Top national teams that surprised in the 2024-2025 Nations League groups

Post by **YorkshireSquare** » Sun Dec 01, 2024 4:46 pm

The group stage in the Nations League has been completed. Some teams have been automatically relegated or promoted in the division. Others will have to play transition matches for promotion or relegation. The top teams in Division A will play to win the tournament. But in each of the divisions, some events surprised the football community. These events will be the subject of our article.

San Marino

The national team of this country is usually talked about quite a little. They rarely score points in various tournaments. The creation of the League of Nations allowed the team to play with opponents, where analysts even make successful football tips predictions on their matches not only taking into account possible defeats.

In the current Nations League, the team has not only scored more than 1 goal. It has managed to:

pick up 2 wins;
get promoted to Division C;
score 3 goals in one match.

And all of these are historic achievements for this national team. Of course, San Marino is unlikely to stay in Division C for long. But stories about small teams that surprise the world make fans love this team. And the inhabitants of this country allow for the first time to be proud of their players and to see their real results on the field.

Romania

This national team surprised everyone at Euro 2024 when they managed to get out of a difficult group. But in the Nations League, they swept away all their opponents. At the same time, the teams in general were about the level of the Romanian national team. But surprisingly, this team:

won all their matches;
scored 18 goals;
conceded only 3 goals.

If we ignore the scandal in the last match against Kosovo, where the game was not finished, the team has shown itself to be as positive as possible. On many platforms, including xGscore.io, Romania was considered a favorite for promotion to Division B. But the fact that no one could compete with them surprised all the fans.

Ukraine

After the first matches, it seemed that this national team would be out of Division B. In fact, until the last round, the Ukrainians could not find their game. The team regularly failed in one of the halves and attempts to play ball control did not lead to anything good.

However, victories over Georgia and Albania, as well as draws with the Czech Republic and Georgia, allowed them to move into second place. However, if you look at their matches, even in the lost matches the team lost only 1 goal. Therefore, in the matches of the Ukraine national team, it was possible to bet that both teams to score.

Now the team will fight for promotion to Division A with Belgium and will stay at least in Division B. At least this surprised the football community.

Scotland

In Division A, it initially seemed that Scotland would only stay for one season and would be the main contender for relegation to Division B. But surprisingly this team has managed to take points away from each of their opponents. Even Portugal played them to a nil-nil draw.

Now Scotland will have to play a transition match with Greece for the right to stay in Division A. But the fact that the team is only 1 point behind Croatia and could have made the playoffs and fought for victory in the Nations League surprised all the fans. Especially, when you consider that after the first 3 rounds they had 0 points.

Conclusion

Of course, this article does not include all the national teams that managed to surprise the world football community in the Nations League. The Czech Republic, which managed to go directly to the A division, Georgia, which until the last moment had every chance to do so, and Greece, which defeated England in one of the matches, are also not deprived of this status. But the teams we mentioned surprised us most of all with their final results. Therefore, they deservedly became the main creators of football news in the current Nations League.