UEFA Nations League 2024/2025

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League C, Group 1 (C1)
Slovakia v Estonia
Anton Malatinsky Stadium, Trnava

Just the one goal was enough to decide the match, though Estonia held on for 72 minutes before Slovakia put one past them to take the game.

Result: Slovakia 1 - 0 Estonia

League C, Group 1 (C1)
Sweden v Azerbaijan
Strawberry Arena, Solna

Finishing on a high in every sense, Sweden racked up the second-highest score of the tournament so far, scoring in the tenth minute, but it was a tale of two strikers, Tottenham's Kulusevski getting the first goal, while Gyokeres scored twice more in the half, to put Sweden 3-0 up at the break. No let-up for Azerbaijan as the Spurs man scored again on 57 minutes with his partner slamming their fourth, and his hat-trick, in one minute later. Gyokeres then netted his fourth of the night, Sweden's sixth, twenty minutes from time. Azerbaijan blown away, and hit, as they say, for six.

Result: Sweden 6 -0 Azerbaijan

League C1 table: Sweden top the table with 16 points and proceed, and are promoted to League B. In second place, Slovakia with 13 points manage a qualification play-off, Estonia are third with 4 points and shell-shocked Azerbaijan go home and are relegated to the depths of League D, a single point to their name.

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League D, Group 2 (D2)
Malta v Andorra
National Stadium, Ta'Qali

Could have been an intense match, full of missed chances, dodgy decisions and balls coming back off the post, though I doubt it. Can't tell you anything though as it ended 0-0.

Result: Malta 0 - 0 Andorra


League D2 table: Moldova top the table with 9 points and qualify for the next round, are promoted to League C, while Malta are second with 7 points and may manage to get through via the promotion play-offs. Andorra at the bottom of the table with a truly miserable 1 point, but as there's nowhere to go, can't be relegated. That's as far as they go though.

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All three of them?

You know they scored against England once? Went 1-0 up after 10 seconds or something stupid like that.

Hah yes maybe I should have said on the street of the City of San Marino, but it just doesn't have the same ring does it? "Here I go, here I go, here I go!" etc. Yeah I know they shocked England before (won't lie: I cheered) but this is their greatest ever achievement, so they deserve their sore heads in the morning.

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So then


But before I close, let's do a quick recap of where we are:

Through to the quarter-finals (in alphabetical order):

Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Italy
Moldova
Netherlands
Northern Ireland
North Macedonia
Norway
Portugal
San Marino
Spain
Sweden
Wales

Eliminated (letters in brackets equals relegation status, first letter is the league they were playing in, second is the league they've been relegated to)

Albania (B/C)
Andorra
Azerbaijan (C/D)
Bosnia (A/B)
Finland (B/C)
Israel (A/B)
Kazakhstan (B/C)
Liechtenstein
Lithuania (C/D)
Montenegro (B/C)
Poland (A/B)
Switzerland (A/B)

May qualify through play-off games:

Armenia
Austria
Bulgaria
Gibraltar
Greece
Kosovo
Malta
Slovakia
Turkey
Ukraine

May avoid relegation via play-offs:

Belgium
Iceland
Republic of Ireland
Georgia
Hungary
Latvia
Luxembourg
Scotland
Serbia
Slovenia

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See you next March!