Heh yeah well with the current state of our national team, you better not assume anything
Euro Qualifiers - Matchday 7 & 8
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Heh yeah well with the current state of our national team, you better not assume anything
EDIT: Oops, wrong quoted post. For @Godfather meant.
Oh, indeed, but you guys aren't as unfamiliar to big competitions like those others are. Though, was surprised to see that Northern Ireland actually competed on three world cups.
Oh, indeed, but you guys aren't as unfamiliar to big competitions like those others are. Though, was surprised to see that Northern Ireland actually competed on three world cups.
Or they can just win one and pass Denmark. Then Denmark will have to lose both, one against Portugal.
Also we (Norway) will most likely lose both our games (Croatia and Italy).
Hungary's group will probably take the best 3rd trophy.
The really ugly truth is that we have very few really talented players and that Strachan has somehow got us to punch above our ability. Our players technical abilities and skill levels just simply arent very good. We wont qualify for a major tournament again until the numbers of teams in tournaments increases, which isnt too far off.
However the worst thing is that Scotland fans dont seem to understand just how far behind we have fallen in terms of true talent.
I'm already considering the Portugal game a loss to be honest and am only considering 3 points v Armenia and 1 vs Serbia. Anything more than that will be a bonus and guarantee us qualification.
We've never had problems from Ronaldo (touch wood) so we will do alright containing him I think however your team is quite strong physically too and we had a hard fought game against Denmark so will be drained. I don't exclude that all 3 results are possibly Monday night though!
This is why I have been saying 4 points will do it all this time
Of course you didn´t have problems with Ronaldo, he didn´t play in the first game. He was injured. The biggest problem is that we are missing the first 3 center midfield choices. Two injured (Moutinho and Carvalho) and other suspended (Tiago). And that is nevralgic in our team setup.
Hehe you forget the 0-0 match few years ago or the last minute 2-1 win in Albania
Good thing about Portugal is that you seem to be letting in quite a few goals and that might work in our favour considering our defence has been quite watertight recently.
Cue 5-0 loss with Ronaldo getting all 5
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Is England showing on TV later?
Yea that group does seem the likely one for a 3rd place qualification but maybe only on goal difference I would say as 15 points is what I think the top placed 3rd team will need, and we are capable of achiveing that and so are some others!
We were in the same group for WC2010, and Ronaldo was annonymous in both matches.
That's an extremely tiny sample tho for any conclusions.
Heh you guys remember everything. I can´t even remember what i had for lunch two days ago. Fair play, i can´t recall those games but those scores don´t surprise me when Queiroz was in charge.
To be fair, it's enough for "we never had problems from Ronaldo" sentence, I'd say.
3 matches, 0 goals, 0 assists and completely annonymous in all three matches.
It isn't a big sample, obviously, but you rarely have bigger samples in international football.
Am going to our game against Moldova tonight, three points and no Sweden loss in Russia and we're qualified. A couple of wins tonight and then against Liechenstein and we top our group. Happy days! Can't wait for the tournament next year, we're gonna be in awesome shape. Koller has done wonders...
What 3 games? It´s two games. I actually was researching game reports and in the portuguese media they said Deco and Ronaldo were the best. Just because he didn´t score or assisted doesn´t mean he was anonymous. He wasn´t world class but good enough. To be fair it´s difficult to motivate players against Albania, no disrespect. It´s the portuguese way of complicating the supposed easy games and then taking the difficult ones seriously.
And just how great is to have six days of international football in a row? These breaks are much more easier to endure with this new(ish) system.
So England have qualified for the Euro's! I guess I'll see the Cafe Welshmen and Irishmen in France next year, lads.
For y'all Scottish Caftards, you wouldn't mind watering our plants and feeding our pets next summer, would you? Ta.
For y'all Scottish Caftards, you wouldn't mind watering our plants and feeding our pets next summer, would you? Ta.
Kick us while we are down you bastard.....
When was the last time three UK teams played in the same tournament? Mexico 1986?
Shame we couldn't get the full set.
Shame we couldn't get the full set.
quality article
With Macedonia falling to last place Ukraine takes the lead in the best 3rd place ranked team on 12 points. They need a win against Spain or Slovakia to seal it as their +8 goal difference will be tough to match!
first time seeing Hamsik play for a long while
Great vision from Silva for Spain's first. He really is so good.
This is the same Del Bosque who said that he almost selected Valdes for the recent squad in solidarity..He has his favourites, it caused him once..and it will cost him again.
De Gea doesn't have a chance in the Euro.I see it like some kind of international farewell for Iker.Del Bosque continued to renew the squad but he is too loyal to the players and didn't accept well the negative comments after Brazil.Now Villar offered him to continue until Rusia 2018 but hopefully he will retire before.I wonder who will be the next coach
There's a difference between not selecting a player of De Gea's experience when he isn't playing and selecting a figure like Casillas in the same situation.
Silva is stealing the show for Spain so far. What a fantastic little player he is.
Nice dive. Costa being Costa.
Cracking dive from the Elephant Man.
But Casillas perfomances didnt even warrant selection for the National team..dont you think thats verging on sentimentality? And it cost Spain dearly at the world cup too..Surely the chance to win the world cup for your country should come above previous relationships and perfomances.
And probably the worst time to see him. We are parking two buses there. He is not going to see much of the ball.
I cant see him retiring after the Euros unless he has a terrible tournament. He didnt want to leave Madrid either, I doubt he will want to give up the Spain spot, especially to the guy who in his mind is possibly the reason why he lost his Madrid career in the first place.
I think thats one reason DDG wants to play for Madrid so badly, if he does well in Spain, it will be almost impossible for the coach to ignore him..due to public pressure and the pull that Madrid have.
Iniesta.
Great finish by Novakovic.
Agreed,he could have gone to MLS but wants to continue in Europe,maybe thinking in Buffon example
Novagoal :d
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The refs in our game are a fecking joke. We are getting absolutely robbed here. Clear goal being disallowed, fouls not given. What a joke
Casillas over De Gea
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