No Balde or Joan. Let's see how long before Joan Garcia gets called up.
Nations Leagues are better friendlies. Portugal has always performed poorly in the WC. But yes they are strongOn last nights performance possibly but they also lost to Portugal and were not great v the Dutch if putting any importance on nations league.
Teams who cant compete with their midfield will get demolished.. Turkey couldnt and got caught in a whirlwind trying to keep up.
The likes of Portugal and the Netherlands are tougher as can compete in there and Spain need to be on top of game to dominate in that area as those games showed.
For the most complete squads it looks like Spain and Portugal. France the most powerful/pacey but never quite know what version of them will get.
Nations Leagues are better friendlies. Portugal has always performed poorly in the finals. But yes they are strong
I only watched the semifinals and the final, and I wasn't really interested. I didn't even watch my own nation's matches. It's completely unnecessary. Before, you could still view matches against African, South American, etc. teams as friendly matches, and now this bullshit, always just European matches.This.
Thomas Muller: „Only Netherlands & Portugal take the Nations League seriously."
The only thing we know is that Spain is European champion and played brilliantly against good teams there. Since then, there hasn't been a proper competition.