“It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming, football’s coming home”, this song from English supporters should still resound from June 14 and at best until July 14 during this Euro 2024 played in Germany. Especially since England is considered the favorite team to lift the Henri Delaunay Cup next July. But to reach the final played at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, the selection of the Three Lions will have to get out of a group largely within its reach but at least homogeneous with Denmark, Serbia and Slovenia. Countries, matches, calendar, favorites… Here is everything you need to know about Group C of Euro 2024.
Group C teams
Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden, Harry Kane, Declan Rice and even Kyle Walker… Just reading the list of Gareth Southgate’s selection, theEngland will be eagerly awaited for this Euro 2024. After an undefeated qualifying campaign with Italy in their group, the Three Lions saw their status as big favorite climb little by little. But it will already be necessary to successfully enter the running against the Serbia, June 16. The selection of Serbian legend Dragan Stojković will discover the European Championship for the first time after she played in the 2010, 2018 and 2022 World Cups. During the qualifiers for this Euro 2024, the Orlovi (the Eagles) finished second behind Hungary and were able to rely on their best asset: the attack composed of Dusan Tadic (106 caps – 22 goals), Aleksandar Mitrovic (89 caps – 57 goals), Dusan Vlahovic (25 sel. – 13 goals) or Luka Jovic (33 sel. – 10 goals).
Surprise of the 2020 edition, the Denmark had reached the semi-finals, only losing to… England (2-1 ap). THE “Rød-Hvide” (the Reds and Whites) are an outsider not to be taken lightly for this Germanic edition. During the qualifiers, Kasper Hjulmand’s selection, which has an impressive winning percentage (63.27%), only lost two matches, one against Northern Ireland (2-0) and the other against Kazakhstan (2-3) to finish in first place in their group ahead of… the Slovenia what will the “Danish Dynamite” from its entry into the running on June 16. In 2024, Matjaž Kek’s selection remains with convincing victories against the United States (0-1) and Portugal (2-0) even if it remains the supposedly weakest team in this group C.
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Group C schedule
Sunday June 16
6 p.m.: Slovenia – Denmark (at the MHPArena in Stuttgart and live on bein Sports)
9 p.m.: Serbia – England (at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen and live on TF1)
Thursday June 20
3 p.m.: Slovenia – Serbia (at the Allianz Arena in Munich and live on bein Sports)
6 p.m.: Denmark – England (at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt and live on bein Sports)
Tuesday June 25
9 p.m.: England – Slovenia (at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne and live on M6)
9 p.m.: Denmark – Serbia (at the Allianz Arena in Munich and live on bein Sports)
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The favorite of group C
Unsurprisingly, England are largely the bookmakers’ favorites with odds of 1.35 to finish in first place in the group. Behind, Denmark (5) is ahead of Serbia (9) and my Slovenia (15). As a reminder, you will have to finish in one of the first two places to ensure a place in the round of 16. The third in the group can always hope to see the next round by appearing among the 4 best thirds in the group stage.
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The three players to follow in this group C
It’s difficult to single out a single individuality in the England collective, so it will be necessary to follow one of the best pairs in the world in midfield: Phil Foden And Jude Bellingham. The first mentioned was one of the great architects of Manchester City’s fourth consecutive Premier League title, he was also named best player of the 2023-2024 season. For the second, his first year at Real Madrid was crowned with the title of champion of Spain but above all a first Champions League to his record.
Alongside the trophies won by these two players, Rasmus Hojlund remains a little in the shadows despite a good first season under the colors of Manchester United crowned with an English Cup won against rival City (2-1). The Danish striker has still scored 16 goals in 43 matches and remains Denmark’s number 1 offensive asset with 7 goals in 12 matches.
He too could quickly find these three players mentioned above. In fact, the Slovenian Benjamin Sesko is announced by Arsenal after a prolific season under the colors of RB Leipzig (18 goals in 42 matches). At only 20 years old, Sesko is already the strong man of the Slovenian selection with 11 goals in 28 caps.
