People saying Serbia worse than Scotland, and a weak opponent.. made me seek out how each Euro 24 stands by FIFA ranking.
FIFA ranking is a bit of a lagging measure, in that Germany and Spain have some young stars coming through who are only now making their impact.
https://www.sportingnews.com/uk/football/news/fifa-rankings-euro-2024-teams-socc
So Serbia have 8 teams worse than them in a 24 team tournament. And in Vlahovic and others some real quality. And Scotland below them.
But key is that frankly any team that makes the final has some quality - errrrr Scotland performance not adding weight to my argument!! - but I thought both Slovenia and Albania have good accounts of themselves at times.
Beating Serbia is an achievement, yes we didn’t blow them away like Germany did Scotland. But the Serbs didn’t fold.
But the real concern is some of the quality at the top of those rankings. It’s a really strong field for me with Portugal, France and Spain.
And I think we’ll really see what England can do against Denmark. Slovenia proved the point of this post. But I think Denmark showed some real quality at times, that will be a step up from Serbia.
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