⚽ UEFA Nations League ⚽ - Discussion Thread

[Mayor of ogba]

This is a very shitty comment and a very poor mindset, you’re just being sycophantic for nothing. So Ronaldo won Portugal in the past and because of that they should all bow down to him until he says rise. Just got benched for one game and the team won instead being happy he’s throwing tantrums.

Right now the team is better without him, this is normal in football… aged players make way for the young players but Ronaldo wants to be the only player kicking the ball into the net at all times. Ronaldo is a great player, a legend but his hunt for goals have made him a villain. He doesn’t rejoice when his team wins without him or sometimes his teammates scores and he’s not happy, he even goes as far as trying to steal some of his teammates goals, that’s not a good behaviour.

Whatever you think it’s going on is because of the poor mindset you have, that his teammates will intentionally not play well because of Ronaldo, just hear yourself even if that were true I wouldn’t blame them, he’s been selfish and not showing great leadership.

Calling him up is a motivation for the younger kids, instead of advising and being a role model he’s throwing tantrums like a kid…. Fuck!

Players even legendary ones get lesser minutes when they get older but because he’s Ronaldo he should always be in the frontline even when he’s underperforming….  This is Crazy

Talk about the titles he won for Portugal if we critically look at it, his impact was just what a good striker would do, not like he single handedly won it for them. Never was or won the best player of any of the tournaments. What makes him above others..

No disrespect to Ronaldo but he should have just retired in peace.

After saying my comment is a shitty comment and I have a poor mindset, I was thinking you were going to pinpoint why Cristiano Ronaldo shouldn't have left Portugal camp and remain in the camp despite he being benched by Jorge Jesus in Portugal match against Norway but it appears that you are using the propaganda that Portugal team is better off without Cristiano Ronaldo to say ill things about Cristiano Ronaldo just to satisfy yourself, which shows that you don't know the main problem that caused Cristiano Ronaldo to left Portugal camp, and in the end you defended up writing a 15 line comment which have no substance.

After Portugal exited the 2026 World Cup following their 1-0 defeat against Spain in the round of 16, Cristiano Ronaldo understanding he's no longer wanted in the Portugal team, he wanted to retire from country football, but Portugal Football Federation asked him not to retire, stating that if he retire the Portugal team revenue will drop, that was why Cristiano Ronaldo didn't retire. When Cristiano Ronaldo was call-up for this intentional break, he and Jorge Jesus agreed that out of the four matches Portugal will play he would play two matches but Jorge Jesus later changed his mind that Cristiano Ronaldo won't play any match, and that made Cristiano Ronaldo to feel he was used and disrespected by Portugal Football Federation and Jorge Jesus. So if you are in Cristiano Ronaldo's shoes, won't you do the same thing Cristiano Ronaldo did? If your answer is no, then I will accept I made a shitty comment and I have a very poor mindset but if your answer is yes, then you are the one who made a shitty comment and have a very poor mindset.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

Wow, what a great performance by England, the first half result was 4-0, I really didn't expect Croatia to perform so badly, they are playing at home, but why are they performing so badly? There is no strong attack, at the same time their defense is also very weak, I am really surprised to see their performance so poorly even at home. And now it seems that they will not be able to score any goals in the second half, but I want them to score, it is really disappointing to lose the match at home with at least with 0 goals. I expected England to win the match, but at the same time I expected a good performance from Croatia, but I am really surprised to see them in such a state, England has already won the match, but let's see if Croatia can score in the second half, or if they have given up and will not try to score any goals.

[Jasmyne]

I think tonight's Croatia game against England will be the match of the night, so I'm wondering if anyone here will bet on a home win for Croatia ^{[high reward if you get it right]}.
^{- FWIW, despite England being the stronger team, I'm going with a draw (constant traveling due to two away games in a row can have a bad impact on players, so I expect to see a less aggressive England side).}

0:4 is the score in the first 45 minutes and Croatia is no where to be found in the game, it would be a very bad outcome to those who risk the game seeing how poorly the defense of the home team is performing give England the chance to attack and take shots from all angles. In the 45 minutes England has 7 shots with 4 resulting to goals and they appear very strong unlike a team that is affected by the number of times they had traveled, with the current person of Croatia they will concede more goals in the  second half because Harry Kane will be hoping for a second and third goal same thing for Saka and Jude Bellingham who registered one goal each in the first half.

