2022 World Cup Qualification discussion thread

[Nicky91]

Wednesday 23th March: Serbia vs Ireland, Belgium vs Wales, Gibraltar vs Norway



Thursday 24th March: England vs San Marino, Italy vs Northern Ireland, Scotland vs Austria



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(UEFA)

[Nicky91]

https://twitter.com/FA/status/1374335579148718087

[Calderyon]

Our group:

France
Ukraine
Finland
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Kazakhstan

I predict 4th place for us. Between 5-7 pts. seems realistic. France is easily going to be 1st. Ukraine and BIH fight for the 2nd place, but I think Ukraine will edge through in the end.

[Mystic Mock]

There's a lot of pressure on England not humiliating ourselves on Thursday.

With all due respect to San Marino.

[Calderyon]

San Marino's all time official record:

Games played-Wins-Draws-Losses-Goals For-Goals Against-Goal difference-Win%

174 1-6-167 24-730 −706 0.57


If England loses to San Marino, they might as well forfeit.

[Nicky91]

Turkey - Netherlands

well i can't see us winning that one


ok Cald, Finland - Bosnia & Herzegovina

well i must say i have been following Bosnian team recent years, and tbh they aren't bad, since they made their debut at 2014 world cup (also worthwhile mentioning they won their group in qualifying stage too)

could be a close call this one, since Finland made euro cup for this year whereas Bosnia has been unlucky so many times in play offs for euro cup 3 times in a row


Norway have it pretty easy at Gibraltar i think


same as Croatia also easy on paper, in balkan clash against Slovenia


Portugal i never really can say anything about that team, i mean they heavily rely on Ronaldo which is not very good to rely on one specific player but against Azeri's they should be fine (also fun fact many brazilians turned azeri in that team)

[Calderyon]

A draw or a Netherlands win in he Turkey v Netherlands match.

If Finland wants to get to Qatar, they need points from these two matches against Bosnia and Ukraine.
At least one of them is almost a must win. Two losses would be bad.
France is going to run this group and very possible with a maximum points count of 24. Maybe BIH and/or Ukraine can squeeze a draw out of them, but other than that, no chance.

[bots]

its crazy that there are so many parallel competitions going on at the same time

[Nicky91]

last night results

Turkey - Netherlands 4-2

Portugal - Azerbaijan 1-0

France - Ukraine 1-1

Serbia - Ireland 3-2

Belgium - Wales 3-1

Finland - Bosnia Herzegovina 2-2

Malta - Russia 1-3

Cyprus - Slovakia 0-0

Slovenia - Croatia 1-0

Estonia - Czech Republic 2-6

Latvia - Montenegro 1-2

Gibraltar - Norway 0-3

[MTVN]

Lingard hat trick incoming tonight

[Crimson Dynamo]

There's a lot of pressure on England not humiliating ourselves on Thursday.

With all due respect to San Marino.

there really isnt

[MTVN]

San Marino only lost 1 game in their last 3 you know

[MTVN]

An alternative fact: they have 1 goal in their last 25 games

[Crimson Dynamo]

San Marino only lost 1 game in their last 3 you know

gibraltar
latvia
liechtenstein

[MTVN]

gibraltar
latvia
liechtenstein

Can only draw against who's in front of you!

[Mystic Mock]

San Marino's all time official record:

Games played-Wins-Draws-Losses-Goals For-Goals Against-Goal difference-Win%

174 1-6-167 24-730 −706 0.57


If England loses to San Marino, they might as well forfeit.

I don't get why San Marino doesn't just poach some Italian players who are decent players but can't quite make the Italian side.

Just look at Jamaica with how many English born players they're taking.

[Mystic Mock]

Can only draw against who's in front of you!

Exactly.:laugh:

[MTVN]

In-ger-land!!!

[Nicky91]

you must have audiences with these matches



also San Marino wasn't too bad, was a fine save of the goalkeeper from a tricky shot of Chilwell :clap2:

[Nicky91]

today 5.000 people at Netherlands - Latvia :clap1: :clap1:

[Nicky91]

todays matches

15:00 CET

Russia - Slovenia

Montenegro - Gibraltar

18:00 CET

Netherlands - Latvia

Croatia - Cyprus

Belarus - Estonia

Norway - Turkey

20:45 CET

Czech Republic - Belgium

Serbia - Portugal

Ireland - Luxembourg

Slovakia - Malta



tomorrow's matches

Kazakhstan - France

Denmark - Moldova

Albania - England

Armenia - Iceland

Georgia - Spain

Switzerland - Lithuania

Bulgaria - Italy

Romania - Germany

Poland - Andorra

Austria - Faroe Islands

Israel - Scotland

San Marino - Hungary

North Macedonia - Liechtenstein

Ukraine - Finland

Kosovo - Sweden

[Nicky91]

so far

Russia - Slovenia 2-1

Montenegro - Gibraltar 2-1

[Denver]

