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2020 - 2021 Football Thread - Page 33
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Harris1st
Germany7090 Posts
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On November 10 2020 17:41 Harris1st wrote: Nations League break again??? Sure is. Looking forward to more instant classic Germany games where players who sit on the bench in their clubs (if they even get to the bench) start for Germany because Löw's ego doesn't allow him to go back on dropping Boateng and Hummels. Shoutouts to Antonio Rüdiger and Nico Schulz in particular. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18590 Posts
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Dingodile
4139 Posts
Well I agree about the sympathy but definitely not from the wc2018 in my case. It's just too many international friendly games and breaks are the reason for me. Just remove those games and don't refill them with "important" games (nations league). | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
The parts that annoy me are; Iceland going to Denmark to play even though they have an awful problem with a potentially mutated COVID strain involving minks, meaning that the UK government doesn't allow anyone in from Denmark, thus Iceland can't come and play their game in England, so we have to forfeit? Secondly, that same thing means any player from the UK going to play for Denmark right now cannot rejoin their club until a 2 week quarantine has taken place, so Leicester will be now without Kasper for 4 weeks (2 week international break plus 2 week quarantine). All for nations league games.... | ||
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Sr18
Netherlands1141 Posts
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RvB
Netherlands6266 Posts
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Oukka
Finland1683 Posts
Regarding Nations League, I've been quite a big fan of it. Seeing Finland play actually meaningful and competitive internationals has been really cool. The normal euro and wc qualifier groups usually have one or two teams that are tiers above, and one team that is so much weaker than any of the others that those games lose meaning as well. In the worst case in a six team qualifier group six out of the ten games are significant mismatches one way or another. As much as I loved seeing the French stars in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki some years back, it doesn't really mean that the football was meaningful when we can be happy when we only lost 2-0. Nations league at least in the C and B tiers has had none of these games that are essentially unwinnable or unlosable. Fixture congestion and corona concerns are a different issue, but I hope Nations League is here to stay. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26282 Posts
On the other hand how much money can associations be making from these fixtures? Notably the friendlies. Really, why the fuck are they there in such a packed schedule already? Last international break brought rather a lot of Covid positives, methinks this one we shall see the same. Apart from anything else, it will stiffen the resolve of the clubs yet further in the club v country argument if they're losing players to Covid, which seems a borderline inevitability at this stage. Look there's no fans for the vast majority of these anyway. Just pick a singular city, set up a bubble for the international break and play them there, if you absolutely have to. There's absolutely nothing of the flavour of international football as it is, no home fans in raucous stadiums galvanising their team and intimidating the visitors, no colour of the committed travelling fans experiencing new European climes. Etc. May as well just play them at a neutral venue city and mitigate Covid risk considerably. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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Oukka
Finland1683 Posts
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Dav1oN
Ukraine3164 Posts
On November 13 2020 07:39 Oukka wrote: Moon ya Marshalll!!!! Scotland qualifies to Euros as well!! Shame it seems unlikely they'll play in Glasgow now What an awful game of football honestly it was -.- | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26282 Posts
Goes a way to softening the blow of the the Norn Iron result anyway | ||
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DropBear
Australia4390 Posts
Fulham need to hire a consultant or a witch doctor maybe | ||
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aseq
Netherlands3994 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
On November 13 2020 07:39 Oukka wrote: Moon ya Marshalll!!!! Scotland qualifies to Euros as well!! Shame it seems unlikely they'll play in Glasgow now Why won't they play in Glasgow? Their first match is at Hampden park in Euro 2021 against Czech Republic. The crazy thing is they are in the same group as England haha, going to be a bloodbath that one. | ||
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Oukka
Finland1683 Posts
On November 14 2020 03:11 Pandemona wrote: Why won't they play in Glasgow? Their first match is at Hampden park in Euro 2021 against Czech Republic. The crazy thing is they are in the same group as England haha, going to be a bloodbath that one. This crazy little thing called Covid. I just don't believe the original plan of having games all around continent with at least the teams travelling, if not even the whole circus including masses of media folks and fans is a sensible way. Now what the covid situation is at that point and how sensible UEFA is with regards to these things is very uncertain as of now, but I have serious doubts that the tournament would be played in the way it was supposed to happen. More likely in my head that they'll end up doing something like the Europa League and Champions League were, with a couple of stadiums in one country and more or less empty stands. Would love to be wrong about it tho. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26282 Posts
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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