World Cup 2014 Qualification

GTR63

klose wrote: »

Croatia and poland have both sacked their coaches, bit surprising to hear the croatian coach getting sacked seeing as they are in the play offs but did lose to scotland twice.

With all due respect they are shocking results particularly the home loss. Niko Kovac is taking over for the play-offs. Find it impossible to pick a favourite at this stage seen a bit of Argentina, Germany & Spain the last week and to quote GSP I was not impressed with any of them when they were asked to defend even against the likes of Peru & Belarus.

764dak

FatherTed wrote: »

That was very dramatic last night, Mexico were losing and Panama were booking their tickets for the New Zealand playoff. Then this happened:



The Mexican commentators really go off on their team.

This is a translation:

“GOOOOAAAAAAL The US of A PUTS us in the playoffs!!!!!” USA!
“It is because of the USA that we are being placed in the playoff …BECAUSE OF THEM , NOT DUE TO YOU..NOT ANY OF YOU in the green shirts ….IT WAS THEM!!.NOT YOU!..THEY DID IT!!!!!NOT YOU! remember this forever….. KEEP THIS CLEARLY IN MIND FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES! You do NOTHING for the shirt, you do NOT put the effort, you have NOT placed us in the playoffs , you HAVE NOT placed us in the WORLD CUP ..YOU WOULD NOT HAVE KEPT US ALIVE….IT WAS ESTADOS UNIDOS, NOT YOU.! .NOT YOU AND YOUR ARROGANCE/CONCEIT…..NOT YOU AND YOUR INFAMY….NOT YOU AND YOUR MORONS/PUNKS….
….
“IT IS A FAILURE…..and UNDESERVED -to go through to the playoff- WE HAD NO ARGUMENTS to earn the playoffs, THE USA, WITH SUBS , WITH MANY SUBS as the visiting team shows us once again what the USA is all about ….how to play the game with dignity, how to approach the sport..MExico is a horror, just terrible….A FAILURE….
……
THE USA HAS SURPASSED US ..They are better than Mexico in SOCCER ….THEY EVEN HAVE THE LUXURY OF PLAYING THEIR SUBS and KEEPING US LIVE…. I hope our coach wears the pants and resigns..He has failed as coach….”

Charisteas

Losing at home to Honduras and drawing at home with Jamaica were poor results, but I'd say their cause wasn't helped with the participation in the Confederations Cup. That meant that they had to play 3 qualification games in a week, in three different countries, with one eye on the Confederations Cup.

RGM

Charisteas wrote: »

Losing at home to Honduras and drawing at home with Jamaica were poor results, but I'd say their cause wasn't helped with the participation in the Confederations Cup. That meant that they had to play 3 qualification games in a week, in three different countries, with one eye on the Confederations Cup.

That's a really poor excuse and just not relevant. They have played badly the entire year. The Confederation's Cup was nowhere to be found Tuesday when they lost a do-or-die match vs a team that had already qualified.

Charisteas

Yeah your right, they certainly have had a mixed bag of results across the board this year. Played 22 games this year, Won 7, Drew 8, Lost 7. They seem to play double the amount of national games compared to teams in Europe.

I just seem to remember them holding their own quite well against Brazil and Italy in the Confed Cup even though they went on to lose both.

They're probably thankful they don't have Uruguay in the play-offs, although New Zealand will definitely give them a run for their money.

citytillidie

European play off

Portugal v Sweden
France v Ukraine
Greece v Romania
Iceland v Croatia

Charisteas

Three cracking games drawn there. Croatia should comfortably beat Iceland but the other three ties are really evenly matched.

bohsfan

Interesting draw- the World Cup will be poorer though without either a Ronaldo or Ibra in their prime...

roanoke

Unbelievably I think Iceland still have a chance!! :eek:

Charisteas

roanoke wrote: »

Unbelievably I think Iceland still have a chance!! :eek:

Hope so, would make a great story!

steirishrover

So we all become Greek fans for our seeding chances in the euros draw.. Good game that will be

Charisteas

steirishrover wrote: »

So we all become Greek fans

Sounds good to me :pac:

RikkFlair

steirishrover wrote: »

So we all become Greek fans for our seeding chances in the euros draw.. Good game that will be

COYBIG (Come on you boys in Greece)

noodler

I can't see Romania socring enough goals against that miserly Greek team to win both games. Famous last words but I think we are safe (assuming the Euros draw is done the way we think).

GTR63

bohsfan wrote: »

Interesting draw- the World Cup will be poorer though without either a Ronaldo or Ibra in their prime...

Bar them two neither side have got a player anyway near their quality, not easy of course but both are very average depth wise compared to 5-8 years ago.

roanoke wrote: »

Unbelievably I think Iceland still have a chance!! :eek:

If Scotland could do it......

citytillidie

This weeks Plays off

13th November
Mexico V New Zealand
Jordan V Uruguay

15th Novermber
Greece V Romania
Portugal V Sweden
Ukraine V France
Iceland V Croatia

16th November
Nigeria V Ethiopia (Agg 2-1)
Senegal V Ivory Coast (Agg 1-3)

17th November
Cameroon V Tunisia (Agg 0-0)

19th November
Egypt V Ghana (Agg 1-6)
Algeria V Burkina Faso (Agg 2-3)
Croatia V Iceland
Sweden V Portugal
France V Ukraine
Romania V Greece

20th November
New Zealand V Mexico
Uruguay V Jordan

roanoke

Looking forward to NZ v Mexico on 20/11 (hopefully NZ will still be in the tie by then!)

Also have an eye on Croatia v Iceland and the Romania v Greece.

LuckyLloyd

citytillidie: you've done great work in this thread.

