UEFA Nations League

Can't get interested in this tournament, know nothing about the format because I can't be bothered to look into it ... nonetheless, Gibraltar win their first ever competitive match! And away from home! Armenia 0 Gibraltar 1! And! Netherlands 3 Germany 0!!

gibraltar's existence as an international football team or even a place at all is a horrible joke but at least we get to spare a chuckle for armenia

The kids were half-decent yesterday, even though 3-0 was too flattering. It does seem with Koeman we have a manager who, for the first time in six years, at least knows what he's doing half of the time. Restructuring Holland still a mammoth task, but the talent is there.

Gott hilfe Germany tho.

It was worth watching that game just to see that the Italians have a player named Lasagna.

Also one of the great continental European Kevins.

continental european footballers called kevin

Ireland - Denmark 0-0 but without Christian Eriksen.

there are more layers to the Lasagna story than I knew

"Kevin" or "Kevinismus" in German has become a short-hand for short-lived fads in given names based in pop culture

Gutted it's not Barry, obviously.

LBI - great to see frenkie and bergwijn play finally!

both looked p decent

It feels like the most despondent time to be an Ireland supporter since the Staunton era.

xp Even as the most ardent Ajax hater I have to admit Frenkie is really special. He can only end up at City, PSG or Barca imo. And to think he's only 21 years old; the way he reads the play and prances around the pitch is something to behold. His technique is incredible.

Bergwijn* had a great match as well. Really looking forward to PSV vs Spurs because I really think we can show our best (don't count out up and coming Pablo Rosario either).

* but also Denzel Dumfries! Saw a comment on the beeb abt the match from a Scotsman saying: "Holland playing someone named Dumfries (PSV) is the biggest achievement of Scottish football in at least 25 years" which made me chuckle)

England two nil up in Spain atm.

Three!

Must be the Winks effect.

ah, there's a thread for this thing. Thiago aside, this Spain team is absolute muck

Lol at Ramos. Shambles. The only thing that can save him now is a red card.

what on earth, who are these Spanish impostors?

It feels like the most despondent time to be an Ireland supporter since the Staunton era.

― . (Michael B), Monday, 15 October 2018 09:29 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf at this

OTT perhaps but I haven't felt this despondent about the team in a long while

agreed

there was a bleak comedy to Stan at least

trap lads trap

Current reign of O'Neill has a whiff of Final Days of Trap about it with added PsychoKeane in there also

Christie should have punished that mistake other than that all that’s to report is mcclean trying to kill as many fellas as he can

it's not actually that good of a free kick lads

Top corner me hole

Griezmann 2 - Germany 1. Is this Löw's last match as Germany manager?

theyll be looking for a new löw after this new low, the löw affair is well and truly öwer

Are you stuck in the Pyrenees somewhere? Your ö is shöwing!

(also as if this were whatsapp: i tried to get tix for PSV-Spurs for us but failed; Wanyama's more popular o'er here than I thought!)

Only seen a 5 min recap but Lloris was playing in beast mode tonight.

xp ah cheers but the days are filled as it is until i get höme

Gibraltar wins again what the f is happening

Oh ffs Ireland give us a little help here :( Now we have to at least draw against Wales in Wales.

look if ye cant beat us......

"Is this Löw's last match as Germany manager?"

such a nation of enfeebled methodists, they are even too polite to sack crap managers :p

someone has to nail a theses to the door of the FA iirc

look if ye cant beat us......

― Dmac TT (darraghmac), 16. oktober 2018 23:10 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Only half the time, apparently :(

wtf Scotland running riot here.

Best dressed men in Albania

better than the world cup this tourney

some very enjoyable games, the game between belgium and switzerland last night was a cracker

i still dont know what they are playing for though - placing in the euros?

For the sheer love of football

*wipes away tear*

Denmark won promotion, so next year it's six big losses. Yay.

winner of each of the 4 finals gets a place i think

I still don't understand it. Why are all the good teams playing each other, and why is there a sort of numpty section set aside for Scotland etc?

That's how it is with leagues. The best English teams are in Premier League as well :)

So there's actually two leagues operating here and that explains the relegation... uh.

Yeah, there's four tiers. The Better Than Denmark, The Just as Good as Denmark, The Worse Than Denmark, and the A Lot Worse Than Denmark. Or at least that's how I understand it.

