Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - Cancel the open top bus, Klopp farewell tour ends in shambles

[TobiOT]

5th relegation for Maguire?

Must be De Gea's fault.

Just realised every game so far Maguire has started this season, it's been an L.

 

[trap101]

Who would've thought a group containing Italy, England and Germany. Hungary would be the ones to triumph in the group of death.

Ingerland got themselves quite the pickel....... sack Southgate or nah???? cause that Nations League form. going into the WC?.....

 

[Bboystyle]

Italy owns England

 

[trap101]

Militão wasn't bad as a right-back.

How did the Fab 4 of Raphinia, Vini, Ney, and Rixharlison do? And Paqueta behind them... Hexa em el aire....

 

[nahnah]

Still no idea how this Nations League works

 

[Jamal514]

Southgate

Wales
USA
England
Iran

 

[nyknick]

Hold up England lost to Italy? This Italy

And Southgate made only two substitutions and those two subs were Luke Shaw and Grealish

 

[TobiOT]

 

[phcitywarrior]

Still no idea how this Nations League works

To be honest, the Nations league is one of the few modifications of late that UEFA has gotten correct. Essentially, they've scrapped the European int'l friendlies and put the Nation's league in place.

You got the A, B, C and D leagues with the top teams in the A league. The winners of each group in league A go on to play in the Nation's league SFs and Final. The bottom team in each group in league A gets relegated to league B. The winners of each group in League B get promoted to League A and the same pattern applies for C and D, although D has fewer groups so there's like a relegation play-off for League C or something like that.

The big kicker for Nation's league is there are slots awarded to the best performing teams for UEFA Euro and WCQ that didn't automatically qualify for the tournaments.

So let's say Italy goes on to win their group and the Nations league but fails to qualify outright for Euro 2024. Since they won their group, they'll have a slot to try and qualify through play-offs.

For the 2022 WCQ, Austria and Czech Republic made the WCQ playoff rounds by virtue of winning their Nations league group and being the highest ranked teams that didn't automatically qualify for the WC. Essentially acts like a get out of jail card for some of the bigger nations

I actually think it's a very nice setup since there's something to at least play for and the nations can win a trophy as well

Quick video explanation.

 

[Low End Derrick]

Brit POWs freed by Russia welcomed onto luxury private jet by Roman Abramovich

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GOAT club owner doing GOAT things.

 

[African_brehda]

How did Ghana play in the second half once the new imports came on?

We seemed to go forward more. But Brazil had stopped caring by then.

All I can say is, Jordan has no business playing in the black stars in 2022

 

[Max B]

@concise get embarrassed by a Japan side who struggled through the qualifiers brehs

 

[Trajan]

Why has that waistcoat prick not put Toney on the bench?

What a waste of time

What's the point of being called up?

You're not ready for crucial games like the Nations League

 

[phcitywarrior]

Vini been spending a lot of time with Modric of late

I'd put hands on Raphina if I were Vini though

 

[Yehuda]

How did the Fab 4 of Raphinia, Vini, Ney, and Richarlison do? And Paqueta behind them... Hexa em el aire....

I was pleased with what I saw, most offensive formation I've seen in a minute. Neither Vinícius nor Raphinha (think he was the worst although he still got an assist) were that great but that's not saying much, a friendly was never gonna demand much out of them and the shyt was over with by half-time.