Euro 2024 will be played without many stars. Who will definitely miss or could miss the tournament?

Euro 2024 will be played without many stars. Who will definitely miss or could miss the tournament?

Nikita Paglazov November 23, 2023, 22:00 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.

Haaland and Odegaard are already guaranteed not to play in Germany.

The qualifying phase for Euro 2024 has come to an end. 21 of the 24 teams that will participate in the final phase in Germany are known. The remaining three tickets will be played in the Nations League playoffs for places in the Euro Cup. And which of the stars will definitely not play at the European Championship or is at risk of not making it after the qualifying matches?

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Norway: Erling Haaland (Manchester City), Martin Odegaard (Arsenal)

Martin Odegaard and Erling Haaland

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Last season’s top scorer and player in the Premier League + Arsenal captain is one of the main casualties of the Euro Cup. There is no doubt that Haaland and Odegaard would have graced the tournament in Germany. However, the Norwegian team performed poorly in qualifying. In qualifying group A, the Norwegians occupied third place, six points behind Scotland and 10 behind Spain. Furthermore, Norway, in fact, lost its chances of winning the Euro Cup after three rounds, winning only one point in them. Haaland scored six goals in five games and Odegaard scored 2 (1 + 1) points for his performance in seven games. Norway does not have enough class of other footballers to qualify for the World Cup or the European Championship. A classic problem for teams with one or two superstars and an average overall level. Haaland and Odegaard need to play the team’s best football to reach the big tournament. And so far this hasn’t worked. Norway will not even benefit from the Nations League playoffs: it does not participate in them.

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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Georgia)

Jvicha Kvaratskelia

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The leader of the champion Napoli and the Georgian national team did not help the team to reach the European Championship through the qualifying tournament. The Georgians also played in Group A with Spain, Scotland and Norway. Willy Sagnol’s team scored only eight points, having long ago lost their chances of being in the top two. Khvicha became Georgia’s top scorer, scoring four goals in eight games. However, this was not enough. It is true that, unlike Norway, Georgia still has a chance to reach the European Championship. In the League of Nations, the team took first place in group 4 of the C league and will participate in the playoffs for the right to qualify for the European Championship. In the first match, the Georgians will play at home against Luxembourg. And if they win, they will face the winner of the Greece-Kazakhstan pair. So we still have a chance to see Kvaratskhelia in Germany!

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Robert Lewandowski (Poland)

Robert Lewandowski

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The Polish team has a difficult history with the Euro Cup. In the 2021 tournament, the team placed last and fourth in the group along with Sweden, Spain and Slovakia. And in qualifying for Euro 2024, the Poles finished third in not the most difficult company: Albania, Czech Republic, Moldova and the Faroe Islands. Poland only managed to pick up one point in two games against the Moldovans and also lost to the Czech Republic and Albania. And Lewandowski did not show the best football: only three goals in six games. However, Poland, like Georgia, has a chance of reaching the European Championship. To do this, it is necessary to achieve two victories in the Nations League playoffs. In the first match, the draw determined that Estonia would be the rival. And then we will have to beat the winner of the Wales-Finland duet.

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Aaron Ramsey (Wales)

Aaron Ramsey

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The bronze medalist of the 2016 European Championship did not help Wales in the last matches of the Welsh in the national team. This is Ramsey’s knee injury, which has kept him out of action for the national team and Cardiff City since mid-September. Aaron will return to action in December so he can help Wales in their Nations League play-off match against Finland. If the Welsh beat the Finns, they will face the winner of the Poland-Estonia match in the qualifying final. And in qualifying for Euro 2024, Wales missed out to Turkey and Croatia and ultimately finished third. Ramsey played five games and scored a goal against the Latvians in September 2023.

Alexander Isak, Dejan Kulusevski, Victor Lindelof (Sweden)

Dejan Kulusevski

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The Swedish team made the playoffs in the last Euro Cup, but will not play in the tournament in Germany. The blue-yellows experienced a disastrous qualifying phase. The Swedes finished third in Group F, losing 9 and 10 points to Austria and Belgium, respectively. The team could not show consistent football and lost too many games: four. The leaders were not much help. The top scorer was Sporting forward Victor Gyokeres, who scored four goals. And after failing to qualify, Janne Andersson left the position of head coach of the Swedish national team. The League of Nations will not come to the aid of the Swedes. In it, on the contrary, they took fourth place in the B league group and will play in the next division in the lower division. In general, there is a crisis in the Swedish team.

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Edin Dzeko, Miralem Pjanic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Edin Dzeko

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Bosnians have never qualified for the European Championship in history. In the qualifying round for Euro 2024, the team failed and finished only fifth in Group J. Bosnia missed out on Portugal, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Iceland. Poor performance: only nine points in 10 rounds. But the Bosnians are saved by the League of Nations. The team took first place in the B league group, so it will play in the playoffs for the right to qualify for the Euro Cup. In the first match Bosnia and Herzegovina will play against Ukraine. If they win, the Bosnians will face the winner of the Israel-Iceland duo. Will we wait for the “last dance” of veteran stars Edin Dzeko and Miralem Pjanic?

Alexander Zinchenko, Mikhail Mudrik (Ukraine)

Alexander Zinchenko in the Ukrainian national team

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The Ukrainian national team ended the qualifying phase for Euro 2024 with a scandal. In the last round, Sergei Rebrov’s team fought for a direct blow with Italy. In the 90+3 minute, Italian defender Brian Cristante could have committed a foul on Ukrainian winger Mikhail Mudrik in his own area, but referee Jesús Gil Manzano did not call a foul. The episode caused a stir. Furthermore, if a penalty was awarded and a goal was scored, it was Ukraine that qualified for the European Championship. However, the team of Zinchenko and Mudryk can still finish in the tournament in Germany. Ukraine will play in the Nations League playoffs. The first opponent is Bosnia and Herzegovina. If they win, the Ukrainians will face the winner of the Israel-Iceland match.

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