⚽ UEFA Nations League ⚽ - Discussion Thread

[Ummeettaa]

Jorge Jesus actually disrespected Ronaldo and it is very bad of him. I was not expecting him to act this way towards Ronaldo. If he knows he was not willing to use Ronaldo he shouldn’t have called him up, it is a big embarrassment for a player like Ronaldo to be called up just to keep him on the bench.
My anger right now is that the coach is making this kind of statement and I don’t see the reason why he should be making this kind of statement. It is very bad of him.
Let see if his going to win the trophy.

I'm surprised by the statement of the Portugal coach Jorge Jesus,  him and Ronaldo won the league together with Al-nassr,  Ronaldo help him secured the Portugal coaching job, only for him to make such a statement on the symbol of Portugal football,  this is not the best way to resolve the issue,  Ronaldo deserves respect and honor for all he did for Portugal, Jorge Jesus will have a challenge with the nation team,  the fans are not happy with him for benching Ronaldo in 90 minutes,  that's disrespectful.

Although benching Ronaldo was not entirely right seriously, but the coaching staff have full right to start or bench whosoever they wants to as that is their duty.

Every part in football from the coaching staffs down to the players have their respective rights and duties, why is it that when a team is loosing matches frequently they always put the blame on the coaches.

Ronaldo is a very old and matured player who have won and achieved almost all the individual, clubs and country's awards any player will hope for, he shouldn't have acted the way he did leaving the National team camp.

Being benched this once might be a disrespect to him, but shouldn't have been a problem that escalated this way with all that he has already, he should be able to sometimes atleast even make sacrifices of not playing and given the younger ones chance to also play.

He is at the verge of his retirement and a leader that almost all the players in the world look up to, doing what he did will be a stain to his perfect career, and that was why he should have acted in such a way that the younger generations will someday copy not walking out the way he did.

Ronaldo is an iconic and one of the best players in the entire football world, and anything he do or does will becomes part of the history of the game.

[nelson4lov]

I woke up to this Ronaldo and Portuguese National team news, and I think what's really funny about this situation is that both of them worked together at Al Nassr throughout last season, and Ronaldo scored around 30 goals last season, which contributed a lot to Al Nassr's title win. A lot of people don't know this but Ronaldo helped Jorge to get the Al Nassr job so I get why he is angry and disappointed.

Well, no Ronaldo, no support for the Portuguese national team from me.

[Plutomanian]

I woke up to this Ronaldo and Portuguese National team news, and I think what's really funny about this situation is that both of them worked together at Al Nassr throughout last season, and Ronaldo scored around 30 goals last season, which contributed a lot to Al Nassr's title win. A lot of people don't know this but Ronaldo helped Jorge to get the Al Nassr job so I get why he is angry and disappointed.

Well, no Ronaldo, no support for the Portuguese national team from me.

Cristiano Ronaldo is this kind of player they commands respect, his types are rare in football nowadays. Ronaldo knows alot is going on behind the scenes and he just want to make sure he is on the brighter side of play. Ronaldo leaving the Portugal camp simply because Jorge Jesus is not using him anymore in games is surprising, what most Ronaldo fans failed to understand is that, he's no longer active on the pitch and for him to accomplish his incredible tally record of 1000 goals, he just have to anticipate in games that have lower pressure other than the nations league.

The Nations League is absolutely where competitors come to show how aggressive they can be and we know Ronaldo is not that physical when it comes to facing these elite sides. Ronaldo reasons leaving the Portugal national camp remained unknown but atleast there's peace in the national team now.

[KingsDen]

Italy cannot win France even in the absence of Kylian Mbappe. I know that France has been very poor in goalscoring recently, but that doesn't mean that they will allow Italy who is still managing to get up from their slumber. Even without Kylian Mbappe, France still makes a perfect squad because they have Bradley Barcola, Ousmame Dembele and Michael Olise who can still cover up for his absence. France is dangerous in attacking, I don't think Italy can contain the pressure that will come from France attacks. The reason why Italy won Turkey in their last game was because they were very quick to score a lot of goals in the first half. When it got to the second half they literally lost their strength and couldn't continue with same energy anymore.

I don't know what convinced you that Italy can't beat Spain, but for me, Italy has chances of beating Spain. I said this because of France recent form. France won by one goal against Turkey, the same Turkey that Italy thrashed 4–1. France also managed to beat Belgium by one goal.

France is yet to win any game confidently to prove their attack is dangerous as you say. I know France has a lot of world class attackers, but they haven't been much effective in terms of scoring goals in this competition, that's why I think Italy has a chance to capitalize. Italy has a good defence, they might score early goals like they did to Turkey, and maybe decided to frustrate the France attack that has have low conversion rate.

Zidane dropped Dembele, Olise and Cherki on the bench in the game against Belgium, I just hope Zidane doesn't repeat this against Italy.