Poor Niamh seeing her team lose to one of the worst national teams in the world

[MTVN]

Is that Luxembourg's first win since they beat Turkey to help Mike Bassett's England qualify for the World Cup

[MTVN]

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[Nicky91]

Poor Niamh seeing her team lose to one of the worst national teams in the world

:conf:

ummm, most of luxembourg squad is from Dudelange (that team who made group stage of europa league few years ago as first luxembourgish team)

[Cherie]

Terrible start :oh:

[bots]

i fully expect scotland to blow it as they are prone to do :laugh:

[Nicky91]

well Israel got our Zahavi :love: he scores so many goals for national team too

[Lewismacfarlane]

Scotland did well the other night

[Nicky91]

Scotland did well the other night

against whom? some random nation ranked no.1000 or something :joker:

[Nicky91]

England going to crush irrelevant nobodies Albania, i predict 0-13

:cheer2: :cheer2:

[Crimson Dynamo]

against whom? some random nation ranked no.1000 or something :joker:

didnt you lose to a seaside resort the other night?

[Nicky91]

good to have football with audiences back :flutter:

[Calderyon]

against whom? some random nation ranked no.1000 or something :joker:

They faced Austria whose most recent FiFA rank is 23rd in the World.

[Calderyon]

England going to crush irrelevant nobodies Albania, i predict 0-13

:cheer2: :cheer2:

Your prediction is going to be wrong.

[Nicky91]

Your prediction is going to be wrong.

if you can't demolish Albania, better give up

[Nicky91]

feel sad for Kazakhstan now :(

but yeah of course as to be expected, france the better team UGH :rolleyes:

[MTVN]

didnt you lose to a seaside resort the other night?

:joker:

[Niamh.]

Poor Niamh seeing her team lose to one of the worst national teams in the worldI'd much rather we didn't qualify, the team is so bad, it's embarrassing to watch [emoji879]

[Zizu]

I'd much rather we didn't qualify, the team is so bad, it's embarrassing to watch [emoji879]



Are you watching England now ??

Flaming awful to watch so far against the mighty Albania ....


On a side note

I’ve never really noticed how annoying it is to see Rice telling everyone else where to pass the ball by pointing every few seconds .


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[Zizu]

About 70% of our passes have gone backwards so far


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[Niamh.]

Are you watching England now ??

Flaming awful to watch so far against the mighty Albania ....


On a side note

I’ve never really noticed how annoying it is to see Rice telling everyone else where to pass the ball by pointing every few seconds .


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ProI don't think I'll be watching at all [emoji1]

[Zizu]

I don't think I'll be watching at all [emoji1]



Good decision judging by the first half


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[Nicky91]

Gibraltar were quite decent for first 40 minutes against our dutch team :o


Coleing quite a okay goalie, some impressive saves (shame about hamstring injury later on in second half :( )

[Nicky91]

Belgium a 8-0 win over Belarus


Luxembourg sad about the loss, but good efforts anyway against Portugal, 1-0 ahead, but losing 1-3 is sad



tonight England vs Poland


Armenia vs Romania (can Armenia also get their third win in a row)



Scotland vs Faroe Islands (don't underestimate them scots, they are for me the one micro-state whom i find quite decent, and whom i want to make a euro cup or world cup if any miracle one day happens)

Northern Ireland vs Bulgaria

[Calderyon]

Scotland is not a microstate.

[Calderyon]

Neither is Faroe Islands, but only just above it.

[MTVN]

Probably our strongest available side this, apart from Chilwell over Shaw

[MTVN]

Slabhead getting Stones and Southgate out of jail tonight, pretty terrible second half and no subs when we needed it!

[Zizu]

Probably our strongest available side this, apart from Chilwell over Shaw



Dreadful to watch again...


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[Cherie]

Dreadful to watch again...


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Did they win?

[MTVN]

Last competitive game before we go into the Euros as bookies favourites :omgno:

[Zizu]

Did they win?



Winning isn’t everything to some of us ..


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[MTVN]

More importantly:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/510px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png

[Zizu]

Slabhead getting Stones and Southgate out of jail tonight, pretty terrible second half and no subs when we needed it!



To be fair to Stones it was a dreadful decision from Pope to pass to him in that situation and he also under-hit the pass as well .

