breaking down the Israeli defense.
Indeed in football matches the calculations are not like that because it is possible for a team that we don't rely on to beat our mainstay team. But for this match, Belgium will still be able to beat Israel.

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Doku is another player that can cause problems for the Israeli side, and we have seen the way he performs for City creating chances for other players who have a clear opportunity to get a goal and the main man has a better opportunity to score goal(s) in tonight's game, talking about Lukaku or whoever is going to be in the attack.

It's true that no betting site shows if the Israeli team has a good chance of getting a draw.
The thing I would be disappointed with if Belgium got anything other than a win.

With Doku's fast game as practiced at Manchester City, there is no way the Israeli defense can relax.

[Uruhara]

Well, our expectations came true, Portugal managed to beat Croatia with a score of Portugal 2 - 1 Croatia, no Croatian players scored because all three goals were scored by Portuguese players. This match was also not what i expected, i think that Portugal should be able to win by a large margin, for example 3 - 1 or 4 - 2 considering that Croatia has high attacking potential.

All the goals scored by Portugal also looked quite beautiful in that match. Which shows that Croatia is indeed at a fairly low level at the moment. Because I think their defense is quite easy to penetrate. Diogo Dalot scored a beautiful goal against Croatia in the 7th minute but this player also scored a beautiful own goal against Portugal. 

But I have to admit that this match was quite an exciting match. Because Croatia also put up quite fierce resistance. It's just that they don't have their sharpness back yet. It seems that as Modric gets older we also see a decline in the Croatian national team. But what makes me happy about this match is because Cristiano Ronaldo scored another goal. And I was amazed by the assist from that goal which really went to the right area and Cristiano Ronaldo used it very well. The result of the match 2-1 is quite good.

[Abbatty]

Ronaldo continues to play football at full throttle.
I think this man will break records, such as the oldest player to play in the national team and score a goal, and leave the goal of a record that will be difficult to break to the football player who will come after him.
The European Championship has passed, the man is still playing in the national team and scoring goals.
Even though the European Championship was bad for him, he still did not say that the national team was over for me. If he continues like this, he will play until he is 45. Unless he experiences negativities such as injury problems.
The man is a true living example and a very good professional.
I will congratulate him and continue to watch carefully.

Yeah, the Legendary Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 900th career goals last night yesterday in the group stage match in the tournament against a good Croatian side, this simply shows that this man is hard worker, a man with a mindset that nothing is impossible to achieve. I have always admire Ronaldo, he never gives up and he has been my idol. We all knew he had a bad tournament in the Euros but I know this man has redefined himself and I can say for sure he his going to have a good tournament this time around and of course scoring more goals too.

This Portugal team looks more precise and direct this time around, generally they are going to have a good tournament, already they’ve won their first match and that will give them more edge to qualify and to play at more ease. To me I will say they are among the favorites to win the UEFA Nations League

[Uruhara]

The match currently taking place is the Kazakhstan vs Norway match. I'm actually not sure which team to favor in this match but I decided to choose Norway. because I'm sure Haaland will be able to score a goal in this match.
And I predict a score of 1-2 for this match.

Another match today that I think will be quite easy to predict is the Belgium vs Israel match. I am sure that this time Belgium will play very well in the Nations League compared to Euro 2024. I hope that Lukaku, De Bruyne and the other star players in Belgium can prove that they can perform well.

[armanda90]

Yeah, the Legendary Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 900th career goals last night yesterday in the group stage match in the tournament against a good Croatian side, this simply shows that this man is hard worker, a man with a mindset that nothing is impossible to achieve. I have always admire Ronaldo, he never gives up and he has been my idol. We all knew he had a bad tournament in the Euros but I know this man has redefined himself and I can say for sure he his going to have a good tournament this time around and of course scoring more goals too.

This Portugal team looks more precise and direct this time around, generally they are going to have a good tournament, already they’ve won their first match and that will give them more edge to qualify and to play at more ease. To me I will say they are among the favorites to win the UEFA Nations League

Finally Cristiano Ronaldo reach the fantastic record after success scoring 900th goals in his career due his one goal against Croatia on UEFA Nation League group phase. Unstoppable how Cristiano Ronaldo keep scoring goals not only for club but also he got consistent scoring for national teams indeed he was over 39 years old.
I think very difficult looking for top players get consistent performance for his national team and club by scoring goals every matches exactly Ronaldo have reach 39 years old with other players have retired or playing for mediocre teams.

Have opportunity for Cristiano Ronaldo scoring above 900 goals or reach until 1000 goals in his career because keep consistent performance for Al Nassr and he still not have ideas for retiring awhile around two until three season later. Upcoming match on UEFA Nation League, Portugal will face Scotland and waiting with Cristiano Ronaldo contribution will score another goals and make himself close reach 1000 goals before retired?

