After many months of interruption, the national team’s football finally resumed this month despite all the problems related to the COVID-19 restrictions. The UEFA nations league 2020/2021 started with the matchdays 1 and 2. All the games were played under closed doors, many teams lost some player because of its positivity, and even a team (Czech Republic) had the whole team and staff forced to the quarantine after the first game, with a completely new team deployed for the second match.
However all the games were played as scheduled and the ranking for the european teams moved. The nations league has, for the FWR ranking, an importance factor lower than the continental qualifiers, but bigger than the friendlies. This was enough to see some interesting movement in the new ranking.
Portugal is the team with the better points increment of the month (+38,379). With the two wins against Croatia and Sweden, both teams with a good ranking, they climbed 3 positions until the 7th place of the current FWR ranking. Two wins for Belgium and France too, that preserve the first and second place in the ranking. Italy, that initially scored a draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina, has mantained is fifth place thanks to a brilliant win in the second match against Netherlands. England too remains stable at 4th place with a little increment of points.
The bigger increment in ranking’s position is for the Faroe islands (+6) with two wins in their league D games against Malta and Andorra they gained from the position 146 to 140. Good increments too for Russia (+5, from 22 to 17), Montenegro (+5, from 79 to 74), Greece (+4, from 55 to 51) and Romania (+4, from 45 to 41). Cyprus was instead the team that lost the great number of points and positions, losing both the home games against Montenegro and Azerbaijan. -42,661, down from position 101 to the current 111. San Marino remains largely the worst team in Europe losing both the games, the first in Gibraltair and the second at home with Liechtestein.
The next update will be after the FIFA international window of october, were are scheduled the EURO2021 play-offs and the matchdays 3 and 4 of the Uefa Nations League. Some friendly match too start again too reappear in the match calendar. Regarding the WC2022 qualifiers, no news at the moment from the South American confederation, so the october games are still scheduled. The confederations of North, central america and caribbean and the Asian football confederation announced already that all the games originally scheduled in october are postponed to 2021.
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