UEFA Nations league

Worst home defeat for England since 1928 to Hungary! of all teams, damn.

We lost 2-1 to Slovenia. 1 more good to great defender and a goalkeeper upgrade and I'd have some faith in this team getting somewhere, but it looks like our team's young players will be in their prime before we hopefully are able to bolster our defense by replacing the current defenders/GK.

It does feel like strange times for football, with most of the established, top players facing the twilight of their careers and the pool of younger players in line to replace them being relatively few and far between.

Why doesn’t Gaya, Koke, Pino, Llorente, Rodri play? They have a strong bench

South Americas time to shine. I can definitely see Brazil or Argentina winning the WC.

How is Portugal? The squad looks pretty stacked? CR is old but he definitely still a goal poacher. Is the defense any good with old Pepe n Danilo Pereira of PSG I think it is?

How is GermanLegacy feeling about the national team this World Cup?

Germany's been meh for years now. There's been a coaching change and there hasn't been a difference. Are you worried about a shock exit early in the group stages? Flick can't coach defense, and I'm not sure he has the time needed to coach a coherent attacking system.

How the fuck is Maguire playing for club and country. Unbelievable. Get Southgate in the bin

Casciavit wrote:How is GermanLegacy feeling about the national team this World Cup?

Germany's been meh for years now. There's been a coaching change and there hasn't been a difference. Are you worried about a shock exit early in the group stages? Flick can't coach defense, and I'm not sure he has the time needed to coach a coherent attacking system.

It is one of the worst German teams ever, they wont get past the first round again, really poor crop of players. The one possible up and coming player, Florian Wirtz, wont even be there due to injury. The funny thing is, England is not much better and this is their Golden Generation team.

Not up to date with Brazil, but the thought of old Neymar carrying them to a WC win for some reason just seems too far fetched for me atm Maybe its cos hes mainly been underwhelming for PSG for so long now.... who else Brazil got thats elite to make the difference? Jesus? Richardlison? Coutinho?

From the sound of the Europeans all with problem, could it really be Messi's yr finally? It would be a fairy tale come true

Definitely With Vini it makes them a contender straight up, althogh havent seen at all how he links up with Neymar... their defense n whether Paqueta will need to wait n see.

Lol bill, ur the most clever person as always, happy? Did I even criticise or u just made that up as usual?

Just caught up on some catching up of the major teams n their results this yr, n no wonder, Brazil are the favourites according to the bookies, seems the best squad, although no RB is an issue? Apart from Militao there or old Alves They need to sort that out cos dont really rate Raphinha despite him doing fairly well with Barca

Argentina is like about 2-3 favourites as per the bookies, n everyone agrees there arent many WC players apart from Messi, but often shows the winning team dont always have the best stars/players n prolly judging by their Copa win n trend in the past few yrs n especially with Messi looking like on fire for his last chance at the WC, n with the Europeans relatively weaker as ppl said already, they really got a chance. Lautaro, old Di Maria, Le Celso, De Paul, Paredes all arent exactly WC, n Im not sure about the defense n GK either

Pedri and Gavi changed the game, neat little buggers

shame Spain didnt capitalize on the momentum

aaand they just scored, both Nico Williams and Pino are much better than ferran torres

The nations league served to revive Italy's spirit. The team looks alive again. Even with so much of the team missing we still controlled and beat England and Hungary to win the group. Such a shame that the wcq was lost in the post euro hangover.

I had thought that we would improve our form now that Covid isn't an issue, but our defense has been a disaster in Nations League. Even Haaland wasted 2 pretty good chances against Serbia today, who we lost 0-2 against. I don't blame him at all, he's saved our asses so many times by now, but we'll face higher ceeded opponent teams in the qualifiers next year now that we've squandered our opportunity to top our group  

Croatia 4-2 Netherlands AET. Apparently Modric beasted, Croatia continues to refuse to collapse under their own age.

Italy-Spain starting soon.

Lineup

Donnarumma; Toloi, Bonucci, Acerbi; Di Lorenzo, Frattesi, Barella, Jorginho, Spinazzola; Zaniolo, Immobile.

rincon wrote:Croatia 4-2 Netherlands AET. Apparently Modric beasted, Croatia continues to refuse to collapse under their own age

Yep, the entire Croatia team was great as always.

Netherlands needs to sack Koeman, I have no idea how this man keeps getting top flight jobs. He's such a garbage manager