World Cup Qualifiers + Friendlies | November 2017

A world cup without the Dutch and the Italians..

How shite is that Sweden brings feck all to the party. Gutted for football tonight.

Have to agree, Sweden remind me of the anti-football Greece plays/played? Then again if you cant score a goal vs Sweden in 180 mins you have absolutely nothing to do in th WC. Good luck to Sweden and well done even though it was really poor football.
 
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Nice joke lads.

I'm not italian just sad that a big nation is missing out on the WC, a historic one, not a bunch of hardworking nobodies ...
 
Really happy for Sweden, and for Lindelof and for the big United fans in their team like Granqvist and Augustinsson.
 
If sweden goes on wc, they will be quickly back home

They would still be going though, silly argument. A World Cup based on the FIFA ranking might be your cup of tea? Why even have a World Cup, just give it to Germany.

Another ultra negative team in the WC that will put 11 men behind the ball and hope for the best.

Sweden actually play decent football, many teams would defend away to Italy for 90 minutes. In fact, Italy have never lost at San Siro. Furthermore, Sweden had 1-0 in the bag and didn’t need to score. Even England and other tier 2-teams would defend with a lead in the bag from game 1. As long as you don’t concede....

Please remember this was a contest between countries of 60M vs. 10M people.
 
Its funny how people watch 1 game and slander them for being negative

They scored 5 more than Italy in the groups having an arguably harder group

Especially considering they played decent football in the first game
 
Lots of critics about Sweden and their approach. They played some great football in their group, eliminated Dutch while Italy played hoof ball in the first leg. Nothing wrong with being defensive in San Siro.

Italy should have change Ventura after Spain or Macedonia game imo.
 
Sweden definitely deserve their place in Russia, so congrats to all the resident Swedes.

The new manager has definitely turned their fortunes around.
 
Its funny how people watch 1 game and slander them for being negative

They scored 5 more than Italy in the groups having an arguably harder group

Especially considering they played decent football in the first game
Always easy to have a go at us smaller nations when just watching us two times/year at most. It's arrogance at it's best.
 
"A curious incident occurred during the second half of tonight’s clash, as De Rossi was caught on camera complaining to members of the Italy staff.

He was told to warm up and reacted with extreme irritation, shouting: “Why the hell should I go on? We don’t need to draw, we need to win!”

De Rossi then pointed to Insigne, who was sitting on the bench nearby."
 
Sweden did remind me of how Iceland played when they knocked England out the euros and how Iceland play in general etc.

But obviously it works very well in international football. It wouldnt be as effective in club football, but international football is almost like a different sport
 
Well done Sweden. That being said an awful game to watch. Sweden defended heroically. If they had shown more ambition on the ball they could have killed the tie off. Really hope they can play better with the ball at the W.C. Italy are a shambles. Their class players Buffon, Barzagli, Bonucci and Chiellini are all ageing. Huge rebuild job if the players are there.
 
Always easy to have a go at us smaller nations when just watching us two times/year at most. It's arrogance at it's best.

Yeah Italy talking about other teams being negative is quite crazy as well. 0 goals scored in 2 games and struggled in the qualifiers as well.