[IjawMan]

In terms of squad quality, France ought to be winning matches with plenty of goals, but that hasn't happened. The team is packed with star players, yet they haven't gelled as a unit yet.
Even if Mbappé had played in this match, it wouldn't have made much of a difference.
France will finish top of the group but won't win the championship. I haven't seen any impact from Zidane taking charge of the team yet.

Zidane just took over as the head coach after the world cup. It's through this competition that he will study the team weakness and the players in order for him to know how to manage the team properly and improve their performance. I get your point but you should also consider that other teams are also not weak to allow France score as many goals as they wanted.

That's right, Zidane is testing the players know to understand them very well and to know how he's going to go with his line up we should not expect the French team to be scoring plenty goals now when they are yet to understand the right formation and the best players to be in the position to get those goals.

France will take time to appear very strong for now they will be finding it difficult to score plenty goals because the injury of Mbappe has affected them if not we would have seen his best against Italy where they ended in a draw.

After now Zidane will go back to work with his players, he is a good coach and he has so many talented players in his team. France will be hot very soon but now they need to understand themselves now that they have a young manager who speaks the language they all understand.

[Adbitco]

This is a very shitty comment and a very poor mindset, you’re just being sycophantic for nothing. So Ronaldo won Portugal in the past and because of that they should all bow down to him until he says rise. Just got benched for one game and the team won instead being happy he’s throwing tantrums.

Right now the team is better without him, this is normal in football… aged players make way for the young players but Ronaldo wants to be the only player kicking the ball into the net at all times. Ronaldo is a great player, a legend but his hunt for goals have made him a villain. He doesn’t rejoice when his team wins without him or sometimes his teammates scores and he’s not happy, he even goes as far as trying to steal some of his teammates goals, that’s not a good behaviour.

Whatever you think it’s going on is because of the poor mindset you have, that his teammates will intentionally not play well because of Ronaldo, just hear yourself even if that were true I wouldn’t blame them, he’s been selfish and not showing great leadership.

Calling him up is a motivation for the younger kids, instead of advising and being a role model he’s throwing tantrums like a kid…. Fuck!

Players even legendary ones get lesser minutes when they get older but because he’s Ronaldo he should always be in the frontline even when he’s underperforming….  This is Crazy

Talk about the titles he won for Portugal if we critically look at it, his impact was just what a good striker would do, not like he single handedly won it for them. Never was or won the best player of any of the tournaments. What makes him above others..

No disrespect to Ronaldo but he should have just retired in peace.

After saying so many thrash, you then ended it with no disrespect. Isn't it funny to you? Well we will keep on seeing stuffs like this from people around, you claim someone has small mindset yet you just displayed every atom of it in your epistle. You're statement clearly shows you are part of the bandwagon pushing the narrative that he left because he was benched. Meanwhile you have failed to look at the clear picture of why he left. I'm wondering why you people are crying right now that he left the team, you will definitely be part of the people who wanted him to leave the team and now his doing exactly that and has left, yet you people are still crying that he left. You can't come and apologise to me in private and go out there today something entirely different, you guys kept on saying Ronaldo was holding the team back but are quick to forget that every important thing Portugal has achieved all these years, him alone is responsible for more than 50% of it, you guys fall to see how exactly the team midfield has always failed to play better whenever his on the pitch. All of a sudden Bruno who always passes to keeper now know exactly how to pass the ball forward. We all are here to see and talk about it. Portugal has competitions ahead to play, let's all wait and see how successful they would be in all these competitions. You think it's by winning few games? As if they hadn't been winning games before,lol. I hope you realise they are the defending champions of this competition currently going on, let them win it again after facing France and Spain again.

