Spain's historic triumph over Germany allows Luis Enrique's men to participate for the first time in the final four of the UEFA Nations League which will be played in the month of October next year. The National Team brilliantly becomes the second classified after France arrived on this last day with their pass secured as Group 3 champions. This Wednesday the other two countries that will complete the table participating in the final phase of the UEFA Nations League will be decided.
Group 1, Italy (nine points), Holland (eight) and Poland (seven) will play the pass. Italy will visit Bosnia. If they achieve victory, they will be classified. The Netherlands and Poland, meanwhile, face off in Chorzów with the need to win and the hope that Roberto Mancini's men will fail. If the Netherlands win, it is enough for Italy to draw to be in the final phase, while the Poles are only worth the defeat of ‘Azorra’ for their hypothetical victory against ‘Oranje’ to serve them.
The other group that will decide its champion this Wednesday is number 2. Belgium and Denmark play it in Leuven. Roberto Martínez's men will come to the match against the Danes with a two-point advantage, so it will be worth a draw to reach the final four.
When and where is the Final Four played?
The dates for the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League finals were set at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in September this year. It was decided that The semi-finals will be played on October 6 and 7, 2021, and the final and the match for third place on October 10, 2021.
So far, the setting chosen to celebrate the UEFA finals is unknown and it will be the group stage who decides which team will play the host role in the final stage of the tournament. However, the winner of Group 1 is the favorite to host the Final Four.
What happened in the first edition?
Till the date, Portugal is the only team to have the Nations League in its record after winning the first edition in Porto. CRistiano Ronaldo and Company prevailed in the final to Holland. England was third and Switzerland finished fourth. Cristiano Ronaldo was the top scorer, Bernardo Silva took the award for best player and Frankie De Jong turned out to be the best young player of the tournament.
For its part, Spain began the championship with a firm step towards the final phase, as it reaped two important victories against England (1-2) and Croatia (6-0). However, the course of the classification was twisted when Luis Enrique's men lost the last two games of this qualifying round by the same result (2-3). In this way, the six points obtained by Spain could not exceed the seven achieved by the English and La Roja remained at the gates of the final phase of this new competition.
Which teams are relegated?
If France and Spain represent the side of the coin, the cross is for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Sweden and Estonia, which are positioned as the last classified in their groups and will be relegated from the league, although Estonia will have to play a previous relegation play-off to decide its future in the competition.