hello friends I'm seeing you again for a new video on international football and the 2025 Nations League and that's it, let's go for this new Nations League and I'm going to present to you the Portugal against Croatia match, so it's a match which takes place this Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 8:45 p.m. on behalf of the first day in the 2024-2025 Nations League and group 1 so in this video well I will come back especially to the group 1 calendar with the teams in the group 1 we will also see the latest results for all competitions including the stats we will end with the team compositions and possible tactics which will allow us to have an idea of a trend for this meeting so for those who wish to see this match on TV know that you can see it on the team channel so in this group 1 friends there are four teams Croatia Poland Portugal and Scotland and so first day this September 5 a Portugal Croatia with at the same time Scotland against Poland the matches will take place from September 5 to November 18 with two matches in a row September 5 and 8 October 12 and 15 November 15 and 18 that's it and so it's going to be a rather interesting group so of course the favorites are still Portugal and Croatia but Poland will have their say and Scotland why not with a lot of young players so at the level of the last 10 results in all competitions Portugal is C wins draws three defeats 18 goals scored 11 goals conceded plus 7 of goal difference they arrived at the Euro Portugal I would say very very confident really with very good results and then after that well here is the course at the Euro in pool they behaved well they had a who against Georgia was last in the last match and then they qualified afterwards in the 8th final and they lost in the quarter-final against the French team, well, Portugal did not re-create a very very good Euro, let's say not up to par of what he wanted to hope for then that he was aiming for victory quite simply Croatia on his side in the last 10 matches 5in wins 3 draws defeats 16 goals for 11 count then 5 goal difference Croatia arrived at the Euro with good results and on the other hand they completely failed at the euro they lost against Spain 3-0 on the first day in the first match then Spain who after who won the euro eh they did 2-2 against Albania in the second match and one everywhere against Italy, in short they were eliminated in the group stage and it's true that they hoped for much better, they who finished 3rd in the last World Cup and 4th in the World Cup before they have players who are aging but there it is still a great nation with great people we have to see how it goes against Portugal for this resumption so in terms of compositions team and tactics for Portugal we would have 4 23 goalkeeper Diogo Costa field player Diogo d'O rumen Diaz Silva Nuno mendz vitinha palinha Bernardo Silva Bruno Fernandez Rafael Leao and Cristiano Ronaldo who would always a priori be present for Croatia we would have of 43 goalkeeper divakovic and field player grassic sutalok guardardiol Sosa modri who would be present again Suzi kovasic pasalic Ilas nusek and kramaric kramaric who started very very strong by scoring a lot of goals I don't know what championship he is in but I think that it's already four goals jeandre s is not in Germany with already four goals at the top of the scorers' ranking I don't know if it's yes I think it's maybe Germany anyway anyway there are still some great players friends from both sides it announces a great show for this resumption al the resumption matches sometimes it's not what we expect but here we are going to hope that it will be a great match and so I'll see you this Thursday September 5, 2024 at 2:45 a.m. for the football match of the first day of the 2025 Nations League and Group 1 Portugal receives Croatia, friends, I'll see you very soon for a new video