GavRedKing

I'm torn between my man love for Ibra or Ronaldo, one of the worlds greatest, missing the WC.

For the underdog factor I'm hoping Iceland can do it too.

Moneymaker

GavRedKing wrote: »

I'm torn between my man love for Ibra or Ronaldo, one of the worlds greatest, missing the WC.

For the underdog factor I'm hoping Iceland can do it too.

Yeah, it's almost tragic one of the games great talents won't be there. You also have the likes of Alaba not being there either.

Maybe they'll let the loser play for one of the weaker teams, give them a fair chance :pac:

ebbsy

Jordan vs Uruguay on at 3pm today on Eurosport.

citytillidie

Mexico V New Zealand is on Setanta at 8 tonight

ebbsy

That goal has knocked the stuffing out of Jordan.

Stevecw

That was all far far too easy for Uruguay. Jordan were fairly hopeless.

Great free kick by Cavani at the end the best of the 5 goals. 5 goals and no Suarez goal, would have got good odds on that.

citytillidie

This weeks Plays off updated

13th November
Mexico 5 V 1 New Zealand
Jordan 0 V 5 Uruguay

15th Novermber
Greece V Romania
Portugal V Sweden
Ukraine V France
Iceland V Croatia

16th November
Nigeria V Ethiopia (Agg 2-1)
Senegal V Ivory Coast (Agg 1-3)

17th November
Cameroon V Tunisia (Agg 0-0)

19th November
Egypt V Ghana (Agg 1-6)
Algeria V Burkina Faso (Agg 2-3)
Croatia V Iceland
Sweden V Portugal
France V Ukraine
Romania V Greece

20th November
New Zealand V Mexico (Agg 1-5)
Uruguay V Jordan Agg (5-0)

ebbsy

I read that financially FIFA cannot afford to have Portugal and Mexico miss out on a world cup in Brazil.

I do expect Portugal to go through on their own bat, Mexico may need a helping hand though.

Will cheer on Iceland. Croatia are toilet at the moment.

roanoke

5-0 away win for Uruguay? :eek: I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict we'll be seeing Suarez and co at the WC now.

The_Kew_Tour

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

citytillidie: you've done great work in this thread.

+1

He does excllent jobs in threads in starts with and continues with

Fair play citytillidie

titan18

Really was a joke of a match, and if FIFA get their way in limiting European and South Americans teams to make way for more African and Asian teams in the finals, then we'll just be seeing those joke games in June and July instead of now.

Dozen Wicked Words

Come on you All-Whites. Take a draw back to New Zealand.

TaosHum

New Zealand have been shocking.

GLaDOS

3-0 Mexico just after half time, game over

klose

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Come on you All-Whites. Take a draw back to New Zealand.

Nope :P

greendom

klose wrote: »

Nope :P

not even klose !

ArmaniJeanss

ebbsy wrote: »

I read that financially FIFA cannot afford to have Portugal and Mexico miss out on a world cup in Brazil.

I do expect Portugal to go through on their own bat, Mexico may need a helping hand though.

Ironically Sweden (Portugals opponents) would be on any Top10 list of most desired qualifiers from a hosts point of view. Travel in massive numbers and also aren't shy about spending their money when they get there.

Guess Portugal meeting Sweden proves the draw wasn't fixed anyway.

The_Kew_Tour

Imagine if Blatter has his way Jordon would have qualified already for the WC if they introduced 40 teams. Crazy.

titan18

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Imagine if Blatter has his way Jordon would have qualified already for the WC if they introduced 40 teams. Crazy.

That's Platini. Blatter's is they would have qualified and Uruguay wouldn't have had the playoff

swoody

cavani's goal deserves it's own video....

Corholio

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Imagine if Blatter has his way Jordon would have qualified already for the WC if they introduced 40 teams. Crazy.

I know they've put more teams into it, but I don't think it stretches as far as somewhere that sounds like a planet from Star Trek :pac:

noodler

ebbsy wrote: »

I read that financially FIFA cannot afford to have Portugal and Mexico miss out on a world cup in Brazil.

I do expect Portugal to go through on their own bat, Mexico may need a helping hand though.

Will cheer on Iceland. Croatia are toilet at the moment.

Well France is far bigger population-wise!

God, you have to feel for Jordan there.

As bas as NZ had it against Mexico, they at least know they didn't have to play that Uruguay team!

Nerdlingr

Spain have released their new kit for the WC. Its all red. Its F*cking shocking. They got rid of the blue shorts. Makes them look like bayern now. Horrible.

The_Kew_Tour

Greece 2-0 Romania
Portugal 1-1 Sweden
Ukraine 0-1 France
Iceland 1-2 Croatia

These are my predictions for tonight. See if any get near it.:)

GavRedKing

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Greece 2-0 Romania
Portugal 1-1 Sweden
Ukraine 0-1 France
Iceland 1-2 Croatia

These are my predictions for tonight. See if any get near it.:)

Greece - W
Portgual/Sweden - D
France - W
Iceland/Croatia - D

60/1 on Bet365, one fo the buddies has thrown a fiver on it.

mike65

Iceland v Croatia live stream

Stevecw

Very little happened so far in Ice/Cro still 0-0

The_Kew_Tour

Iceland 0 -0 Croatia Full Time.

Iceland played with 10 men for most of 2nd half.

I feel Iceland needed to win, but conceding no goal gives them a chance. All be it slim one.

The_Kew_Tour

Ukraine 1-0 with 23 minutes to play

Professional Griefer

Ronnie!! 1-0

Moneymaker

Couldn't be Ronaldo, he never performs in big names, never shows when his team needs him.

Rabble rabble rabble.

:rolleyes:

Professional Griefer

Ronaldo hits the bar! Decent enough second half.