[tsaroz]

I love the format of this tournament. It could be less attractive to people that enjoys short knockouts but it really do determine the European champions, more so than Euro Cup.
The teams play league instead of knockouts and the knockout games too are 2 legged with home and away. This decrease the luck factor.

The European champion Spain played a draw with Serbia. As the Spanish coach suggested, there are many matches to come where Spain would show why they are the champions.
Other matches turned out to be as expected and Ronaldo from Portugal achieved a record of 900 individual goals.

[Slow death]

Portugal won and the spotlight is on Ronaldo, who scored a goal and thus has 900 goals in his career. I understand that Ronaldo is a great player that Portugal will hardly have again. He made Portugal's name more popular. He is a player who is followed a lot on social media and from what I'm seeing, in recent years Portugal has been turning him into a hero. Yesterday they played and Ronaldo was the center of attention. but that's an exaggeration:

Cristiano: “Portugal winning Euros is equivalent to winning a World Cup”.

“I've already won two trophies for Portugal that I really wanted. I'm not motivated by that”.

“I'm motivated by enjoying football and the records come naturally”.

source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1831801261798330715

The World Cup is much more difficult than the Euro because there are many teams from different continents, so winning the Euro is not the same as winning the World Cup. I think Ronaldo and Portugal need to work hard if they want to win the next World Cup, they have a very strong squad, at the moment in this competition I don't see them having any difficulty, these teams:



They are not very strong, Poland could give a bit of a headache, but I see Portugal managing to win

[Lidger]

Portugal beat Croatia 2-1 and Ronaldo was instrumental in the match. Ronaldo completed the 900th goal of his football career by scoring in this match. We often question his performance but we forget that he is the best player of all time and he is the Greatest of All Time (GOAT). Cristiano Ronaldo's performance in the last match against Croatia suggests that he should play until the 2026 World Cup. He is still trying to play his best for the team and he played his best in the last match and we all know the result. Best of luck to Ronaldo and his team Portugal and hope the next journey in this tournament will be better.

[LTU_btc]

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.

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.

I already said that Nations League is great opportunity for small teams to get some rare wins. But when I said it, didn't thought that San Marino will reach win. Happy for them, maybe day of match where they got win should be announced as National Holiday ? Fun fact that before it they had just one win in total, 20 years ago against same Liechtenstein.

[LGD2Business]

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.

[uchegod-21]

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.

France and Italy meeting used to be a very tough and fierce one right from time but I am not sure that Italy will be able to give France the battle they need to maintain the balance and fairness in the game tonight. And the recent years, Italy has fallen from their rather of good football such that they could easily be classified as an average nation in the worth of football. So I do not actually blend the bookmakers who rated France very much higher than Italy.

If you can have a flashback and the revisit the list of the best football nations in the world, you will understand that many countries are much and far better than Italy as at today. I did not actually expect any kind of wonders tonight, whether they take the National League competition seriously or not France is going to beat Italy tonight.

[Jessie2121]

I believe people will always choose France over Italy in this game to be played tonight and it may disappoint gamblers who tip France to win, the bookie has a way of using odds to make us go for the wrong team but I believe this game might end in a draw since is the first leg of qualification between both countries, going for a both team to score is fine but talking about who'll dominate in this encounter, I only see both teams playing a boring football at halftime maybe in the second half it will be more entertaining. France still have to work on the team not to always base one side or a particular player because it reduces their force while attacking and a natural number 9 need to be on the field of play not Mbappe, that will help the game flow easily.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

The match currently taking place is the Kazakhstan vs Norway match. I'm actually not sure which team to favor in this match but I decided to choose Norway. because I'm sure Haaland will be able to score a goal in this match.
And I predict a score of 1-2 for this match.

Another match today that I think will be quite easy to predict is the Belgium vs Israel match. I am sure that this time Belgium will play very well in the Nations League compared to Euro 2024. I hope that Lukaku, De Bruyne and the other star players in Belgium can prove that they can perform well.

At first I was also sure that Norway would win, I even bet on Norway winning in the first half but unfortunately until the last minute there was no goal. Norway was able to control the match with 19 shot attempts but the accuracy is very bad, out of 19 shots only 2 were on target obviously that's really bad. Yeah, it must be admitted that international matches are a bit boring and usually ends with low goals but honestly i really don't think it's goalless.

In the next match Norway will face Austria and it should be a good time for Norway to collect points because they are playing at home but Austria is not an easy opponent they can beat strong teams if we look at their match history in several tournaments so that means even though we favor the home team, we don't need to be too confident because something unexpected could happen like today's match.