Paris (AFP)
The final day of the playoffs on Tuesday will give birth to the 20th qualifier for the Euro-2020: who from Hungary, Wales or Slovakia will win the ultimate ticket distributed via these qualifications?
Nineteen plus one who make twenty. Before the March play-offs, which will offer the last tickets for the competition to four of the sixteen designated jumpers via the League of Nations, the first wave of qualifying ends.
While two new selections will validate their qualification on Monday, in addition to the 17 already known, the 20th and last ticket will be played in group E, that of Croatia, already assured to finish first. Hungary, Wales and Slovakia all have a chance to get it.
If there is a winner in the Wales - Hungary match, this one will see the Euro. If the opposition give birth to a draw, then the Slovaks could rush into the breach to qualify, provided they win against Azerbaijan.
Moreover, in other groups already decanted, Germany, against Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, against Estonia, compete for first place. The Germans have the advantage with for the moment two points ahead of the Dutch.
Poland and Belgium, in their respective groups, are already assured of finishing first, but they will want to impose themselves to maximize their chances of being seeded for the draw of November 30, which promises to be extremely complex, especially because of the geographic constraints of this Euro organized in twelve cities of Europe. Indeed, the organizing countries, if they are qualified, are automatically divided into pairs (Denmark and Russia in the same group, Spain and Ireland too, etc ...).
Finally, the evening of Tuesday will know the sixteen teams who will compete in March the last four tickets in dams. Their identity depends on the results of the League of Nations, this new UEFA competition launched after the last World Cup. The barrages will know their fate on November 22 during the draw of the dams.
The matches on Tuesday (20:45 / 19:45 GMT)
. Group C
Netherlands - Estonia
Germany - Northern Ireland
. Group E
Wales - Hungary
Slovakia - Azerbaijan
. Group G
Poland - Slovenia
Latvia - Austria
North Macedonia - Israel
. Group I
Belgium - Cyprus
San Marino - Russia
Scotland - Kazakhstan
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