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Football Thread 2017/18 |OT2| Fractured but Ox

RocknRola

Member
Meanwhile, in the best match of the night, Macedonia is cleaning house with Liechtenstein (4-0) :p
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Edited because I'm blind apparently :v
 

RocknRola

Member
I still can't believe that we drew 0-0 against Luxembourg. Sweden beat them by 8 goals ... We couldn't even score one.

Eh, some games are just like that. You outplay the other team but the ball just refuses to go in, no matter how long you try :S

Still, France is in so whatever, didn't matter much I guess :p

EDIT:

Fuck, read that wrong. It's Liechtenstein NOT Luxembourg lol
 

Mimosa97

Member
Eh, some games are just like that. You outplay the other team but the ball just refuses to go in, no matter how long you try :S

Still, France is in so whatever, didn't matter much I guess :p

EDIT:

Fuck, read that wrong. It's Liechtenstein NOT Luxembourg lol

We're not through yet ... We need a win to lock first place.
 
It took almost 75 minutes for Italy to finally score. Depressing.

And Croatia is winning 2-0 versus Ukraine. Fuck, I didn't want to worry about getting stuck facing Croatia.
 

RocknRola

Member
We're not through yet ... We need a win to lock first place.

Yeah, but the last match is at Home vs Belarus right? You guys should win. Plus Sweeden will play Holland, which should also be a hard match for them too, so who knows even a worst case senario (tie or defeat) might still be enough.
 
From making the Semi's in the euros to crashing out at the very last game. Dissapointing for Wales.

Grats to the Republic of Ireland though.
 
The level of football was atroicious tho, the only interesting part was the outcome, I dont see Ireland doing well in the play-off unless they get a team that plays as bad as Wales
 
So who's through and who's in the playoffs? Someone do the maths please I'm lost.

Play-offs:

Portugal/Switzerland
Italy
Denmark
Sweden/France (likely Sweden but you never know with France)
Northern Ireland
Greece
Ireland
Croatia

Slovakia is worst 2nd placed team.
 
Ireland finishing in the worst possible playoff place is so Ireland.

They're going to get hammered by Portugal lol

There's going to be a draw next week determining who faces who so Ireland could avoid Portugal and instead get Italy :p

You could totally defeat us in a playoff given we can barely defeat the likes of Albania and Israel while drawing to Macedonia.
 
Sweden will probably have a pretty tough playoff opponent. Unless we somehow get first.

Switzerland/Portugal, Italy, Croatia or Denmark. Yikes, gotta hope for the Danes there I suppose.
 

Garjon

Member
There's going to be a draw next week determining who faces who so Ireland could avoid Portugal and instead get Italy :p

You could totally defeat us in a playoff given we can barely defeat the likes of Albania and Israel while drawing to Macedonia.

Sorry to do this but I actually think that Italy is the team Ireland/N. Ireland would be most likely to be able to beat
 
Sorry to do this but I actually think that Italy is the team Ireland/N. Ireland would be most likely to be able to beat

Nah it's alright. This team is worse than 2010's outing + both Irelands have a history of defeating us (NIreland having the distinction of being the only team to knock us out in World Cup qualification while the republic has ousted us in 1994 and 2016). After Croatia, both Irelands are the teams I don't want to have to worry about.

Also I want both Ireland's to make it so I'd rather not have to be the reason you miss out.
 
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