Pope should have launched it upfield


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[MTVN]

Whenever I feel a bit deflated about an England performance I just think about how fans of Germany and Ireland must feel all the time

[Alf]

I didn't even watch it.

Football is so dull and boring these days.

Don't forget Super league started last week. All 6 fixtures were live on Sky and round two starts tomorrow. A double header tomorrow, a double header on Good Friday and a double header on Saturday, all live on Sky. Now that's sporting entertainment.

Just add, the darts premier league starts on Easter Monday. Again, proper sporting entertainment.

[Nicky91]

More importantly:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_proposal_of_Macedonia_-_9.svg/360px-Flag_proposal_of_Macedonia_-_9.svg.png

a country which does not exist

[MTVN]

I thought that flag looked a bit odd, I've put the correct one in now :hee:

[Calderyon]

Last competitive game before we go into the Euros as bookies favourites :omgno:

Already set up to fail.

[Nicky91]

Finland - Kazakhstan now


and at 18:00 CET (17:00 UK Time) we got

Serbia - Luxembourg

Ireland - Azerbaijan

Cyprus - Russia

Slovenia - Malta

Latvia - Norway


20:45 CET (19:45 UK time) we got

Netherlands - Montenegro

Scotland - Moldova

Faroe Islands - Denmark

Israel - Austria

Ukraine - France

Slovakia - Croatia

Gibraltar - Turkey

[Nicky91]

America's Concacaf first match results

Canada - Honduras 1-1

Panama - Costa Rica 0-0

Mexico - Jamaica 2-1

El Salvador - USA 0-0




first matches in Asia's AFC

Group A

South Korea - Iraq 0-0

Iran - Syria 1-0

UAE - Lebanon 0-0

Group B

Japan - Oman 0-1

Saudi Arabia - Vietnam 3-1

Australia - China 3-0



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Africa's first qualifying matches

Group A

Niger - Burkina Faso 0-2

Algeria - Djibouti 8-0

Group B

Mauritania - Zambia 1-2

Tunesia - Eq.Guinea 3-0

Group C

C.A.R - Cape Verde 1-1

Nigeria - Liberia 2-0

Group D

Mozambique - Ivory Coast 0-0

Cameroon - Malawi 2-0

Group E

Mali - Rwanda 1-0

Kenya - Uganda 0-0

Group F

Libya - Gabon 2-1

Egypt - Angola 1-0

Group G

Zimbabwe - South Africa 0-0

Ghana - Ethiopia 1-0

Group H

Senegal - Togo 2-0

Namibia - Congo-Brazzaville 1-1

Group I

Guinea-Bissau - Guinea 1-1

Morocco - Sudan 2-0

Group J

Congo-Kinshasa - Tanzania 1-1

Madagascar - Benin 0-1

[Nicky91]

Serbia - Luxembourg so far 1-0

Cyprus - Russia so far 0-1

Latvia - Norway so far 0-1

[Nicky91]

shame Netherlands had to win last night, more food for turd Van Gaal's ego :idc:


hope we lose now against Turkey, i so wish Norway/Turkey would advance to Qatar

[Crimson Dynamo]

Bale hat-trick sees of Belarus

[bots]

England's stadium fits 90,000 people inside it. That is over 10,000 more than the whole population of Andorra. :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

England's stadium fits 90,000 people inside it. That is over 10,000 more than the whole population of Andorra. :laugh:

I predict 7-0

[Nicky91]

glad stinking nazi belarus lost


Go Gareth Bale, you are a hero by defeating that vile country :clap1: :clap1:

[Nicky91]

Poland 1-7 win over San Marino


England disappointing only 4-0 vs Andorra



Germany revenge over Armenia 6-0




good point for Kosovo against Greece




surprising point for the Swiss against Italy, not good looking for Italians now, two draws last two matches :shocked:



Iceland is really nothing anymore now 2-2 vs North Macedonia (which for Macedonia is a good result of course)




today we got Africa second matches for qualifyings

already played

Rwanda - Kenya 1-1

Gabon - Egypt 1-1





Guinea - Morocco postponed due to the recent chaos in the country





second matches for america's qualifyings

Jamaica - Panama 0-3

El Salvador - Honduras 0-0

Costa Rica - Mexico 0-1

USA - Canada 1-1



south america qualifyings

Brazil - Argentina suspended

Ecuador - Chile 0-0

Paraguay - Colombia 1-1

Uruguay - Bolivia 4-2

Peru - Venezuela 1-0

[Nicky91]

wednesday Poland v England

[Nicky91]