[Creeper0]

I think tonight's Croatia game against England will be the match of the night, so I'm wondering if anyone here will bet on a home win for Croatia ^{[high reward if you get it right]}.
^{- FWIW, despite England being the stronger team, I'm going with a draw (constant traveling due to two away games in a row can have a bad impact on players, so I expect to see a less aggressive England side).}

0:4 is the score in the first 45 minutes and Croatia is no where to be found in the game, it would be a very bad outcome to those who risk the game seeing how poorly the defense of the home team is performing give England the chance to attack and take shots from all angles. In the 45 minutes England has 7 shots with 4 resulting to goals and they appear very strong unlike a team that is affected by the number of times they had traveled, with the current person of Croatia they will concede more goals in the  second half because Harry Kane will be hoping for a second and third goal same thing for Saka and Jude Bellingham who registered one goal each in the first half.

I didn't expect such an aggressive game from England. England need to understand that they are playing an away match and they have a duty to respect the home team! Playing a match in front of Croatian fans where the Croatian fans are not able to enjoy the match in any way.

A very shameful match from Croatia, despite conceding 5 goals in 60 minutes of the match, they still haven't taken any shots on target. The score is 0-5 in the second half and Harry Kane has already scored two goals, now waiting for his third goal. I somehow expect at least one goal from Croatia to make the match BTTS.

[Sammye3]

Greece has performed very well so far. They have at least guaranteed their place in this group it seems the possibility of relegation has been eliminated, hasn't it? Please correct me if I am mistaken. They have seven points, and three matches remain. They will likely secure another win against Serbia, bringing their total to ten points. There is a strong chance they will finish the group in second place or even first, if luck is on their side. They played brilliantly in these three matches in fact, Greece nearly beat the Netherlands as well, which would have brought them to nine points.

Greece has performed so well in this Nations cup so far, their win against Germany was really surprising to many but was really a deserving win. They should be one of the countries that fans did not expect much from, surprising how Greece is topping a table that has Germany and Netherlands.

Their next game against Serbia should be a win for them, as they have three games left to the quarter finals of the Nations cup.

[Shineup]

Wow, what a great performance by England, the first half result was 4-0, I really didn't expect Croatia to perform so badly, they are playing at home, but why are they performing so badly? There is no strong attack, at the same time their defense is also very weak, I am really surprised to see their performance so poorly even at home. And now it seems that they will not be able to score any goals in the second half, but I want them to score, it is really disappointing to lose the match at home with at least with 0 goals. I expected England to win the match, but at the same time I expected a good performance from Croatia, but I am really surprised to see them in such a state, England has already won the match, but let's see if Croatia can score in the second half, or if they have given up and will not try to score any goals.

Just as expected by me, I actually expected England to win the game with no stress and it's actually going that way, so impressive, but the one thing that baffles me again is how Croatia has dropped to this level in football, Croatia once a FIFA world cup runner up, is now reduced to this level it still surprise me, it's was indeed Luka Modric doing that year, it's now so obvious, now the question I'm asking is can they still go back to that form they was before, because this is not really looking good on them, something has to be done before they end up like Italy.

[yixichloro2xx]

I think tonight's Croatia game against England will be the match of the night, so I'm wondering if anyone here will bet on a home win for Croatia ^{[high reward if you get it right]}.
^{- FWIW, despite England being the stronger team, I'm going with a draw (constant traveling due to two away games in a row can have a bad impact on players, so I expect to see a less aggressive England side).}

0:4 is the score in the first 45 minutes and Croatia is no where to be found in the game, it would be a very bad outcome to those who risk the game seeing how poorly the defense of the home team is performing give England the chance to attack and take shots from all angles. In the 45 minutes England has 7 shots with 4 resulting to goals and they appear very strong unlike a team that is affected by the number of times they had traveled, with the current person of Croatia they will concede more goals in the  second half because Harry Kane will be hoping for a second and third goal same thing for Saka and Jude Bellingham who registered one goal each in the first half.

