davieG Posted 3 March 2020 Posted 3 March 2020 Groups in full: League A Group one Group two Group three Group four Netherlands England Portugal Switzerland Italy Belgium France Spain Bosnia and Herzegovina Denmark Sweden Ukraine Poland Iceland Croatia Germany League B Group one Group two Group three Group four Romania Israel Hungary Bulgaria Northern Ireland Slovakia Turkey Republic of Ireland Norway Scotland Serbia Finland Austria Czech Republic Russia Wales League C Group one Group two Group three Group four Azerbaijan Armenia Moldova Kazakhstan Luxembourg Estonia Slovenia Lithuania Cyprus North Macedonia Kosovo Belarus Montenegro Georgia Greece Albania League D Group one Group two Malta San Marino Andorra Liechtenstein Latvia Gibraltar Faroe Islands
davieG Posted 3 March 2020 Posted 3 March 2020 Uefa has increased the size of the top three tiers to 16 countries - meaning each group will have four teams - and decreased the size of the bottom tier to seven. The teams who win each group in the top division - as England did last time - will go into the finals tournament in June 2021. The teams who finish bottom will be relegated to League B. Unlike the previous campaign, when everybody was qualifying for the Euro 2020 play-offs, only two World Cup play-off spots are on offer to the 55 countries. The best two Nations League group winners who do not qualify for the World Cup or play-offs through normal qualifying, will go into the 12-team World Cup play-offs in March 2022. When are the games? Matchday 1: 3-5 September 2020 Matchday 2: 6-8 September 2020 Matchday 3: 8-10 October 2020 Matchday 4: 11-13 October 2020 Matchday 5: 12-14 November 2020 Matchday 6: 15-17 November 2020
purpleronnie Posted 3 March 2020 Posted 3 March 2020 Well they had a good thing for a while, now they've ruined it.
Nalis Posted 3 March 2020 Posted 3 March 2020 What on earth was the whole relegation / promotion thing all about if they just bin it off anyway?
Wymsey Posted 3 March 2020 Posted 3 March 2020 Thought Germany got 'relegated' from League A the last time this was played, yet are still in the same group?
Corky Posted 3 March 2020 Posted 3 March 2020 Vardy should come back for the Denmark game- bet he'd love to rant at Schmeichel then shush him when he slips it past him for 2-0.
Toddybad Posted 3 March 2020 Posted 3 March 2020 Honestly almost wish we were back playing friendlies than doing this again. Or just scrap international football aside from a brief knock out to decide world cup participants.
KrefelderFox666 Posted 4 March 2020 Posted 4 March 2020 13 hours ago, Nalis said: What on earth was the whole relegation / promotion thing all about if they just bin it off anyway? 11 hours ago, Wymsey said: Thought Germany got 'relegated' from League A the last time this was played, yet are still in the same group? They basically stocked up the A league to 4 teams (previously 3) and made the D league tiny. A good decision but they should have probably done that from the beginning.
Finnegan Posted 4 March 2020 Posted 4 March 2020 Ffs not Ireland again. Wales vs Ireland consistently the most boring games of football in history. Well, except 4-1.
Finnegan Posted 4 March 2020 Posted 4 March 2020 Edit: nevermind. The Wikipedia page I was reading is really badly worded. It means the ten group winners from World Cup qualifying.
spacemunky Posted 3 September 2020 Posted 3 September 2020 You know you've got a top notch squad when Jonathan Williams is a starter.
Finnegan Posted 3 September 2020 Posted 3 September 2020 I've watched some boring Wales games in my time but Jesus this is bad. Who the **** scheduled these games. Criminally pointless.
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 3 September 2020 Posted 3 September 2020 16 minutes ago, Finnegan said: I've watched some boring Wales games in my time but Jesus this is bad. Who the **** scheduled these games. Criminally pointless. How's Giggs doing with Wales mate? Are his teams as dull as he is?