Messi now past Pelé thx to his hattrick against Bolivia

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/sep/10/messi-scores-argentina-hat-trick-to-break-pele-international-goals-record-neymar-brazil

[Nicky91]

now we have to wait again, thx to stupid troll club football leagues :idc:

[Beso]

https://youtu.be/pOPgNIyRBD0

[Nicky91]

1. Belgium (1.832 pts)
2. Brazil (1.812 pts)
3. England (1.755 pts)
4. France (1.754 pts)
5. Italy (1.736 pts)
6. Argentina (1.725 pts)
7. Portugal (1.675 pts)
8. Spain (1.674 pts)
9. Mexico (1.666 pts)
10. Denmark (1.658 pts)
11. Netherlands (1.648 pts)
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[Nicky91]

Friday's matches

Czech Republic - Wales

Germany - Romania

Cyprus - Croatia

Iceland - Armenia

Turkey - Norway

Latvia - Netherlands

Gibraltar - Montenegro

Russia - Slovakia

Malta - Slovenia

Liechtenstein - North Macedonia

Estonia - Belarus

[Nicky91]

Conmebol south america

Friday

Uruguay - Colombia

Paraguay - Argentina

Venezuela - Brazil

Ecuador - Bolivia

Peru - Chile

[Nicky91]

AFC (Asia)

Thursday

Group A

South Korea - Syria 2-1

UAE - Iran

Iraq - Lebanon

Group B

Australia - Oman

Saudi Arabia - Japan

China - Vietnam

[Nicky91]

Concacaf (North, Mid America)

Thursday

USA - Jamaica

Honduras - Costa Rica

Mexico - Canada

El Salvador - Panama

[Nicky91]

Africa

Wednesday

Group I

Sudan - Guinea 1-1

Morocco - Guinea-Bissau 5-0


Thursday

Group B

Equat.Guinea - Zambia

Tunisia - Mauritania

Group C

Liberia - Cape Verde

Nigeria - C.A.R.

Group E

Rwanda - Uganda

Mali - Kenya

Group J

Tanzania - Benin

Congo-Kinshasa - Madagascar


Friday

Group A

Algeria - Niger

Djibouti - Burkina Faso

Group D

Malawi - Ivory Coast

Cameroon - Mozambique


Group F

Angola - Gabon

Egypt - Libya




Saturday

Group G

Ethiopia - South Africa

Ghana - Zimbabwe

Group H

Togo - Congo-Brazzaville

Senegal - Namibia

[Nicky91]

qualifying match morocco uncertain if it will go ahead

https://new.in-24.com/sport/News/219234.html

https://middleeast.in-24.com/sport/News/84328.html

entire squad of the opponent guinea-bissau in hospital of food poisoning

[Nicky91]

qualifying match morocco uncertain if it will go ahead

https://new.in-24.com/sport/News/219234.html

https://middleeast.in-24.com/sport/News/84328.html

entire squad of the opponent guinea-bissau in hospital of food poisoning

went on, but if that was the right decision not sure


simple 5-0 for Morocco

[Nicky91]

nice draw for Wales 2-2 against Czech Republic


lucky Germany vs Romania 2-1 win after 0-1 behind




tonight Andorra vs England

Scotland vs Israel (oopsie Scotland, sorry but ur up against Zahavi then, master goalscorer especially hattricks in national team)

[Nicky91]

well deserved 1-3 win for Brazil over Venezuela

from 1-0 behind, but a superb second half they got the 3 points



0-0 draw for Argentina with Paraguay

[Beso]

Get in there..

What a game, made me proud to be scottish tonight.

[Zizu]

Excellent !!

I honestly think that better times are ahead


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[Crimson Dynamo]

Get in there..

What a game, made me proud to be scottish tonight.

literally just come down off the ceiling with me and the boy

what a fkng game

[michael21]

England will be there after 5-0 win

[Nicky91]

Germany qualified to world cup

[Nicky91]

tonight England vs Hungary


Faroe Islands vs Scotland


Bulgaria vs Northern Ireland

[Nicky91]

if Denmark wins tonight against Austria, they are qualified to world cup

[Beso]

And that is why graig gordan would have been one of the best in the world if it hadnt been for serious injuries

[Beso]

Hopefully scotland wake up in the 2nd half.

[bots]

Scotland squeak a win against the mighty Faroe Islands. Scotland punching above their weight again :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

4 in a row

mon the scots

[Beso]

I will take england or wales in the play offs

[Beso]

Big Dykes pulling on the boots for the boys again tonight, to become the 2nd player for scotland, to score in 4 games on a row.

