The group stage of Euro 2024 has now concluded, and the 16 remaining groups all know their pathway to potential glory in Berlin on 14 July.
Ten Liverpool gamers went to the match and 7 nonetheless stay. Andy Robertson, Dominik Szoboszlai and Vitezslav Jaros have all returned residence dissatisfied with their nations’ early exits, however for a number of of their Reds teammates, the European dream stays alive.
For these nonetheless concerned within the competitors, let’s have a look at their potential routes to the ultimate, which can be useful for anybody trying to place a guess on Euro 2024.
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On one facet of the draw, Diogo Jota’s Portugal meet Slovenia, whereas Ibrahima Konate and France tackle Belgium, with each matches going down subsequent Monday (1 July). Ought to the 2 Liverpool gamers style victory, they’ll come up towards one another within the quarter-finals.
The winner of that can doubtless face both Spain or Germany within the final 4, with La Roja going through Georgia and the hosts taking up Denmark. Supplied that there isn’t an upset alongside the best way, we needs to be in for a heavyweight semi-final pairing.
Netherlands have the largest LFC involvement at Euro 2024 with Virgil van Dijk, Cody Gakpo and Ryan Gravenberch all within the squad. They’ll come up towards Group E winners Romania within the spherical of 16 on Tuesday 2 July, the place a win would see them advance to a quarter-final towards Austria or Turkiye.
Elsewhere on that facet of the draw, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez will probably be hoping that England can drastically enhance on their limp group stage performances once they face Slovakia on Sunday night.
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If Gareth Southgate’s males can come by means of that sport, they’ll meet both Switzerland or Italy within the final eight, with the presence of the latter providing a possibility to actual revenge for defeat within the Euro 2020 ultimate.
There’s duly the likelihood for heavy Liverpool involvement in one of many Euro 2024 semi-finals if it’s to be Netherlands towards England, with as many as 5 members of Arne Slot’s squad doubtlessly arising towards one another in Dortmund on 10 July.
We may nonetheless see each finalists that includes gamers from Anfield, which’d make sure that an LFC participant lifts the Henri Delaunay trophy for the primary time since 2012, when Pepe Reina was a part of the Spain squad which gained back-to-back titles.
There’s quite a lot of soccer to be performed earlier than the ultimate, although, and it’s theoretically attainable that every one seven Reds concerned within the spherical of 16 could possibly be gone residence previous to the quarter-finals. They’ll clearly be praying that doesn’t occur, even when it’d definitely assist with Slot’s pre-season preparations!
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