Spain’s victory against Scotland on Thursday evening is not insignificant for the French team, since La Roja could end up accompanying the Blues in the seeded hat of the draw for the Euro 2024.
With its five victories in as many matches in the Euro 2024 qualifiers (before the shock in the Netherlands on Friday evening), the France team is not only in a strong position to qualify. Didier Deschamps’ Blues also have a good chance of being one of the six seeds in the draw for the competition organized in Germany next year.
The hats for the draw for the European Nations Championship are determined by the results of the qualifications and France, barring disaster, will be in this first pot with Germany (the host country) as well as Portugal, England and Belgium. Quality teams that the 2022 world vice-champions will therefore avoid during the group stage of the Euro.
This could also be the case for Spain. La Roja snatched an extremely valuable victory against Scotland (2-0), Thursday in Seville, thanks to goals from Alvaro Morata (73rd) and Oihan Sancet (86th). The Spaniards are three points behind the Scots, but with one game less, and can easily finish at the top of this group, to then climb into the hat of the top seeds in the draw.
For the Blues, during the draw on December 2, it will then be necessary to avoid Denmark, Switzerland, Croatia, the Netherlands and Italy (if they qualify), who will be in hats 2 and 3 .
The top seeds according to We Global Football projections:
Germany (host country), Portugal, France, England, Belgium, Spain
Euro 2024 projected pots according to predicted standings.
– Spain predicted to finish above Scotland
– Denmark predicted to be top of the group
– Croatia predicted to finish above Türkiye
– Czechia, Finland, Israel predicted to qualify
(predictions per @We_Global) pic.twitter.com/W0G9FLhvnf
— Football Rankings (@FootRankings) October 13, 2023
