Who wins euro 2024?

RopersReturn said:
Unless England can find a more reliable pair of CB’s who can convincingly play out from the back, it really isn’t likely to happen sadly.
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They are not losing because of cbs but because of an average manager.
 
France has to be favorites. 18 months isn't that long, so there won't be a massive change in team quality in that time.
 
England

Seriously this has to be the tournament we finally win anything less is a massive failure.
 
FrankFoot said:
That wasn't a meltdown, it's just cup football at its best, 15 bad mins and you are out.

Switzerland equalized the game at the last thanks to a mistake, not like that hasn't happened before in cup football.
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I remember there was a bust up between their family members afterwards, felt like there was some internal friction going within their camp but I might be wrong though.
 
AshRK said:
It was a bad 15 mins to be fair. They should have won against Swiss but they imploded.
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The funny thing about that game, it was probably their best attacking performance under Deschamps.
 
The coming years should be the best ones for this generation of English footballers but Southgate won't let that happen. Will play his mates and bring on someone with couple of minutes to go

Germany should fix themselves, but can't look beyond France. Their u21 side would probably make the quarters such is their depth
 
Southgate confirmed he is staying on, so it won't be England.

Hard to look past France, both with the current players and the youngsters coming through.
 
Samid said:
Tournament football is all about having the fundaments in defence. We don't have that. On top of my head I don't remember any smaller nations making it far thanks to their attack alone. They all succeed because they don't concede many.
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Ajer hasn't been too bad for Brentford, think you need to go 3-5-2 like Wales did. Leo Ostigaard did pretty well for Coventry although assume he's not playing much for Napoli.

Norway have players in their squad from Rennes, Napoli, Feyenoord, Arsenal, Roma, Man. City and Real Sociedad so time for excuses is over and they'll certainly be an intrigue about you in the actual tournament with what you have in final third.
 
Portugal should be better or equal at every position, so I'd put them with France and Germany (maybe there's something seriously wrong here but the team looks good on paper and they're Germany they'll sort it out).

Costa, Dias, Silva, Dalot, Mendes, Vitinha, Felix, Ramos and Leao all better ages and the midfielders like Bernardo Silva and Bruno will only be 30 and who knows maybe they're better off playing just one of them anyways and the more athletic Nunes or mobile Vitinha ahead of the DM. That spot might be a problem, though. Palinha should still be okay at 29, but Neves looked far away from being trustable at the base of the midfield.

Dutch might be really good defensively:

Gakpo------------Striker
Gravenberch-DeJong-Koopmeiners--Simons
LB-----------VanDijk-DeLigt-------Timber

Would be a deeply annoying team to play against as the CBs win everything in the air and Timber and the 4 midfielders can control the ball. Not enough goals out there, but easy to see this team getting into a couple of extra-times in the knockouts on ball control and giant CBs.
 
Some key players who need to emerge for their countries as they have big holes at their position:

Udogie - Italy have little exciting talent out wide (fullback or wing) so a speedy wingback who can play next to Bastoni in a wingbacks system makes a ton of sense.

Guehi/Colwill - Can England get a quality left-footed LCB?

Palhinha - Unless there's a 20 year old Portuguese DM I don't know about, or Neves gets on a club with doping, they need Palhinha

Brobbey, Xavi Simons - Dutch need some magic in attack, the defensive line and midfield -apart from keeper - looks quite tidy since Van Dijk should hang on for another 2 years quite easily and Gapko is fine out left, but there's no RW or ST in sight. Memphis could still have one shock great tourney in him, but even then they'll need 2 more attackers most likely.

Fati, Nico Williams - Fati has the game, just needs to get healthy, while Williams is raw but has serious potential. Either way, the Spanish midfield should be better with Rodri behind a more mature Gavi and Pedri, so they could do it IMO. RCB also a huge issue for them.
 
France or Portugal, the best squads on paper.
 
SirReginald said:
Based on the WC performances France have to be clear favourites. With Portugal and England far behind and Germany, Spain and Netherlands in a tier below that. But really who knows, Greece 2024?
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the frightening thing is that they got to final without Kante, Pogba, Benzema and L.Hernandez
 
Red the Bear said:
Spain/England/Germany should be the favorites.
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On what basis exactly?

It's still clearly France. Bar the last Euro their recent Record is 2 finals (1Euro-1WC) and 1 WC while Spain and Germany have mostly been disastrous since 2014.
And their team will not be drastically different in 1.5 years.
 
France probably. This team is very good.
England have a chance as well.
 
The usual suspects. Germany is the favorite at home.

If France hires Zidane they become favorites. With Deschamps at the helm I have them at nr.2. They're loaded and Mbappé is hitting his prime as a player. The team will be his now.

One must never count out Italy once they reach the knockout stages and Portugal has a deep squad as well.

There's always an odd team out of left field that surprises everyone and makes it to the semis in most big tournaments. Who will it be this time? Hungary or Norway maybe?
 
Portugal if Ronaldo retires from national team
They have a great team and seems to have promising young players coming on the stage every years

France will be there but it could be the akward stage where old greats players (Benzema, Griezman, Kante, Pogba, Lloris etc) are losing a step but are still starting

Spain lacks a great forward

England are the PSG of national teams. Great team great players but it never goes their way

Italy and Germany are losing a step but due to history you can’t write them off and could have new stars emerging by 2024
 
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Right now favourites to me are France and England.They simply outmatch everyone on a talent basis.
However Portugal (if they move on from Ronaldo), Italy, Spain and the Netherlands (under a more progressive coach in Koeman) also have great talent and if the stars align, have the talent to go all the way.
 
Samid said:
I know Spain were poor at the World Cup but do you really think you'll finish ahead of them in the qualifiers?
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:smirk: Thankfully we could finish bottom of the table but still have a playoff place due to the Nations League.
 
Norway, Haaland will score 80 goals a game and break records.

But seriously probably Spain or Germany.
Or France, maybe England but also Portugal.
 
I think we're gonna have a chance. Modrić will maybe stay for that one, it's just one year after Nations league. And if not we'll have a good team regardless, Kovačić, Brozović, Majer, Sučić in midfield, Šutalo and Gvardiol in defense, Perišić, Oršić, Petković, Kramarić and a young forward or a 2 will surely emerge until then (Šimić, Ljubičić, Beljo). Also we're experts in tournaments now and anything can happen.
 
Zen said:
Whoever will generate a striker in the next 18 months.
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Yeah quite a few international teams would be so much better with a decent striker to actually score. Spain in particular spring to mind.
 
Don't know who wins it. The favourites are clear: France as the heavyweight, England, Portugal and Germany are not far behind. The Netherlands might be up there as well.
 
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