[bots]

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[Nicky91]

Denmark is qualified to world cup after 1-0 win over austria

[Nicky91]

England must play its next two home matches without home fans

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/article-england-ordered-to-play-next-two-home-games-in-uefa-competition/

[Nicky91]

upcoming weekend again international games

[Nicky91]

Thursday November 11th South America Conmebol

Ecuador - Venezuela

Paraguay - Chile

Brazil - Colombia

Peru - Bolivia

Friday November 12th

Uruguay - Argentina

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Concacaf, Saturday November 13th

Honduras - Panama

El Salvador - Jamaica

Canada - Costa Rica

USA - Mexico
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AFC Asia Thursday

Group A

South Korea - UAE

Lebanon - Iran

Iraq - Syria

Group B

China - Oman

Australia - Saudi Arabia

Vietnam - Japan

[Nicky91]

Europe thursdays games

Russia - Cyprus

Azerbaijan - Luxembourg

Armenia - North Macedonia

Georgia - Sweden

Romania - Iceland

Germany - Liechtenstein

Ireland - Portugal

Greece - Spain

Malta - Croatia

Slovakia - Slovenia

Fridays games

Moldova - Scotland

Denmark - Faroe Islands

England - Albania

Italy - Switzerland

Hungary - San Marino

Austria - Israel

Northern Ireland - Lithuania

Andorra - Poland

Saturdays games

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Finland

Turkey - Gibraltar

Norway - Latvia

France - Kazakhstan

Belgium - Estonia

Wales - Belarus

Montenegro - Netherlands

[Calderyon]

1 = Home win
X = Draw
2 = Away win


CONMEBOL:

Ecuador - Venezuela - 1

Paraguay - Chile - X

Brazil - Colombia - 1

Peru - Bolivia - 1

Friday November 12th

Uruguay - Argentina - X

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Concacaf, Saturday November 13th

Honduras - Panama - 2

El Salvador - Jamaica - 2

Canada - Costa Rica - X

USA - Mexico - X
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AFC Asia Thursday

Group A

South Korea - UAE - 1

Lebanon - Iran - 2

Iraq - Syria - 1

Group B

China - Oman - X

Australia - Saudi Arabia - 1

Vietnam - Japan - 2

[Calderyon]

Russia - Cyprus - 1

Azerbaijan - Luxembourg - X

Armenia - North Macedonia - X

Georgia - Sweden - 2

Romania - Iceland - X

Germany - Liechtenstein - 1

Ireland - Portugal - 2

Greece - Spain - 2

Malta - Croatia - 2

Slovakia - Slovenia - X

Fridays games

Moldova - Scotland - 2

Denmark - Faroe Islands - 1

England - Albania - 1

Italy - Switzerland - 1

Hungary - San Marino - 1

Austria - Israel - X

Northern Ireland - Lithuania - X

Andorra - Poland - 2

Saturdays games

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Finland - 1

Turkey - Gibraltar - 1

Norway - Latvia - 1

France - Kazakhstan - 1

Belgium - Estonia - 1

Wales - Belarus - 1

Montenegro - Netherlands - 2

[Nicky91]

Georgia's stunning win over sweden 2-0


Sheni power, they really gods of our universe :flutter:


they are too good for the world cup :love:

[bots]

looks like Scotland are in the playoffs :dance:

[Crimson Dynamo]

well played the Scots

cracking performance

:dance:

[bots]

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[Nicky91]

KNVB wants to postpone all matches after 3 weeks, since playing without audiences is a no go

[Nicky91]

likely starting 11 Netherlands against Montenegro in Podgorica

Bijlow, Dumfries, De Vrij, Van Dijk, Blind, Wijnaldum, Klaassen, F.De Jong, Malen, Depay, Danjuma

[Nicky91]

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Finland currently 0-0



20 minutes played

[Calderyon]

Bosnia Herzegovina v Finland 1-3 FT

29' 0-1 Forss (Pukki)
51' 0-2 Lod (Vaesainen)
69' 1-2 Menalo (Gojak)
73' 1-3 O'Shaughnessy (Lod)

[Nicky91]

Bosnia Herzegovina v Finland 1-3 FT

some hope for the finnish after all

[Calderyon]

Since France has already confirmed (most likely) their qualification, they might go for a 2nd or 3rd class squad full of new comers and not take the last game too seriously. Plus it's a home game (expecting a larger crowd) with huge stakes for Finland.

So Finland might have a decent shot.

If Finland loses however, Bosnia Herzegovina v Ukraine is the deciding game.

