General Footy Discussions

[Jack the Stripper]

Yep. That was an intimidating atmosphere to play in. Rangers won 1-0 but Celtic looked the better and had two very good chances and should’ve equalised.

On we roll to Spurs v Watford

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I don't see Tottenham dropping any points against Watford (but stranger things have happened!), and should they win they'll be the last 100% record in the Premiereship.

[Jack the Stripper]

A goal keeping error saw Son score from a set piece just before HT. Spurs have dominated possession but haven’t looked all that dangerous to me.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

It doesn't seem to have been a great performance, but a win is a win and puts Spurs top of the league with 3 wins from 3.

[Charger]

Finland won their World Cup Qualification match of the day against Kazakhstan 1-0....

And Sly was super excited to see that:

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Just watched a second stream England team struggle to break down Andorra... yup! Andorra. Yes they finally won 4-0 but this is Andorra they should be 4-0 up at half time!!! All the possession, short, safe passes is no substitute for actually trying to move forward and score! Andorra got tired and conceded 3 late on, but in a group where goal difference could be crucial we should have looking for a lot more!

[Zzzptm]

GO ANDORRA! They only lost by 4!

[Charger]

Finland vs France tonight...

France has been playing rather poorly lately so there is a small possibility Finland might even be able to magically pull of a tie here...but I doubt that... A LOT.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Good luck, I hope you get a result.

[Charger]

Well first half wasn't exactly brilliant playing from France...not by far. But they did manage to get one in though... But Finland had few great plays too...and France's defence is struggling...

Second half should be interesting.

[Zzzptm]

Remember, to be better than Andorra, the team has to lose by 3 points or less!

[Charger]

Well we were better than Andorra! Woohoo! That makes us almost champions then!


First half was pretty damn good playing from Finland but the second half was total French domination! So it is a near miracle we only lost 2-0!

[Jack the Stripper]

The UEFA qualifying looks hard. Only 13 teams will qualify from the 55 team group stage and 10 of those spots will be the winners of each group and the other 3 positions will be playoffs between the 10 runner ups in the group and two other teams.

Australia qualifies through Asia. They’ve already had 2 stages of qualifying and are now into the 3rd and final stage where the 12 teams that got through the first 2 stages are now n 2 groups of 6

Group A: Iran, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon
Group B: Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, China, Oman, Vietnam

The winners and runners up in each group will qualify with the 2 third placed teams having a playoff with the winner then going into an intercontinental playoff with best 3rd or 4th placed teams from CONCACAF, Oceania and South America in a drawn 2 leg playoff with 2 the winners going through to the World Cup.

Australia has won both its games so far in the final qualifying stage and currently sits top of their group.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
That seems a little complicated!!

I'm glad Finland didn't get overrun.

England are away to Poland tonight in their next qualifier.

[Jack the Stripper]

^Nah it’s not that complicated, basically you just need to finish top 2 in your group to qualify for the World Cup and if you finish 3rd you get another chance of qualifying via another route.