Poland and the Netherlands who face each other in the France group, one of the favorites, England, begins their Euro 2024 in the evening, here is the program for this Sunday June 16 in Germany.
Ambitious Netherlands against Poland deprived of Lewandowski
Before facing the Blues next week, the Netherlands begin their Euro 2024 campaign with optimism and appetite this Sunday in Hamburg (3 p.m.), against Poland weakened by Robert Lewandowski’s injury.
The two selections are playing an already decisive match in Group D where the France team, which will face Austria on Monday evening, is the ultra favorite. The meeting promises to be balanced between two nations which each won their two preparation matches, the Netherlands against Canada (4-0) and Iceland (4-0), Poland against Ukraine (3- 1) and Turkey (2-1).
“Our victories gave us confidence before facing a good Polish team,” said Batavian coach Ronald Koeman. “We are difficult to beat,” also warned Dutch defender Matthijs de Ligt, stressing that as is often the case, the selection included players from the best European clubs in its ranks.
The pragmatic Danes in search of a new lease of life in the face of
Coming out of the back door at the 2022 World Cup, the Danes, improbable winners of Euro 1992, are counting on experience and consistency to do well and repeat their performance of 2021, where they reached the last four.
Three years ago, the Reds and Whites had overcome the drama of the cardiac arrest of their playmaker Christian Eriksen and transformed their participation into a fantastic epic, going so far as to reach the semi-finals, lost at Wembley against the ‘England. Three years later, after a sluggish or even mediocre qualifying campaign, marked by a humiliating 2-3 conceded to Kazakhstan, they are ready to compete for the tenth Euro in their history.
A competition that they will begin this Sunday late afternoon in Stuttgart (6 p.m.) against the Tom Thumb of this competition, Slovenia. With a clear objective during this Euro: to create a surprise, even to be “dangerous” as in March, when they won against Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal, betting on their team spirit.
England at the crossroads of its dreams and doubts
The England of Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham has a good winning outlook at the Euro but also doubts to chase away, especially in defense, from Sunday (9:00 p.m.) against Serbia, a match considered risky by the authorities.
The European vice-champions begin their campaign in Gelsenkirchen with a golden squad and pressure to manage, three years after their final lost on penalties against Italy at home. “When you are one of the favorites, you have to appreciate this pressure,” goalkeeper Jordan Pickford said on Friday, already present as a starter at the 2018 World Cup (semi-final), Euro 2020 (final) and the 2022 World Cup. (quarters).
For coach Gareth Southgate, whose contract expires in December, it is a question of finally getting to the end of a major competition and offering England, the motherland of football, a title that it has been waiting for since the European Cup. world 1966.