I didn't expect such an aggressive game from England. England need to understand that they are playing an away match and they have a duty to respect the home team! Playing a match in front of Croatian fans where the Croatian fans are not able to enjoy the match in any way.

A very shameful match from Croatia, despite conceding 5 goals in 60 minutes of the match, they still haven't taken any shots on target. The score is 0-5 in the second half and Harry Kane has already scored two goals, now waiting for his third goal. I somehow expect at least one goal from Croatia to make the match BTTS.

I can't believe what I am Watching, this total Annihilation. What went wrong with Croatia players today? They are playing so bad. Now the game is 0-7, it's like England are playing against week nations like that of San Marino.  I am very sure the Croatian FA would fire Bilic after this game, you can't lose to another big team with amount of Goals. Just forget about the one goal form Croatia, It's like they have completely given up on a getting a reconciliation goal. What a brutal match , the referee should just end the game , there's no need to add more time after 90th. The Croatian defenders ratings are all red , infact the none the players in that team might get up to 7.0 in ratings.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

I think tonight's Croatia game against England will be the match of the night, so I'm wondering if anyone here will bet on a home win for Croatia ^{[high reward if you get it right]}.
^{- FWIW, despite England being the stronger team, I'm going with a draw (constant traveling due to two away games in a row can have a bad impact on players, so I expect to see a less aggressive England side).}

0:4 is the score in the first 45 minutes and Croatia is no where to be found in the game, it would be a very bad outcome to those who risk the game seeing how poorly the defense of the home team is performing give England the chance to attack and take shots from all angles. In the 45 minutes England has 7 shots with 4 resulting to goals and they appear very strong unlike a team that is affected by the number of times they had traveled, with the current person of Croatia they will concede more goals in the  second half because Harry Kane will be hoping for a second and third goal same thing for Saka and Jude Bellingham who registered one goal each in the first half.

I didn't expect such an aggressive game from England. England need to understand that they are playing an away match and they have a duty to respect the home team! Playing a match in front of Croatian fans where the Croatian fans are not able to enjoy the match in any way.

A very shameful match from Croatia, despite conceding 5 goals in 60 minutes of the match, they still haven't taken any shots on target. The score is 0-5 in the second half and Harry Kane has already scored two goals, now waiting for his third goal. I somehow expect at least one goal from Croatia to make the match BTTS.

Bro in the end the match was not even BTTS, Croatia could not score a single goal, the result of the match was not expected in any way, they were playing in their home ground, but their weakness was really high, they lost 4-1 against Spain, their performance there was not very good, and today's match is in their home ground, but even after that I did not expect such a bad performance in any way. They did not have a single strong attack, and at the same time why is their defense like this? They have conceded a total of 7 goals, is this acceptable in any way? They have conceded 7 goals but they could not score even that goal. Such a disappointing defeat in their home ground is really unacceptable.

[ArabBTC]

I didn't expect such an aggressive game from England. England need to understand that they are playing an away match and they have a duty to respect the home team! Playing a match in front of Croatian fans where the Croatian fans are not able to enjoy the match in any way.

A very shameful match from Croatia, despite conceding 5 goals in 60 minutes of the match, they still haven't taken any shots on target. The score is 0-5 in the second half and Harry Kane has already scored two goals, now waiting for his third goal. I somehow expect at least one goal from Croatia to make the match BTTS.

England winning Croatia 0:7 means nothing to me, what are they trying to imply? A team that flops when they are needed the most, with the quality of players that England have they should have won the World Cup but they allowed the trophy slip through their arms, they should be winning lots of competitions but rather even in this tournament they lost to Spain 3:2, now they have seen Croatia they want to play as if they can win the tournament, if they meet teams like Spain, France etc they won’t be able to perform well, on the other hand it was actually a very poor performance from Croatia, they did really poorly tonight, i never expected this from them.

