2024-03-25 14:57:37
Wales or Poland? The Blues will face their third group opponent at Euro-2024
The French football team will face its third group opponent at Euro-2024 at the end of the play-off matches on Tuesday evening, which will also see Ukraine and Iceland as well as Georgia and the Greece.
The Welsh and Poles each made a card in the previous round on Thursday, respectively against Finland (4-1) and Estonia (5-1). The confrontation (8:45 p.m.) could be explosive, and the Blues could replay the images as soon as their friendly match ends against Chile on Tuesday.
The two nations are competing for one of the last three tickets to the final phase of the Euro, which will take place from mid-June to mid-July in Germany. The winner will join Group D including, in addition to France, the Netherlands and Austria.
Polish FC Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski is playing big at 35, for what could be one of the last international competitions of his career. During the triumph against Estonia, the former Bayern Munich player, although a starter, did not score.
For their part, the Welsh negotiated rather well after Gareth Bale, who retired at the start of 2023.
Ukraine against Iceland (8:45 p.m.) is also a great poster for these play-off “finals”. If it qualified, Ukraine, which has been fighting for two years against the Russian invasion, would give the Euro a form of geopolitical gravity.
As for Iceland, it dreams of replaying its good years of Euro-2016 (quarter-finals) and the World Cup-2018 (elimination in the first round). She will rely on Genoa striker Albert Gudmundsson, author of a hat-trick against Israel (4-1) in the previous round.
The winner of this “path B” will be placed in group E composed of Belgium, Slovakia and Romania.
In “path C”, trap match for Greece which will have to travel to Georgia (6:00 p.m.). But the Greek selection has the advantage of having destroyed Kazakhstan (5-0) in the previous round, and a benchmark match at the highest level against France on November 21 (2-2).
The winner will find Portugal, Turkey and the Czech Republic in Group F of the Euro.
The program this Tuesday:
(6:00 p.m.) Georgia-Greece
(20h45) Ukraine-Islande
Wales-Poland
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