UEFA Nations League 2025

[luiginb]

Olise free kick finally gives France a goal, Croatia parking the bus as expected but they don’t even attempt to counter

Olise has to start for France, he also assisted for the second

 

[HajdukSplit]

Portugal strike early in ET

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Pretty insane we have 3 games in 120 mins in meaningless games. Then wonder why these acl injuries are popping up.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

So we are never letting lamine take a penalty ever again. That was awful.

 

[HajdukSplit]

Lack of experience showing for Croatia, long term probably better for these guys to experience this now than in bigger tournament

 

[Scandale du Jour]

France wins after nearly shitting itself up by 2 PKs.

 

[HajdukSplit]

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

 

[luiginb]

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.

 

[Apex Predator]

Portugal vs Germany
Spain vs France

Portugal never beats Germany so who is Germany facing in the finals?

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Portugal vs Germany
Spain vs France

Portugal never beats Germany so who is Germany facing in the finals?

Tough to say. Have not watched Spain since the Euro, but France can be really good... or really bad.

 

[Power Man]

- , Portugal was disappointing. It’s gonnabe interesting to see in the 2nd leg if Hojlund has poked the bear with his celebration

My question was answered
He did poke the bear

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[Jussi]

Did the Italians surround the ref or were they contempt at spreading their arms and blaming everyone else?

 

[cgf]

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​

 

[Cloned]

The most entertaining day of international football in a while.

 

[les Habs]

So we are never letting lamine take a penalty ever again. That was awful.

Meh, who cares? That goal he had though. Van der Vaart might keep his mouth shut for a while now.

 

[Corto]

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.

 

[cgf]

The most entertaining day of international football in a while.

I dunno, as a German fan it’s been pretty entertaining for a bit now

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Meh, who cares? That goal he had though. Van der Vaart might keep his mouth shut for a while now.

The Dutch are always running their mouth.