[Nicky91]

currently playing are

Croatia - Russia 0-0

Malta - Slovakia 0-3

Slovenia - Cyprus 0-0

[Beso]

Come on carlos

[Crimson Dynamo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ro" dir="ltr">���� Borna Barišić and Croatia have qualified for the 2022 <a href="https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FIFAWorldCup</a> �� <a href="https://t.co/oo6VxIDRBG">https://t.co/oo6VxIDRBG</a> <a href="https://t.co/OuZRchxGqf">pic.twitter.com/OuZRchxGqf</a></p>&mdash; Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RangersFC/status/1459914794039980034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Nicky91]

North Macedonia to the play off round :clap1:

[Nicky91]

Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal tomorrow in a wheelchair at the match vs Norway

he fell from his bicycle and has quite some pain at his hip

:(

[Nicky91]

todays matches

San Marino - England

Northern Ireland - Italy

Scotland - Denmark

[James]

Italy could be heading to the play-offs here.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://i.gifer.com/7Ppn.gif

[bots]

Scotland 2 Denmark 0 .... 6 in a row :dance:

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://media2.giphy.com/media/VJBCAijbggARvG8pDT/giphy.gif

[bots]

Portugal and Italy are in the play offs too :worry:

[bots]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2021/11/15/f2d14ae9-4d10-4a05-97e4-cfb90dc4d4f1.png

[Nicky91]

today no Bijlow as our goalkeeper


either Cillessen or a debut of Mark Flekken from SC Freiburg


Van Gaal has also last minute called up Norwich City goalkeeper Tim Krul

[Nicky91]

hopefully all of sweden, italy, portugal, netherlands not making the world cup


then i don't have to watch the world cup next year



make it the weakest world cup line up field EVER pls, that would be karma for money hungry Qatar

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Nicky91]

Netherlands possible line up

Flekken, Dumfries, De Ligt, Van Dijk, Blind, F.De Jong, Wijnaldum, Klaassen, Bergwijn, Depay, Danjuma

[Nicky91]

Louis van Gaal not from the side lines during tonight's crucial match, but more from VIP area of De Kuip

assistants Danny Blind, Henk Fraser will do the coaching from side lines, with instructions from Van Gaal via phones

[Zizu]

Why no Haaland ?


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[Zizu]

My gawd .. that shot from T Hazard !!!!!


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[Calderyon]

Finland v France 0-0 HT

[Calderyon]

Finland v France 0-2 FT

66' 0-1 Benzema (Mbappe)
76' 0-2 Mbappe

[Crimson Dynamo]

Well done Wales

Brilliant

:clap1:

[Nicky91]

what a dire match from Netherlands but Lucky Netherlands as usual


good on Bergwijn scoring a goal :love:




@Zizu, Haaland had a small injury so he wasn't called up




feel sad for Finland :( but luck was on Ukraine their side in the match order draw then, and bad luck that the finnish were up against France



whoever draws North Macedonia must be careful i think, still a 3-1 win against Iceland no matter what form those are in is still impressive

[Nicky91]

Argentina has also qualified to the world cup

with a 0-0 draw against Brazil






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over in africa

Tunesia, Algeria, Nigeria, Mali, Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, Congo-Kinshasa, Cameroon are in the play off for world cup ticket

[Nicky91]

so far the qualified teams

Qatar (Host nation)
Germany
Denmark
Brazil
France
Belgium
Croatia
Spain
Serbia
England
Switzerland
Netherlands
Argentina


yet to be included are

3 main spots for CONCACAF

2 remaining main spots for CONMEBOL

5 spots for Africa

4 main spots for Asia's AFC
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play off tickets:

3 from Europe (Path A, Path B, Path C)


Interconfederation play offs:

4th place winner from AFC, CONCACAF's third round 4th place

CONMEBOL round-robin 5th place, OFC second round winner


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Oceania was postponed due to covid, and scheduled to be held in March 2022, all at once in one big tournament in Qatar

competing nations

New Zealand

Solomon Islands

New Caledonia

Tahiti

Fiji

Vanuatu

Papua New Guinea

American Samoa

Samoa

Tonga

Cook Islands

[Nicky91]

so far in CONCACAF

good chance of making world cup

Canada now in the lead of the group, followed by USA, and then Mexico in the third spot, currently in the play off spot is Panama


CONMEBOL

things looking also good for Ecuador, but more tight and interesting for the 4th main spot and 5th play off spot (Colombia currently 4th, Peru 5th but both with 17 points)


Asia's AFC

Group A

Iran in the lead with 16 points, followed by South Korea with 14 points, and UAE in third position with 6 points, closely followed by Lebanon with 5 points

Group B

Saudi Arabia in the lead with 16 points, followed by Japan with 12 points, closely in third place is Australia with 11 points,

[Calderyon]

Sadly France came to play and gave us a lesson on what current World Champions can do. Those two goals, especially Mbappe's were outstanding performances.

