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Subject: [NT]World Cup Qualifiers

2015-03-14 15:02:07
So, new season of WCQ has kicked off.
Anyone noticed some upsetting results / facts yet?

My pick:
1) Hungary - Estonia: of course both nations are top teams, but I did not expect this result nonetheless
2) Algeria - Guatemala: let's have a 70+ rating team as 6th seed :o They might battle for the 3rd spot (seeing Scotland's poor tactics and Singapore being of same strength)
3) Spaing being hammered 8-0. The red card might be part of the result, but still ... notice Belgium also played a GK for 60 minutes on a central defender position.
2015-03-14 20:41:28
and he was man of the match:)

after 2-0 and red cards, Spain started to play better than before.
2015-03-22 08:12:55
2015-04-04 20:18:27
venezuela 4 nicaragua 0
2015-04-05 18:21:17
Hrvatska 4th place in the ranking !!
2015-04-18 10:44:14
O‘zbekiston - France 1:0
2015-04-18 11:32:41
it's not the first screwed up result of this WC.

anyway, almost took 3 points against Austria, but a missed penalty costs us 2 points. Still everything is possible with same nr of points and only -4 GD compared to them :)
2015-04-19 08:07:03
My man Nisupov scored the game winner :P
2015-04-20 14:27:06
but a missed penalty costs us 2 points

nah... it could be 0-3 after 10 minutes. What a save from your gk after a header from 7m and than we miss a 1:1 before the 0-1 in minute 10! Than you injured my best MID in minute 17 and his replacement was a winger, that changed the game!

Next round will decide! x and goal difference at the end would be interesting too ;-)
(edited)
2015-04-20 14:29:22
Nobody forces you to play a winger as back up mid.
If you play 3 CM and 1 winger ... I'd surely go for a CM on the bench ... ;)

Btw, I know it's not really true in sokker, but a penalty usually goes in, hence the 'it cost us 2 points' :)
2015-04-20 14:40:21
We doesn't have that much decent MID's right now and the game plan was to create chances by the winger so the risk to play with a DEF MID at the winger position was too big so i decided to take a winger as 1st replacement.

Btw, I know it's not really true in sokker, but a penalty usually goes in, hence the 'it cost us 2 points' :)

but it's still Sokker ;-) somehow i knew he'll miss it! AND usually a 1:1 goes in too so if it's 0-3 after 10 minutes it would have been OK too. But 1 point each at the end was finally fair even i was sure to win after first 44 minutes!
2015-06-16 19:02:47
Draw for WC will be on 27th of June.
Groups were more balanced than ever I think. Uruguay qualifying with only 17 points must be a record. Belgium is the only team that won all WCQ matches.

Pot 1
Polska 70-12 34
Hayastan 50-5 31
België 59-6 30
Việt Nam 51-8 28
Türkiye 43-5 28
Deutschland 42-6 28
România 54-9 27
USA 35-12 27

Pot 2
England 40-11 26
Italia 50-8 25
Suomi 42-5 25
Chile 44-10 25
Magyarország 27-12 25
Bulgaria 35-6 24
France 33-9 24
México 40-10 23

Pot 3
Srbija 53-12 31
Israel 68-20 28
Slovensko 54-8 25
Lietuva 38-7 25
Hellas 44-14 25
Portugal 20-7 25
Österreich 36-15 23
Norge 31-12 22

Pot 4
Hrvatska 40-13 21
Eesti 40-18 21
Česká republika 41-14 20
Ukraina 30-13 20
Argentina 20-7 20
Colombia 26-20 20
Canada 22-15 19
Uruguay 27-14 17
2015-06-16 21:18:14
"Uruguay qualifying with only 17 points must be a record"

Group L was one of the toughest groups, due to three strong teams (Italy, Uruguay and Swiss) and two tactically strong managers (cranber -Cyprus and PREK -Pilipinas). Till round 9, every of these teams had realistic chances to qualify!
2015-06-16 21:42:46
In Group O, the country that finished bottom Ozbekistan managed to get 7 pts from the 2 qualified teams as in those 4 matches they managed 2 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss. I doubt many groups can say that !
2015-06-18 08:38:08
I think i qualified Latvija with the same number of points in the past.