[Somto9Light]

Wow, what a great performance by England, the first half result was 4-0, I really didn't expect Croatia to perform so badly, they are playing at home, but why are they performing so badly? There is no strong attack, at the same time their defense is also very weak, I am really surprised to see their performance so poorly even at home. And now it seems that they will not be able to score any goals in the second half, but I want them to score, it is really disappointing to lose the match at home with at least with 0 goals. I expected England to win the match, but at the same time I expected a good performance from Croatia, but I am really surprised to see them in such a state, England has already won the match, but let's see if Croatia can score in the second half, or if they have given up and will not try to score any goals.

It was really a massive defeat that Croatia faced against England. After their meeting in the world cup, I had no doubt in England winning again but just as you said, I never expected Croatia to be unresponsive. The match ended 7:0 and what impressed me most is that all the big players in the England team scored at least onw goal each. Bukayo Saka scored a brace, Harry Kane scored a brace too, Jude Bellingham was on the score sheet, Anthony Gordon also scored and Morgan Rogers scored the last goal that made it 7. It was an impressive performance by the England team, we hope to see more of this in their future games because they have the squad to achieve this kind of result.

[MK-74]

England handed Croatia one of their biggest defeats in history tonight.
England beat Croatia 7-0. It was a very easy match for England. They completely dominated the game and didn't let Croatia play at all.
Croatia have been playing terribly this year. This defeat tonight should be a lesson for them because I don't remember them ever losing by a score like this before.

[Agbam]

I think tonight's Croatia game against England will be the match of the night, so I'm wondering if anyone here will bet on a home win for Croatia ^{[high reward if you get it right]}.
^{- FWIW, despite England being the stronger team, I'm going with a draw (constant traveling due to two away games in a row can have a bad impact on players, so I expect to see a less aggressive England side).}

0:4 is the score in the first 45 minutes and Croatia is no where to be found in the game, it would be a very bad outcome to those who risk the game seeing how poorly the defense of the home team is performing give England the chance to attack and take shots from all angles. In the 45 minutes England has 7 shots with 4 resulting to goals and they appear very strong unlike a team that is affected by the number of times they had traveled, with the current person of Croatia they will concede more goals in the  second half because Harry Kane will be hoping for a second and third goal same thing for Saka and Jude Bellingham who registered one goal each in the first half.

England just decimated Croatia, I wasn’t expecting this at all. Croatia were totally outplayed and outclassed, England played like they were going to score with each attack, it used to be difficult to beat Croatia in the past but today they were just basket, very porous defence. 7 goals to nothing, this will be the highest amongst top teams for this break.

When Cristiano Ronaldo was call-up for this intentional break, he and Jorge Jesus agreed that out of the four matches Portugal will play he would play two matches but Jorge Jesus later changed his mind that Cristiano Ronaldo won't play any match, and that made Cristiano Ronaldo to feel he was used and disrespected by Portugal Football Federation and Jorge Jesus. So if you are in Cristiano Ronaldo's shoes, won't you do the same thing Cristiano Ronaldo did? If your answer is no, then I will accept I made a shitty comment and I have a very poor mindset but if your answer is yes, then you are the one who made a shitty comment and have a very poor mindset.

He played the first game didn’t he?… and just one game he was benched and didn’t play before his outburst, if he had agreed to play just two games then why the outburst when there were two more games to be played?.. I don’t even know where you got this information!..,
He left because he was unhappy being at the bench… the press conference of the coach before the Denmark game was the breaking point when coach announced he wasn’t starting.

[Cyber_warrior]

Wow, what a great performance by England, the first half result was 4-0, I really didn't expect Croatia to perform so badly, they are playing at home, but why are they performing so badly? There is no strong attack, at the same time their defense is also very weak, I am really surprised to see their performance so poorly even at home. And now it seems that they will not be able to score any goals in the second half, but I want them to score, it is really disappointing to lose the match at home with at least with 0 goals. I expected England to win the match, but at the same time I expected a good performance from Croatia, but I am really surprised to see them in such a state, England has already won the match, but let's see if Croatia can score in the second half, or if they have given up and will not try to score any goals.

