UEFA Nations League 2025

Lack of experience showing for Croatia, long term probably better for these guys to experience this now than in bigger tournament
 
France deserved winners, by far the better team outside the opening half in Split. Croatia I don’t think had shot on target

Slight bright spot for Croatia they get (on paper) a more manageable WCQ group with less crazy travel and more minnows. Though Czech and Ukraine are about equal quality the lower pot teams are weaker in the Czech group
 
Spain also go through on penalties. They don't play as well as they did last summer but they still got the job done. If they play like this against France though they won't go through.
 
Portugal vs Germany
Spain vs France

Portugal never beats Germany so who is Germany facing in the finals?
 
looks like I picked the right half too miss lol

We held on, but this is why I wanted to start with Andrich & Stiller behind the front 4. That first goal against was almost as inexcusable as our 2nd.

Gunna need to be a lot more stable against Portugal. Hopefully we can roll out:

Kleindienst/Füllkrug
Wirtz - Burkardt/Undav - Musiala
Andrich/Nmecha - Pavlovic/Stiller
Schlotterbeck - Tah - Rüdiger - Kimmich
Baumann​
 
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Well, yesterday was pretty decisive lol - France battered us and deserved to win.
I understand taking the Atletico approach seems wise when you're up 2-0, but the fact that the entire defense + the GK played an outstanding game... and we still weren't remotely close to being competitive sort of sucks..

On the bright side, we get the WC qualifying group with easier opponents (on paper), plus 2 extra games - which might be useful at integrating Ivanovic, potentially Vuskovic in the team... And hopefully Luka Sucic is healthy for a good round of competitive games.
 

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