Seems a but suspect to me, Its like they pulled Portugual out and then pulled out The Netherlands and suddenly said thats the 1st team of the 2nd semi.
I mean in no other knockout draw do you pull out teams for different matches, it makes no sense
You could fly to Vigo in Spain just north of the border and drive south to Porto/Guimaraes. Flights about £100 cheaper but it’s a longer drive to Guimaraes by about 45 minutes.
Have persuaded the wife to take our summer holidays to Portugal 2nd to 12th June, happy days! Will meet some mates out there for the games but rest of the time we will tour northern Portugal in a hire car, trying to make an itinerary now.
One possible problem, - getting tickets! I'm not an England Travel Club member, £65 joining fee, no guarantee of a ticket. I'm guessing with no caps its unlikely would get one anyway. Have signed up to the Eufa ticket web site.
Have persuaded the wife to take our summer holidays to Portugal 2nd to 12th June, happy days! Will meet some mates out there for the games but rest of the time we will tour northern Portugal in a hire car, trying to make an itinerary now.
One possible problem, - getting tickets! I'm not an England Travel Club member, £65 joining fee, no guarantee of a ticket. I'm guessing with no caps its unlikely would get one anyway. Have signed up to the Eufa ticket web site.
Any advice on getting tickets ?
The correct amount of members is 10046
So not every member will travel and it is always done on a 70% caps table 30% ballot method although the time to apply for tickets stops on 8th January - not every member will travel you do get 2 caps for attending Wembley fixtures.
Have persuaded the wife to take our summer holidays to Portugal 2nd to 12th June, happy days! Will meet some mates out there for the games but rest of the time we will tour northern Portugal in a hire car, trying to make an itinerary now.
One possible problem, - getting tickets! I'm not an England Travel Club member, £65 joining fee, no guarantee of a ticket. I'm guessing with no caps its unlikely would get one anyway. Have signed up to the Eufa ticket web site.
Any advice on getting tickets ?
UEFA website is doing a ballot, you can join for free.
If me and my mates can get tickets it’ll be a bonus. We are going for 4 days for the beer, sun and atmosphere. With the Dutch and Swiss in town as well, I think it’ll be a great weekend.
Not sure if players in the Champions League Final will be selected or not but tonight’s (and tomorrow’s) game will have a big say in this summers tournament.
Netherlands vs England just 5 days after the CL final.
if players miss out we would be without the likes of Henderson, Gomez, TAA while the Dutch would be missing Wijnaldum and VVD
even more impact tomorrow night. Depending on who wins Spurs/Ajax could see a national team decimated
Southgate said that players would be selected; only those who turn out in the Champions League Final would disrupt his plans slightly as they'd join the squad late
The Champions League Final is always end of May or early June and there are always international fixtures in the 2nd week of June. So nothing has changed date wise. the issue is the international fixtures in June are usually friendlies
plus one of the big games is Netherlands v England and an Ajax/Spurs v Liverpool final make up large amounts of those squads. If it was Juventus v Barca in the final it wouldn’t make a big difference to the Nations League. just bad timing for UEFA that England/Dutch players are performing so well for club and country.
After the last premier league game, Liverpool have 20 days rest until the CL final, as will Spurs if they make it. Ajax will have 16 days after their last league game.
So playing the CL final and then the Nations league the week after really won't be an issue.
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1st team out in semi 1, 2nd team in semi 2.
But why? lol
This is just about winning the nations league and getting a nice trophy for the cabinet.
Nothing to do with qualifying at all
just got an email you can apply for a
semi final ticket
or
a 3rd place/final ticket
or both
of course to buy one officially you need to be an england travel club member
Will meet some mates out there for the games but rest of the time we will tour northern Portugal in a hire car, trying to make an itinerary now.
One possible problem, - getting tickets! I'm not an England Travel Club member, £65 joining fee, no guarantee of a ticket.
I'm guessing with no caps its unlikely would get one anyway. Have signed up to the Eufa ticket web site.
Any advice on getting tickets ?
So not every member will travel and it is always done on a 70% caps table 30% ballot method although the time to apply for tickets stops on 8th January - not every member will travel you do get 2 caps for attending Wembley fixtures.
If me and my mates can get tickets it’ll be a bonus. We are going for 4 days for the beer, sun and atmosphere. With the Dutch and Swiss in town as well, I think it’ll be a great weekend.
Netherlands vs England just 5 days after the CL final.
if players miss out we would be without the likes of Henderson, Gomez, TAA while the Dutch would be missing Wijnaldum and VVD
even more impact tomorrow night. Depending on who wins Spurs/Ajax could see a national team decimated
I want to see us up against the likes of VVD, De Ligt and De Jong.
the issue is the international fixtures in June are usually friendlies
plus one of the big games is Netherlands v England and an Ajax/Spurs v Liverpool final make up large amounts of those squads. If it was Juventus v Barca in the final it wouldn’t make a big difference to the Nations League.
just bad timing for UEFA that England/Dutch players are performing so well for club and country.
After the last premier league game, Liverpool have 20 days rest until the CL final, as will Spurs if they make it. Ajax will have 16 days after their last league game.
So playing the CL final and then the Nations league the week after really won't be an issue.