Dusseldorf (Germany), June 13 (EFE).- The figures of Kylian Mbappé, Antoine Griezmann, Cristiano Ronaldo, Toni Kroos, Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane o Luka Modric They stand out imposingly within the Euro 2024; a group of dazzling people to which Spain, champion of the League of Nations, opposes its bloc.
To the extent that Spain manages to be extra of a workforce than every of its adversaries, within the work of Luis de la Fuente to raise his workforce above any circumstance, the probabilities of the Spanish workforce will lie, going through its first main match because the fiasco of the 2022 World Cup, when the workforce was eradicated within the spherical of 16 by Morocco within the penalty shootout, even with Luis Enrique main the workforce.
A change of period on the bench and on the sector, whose litmus check is Germany 2024. No center floor.
The reminiscence of the great cycle that gained two European Championships and a World Cup from 2008 to 2012 recollects the stress of the Spanish workforce; removed from that unimaginable dimension, however with footballers who consider they’re able to something, though maybe behind a number of favorites.
The highest candidates are marked. There aren’t any nuances within the overwhelming potential of Mbappé, the overall soccer of Griezmann and his teammates in France.
The world runner-up has her revenge pending in Europe. The final version was eradicated within the spherical of 16 by Switzerland. The one in 2016, in his territory, created inconsolable frustration with the ultimate misplaced in further time in opposition to Portugal and the surprising Éder, the protagonist of the Portuguese title in Paris.
The ‘Bleus’ haven’t been continental champions for too lengthy: the 12 months 2000, with Didier Deschamps, their coach now, as captain; with David Trezeguet’s golden purpose and, above all, with Zinedine Zidane as an incontestable and definitive determine for France.
Christian conviction
Portugal is one other magnificent workforce, whose prospects beneath Roberto Martínez have but to be explored in a contest on the highest degree.
Till then, his time on the head of the bench, changing Fernando Santos (the coach who was champion in 2016), has accrued 13 victories in 15 video games, with solely two errors in opposition to Slovenia, final March, and not too long ago in opposition to Croatia, within the closing preparation part.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 13 targets on this stage. The Portuguese workforce’s all-time prime scorer faces his sixth European Championship. Nobody has performed extra video games, 25, nor has anybody scored extra targets, 14, within the historical past of the match, during which its validity is measured. On this 12 months in Saudi Arabia he has scored 44 targets in 45 video games. Roberto Martínez’s confidence in Portugal is obvious.
Rúben Dias, Pepe, Bruno Fernandes, Vitinha, Bernardo Silva, Diogo Jota, Rafael Leao and Joao Félix describe the extent that the Portuguese workforce has for Euro 2024, during which Germany is the host and, subsequently, past blurs latest, one other favourite. It has all the time been that manner in Europe.
Toni Kroos’ final match
The return of Toni Kroos, in his final match, in his final moments in soccer, excites the German workforce, eradicated within the first section in Qatar 2022 and in Russia 2018 and within the spherical of 16 within the final Euro Cup, in 2021. It’s a revalidation for the block of Julián Nagelsmann, fired from Bayern in March 2023.
The German workforce is extra of a candidate due to its dwelling standing and a few of its gamers (Manuel Neuer, Ter Stegen, Joshua Kimmich, Jamal Musiala…) than due to its latest numbers: simply 4 wins in eight video games with the present coach, who changed Hansi Flick.
Germany has been champion of the Euro Cup thrice, however the final one was additionally too way back, 28 years in the past, in 1996, with Oliver Bierhoff’s golden purpose.
The ambition of Bellingham and Kane
England by no means has been. Three years in the past, at Wembley, he had it shut. He misplaced it on penalties with Italy. Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden o Declan Rice They emerge as unquestionable references to really feel that this might be your second. He searches for it. And he wants it. In Qatar they reached the quarterfinals, eradicated by France, with the penalty missed by Kane
On the farewell of Luka Modric, Croatia and its resilience (third in Qatar 2022) are a part of a second group of candidates, like Belgium, within the means of renewing the nationwide workforce that’s finally not so groundbreaking (it has recovered Axel Witsel on the final minute) with Domenico Tedesco in entrance. No this Thibaut Courtoisbetween his previous damage and the latent battle with the coach.
Italy can also be in that echelon, particularly with the warning to everybody that it’s the present champion, winner on penalties in opposition to England at Wembley, but in addition with the discrepancy of its failure in 2022, when it didn’t qualify for the World Cup.
In that sense, the Spanish group is probably the most diffuse, probably the most aggressive. Croatia and Italy, other than Albania, set off the mixtures within the forecasts, with out detecting a candidate expressively above the others to be the primary of the quartet.
The opposite teams spotlight the favorites: Germany, in A together with Hungary, Switzerland and Scotland; England, in B, warned by Denmark and along with Jan Oblak’s Slovenia and Serbia; France, in D, with the Netherlands, Poland – with out Robert Lewandowski not less than within the first duel – and Austria; Belgium, within the E with Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania; and Portugal, within the F in opposition to the Czech Republic, Turkey and Georgia, the one debutant on this version.
Iñaki Dufour
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2024-06-14 00:16:43