UEFA Euro 2024 Group D expectations for France & Netherlands ⚽ | ESPN FC

UEFA Euro 2024 Group D expectations for France & Netherlands ⚽ | ESPN FC

Mario Melchiot, Ale Moreno, Frank Leboeuf and Steve Nicol join Dan Thomas on ESPN FC to discuss UEFA Euro 2024 Group D.

0:00 Expectations for France
9:32 Expectations for Netherlands
15:40 Odds to win UEFA Euro 2024

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[macmini]

I honestly think the Dutch could sneak there way into the finals

[modelt]

I don't know, Malen, Frimpong, Maatsen, Vd Ven, Xavi, that's a lot of extremely good new talent, three of them have played European finals this year so they are already experienced and they are all in top form.
And then you have all those extremely experienced gentlemen walking around from Liverpool, City, AC Milan, Inter, Munich, etc.
I think you should certainly not underestimate them

[ulfanfinneriksen]

The Netherlands have a very strong defense.

[martijn_yt]

Interesting how Frank Leboeuff does not mention the Netherlands convincingly beating Canada with 4 - 0 while France struggled against them ;)
The last serious match between France and the Netherlands was also already surpringly close (2-1). Since that match, the dutch team has kept on improving, and adding many young talents. In contrast, France has a shown some inconsistent performances lately, which is often the case with experienced teams that have already won many prizes. France needs to be carefull not to repeat what happened to the 'invincible' reigning World and European champions Spain in the 2014 WC ;)

[itsamenl]

There are many strong teams this tournament. Its going to be exciting.

[Lanka_]

Koopmeiners injured is a big loss. I felt him playing would be a good connection with the speed they got now on the flanks. Reijnders is great but a different type of player. Koopmeiners really has the strenght and drive to go forward and can even drift into wide positions. Wijnaldum is a player who can do this task, but he does not have the form at all.

[londresparis_]

4 teams in the group and ESPN only talk about two? Or is it the YouTube edit? I would have liked to see them talk about all four teams in each group I find it really disrespectful.

[lewisconnor]

ESPN are disrespectful to most teams/countries that are not their favourites but surely to do an analysis/preview of a group you need to discuss all 4 teams and not just the top 2 nations in the group 😮

[georgebush]

People keep overlooking France's midfield. Its very thin, Rabiot hasn't had a good season, Tchouameni is injured, Kante isn't fully match fit. And they don't have any backup to Griezmann.

[rmyikzelf]

Scoring goals is going to be a problem for the Netherlands? 4 against Scotland, Canada, Iceland. Frenkie has been out for some time now. Missing Koopmeijners is much more of a problem.

[jcszn]

Frank in the studio wow that's gonna be fun

[martijn_yt]

The Netherlands convincingly beats Canada with 4 - 0 while France struggled to a 0 - 0, but the Netherlands is the team that can't score goals ? ;)

But serioysly, I dont understand the concern about tbe goal scoring ability of the dutch team. We may not have an absolute top striker at te moment, but Depay does get close if he is completely fit. Besides Depay, we have three pure strikers in Malen, Brobbey, and Bergwijn, while Weghorst becomes a genuine goal machine in an orange jersey. More importantly however, is the enormous scoring potential of our midfield (Simons, Gakpo, Reijnders, Veerman and our defense with (VVD, Frimpong, Dumfries, de Ligt). I would almost say that the ability to score goals is a specific strength of the current Dutch team ;)

(i think France also needs to be really carefull not to repeat what happened to the 'invincible' reigning World and European champions Spain in the 2014 WC ;))

[yulanluo]

My prediction
France 1st
Netherlands 2nd
Austria 3rd
Poland 4th

[EricEscander]

"You really have to dig to find reasons as to why this French team won't win it" As a French man I can give you some reasons. And many French will agree with these reasons: Deschamps, Kolo Muani, Kounde, Upamecano, Thuram. These guys should not be on the team and Deschamps is too stubborn to admit it. Also if France wins all there games in 90, and they are very capapble of doing so, thats their key to the Euro cup. But if a team can hold them past 90, history says they'll lose. Happened in 2016, 2021, and 2022. Thats because Deschamps cannot pick a good enough bench to save his life. And thats with a country thats overloaded with talent.

[md]

Might be Croatia, France, Netherlands, Portugal or Spain in semi finals

[mamadousy]

Frank is very right about that
EVERYTIME France is big favorite
They crash badly
2002 WC we beat them the first game when they were defending Champions

[SSization]

Stevie, at 6:50 mins, think you were looking for 2 words: Harry Maguire:)

[private_krapfen]

You know Austria and Poland is in group D too, you didn't even mention there names ones, i hope this arrogance will backfire.😏

[Wladislav]

France and Portugal are the only 2 teams without a weakness in the squad, followed by Spain and The Netherlands a tier below.

[Uzi]

dont forget the dutch ....the know how to stay in the tournament.