2018–19 UEFA Nations League and UEFA 2020 qualifying thread

There are four groups in C but only two in D so only two teams are relegated. They playoff against other bottom teams.

I still haven’t managed to wrap my mind around whether we’d actually be better off relegated

I think you are. Nations league comes into play if your peers in the group haven’t qualified through the regular groups. The lower down the Nations League pyramid you go the less likely the teams in your group are to have qualified through the front door. I can’t be arsed reading through the permutations to confirm that hunch.

My reckoning is you are better off in C IF you qualify for the semi finals of it. If not you are much worse off.
We wouldn’t have come through Pot C this year. It’s arguably a tougher draw because all the good teams in pot B qualified normally. Scotland, Serbia, Norway etc were in the C semis

Mad to think they’ve actually been to a major tournament more recently than Scotland

ok where we are
League D my own personal favorite
Faroes and Gibraltar promoted last night
Faroes out of a 4 team group - thats some going for them

League C
Montenegro up last night joined by Albania today who beat Belarus 3/2 - 7 yellow cards in the last 1 minute of that game-
Luxembourg and Belarus who both came up from D last time were pipped at the death for promotion to C.- Luxembourg are one to watch and their clubs sides are progressing as well
Armenia also went up earlier to B by beating North Macedonia 1-0 who were probably still celebrating Euro qualification
greece and slovenia scrapping it out for last spot
0-0 at HT as things stands Slovenia are going up

cyprus/moldova/estonia and kazakstan are in a relegation playoff where 2 will go to league D

league B
wales up
Austria and Norway 0-0 at HT, Austria going up to A as it stands - Norway need a win
between scotland and the czechs, - if scotalnd win they go up but are 1 down in Netanya to a Manor Solomon goal v Israel - Czech 1 up on slovakia, as things stand Czech going up
and what a final group we have
now
Hungary are going up
if turkey win they go up - but if they loose i think they could be relegated as the serbs are banging in goals, wow
serbias GD has gone from -3 to +1 in 45 mins
NI / Slovakia / Bulgaria or ROI / serbia or turkey to be relegated

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@Rocko
am i correct w.r.t. Turkey?
is GD used here? or is it the results between the teams first

Results between the teams first I believe.

absolute scenes !!!

Hungary score
the serbs wil be fucking delighted, this is the battle of kosovo 1389 all over again
Turkey now going down

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Northern Ireland have scored

the serbs would be sick to their stomach if Turkey went up, albania already went up today
this is pure nationalism

ok czech’s gone 2 up - that;s scotland done - Israel well on top there

serbia now 5-0 up

Norway have scored- but austria on top despite G/D…
hmm @Rocko
other way round for serba/turkey
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Liam Boyce , former cliftonville player with the goal for NI btw

id imagine he wouldnt be too well regarded despite getting the winning spotter in zenica a few weeks ago

Iceland making Ireland look good here.

They’re fair shit.

no changes per previous post

Some nations league for man city players

Foden, Torres, Dias all ×2
Rodri and De Bruyne scoring.

Mahrez got 2 in 2 for Algeria also

John Harkes’ son playing for Dundee United.

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Italy and Spain set to kick off now in the Nations League.

Is this on a non subscription TV channel or will I have to cable up the dodgy box?