ENGLAND
England is the one nation to nonetheless have all groups lively – there are 9 of them into the final 16 throughout the three competitions.
Will probably be very laborious for England to throw it away from this place, even with Tottenham and Liverpool dropping within the first leg of the Champions League final 16.
However nothing ought to be fully taken without any consideration, as England appeared destined to get an EPS slot in 2023-24 solely to endure a horrible set of leads to the quarter-finals.
As an image of how far England is forward, German golf equipment are successfully 16 wins behind, for Spanish sides it’s 19 wins. Then for the Italian groups it’s 18 victories.
GERMANY
The Bundesliga is effectively positioned to take an EPS slot alongside England with 5 of its seven groups lively.
Germany’s possibilities have been aided by its 4 groups within the Champions League and Europa League being positioned in reverse sides of the brackets. It means they can’t meet till the ultimate.
Bayern look positive to progress within the Champions League after profitable 6-1 at Atalanta.
SPAIN
With eight groups in Europe, Spain wanted to have a robust marketing campaign.
Probabilities have been severely broken by Villarreal and Athletic Membership’s Champions League elimination.
Whereas Spain has six groups nonetheless lively going into the final 16, because it had eight groups to start out with, every win is value much less to the coefficient than these of their rivals for second place.
Atletico Madrid and Barcelona might meet within the Champions League quarter-finals, plus Celta Vigo and Actual Betis within the Europa League semis. This might have an effect on their possibilities.
With three England v Spain fixtures within the Champions League final 16, La Liga goes to should do it the laborious means.
However wins for Atletico (v Tottenham) and a draw for Barcelona (at Newcastle) means they’re undoubtedly nonetheless in rivalry.
ITALY
Serie A has misplaced three of its seven groups and now solely has a slim likelihood of creating the highest two.
Bologna and Roma will face one another within the Europa League final 16, so one other crew will exit.
With Atalanta dropping closely at residence to Bayern within the Champions League, it’s trying like a three-horse race for the 2 spots.
PORTUGAL
Portugal’s possibilities of making the highest two have been successfully over when Santa Clara have been knocked out of the Convention League within the qualifying rounds.
It nonetheless has three groups lively however will want all of them to go deep to bother the highest two.
POLAND
It can come as a shock to many to seek out Poland so excessive up within the desk, and that it was within the high two for some time. However Poland doesn’t have a practical likelihood.
All 4 of the nation’s groups have been taking part in within the Convention League, whereas over a 3rd of its factors have been picked up within the qualifying rounds.
Its ultimate two groups are in the identical half of the bracket.
FRANCE
It has been a disappointing season for Ligue 1 groups, beginning with Good’s failure to make it by way of Champions League qualifying.
It didn’t get significantly better from there for Good, as they have been then eradicated from the Europa League.
France does have 4 groups nonetheless lively however appears unlikely to bridge the hole.
GREECE
Greece has solely two groups left in Europe so won’t be able to mount a problem.
No different nation has a mathematical likelihood of the highest two.
