The end of the Nations League completed the formation of the six groups for the European Nations Cup 2024 qualifiers draw. Greece is in Group D. Who are the potential antagonists and who avoids?
her back Greece national team In the final stage of major events passes through its playoffs Euro 2024. After missing the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and from the 2016 and 2020 European Championships, the representative group appears to have restarted, with the biggest target being the Germany event.
Qualification to the finals always goes through a process that in recent years has been an obstacle for the national team. Her drop in the ratings used in the playoffs inevitably puts her in groups with strong opponents, blocking her path.
On October 9, the task is expected to be repeated with the qualifying draw for Euro 2024, but the national team will have to prove that it can once again face teams of a higher status than them.
How to conduct the lottery
Capacity groups in the Frankfurt lottery are seven. One of them, his group The League of Nations, includes the four teams that will be in the fourth final of the tournament in March 2024 (Croatia, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) and will be placed at the top of a group of five so that they have two fewer games on their schedule. To be able to present Final Four matches.
Ten qualifying groups will be formed from the lottery, seven of them consisting of five teams and the remaining three of six teams. The top two of each group, as well as the three Nations League teams that didn’t finish in those top two places, advance to the final stage. The 24th (or first ever) team is the German team that qualified directly as the host.
Six teams are included in the first capacity group, which will also be placed at the top of the qualifying group. The groups of second, third, fourth and fifth capacity will consist of ten teams each, while in the sixth group there are three teams, for the three groups there will be six teams.
The national team in the fourth capacity group
The position of the Greek team has been known for some time, as it will be in Group D, due to its position in the Natons League.
In this draw, UEFA uses the final standings of the 2022-2023 Nations League, where Greece could not rise above 33rd place in League C. The teams from 31st to 40th place will be placed in Group D with capacity and our country was Inevitably.
Bulgaria, Turkey, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Luxembourg, North Macedonia and the Faroe Islands will be in the same group with it, that is, the countries that cannot join.
Head of the Greece Group
In any group that is drawn with our country, it will be called to face a strong team, which will be placed at the head of the group. This will come from either the Nations League group of four men or the Capacity One group of six players.
In the latter among others Hungary, which on first reading appears to be the most attractive opponent, but this year’s presence in the “group of death” in the Nations League with Italy, Germany and England showed that it will not. Just be favorable like this tie.
With them in Group A are Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and Switzerland, also a group of teams that if they do not finish first in their qualifying group, it will be their failure.
Likewise, there are no easy picks from the Nations League group, as there will be Croatia, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.
The second and third groups determine the future of Greece
Greece is not in danger from the football giants only in Group A or in the Nations League group. In the second group are opponents such as England and France, countries he must avoid at all costs if he wants to have realistic hopes of qualifying on Germany’s courts.
The most accepted are the cases of Austria, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Serbia and especially Israel, Finland, Scotland and Wales, which complete the ten cases from the second amplitude group.
For the third capacity group, the teams in it are not counted among the elite of football, but they can cause problems. What is certain is that for Greece to have any hope of qualifying, they will have no problem with teams like Albania, Armenia, Ukraine, Norway, Iceland, Montenegro, Ireland, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden, which make up the defining capacity. Collection.
Which groups should be placed below
Moreover, there are Group E teams that should not cause difficulties in Greece. Slovakia is the bigger name, with Cyprus, Belarus, Northern Ireland, Estonia, Gibraltar, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Moldova completing the puzzle.
Finally, the three teams of Group F are Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino, that is, teams that our country may not have to face if they are drawn in a group of five.
Capacity groups for Euro 2024 qualifiers
- Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland + Netherlands, Croatia, Spain, Italy (As a League of Nations group)
- France, Austria, Czech Republic, England, Wales, Israel, Bosnia, Serbia, Scotland, Finland
- Ukraine, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia, Ireland, Albania, Montenegro, Romania, Sweden, Armenia
- Farming, HellasTurkey, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Faroe Islands, North Macedonia
- Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Belarus, Lithuania, Gibraltar, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova, Malta
- Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein
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