Finnegan Posted 3 September 2020 Posted 3 September 2020 5 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said: How's Giggs doing with Wales mate? Are his teams as dull as he is? It's been a bit hard to say really because he's so very rarely had anything close to what you'd call our strongest team available. I guess there's a sort of poetic justice in that given his attendance record for Wales. The side he's got out tonight is about par for his tenure, basically a complete load of garbage and a lot of youngsters blooded. Like or loathe Cookie, they all wanted to turn up and play for him, there was a spirit he adopted from Gary Speed's outfit that lingered. Giggs has had a couple of games that stand out where we've played how you imagine he wants us to and it's been some of the best football we've played in years. He pictures his teams playing not too dissimilar to Rodgers when it's going well for Leicester, I think. But as with Rodgers' Leicester, when it's NOT going well it's dogshit boring "possession for the sakes of it." What I'd probably consider our "best" starting lineup on paper would probably look something like: Bale James, Wilson, Brooks, Ramsey, Ampadu (or Allen) Davies, Mepham, Rodon*, Roberts, Hennessey (*or Chester, Williams or Lockyer, all about much of a muchness.) But I don't think I've ever seen that team play, ever, probably not even about 80% of it has played together more than once. Came close to it when we beat Ireland 4 - 1 in probably Giggs best result and that's two years ago now which is insane really when you think about how settled most sides are.
Dan Posted 3 September 2020 Posted 3 September 2020 On 03/03/2020 at 19:38, Nalis said: What on earth was the whole relegation / promotion thing all about if they just bin it off anyway? Teams they didn't want to go down got relegated so they had to restructure.
Dan Posted 3 September 2020 Posted 3 September 2020 36 minutes ago, Finnegan said: It's been a bit hard to say really because he's so very rarely had anything close to what you'd call our strongest team available. I guess there's a sort of poetic justice in that given his attendance record for Wales. The side he's got out tonight is about par for his tenure, basically a complete load of garbage and a lot of youngsters blooded. Like or loathe Cookie, they all wanted to turn up and play for him, there was a spirit he adopted from Gary Speed's outfit that lingered. Giggs has had a couple of games that stand out where we've played how you imagine he wants us to and it's been some of the best football we've played in years. He pictures his teams playing not too dissimilar to Rodgers when it's going well for Leicester, I think. But as with Rodgers' Leicester, when it's NOT going well it's dogshit boring "possession for the sakes of it." What I'd probably consider our "best" starting lineup on paper would probably look something like: Bale James, Wilson, Brooks, Ramsey, Ampadu (or Allen) Davies, Mepham, Rodon*, Roberts, Hennessey (*or Chester, Williams or Lockyer, all about much of a muchness.) But I don't think I've ever seen that team play, ever, probably not even about 80% of it has played together more than once. Came close to it when we beat Ireland 4 - 1 in probably Giggs best result and that's two years ago now which is insane really when you think about how settled most sides are. Can't believe Giggs has been there that long. Feels like he's managed about 4 games to me
spacemunky Posted 3 September 2020 Posted 3 September 2020 7 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: Can't believe Giggs has been there that long. Feels like he's managed about 4 games to me Technically speaking, that's probably pretty accurate.
spacemunky Posted 4 September 2020 Posted 4 September 2020 Wouldn't mind catching the Dutch/Poland match today.
Corky Posted 4 September 2020 Posted 4 September 2020 Every Republic of Ireland matches finishes 0-0, 1-0 or 1-1. Stick on for a binary result.
RonnieTodger Posted 4 September 2020 Posted 4 September 2020 This has got to be the bleakest Ireland team ever. Their star player is Matt Doherty. Crazy that they could qualify for the Euros still.
Nalis Posted 4 September 2020 Posted 4 September 2020 20 hours ago, Finnegan said: It's been a bit hard to say really because he's so very rarely had anything close to what you'd call our strongest team available. I guess there's a sort of poetic justice in that given his attendance record for Wales. The side he's got out tonight is about par for his tenure, basically a complete load of garbage and a lot of youngsters blooded. Like or loathe Cookie, they all wanted to turn up and play for him, there was a spirit he adopted from Gary Speed's outfit that lingered. Giggs has had a couple of games that stand out where we've played how you imagine he wants us to and it's been some of the best football we've played in years. He pictures his teams playing not too dissimilar to Rodgers when it's going well for Leicester, I think. But as with Rodgers' Leicester, when it's NOT going well it's dogshit boring "possession for the sakes of it." What I'd probably consider our "best" starting lineup on paper would probably look something like: Bale James, Wilson, Brooks, Ramsey, Ampadu (or Allen) Davies, Mepham, Rodon*, Roberts, Hennessey (*or Chester, Williams or Lockyer, all about much of a muchness.) But I don't think I've ever seen that team play, ever, probably not even about 80% of it has played together more than once. Came close to it when we beat Ireland 4 - 1 in probably Giggs best result and that's two years ago now which is insane really when you think about how settled most sides are. Thats a Kevin Keegan team on paper if I've ever seen one, would be entertaining at least if all were available.
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