Impact of Nations Leagues (UEFA original, Concacaf) on World Football? [Multiple R]

Not sure what you mean.

 

Thanks for explaining!

 

Beautiful images there. San Marino drawing / not allowing a goal TWO GAMES IN A ROW also, a highlight as far as I am concerned!

Ireland, the biggest disappointment! 0,16 goals per game!

Can't wait for the next edition!

 

I think Germany could be regretting not being relegated like they should have been if it wasnot for a format change by UEFA.

 

Nations league is a pain to play.
Guys have already the leagues the european cups the euro and world cup qualifiers the euro and world cup tournaments.
When a team doesn't have 50 players like France to use as they want it is very tough.

 

i think Germany should have shown more class towards Italy and Holland a few years ago. #Karma

 

The Nations League replaces friendlies. Its not like they are playing additional matches. And yes, I understand there aren't unlimited substitutions like in friendlies but I think the difference between unlimited subs and "only" 5 subs is often overstated.

 

Honestly I prefer the Nations League over the friendlies they replaced.

And you can debate on whether or not players take it serious but I believe they did.

 

It is not really about the players taking it seriously but about the gas they have left for these games and about the lines up.
This league is too exhausting for what it's worth.

 

I don't know. For me, the useless friendlies that were played last Wednesday and Thursday is where your complaint should be directed. Hopefully this is just a result of COVID and the re-scheduling that resulted from the pandemic, and not the beginning of a new tradition. It is really too much to play 3 games in a FIFA window. And to make it worse, you have several teams playing today/Friday for their clubs. So that's 4 games in 8 or 9 days.

 

They play extra friendlies cause the nations league is more serious than it should be.

 

I understand that those friendlies were only arranged so that the teams which played the euro2020 playoffs before both of their NL games were not disadvantaged against opponents who had not played the extra game.

 

With all due respect that doesn't make much sense.

Yeah, that makes sense since it was only these 2 windows (i.e. Oct and Nov) that we had teams play 3 matches. Unfortunately (and again because of COVID and all the rescheduling), teams will have to play 3 qualifying matches in March and September breaks next year.

 

This league was planned to replace friendlies but at the same time there are rankings involved that are used for the qualifiers and euro. You can't deny that teams have more pressure about the results in this league than they had previously in simple friendlies.
Guys use friendlies to make even more changes in their starting 11 cause they don't feel free to do it during nations league with the importance of the result.

 

But friendlies were used to help calculate the FIFA co-efficient ranking.

 

This completely goes against the theory tho about "players not caring about the nations league" lol

 

Beckenbauer said few weeks ago that he doesn't know any single player interested in it.
So the interest in it is just different from a country to another.
There are countries playing it more seriously than others.

 

Nations scheduled their friendlies themselves and when they would lose one it would have less impact in the medias than it does now.