What a performance from England, we didn’t really saw this coming. England put 7 goals past Croatia at their own home ground. Last match we saw England struggle to score goal against Czech Republic, they even got red carded in that game, but today they really played well and converted almost all their chances. Harry Kane as always was on the score sheet today, even scored 2 and Saka also got his goal and Bellingham too.

England are really moving like a nation that want to win the nations league, they really have a strong team and if they can keep things tidy at the back, I think they can stand a chance. A disappointing performance from Croatia, we expected more, especially with them playing at their home ground.

[Joca97]

England handed Croatia one of their biggest defeats in history tonight.
England beat Croatia 7-0. It was a very easy match for England. They completely dominated the game and didn't let Croatia play at all.
Croatia have been playing terribly this year. This defeat tonight should be a lesson for them because I don't remember them ever losing by a score like this before.

England played perfect the entire match and finally they showed how big their team is and their quality. But i would have never expected that they would be 0-7 especially Croatia that not long ago was a really big team in the world. I had both teams to score and to lose on 0-7 is just painfull,really shocked that Croatia couldnt score at least one goal

[snipie]

England handed Croatia one of their biggest defeats in history tonight.
England beat Croatia 7-0. It was a very easy match for England. They completely dominated the game and didn't let Croatia play at all.
Croatia have been playing terribly this year. This defeat tonight should be a lesson for them because I don't remember them ever losing by a score like this before.

England played perfect the entire match and finally they showed how big their team is and their quality. But i would have never expected that they would be 0-7 especially Croatia that not long ago was a really big team in the world. I had both teams to score and to lose on 0-7 is just painfull,really shocked that Croatia couldnt score at least one goal

A sad story for Croatian that they wouldn't forget for a long time. Although having big names on the team, that wasn't able to avoid such a big humiliation.
Modric would regret not retiring before the UEFA Nations League..
Next Tuesday they will face Spain, +3 goals difference is sure if they continue like that!

[Frankolala]

England played perfect the entire match and finally they showed how big their team is and their quality. But i would have never expected that they would be 0-7 especially Croatia that not long ago was a really big team in the world. I had both teams to score and to lose on 0-7 is just painfull,really shocked that Croatia couldnt score at least one goal

It was a shocker to me because I didn't expect a high number of goals in that game. It's seems this is the highest goals so far, since the tournament started this time. England demolished Croatia as if they are the ones that taught them football. I didn't expect Croatia to be this weak to the point that they couldn't get a consolation goal. Seven goals on clean sheet is incredible.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Unexpectedly comfortable win for England, away in Croatia tonight. I did not expect them to win so easily, Croatia are usually tough to beat.

I don’t know what odds you would have got before kick off but England with over 6.5 goals would have been crazy.

[Pandorak]

Wow, what a great performance by England, the first half result was 4-0, I really didn't expect Croatia to perform so badly, they are playing at home, but why are they performing so badly? There is no strong attack, at the same time their defense is also very weak, I am really surprised to see their performance so poorly even at home. And now it seems that they will not be able to score any goals in the second half, but I want them to score, it is really disappointing to lose the match at home with at least with 0 goals. I expected England to win the match, but at the same time I expected a good performance from Croatia, but I am really surprised to see them in such a state, England has already won the match, but let's see if Croatia can score in the second half, or if they have given up and will not try to score any goals.

7-0

It must be admitted that this result was unexpected, no one could have predicted the match would end with such a lopsided score. This wasn’t just an ordinary loss, this is an absolute slaughter by the England team.

From what i saw, the fatal mistakes weren’t limited to the defense, the midfield also seemed to have lost its ability to thwart attacks. They were unable to withstand the relentless barrage of attacks, while the England attackers skillfully capitalized on the momentum created by their opponents minor errors, scoring goal after goal. This is a difficult situation for Croatia, they have a lot to work on to improve the team’s performance.