Why is the group stage of Euro 2024 the smallest in the entire era with 24 teams?

29 June 2024, 17:52 | Football
Груповий Етап Євро-2024, The Athletic
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Skin two fates - regardless of the global pandemic and the holding of the FIFA tournament, the start of the day - the European Championship and the World Championship are being held, and until the end of the group stage, people will be negatively zmagan.

It is true that people really cannot guess what the front group phases were, since the past tournaments will be remembered for many matches, most importantly the playoffs and the participation of the strongest nations.

All group stages can often become tedious.

Group stage of Euro 2024 without any doubt.

Well, the axis of five wider critical respects for the early phases of tournaments - especially in the version for 24 teams - and why don’t they worry about what we’ve been doing for the last couple of years.

The number of teams that will spend on the tournament The promotion of the 24-team format before Euro 2016 raised concerns that those who spent until the final part will simply not be bright enough to compete with the elite teams nicknames. And the idea about those that UEFA will allow to participate in the tournament, starting from Euro 2020, teams from Division C of the National League - those who occupy 33rd place and below the middle of 55 member countries - at that time la super talkative.

Alas, there have not yet been the usual major failures of such teams in this Eurozone. In 36 matches, there was at least one victory with a difference of more than three goals, and this was in the match-winner. Germany beat Scotland 5:1, winning tens of points, achieving an ideal result that successfully started their home tournament.

The skin side gained one point, which was not the case at the two previous European championships three years ago (Turkey and Pivnichna Macedonia went home empty-handed) and in 2016 (Ukraine).

Of the teams that finished in the rest of their group, Scotland was very clearly awarded in a late penalty with a 0:0 draw from Ugorshchina - if they took away their goals, they scored and won, they would have passed at the front of the herd and Albania competed well in all three. Serbia has little chance of qualifying before the final round of the third match, the Czech Republic played one game and lost the other two games with a difference of one goal, Ukraine actually finished in first place for a few points, and Poland took one point from France, regardless of those that had already fled.

Europe can support a high level of competition with a 24-team tournament - probably with 32 teams.

Boring matches?

As you have guessed, the purpose of the tournament is to be remembered on the basis of a bet - perhaps how many of their games. Also, the World Cup 2022 will be remembered with warmth by the football sense through that epic final between Argentina and France, but in reality the competition between the two sides lasted for the last three hours.

In the wake of Euro 2024, without being truly memorable matches between two great nations, we will still accept. However, looking at the speech from the proximal point of view, there were clearly few unsatisfactory results. The match between France and the Netherlands was non-hostile, but they scored a super-sensitive goal - and it ended 0:0 in the first two rounds of the group stage.

England looked very much in the middle. Their group C as a whole was boring. And in the games of the third round everything was more streamlined and brilliant. Ale there was tension:

Goals in the final stages of matches The 24-team format is incomplete and frustrating at times, but there has been a lot of late drama.

Group A had a goal on the 92nd line from Niklas Fullkrug, which allowed Nimechchyna to beat Switzerland, and in the other group - a goal on the 100th line from Kevin Chobot, who at that time seemed to have taken Ugorshchina into the play -of yak one of the greatest.

Group B had a goal scored by the Italian Mattia Zaccagni in the 98th century - but without this, all other results were no longer the same, Italy were one of the shortest teams to finish in third place.

Group C? Good, it’s boring to finish with two people 0:0 in the final round. But there was a lot of tension: the late team would be able to overcome any of the matches and let the senior team go ahead.

Group D was vital: France apparently lost its chance to finish first over the national team of Poland, which had already won at that time, and Austria was unconvinced of first place over the Netherlands with rack 3:2.

Group E showed a unique display, since all teams completed the group stage with the same number of points. As in group C, the third round ended with two draws. Late victory over any of the teams by placing them first, and the other would be eliminated from the tournament. At the end of the day, Ukraine finished fourth.

And in group F there was another one who won the compensation hour - the Turk Cenk Tosun. In the other game of the group, Georgia recorded a victory, deservedly gaining over Portugal with a 2:0 result.

The matches in the rest of the round were more tricky than the first two, often due to the fact that in various games two teams won, as they were satisfied with the draw. Alas, there were more than enough later dramas for everyone to be enemies.

Tactful single-handedness?

At the leading European championships - 2016, it was especially close in this sense - it was felt that basically everyone was playing the same.

Ale Euro 2024 is different. The two most opposing teams were Germany and Spain, one of them vikorista two graves in width, which shifted in the middle to the position of ten, the other vikorista wingers and an extended group. Lamin Yamal and Niko Williams represent a new era for Spain - and have created an old-fashioned Italy Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, Georgia, Portugal and the Czech Republic.

Nimecchini's greatest offensive player is Toni Kroos, a deep playmaker who distributes balls along the flanks. France had N'Golo Kante, who showed energy and dribbling skills, as well as agile passing.

Several teams played fake nines, such as the German Kai Gaverts and Andrej Kramaric from Croatia. But at the same hour it was noticeable how prominent the great men of the old school were in the foreground: the Fullkrug and the Dutchman Wout Weggorst among others. And there seems to be a place for a 4-4-2 formation with two forwards in Slovenia, which is rarely seen on the club level these days.

There were teams that sat deep and tried to create chances during counterattacks and dribbling in open space, such as Georgia, and those that recklessly pressed, like Austria. And I want a lot of teams that want to move the ball from an unsafe scoring position before hitting the goal, the number of long-range shots was also important.

Find something for yourself.

Negative football?

In the international arena there are often great differences, and in such situations it is difficult for outsiders to sit deep, allowing space for their opponents. However, the teams of this tournament have an average of less than 40 hundreds of balls in the group stage.

One of them, Georgia, played brilliant counter-attacking football and took part in the two shortest games of the tournament - a spluttering defeat against Turecchina and a heroic victory over Portugal.

Albania had a unique strategy of aggressive attack in the first and final 10 of their matches, and suffered for 70 years in between. It all worked out well: they scored in the first round against Italy, and also created good chances in that game, and against Spain as well.

Romania were the only team to go long periods without playing the ball, but their stunning 3-0 win against Ukraine featured a famous pair of sensational long-range strikes.

Possibly, only Slovenia - 33 hundred meters of water with a ball - was seriously tedious, sitting in 4-4-2 and deeply protected. If you hire Benjamin Sheshko in front, you can create a problem in front.

It also seems that international football has changed a little during the period of uniformity of low blocks. Of course, everything can change in the playoffs.




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