UEFA Nations League

[Facecloth]

9 hours ago, boots60 said:

Scotland

Dreadful. Stick to Curling.

That was just a friendly, not a nation's league match.

[davieG]

Gerry Taggart the pundit for the NI game and Evans starts.

[Bayfox]

6 hours ago, Facecloth said:

That was just a friendly, not a nation's league match.

Imagine thinking Scotland and Belgium had been drawn in the same group for this

[spacemunky]

There's zero TV coverage of this over here so far. The friendlies, on the other hand, are usually televised.

[southfox66]

After finally figuring out what it was all about, the national league seems pretty pointless to me, it's a second rate contest that won't mean alot even if you win it, the euro 2020 will be one we want to win and you'd hope England would qualify in the normal way by winning the group stage of euro qualification stage starting 2019.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, southfox66 said:

After finally figuring out what it was all about, the national league seems pretty pointless to me, it's a second rate contest that won't mean alot even if you win it, the euro 2020 will be one we want to win and you'd hope England would qualify in the normal way by winning the group stage of euro qualification stage starting 2019.

Not sure you understand it still.

[Smudge]

41 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

There's zero TV coverage of this over here so far. The friendlies, on the other hand, are usually televised.

The Northern Ireland game is on ESPN News if you can get that. 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Smudge said:

The Northern Ireland game is on ESPN News if you can get that. 

reddit - sky - too.

 

Norn Ireland playing the best ball I've seen them play since John O'Neill played for them and then Dzeko crosses for a goal.

 

 

[Nalis]

46 minutes ago, southfox66 said:

After finally figuring out what it was all about, the national league seems pretty pointless to me, it's a second rate contest that won't mean alot even if you win it, the euro 2020 will be one we want to win and you'd hope England would qualify in the normal way by winning the group stage of euro qualification stage starting 2019.

It would never replace the Euros in terms of priorities, I think the point of it is to have less pointless friendly matches and more games of a semi competitive nature which cant be a bad thing. So far so good.

[davieG]

NI seemingly can't score no matter how many attempts they make and definitely can't defend.

[irishfoxkev]

Will Grigs on ? 

[MC Prussian]

6-0.

 

Didn't see that one coming. Even Shaqiri and Seferovic scored again. A miracle.

 

Hopeful for Tuesday's match, but essentially primarily looking forward to an entertaining game at the King Power Stadium.

[Stadt]

It’s definitely an improvement on just friendlies, it won’t ever be seen as a huge deal but it wasn’t intended to be.

[spacemunky]

Denmark with the top dogs back in.

 

Didn't realize Ampadu was Welsh.

[Guest]

18 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

Denmark with the top dogs back in.

 

Didn't realize Ampadu was Welsh.

It is embarrassing how poor some of the passing is here from both teams. Are we sure it's not the amateurs for both sides?

[spacemunky]

2 minutes ago, FIF said:

It is embarrassing how poor some of the passing is here from both teams. Are we sure it's not the amateurs for both sides?

Wales are looking half decent. A bit too 'Arsenal' there though on that one attack

[Countryfox]

 

Did they say Kasper landed awkwardly in the warm up and went straight back to the dressing room, coming back out  just before the start ...   hope it’s nothing.   

Edited 9 September 2018 by Countryfox

[Facecloth]

How were the group's decided for this Nations League? Denmark, who qualified for the world cup and progressed through the group moving up to 9th in the rankings are in group b with the likes of Wales, whilst the Netherlands, who didn't qualify at all and are 19th in the rankings are in group a, with France, Germany, Spain, England, Croatia, etc.

[spacemunky]

Nice finish from Eriksen.

[spacemunky]

Fantastic save by Hennessey 

[ScouseFox]

not sure if anyone’s just seen that naismith miss but cor, scotland are well funny 

[Izzy]

Only 17,000 at Hampden for Scotlands Nations League game tonight. 

 

That's pretty shocking really...

[Guest MattP]

Didn't realise one team even from the lowest league qualified for Euro 2020. Bit of a joke.

[ScouseFox]

1 hour ago, MattP said:

Didn't realise one team even from the lowest league qualified for Euro 2020. Bit of a joke.

yeah i think if i’m understanding it right it’s gonna end up with some superb “match fixing” in some of the later group games this time round i reckon. teams who are getting done in in their current pots will surely be wanting to get relegated to the pots below to massively improve their chances of qualifying for the next major tournament. 

 

effectively the worse you are, the easier your chances of getting to the play offs. solid system. 

[Finnegan]

2 hours ago, MattP said:

Didn't realise one team even from the lowest league qualified for Euro 2020. Bit of a joke.

 

You can end up with Faroe Islands qualifying and like Italy or Portugal not