Finland played quite well until Benzema came to the field, the it all unraveled and France took full control of the game. France showed that they will be yet again huge favorites to win World Cup in Qatar.

But tbf, a team that only wins 1 of their 4 home matches can only blame themselves for disqualifying.

[bots]

it's a tough competition, there is no guarantee that the likes of Portugal or Italy will get to the finals. The play offs are basically cup finals where anything can happen

[Calderyon]

it's a tough competition, there is no guarantee that the likes of Portugal or Italy will get to the finals. The play offs are basically cup finals where anything can happen

Anything can happen, but I think Portugal and Italy will both be alright and qualify.

Italy has a great team and Portugal has Ronaldo ,(+Fernades & Jota)

[Nicky91]

it's a tough competition, there is no guarantee that the likes of Portugal or Italy will get to the finals. The play offs are basically cup finals where anything can happen

umm no Bots


you'll get drawn with 3 different paths, each path having a semi final and final

[bots]

umm no Bots


you'll get drawn with 3 different paths, each path having a semi final and final

its 2 games both knockout, so its like 2 cup finals

[Nicky91]

its 2 games both knockout, so its like 2 cup finals

Path A

Path B

Path C


but yes one match those 2 games



3 winners, 9 losers is kinda harsh :o

[Nicky91]

even harsher is Oceania, whom are not sure of their place in the world cup after their own qualifying league, afterwards interconfederation play off


poor Oceania, things really need to change for the better, to make things fairer for each of the qualifying leagues

[Nicky91]

oopsie

Croatia nearly sacked their manager Dalic, apparently according to a football tabloid Sportske novosti there

- Dalić almost lost his job, and it seems HNS already had the number of Robert Prosinečki. The day after the game against Spain, Dalić had a meeting with Modrić and Kovačić to see if he still has their support, and they answered "you do, but you have to change things"

- Before the game against Scotland on EURO2020, Dalić decided he will put Juranović as a RB, and not Vrsaljko. Because of that, Vrsaljko was pissed and started to yell on Dalić, on which Dalić responded "we called you even when you were tired and injured"

- Vrsaljko's bestie Lovren was also close to be kicked out of the NT after Russia in Moscow. He was complaining infront of the reporters why Livaja hasn't came in sooner, and at the airport he was complaining why they had to travel in the middle of the night. He was lucky Gvardiol got injured and Ćaleta Car had cramps.

Earlier he kicked out Rebić, Lovre Kalinić and Kramarić (but the later was brought back after several good games for Hoffenheim).

[Crimson Dynamo]

ZvG1rpVQ_O4

[Beso]

Pick that oot.

[Zizu]

ZvG1rpVQ_O4


That’s why he’s in my Fantasy team this week and captain .. he must be feeling super confident


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[Nicky91]

Dick Advocaat has resigned as manager of Iraq, the 74 yr old from The Hague was barely 4 months in charge of Iraqi side but saw the chances to make it to the world cup decreasing a lot

Iraq in Group A of AFC in 6 games only 4 points, 10 points less than the 2nd place which has the right of a ticket to the world cup, a place in the play offs is still among the possibilities but Advocaat does not feel much for that

[Crimson Dynamo]

Scotland V Ukraine in playoff

Wales play Austria

winners play each other

[Crimson Dynamo]

If wales and Scotland both win

wales will be at home against scotland

[bots]

tough games, but better than getting portugal or italy :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Ill take it

[Calderyon]

Scotland V Ukraine in playoff

Wales play Austria

winners play each other

Scotland wins
Wales wins

Wales beats Scotland.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Scotland wins
Wales wins

Wales beats Scotland.

last 2 times we played them in a WC playoff

we won

BOOM

[Calderyon]

last 2 times we played them in a WC playoff

we won

BOOM

Past results might not matter.

Plus both of those results were quite a bit of time ago.

[Nicky91]

rigged draw :idc:


poor Italy or Portugal or both :(

[Zizu]

I’ve said previously that it would be nice to have a separate thread to discuss that very topic .

