Euro Qualifiers - Matchday 7 & 8

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Belgium is shit on a stick again tonight.

Can't create anything against the mighty Cyprus. Time for Wilmots to leave if you ask me.
 
We're getting outplayed by fecking Cyprus, it's so bad they actually deserve to win right now. How Wilmots keeps getting away with serving us this shit is beyond me. Fuming right now, my two favorite teams are managed by donkeys.
 
Besic just got a red vs Andorra... Mindless. No idea what he did mind you. Camera didn't show it. Probably lashed out. Out for the game against Wales now though which is the problem here.

He is idiot, simple as it is. Even if he did nothing he deserves big slap on the face just because he is idiot in general. I would show him yellow on start of every game just so he can learn.
 
Hazard has been awful. Cyprus just wait for Belgium to mess up then go up the other end with ease. With better decision making they could be ahead.
 
If Belgium don't win in Cyprus Wales are through to the Euros!
 
Nice pass from De Bruyne in the build up to the goal.
 
Belgium are crawling towards success here. I can see their European campaign ending a lot like how it did in Brazil.
 
Iceland and Czech Republic through to the finals! Congrats to their fans, fully deserved.
 
Netherlands are shocking. Not an easy group they are in but a team like them should have no issues finishing top 3 anyway. I reckon they will still make it somehow but nevertheless a very poor campaign.
 
Can we have Lagerbäck back, please, Iceland? Congrats!
 
You have to feel for Cyrpus. Twice in the space of 3 days they have lost 1-0 at home to teams scoring after the 80 minute mark. :(
 
Wales and Belgium are through though as they still have Andorra to play.
 
You have to feel for Cyrpus. Twice in the space of 3 days they have lost 1-0 at home to teams scoring after the 80 minute mark. :(
They had a few good opportunities to take the lead but their decision making was utterly awful, the Belgian goal was coming.
 
Players were a bit too impatient, perhaps understandably so. Too many long balls, giving the ball away too easily. Kazakhstan never really threatened so the point was never in danger. Ref was a bit shit in the 2nd half. Kazakhstan fouled a lot and maybe because of that gave away a lot. A very, very cheap red card for our captain. Two fouls, two yellow cards. Both on the cusp on being a yellow on their own, definitely not a combined red card.

Not sure if winning the group matters. There are 6 groups and we're 16th in Europe with France below us at the moment. 17th means 5th in pot 3 so it's probably a matter of not going down to pot 4. Can't really see us going up 4 places. Would need to rely on four of Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland and Croatia to not qualify and/or Czech Republic or Denmark to go below us in the ranking.
 
Netherlands are shocking. Not an easy group they are in but a team like them should have no issues finishing top 3 anyway. I reckon they will still make it somehow but nevertheless a very poor campaign.
Too many passengers from the Dutch league. Even their better players are either not the finished article or over the hill.
 
Players were a bit too impatient, perhaps understandably so. Too many long balls, giving the ball away too easily. Kazakhstan never really threatened so the point was never in danger. Ref was a bit shit in the 2nd half. Kazakhstan fouled a lot and maybe because of that gave away a lot. A very, very cheap red card for our captain. Two fouls, two yellow cards. Both on the cusp on being a yellow on their own, definitely not a combined red card.

Not sure if winning the group matters. There are 6 groups and we're 16th in Europe with France below us at the moment. 17th means 5th in pot 3 so it's probably a matter of not going down to pot 4. Can't really see us going up 4 places. Would need to rely on four of Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland and Croatia to not qualify and/or Czech Republic or Denmark to go below us in the ranking.

If I were Icelandic I wouldn't be too worried... you guys have shown that you're definite contenders for a 1st or 2nd spot, even in a group of death.

Mightily impressed with our northern bro's. Congrats! Hope we manage to join you guys :D
 
ICELAND!! I can't believe it!! Lars Lagerbäck should be our next President! :D

And I will be living in France at the time! What a year it will be!
 
I see your coach called Norway's style "kick and run" after the game and your humiliated captain spoke of our height before the game. No wonder Croatia lost when they didn't bother to do the homework but was happy to go with some cliches from the 90s instead.
Don't mind them. Our coach blamed the players for the defeat and said something like - ask the players why they didn't give their all... Great man management. Of course he doesn't think he is to blame for anything.
But nothing new from our coaches..
As for Srna he's old and boring and shit.
 
Any points dropped would give us the advantage, probably. Can't imagine we'll fail to beat Malta next month, with our current momentum. Exciting stuff, though. I hope you don't begrudge us poor starved Norwegians this :D
Haha, yeah I heard you live quite poorly there. :D
 
Haha, yeah I heard you live quite poorly there. :D

I meant starved in the footballing sense ;P World Cups in 94 and 98, beating big nations to get there, a lacklustre Euro 2000 (despite beating Spain, ffs!), and since then, not a sniff! I'm particularly bitter about when we reached play-offs and Czech Republic got Nedved out of retirement to make doubly sure we didn't get to the tournament... :@
 
It will be good to see some debutants and teams who haven't been in major competition in a while at the next tournament. The format in which 3 out of 4 teams will progress to knockouts from all but two groups in the main competition will also mean that everyone will have a shot.

Am I right saying that none of Iceland, Wales and Northern Ireland have ever been in Euro? Likewise Albania who have a very good chance to make it and Israel who have a decent chance too.
 
Go you earthbound swedish forrestfarmer... Sweden you didn't want him you're not getting him back. Thank you Lars Lägerback for wanting to give us a go.. Next job for you here in Iceland is to run the country, but only when you stopped your miracle management with our national team. This is history right here smallest nation in a large football tournament ever and with two games to spare.. France Euro 2016 here we come, thanks guys for this run and for your brilliance in this death group nobody believed this before except Lars and his staff that seemed to spread that over to the team and the fans.. What a ride, what a team.. Thank you so much, so proud.. We are going to the Euro 2016 still can't believe it..
 
ICELAND!! I can't believe it!! Lars Lagerbäck should be our next President! :D

And I will be living in France at the time! What a year it will be!

Congratulations. Kind of wish he was still with Sweden instead of the clueless Erik Hamrén. Will be rooting for Iceland (and Sweden if we make it ofc) in the EUROs.
 
haha… go Iceland…

population same as the city of Coventry… Amazing achievement.

Iceland is a phenemenon in sports. They are, or at least were, one of the best countries in the world in handball as well. 300k population. Amazing. Lagerbäck has done an oustanding job to top that group. They do have some decent football players also!
 
Iceland is a phenemenon in sports. They are, or at least were, one of the best countries in the world in handball as well. 300k population. Amazing. Lagerbäck has done an oustanding job to top that group. They do have some decent football players also!

Our Basketball team is even playing now in Euro for the first time!
 
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