Amazing

Another fabulous game

Mbappe should score that tbh

Offside surely

I can’t understand that decision unless there was a Spain player offscreen playing him on.

i thought so, as well. but it almost looked like a spanish player touched it before it got to mbappe, which would make it on, i guess?

He’s still off when the ball was played unless he’s not interfering with play,

Yup that’s what we heard here

i thought so, as well. but it almost looked like a spanish player touched it before it got to mbappe, which would make it on, i guess?

Shot, save, top class stuff

lol i love when they get the goalkeeper to come out as well

it's so ballsy

Great finish to that

Goal should be ruled offside, hes off and its not a new phase ffs

so reading and watching examples of this kind of play, it looks like this is an attacker (mbappe) gaining an advantage due to the ball deflecting off an opponent (garcia):

gaining an advantage by playing the ball or interfering with an opponent when it has:
* rebounded or been deflected off the goalpost, crossbar, match official or an opponent
* been deliberately saved by any opponent

regardless whether it deflected off garcia, it would still be offside, because garcia wasn't deliberately playing the ball. and apparently, a lot of refs call this offside often.

however, it's not offside if the opponent (garcia) deliberately plays the ball:

A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent.

so, the ref must've thought garcia deliberately played the ball. his slide was intended to play the ball, but he never reached it enough to intercept and instead it was deflected, which would make it an offside, in my view.

there should be a clause added in the IFAB that a deliberate play of the ball means the opponent has possession of the ball, so it's not merely the opponent's intention to play the ball, and that way all deflections should be ruled offside

https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/offside/#offside-offence

this is insane. i feel bad for spain

Ice cold finish from Mbappe 🥶 pic.twitter.com/KVndKblXGk

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) October 10, 2021

Agree with that take

Spurs got the benefit of similar vs lfc a few years back and it shouldve been tidied up after that

Mbappe is offside and interfering with play its a simple call

sOUThgate

love it!

To win the World Cup, according to Paddy Power:

France 11/2
England 13/2
Spain 8/1
Argentina 9/1

Now officially a bigger hiding than 1953!

Worst home defeat since the Wembley Wizards in 1928!

you can't be 2nd favs for the world cup and getting dicked at home by Hungary on a rainy Tuesday night.

omg even though idgaf about this competition, this is hilarious!

Channel 4 showing the England games has been a roaring success I must say.

Southgate was a mediocre to absolute shite flop of a club manager. But failing upwards is the English style, so fair enough. It looks like his lucky run has ended now though.

Stop calling me useless, Southgate tells England fans

Really sticking it to those racist Hungarian fans, great to see

Time to resurrect this thread to complain about the Ireland team playing in Israel.

oh apparently the game is in Hungary, still not good of course.

its not the first game israel have played recently that i know of

Yeah they played Austria in September

theyve played, after a quick look, albania, georgia, moldova, italy and norway in the past 12 months

I dont know how credible this is but I've seen it on a few sites now

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/fears-finn-azaz-will-end-international-career-over-turmoil/ar-AA2d3oqx?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Croatia please follow the lead of Portugal and leave Modric on the bench.

... and stick Perisic beside him.

Unlike with Portugal the young players all seem to be terrible too

eight years ago this lot were in a world cup final

You're gonna have to narrow that down

The Croatia side who are currently losing 7-0 at home to England are playing incredibly badly, they were in the world cup final in 2018.

I got bored of watching Croatia - always with the same players - in major tournaments but looks like that shouldn't be a problem in the foreseeable future.

Bilić out.

gannon-doak’s crossing is so poor

Abysmal.

... talking of which, North Macedonia.

Slovenia, Albania and Bulgaria lost too, not a great day for the balkans

BGD’s final product is so bad. no wonder he never starts for bournemouth

This would be rivalling the England scoreline if Scotland actually had a half decent goalscorer.

scotland have been pretty good, notwithstanding the lack of quality in the final third. ferguson, welsh and gilmour have played well

(north macedonia have been awful, granted)

Welsh looks like the best centre back Scotland have had in years, despite spending 7 years failing to get in the Celtic team.

Talking of which it wouldn't be a Scotland game without one of their shitty centre halves getting sent off.

trying to understand the nations league format / purpose

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