A thread for your predicted 23/26 man squad and even maybe everyone’s predicted starting 11 for the first game . :)


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[Nicky91]

FIFA world rankings as of December 23rd

1. Belgium
2. Brazil
3. France
4. England
5. Argentina
6. Italy
7. Spain
8. Portugal
9. Denmark
10. Netherlands
11. USA
12. Germany
13. Switzerland
14. Mexico
15. Croatia
16. Colombia

[Nicky91]

thursdays result of Conmebol (south america)

Ecuador - Brazil 1-1

0-1 Casemiro

1-1 Torres

Paraguay - Uruguay 0-1

0-1 Suarez

Chile - Argentina 1-2

0-1 Di Maria
1-1 Brereton
1-2 Martinez

Colombia - Peru 0-1

0-1 Flores

Venezuela - Bolivia 4-1

1-0 Rondon
2-0 Rondon
2-1 Miranda
3-1 Machis
4-1 Rondon


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Fridays results concacaf (north and mid americas)

USA - El Salvador 1-0
Jamaica - Mexico 1-2
Honduras - Canada 0-2
Costa Rica - Panama 1-0

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thursdays results AFC (Asia)

group a

Lebanon - South Korea 0-1
Iran - Iraq 1-0
UAE - Syria 2-0

group b

Australia - Vietnam 4-0
Japan - China 2-0
Saudi Arabia - Oman 1-0

[Nicky91]

Iran is officially qualified to the world cup, one of the top two in group a which is certain now

[Nicky91]

Oceania qualifying tournament

groups draw

Group A

Solomon Islands
Tahiti
Vanuatu
Cook Islands

Group B
New Zealand
New Caledonia
Fiji
Papua New Guinea

this tournament will start on March 17th, with the final held on March 30th

[Nicky91]

congratulations South Korea qualified to the world cup


Ecuador is almost qualified



Colombia almost chanceless now, last directly qualified spot is more between Uruguay, Peru, Chile now



Canada good business 2-0 win over USA, also getting closer and closer to a possible place in the world cup

[Nicky91]

FIFA ranking as of February 10th

1. Belgium
2. Brazil
3. France
4. Argentina (+1)
5. England (-1)
6. Italy
7. Spain
8. Portugal
9. Denmark
10. Netherlands
11. Germany (+1)
12. Mexico (+2)
13. USA (-2)
14. Switzerland
15. Croatia
16. Uruguay (+1)

[bots]

Scotland V Ukraine in playoff

Wales play Austria

winners play each other

this is going to be tricky now

[Calderyon]

this is going to be tricky now

They probably have to forfeit now.

[Nicky91]

superb comeback of Christian Eriksen at the friendly game of Netherlands - Denmark, won by netherlands with 4-2


1 minute after coming into the game, immediately scoring the danish their 2nd goal :love: and he got a huge applause from everyone in the stadium




Corona-Positive but symptom free, i mean our manager Louis van Gaal also at the game coaching us despite first reports of that he wouldn't coach us during this game

symptom free, well LOL he has quite a nasty cough wouldn't call that ''symptom free'' :joker:, so RIP to those players in our team and RIP to the journalists who will now all test positive then :skull:



goalscorers for netherlands

2x Bergwijn

Aké

Depay

[michael21]

Poor Niamh seeing her team lose to one of the worst national teams in the world

Be careful or Niamh will f u c k you up :fist:

[Niamh.]

Be careful or Niamh will f u c k you up :fist:That was a year ago, we actually drew against the best team in the world last night - granted it was a friendly and they didn't have their best players out, still though, we played really well I thought

[michael21]

That was a year ago, we actually drew against the best team in the world last night - granted it was a friendly and they didn't have their best players out, still though, we played really well I thought

Oh yeah I watch I bit of that and England and f1 pole this was far to much :bawling:

But yes a good draw against a would class team

[Nicky91]

so as for play off matches now


europe:

Wales vs (either Scotland or Ukraine, pending on wether or not it'll be played, if Ukraine can play i can see them win that, otherwise Scotland lucky and i can see Wales win against the scots for some reason)


Asia:

UAE or Australia, and then vs Peru

(come on aussies pls our second nation we root for in this house besides NL)




Concacaf vs OFC

Costa Rica or New Zealand

hmmm not entirely hopeless for the all blacks here i think, at least more doable than a Honduras or Panama would've been

[Nicky91]

prediction

Scotland - Wales 2-0

[Nicky91]

congrats Australia on qualifying for the world cup, after that penalty shootout win over Peru
:clap1:



now todays game

Costa Rica vs New Zealand


either OFC will have its sole qualifier, and (for new zealand would be their second world cup appearance after a gap of 12 years since their debut and last appearance)

or Concacaf will have its 4th qualifier and (for Costa Rica, who could break their record of consecutive presences at the World Cup by doing it for the third straight time (their previous consecutive streak is still 2 editions)

[Nicky91]

Costa Rica the last to qualify for the world cup, 1-0 win over new zealand