UEFA Nations League 2024-25

[YAYgee]

Couple of interesting things:

The only confirmed member of his backroom staff to date is Anthony Barry as assistant boss.

The 38-year-old was Tuchel's assistant at Chelsea and Bayern - and has had the same role with the Republic of Ireland, Belgium and Portugal.

He is a set-piece specialist and wrote a dissertation on throw-ins - looking at 17,000 throw-ins in a Premier League season - as part of his Uefa Pro Licence course.

So he has an English assistant manager who he's well used to working with for years and who has experience in international football as well, and with elite European countries. This is a big positive for me.

The second, a short contract. It starts 1st January, and ends after the World Cup. This is very good as we can quickly move for a new man if it doesn't work, or extend if he does well. Wouldn't want a payoff for Tuchel influencing who we could and couldn't get going into a home tournament.

Nations League thread. I think chances are it's still the right place to post, and the competition he'll be managing his first England game in, but hopefully the team will win the group and make it so it belongs in the European WCQ thread.

The results of his work as a set-piece specialist didn't show when he was with Belgium. Belgium were really poor at them, both taking and defending against set pieces. Seems to have improved under Tedesco but before hardly got any goals that way, as in 99.99% were easily dealt with, and for example Belgium did concede a goal against Morocco at the World Cup (almost identical to a disallowed goal from another set piece that took place a bit earlier that game; Canada also got a pen after a set piece but didn't convert that pen).

[Michele]

Not sure where to post this, but Brian Riemer, formerly of Anderlecht, is Denmark's new manager and he will take over the reins immediately. DBU has announced that they will not pay to get someone out of an existing contract, and apparently a foreigner has not been prioritized, so it seems that it was a race between caretaker Lars Knudsen and whoever would be sacked first from a pool of Thomas Frank, Brian Priske, Brian Riemer, Jess Thorup, Bo Henriksen and maybe a few others. Congratulations to Brian Riemer for winning that race.

I have no idea about Riemer's qualifications, but it seems like a very bad way to build a shortlist as manager for a top 25 national team, and because of that I have serious doubts whether Riemer is the best choice or the easily available choice.

[Diouf]

Not sure where to post this, but Brian Riemer, formerly of Anderlecht, is Denmark's new manager and he will take over the reins immediately. DBU has announced that they will not pay to get someone out of an existing contract, and apparently a foreigner has not been prioritized, so it seems that it was a race between caretaker Lars Knudsen and whoever would be sacked first from a pool of Thomas Frank, Brian Priske, Brian Riemer, Jess Thorup, Bo Henriksen and maybe a few others. Congratulations to Brian Riemer for winning that race.

I have no idea about Riemer's qualifications, but it seems like a very bad way to build a shortlist as manager for a top 25 national team, and because of that I have serious doubts whether Riemer is the best choice or the easily available choice.

There was reports that they had approached Ole Gunnar Solskjær, but that he declined, so they have probably considered names from neighbouring countries. But yeah as you say, with their early statement about not wanting to pay for a manager and then Riemer's sacking, it was a very logical but also underwhelming choice. One with only two years of manager experience, so I think the mood now is that many would then have just preferred Knudsen to continue.
But of course, we all hope it will work out well.

[Juliusz]

Polish call-ups for matches against Portugal and Scotland



Michał Gurgul and Antoni Kozubal are two young players from Lech that are called up for the first time. Strong representation of MLS, as Mateusz Bogusz, Dominik Marczuk and Bartosz Slisz are back in the team, while Karol Świderski is there as usual. Taras Romanczuk (Jagiellonia) also marks his comeback.

[Diouf]

The first squad of new NT manager Brian Riemer. Not much new compared to the previous squads. Back-up goalkeeper Frederik Rønnow has retired from the national team, which leaves place for Peter Vindahl. Still no players from the Danish league in the squad

[Korgutt]

[NederPAOKtzis]

[angel_87]

ITALY - 23 players called up for the matches against Belgium (14/11) and France (17/11): Barella returns, first call-up for Comuzzo, Savona and Rovella

GK: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham);

DF: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Alessandro Buongiorno (Napoli), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Pietro Comuzzo (Fiorentina), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Caleb Okoli (Leicester), Nicolò Savona (Juventus), Destiny Udogie (Tottenham);

MF: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Niccolò Pisilli (Roma), Samuele Ricci (Torino), Nicolò Rovella (Lazio), Sandro Tonali (Newcastle);

FW: Moise Kean (Fiorentina), Daniel Maldini (Monza), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Atalanta).

[amenina]

League A standings after matchday 4

Group A1
Portugal cannot be directly relegated.
Croatia cannot be directly relegated.
Poland cannot win group.
Scotland cannot win group.

Group A2
Italy cannot be directly relegated.
France cannot be directly relegated.
Belgium cannot win group.
Israel cannot reach the quarter-finals.

Group A3
Germany reach the quarter-finals.
Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot win group.

Group A4
Spain reach the quarter-finals.
Denmark cannot be directly relegated.
Serbia cannot win group.
Switzerland cannot reach the quarter-finals.

[wannabeontop]

I wonder what the expectations are in Holland before Saturday night's match. Does anyone know?

[Homer]

I don’t know in Holland, but in the Netherlands it is expected that we beat Hungary, given that we have a very good record against them in recent years, i.e. 7-1, 8-1, 5-3. The 1-1 result in Hungary was the exception in recent times. So saying that, we’ll probably let them surprise us and lose! The only positive thing is that Koeman is determined to learn from the previous two matches where we didn’t play well in either match, so I do expect a very determined side this time out. But such things in football will only work for you if the match goes well for you at the start, and work against you if a goal doesn’t materialize early on. I expect either a big home win or a shock one-goal loss. I think Hungary does stand to gain more than the Netherlands stands to lose given the carrot of the World Cup qualifying seed.

[dandeer]

@Homer thanks for your answer! I do agree Hungary has more to win. I expect a similar game than what went down a few weeks back - solid Hungarian defence with quick counterattacks.

[amenina]

League B standings after matchday 4

Group B2
Greece cannot be relegated.
England cannot be directly relegated.
Republic of Ireland cannot be directly promoted.
Finland cannot be promoted.

Group B3
Slovenia cannot be directly relegated.
Kazakhstan cannot be directly promoted.

Group B4
Türkiye cannot be relegated.
Wales cannot be directly relegated.
Iceland cannot be directly promoted.
Montenegro cannot be promoted.

[amenina]

League C standings after matchday 4

Group C1
Sweden cannot be relegated.
Slovakia cannot be relegated.
Estonia cannot be promoted.
Azerbaijan cannot be promoted.

Group C2
Romania cannot be relegated.
Kosovo cannot be relegated.
Cyprus cannot be promoted.
Lithuania cannot be promoted.

Group C3
Northern Ireland cannot be directly relegated.

Group C4
North Macedonia cannot be relegated.
Armenia cannot be directly promoted.
Faroe Islands cannot be directly promoted.

[amenina]

League D standings after matchday 4

Group D1
Liechtenstein cannot be directly promoted.