Group 8 updates

[pineapple stu]

Montenegro 0-1 Bulgaria after 20 minutes. Stillian Petrov after ten.

[shakermaker1982]

2 nil I'm hearing now.......damn I thought the Bulgarians might have slipped up.

[boovidge]

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=100441 :)

[pineapple stu]

Just look at it that Montenegro hopefully aren't the banana skin we were fearing.

Still 1-0 on livescore for now.

[shakermaker1982]

maybe eurosport have it wrong because it's still 1 nil on the bbc?!

[pineapple stu]

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=100441 :)
Missed that! Mods can merge if they want.

[pineapple stu]

Not group 8, but Andorra 0-0 England at half time is good for a laugh.

[Stuttgart88]

Italy 1 up, Bulgaria 1 up at HT.

[Montenegrin]

0-1
This is disgrace.Referee is robbing us.Clear penalty he missed to award.Our defence catastrophal.Attack doing what they can but referee tolerates everything to Bulgarians and awards our strikers yellow cards.
If only there is justice...

[pineapple stu]

Our defence catastrophal.
:D

My Montenegro guidebook noted that Montenegrins used that word for everything from an earthquake to a slightly off pint! Spot on it seems.

Austria 1-0 France after ten minutes. :eek:

[pineapple stu]

Jinxing things, of course - Joe Cole scores after 49 minutes for England.

Malta 0-1 Portugal after 50 minutes.

[pineapple stu]

Group 8 shmroup shmeight.

Andorra 0-2 England.

Romania 0-1 Lithuania after an hour.

[FarBeag]

Cyprus/Italy 1-1

[the-blue-harp]

a draw in the italy game, cyprus are giving them a game.

[pineapple stu]

Montenegro equalise too.

3-0 England. Albania 0-0 Sweden is a result.

Edit - livescore takes a goal off England; still 2-0 apparently. Joe Cole with both.

[shakermaker1982]

Montenegro have SCORED!!!!

[irishultra]

Hopefully those two results stay the same. Ireland top, take that. :D

[crc]

Livescore have Cyprus 1-1 Italy, and Montenegro 1-1 Bulgaria :eek:

[Delbertt]

This could be a great night for Ireland :)

[pineapple stu]

Wouldn't be too happy about Montenegro equalising given we're going there on Wednesday! This looks like it could well be the open group people were predicting.

[irishultra]

What? I don't get that logic. They are either good or not. If they lose 2-1 what difference does it make?

Nobody was under any illusions about what we were facing. Beating Georgia just shows how unfortuante we were with this group, because we'd be virtually assured of 9 points now.

[Dodge]

Posted in another thread but the channel sportsxchange (417 on NTL digital, not sure on sky) is showing the Italy game

[shakermaker1982]

I'd like to see Bulgaria drop points + the Trap will realise how dangerous these guys could be.

Come on Cyprus as well! If they beat the Italians then hopefully the rest of the world will forget they stuffed us 5-2 :)

[tricky_colour]

Cyprus/Italy 1-1

I don't think any team can go to Cyprus these days and expect 3 points.

[edit - especially us ;)]

[shakermaker1982]

cheers for heads up Dodge.

456 for Sky viewers.

[pineapple stu]

Austria 2-0 France at half time.

[Delbertt]

Posted in another thread but the channel sportsxchange (417 on NTL digital, not sure on sky) is showing the Italy game

456 on sky, come on Cyprus

[shakermaker1982]

France are two nil down........glad I'd put that one on my accumulator this week!!!

[the-blue-harp]

Posted in another thread but the channel sportsxchange (417 on NTL digital, not sure on sky) is showing the Italy game

456 on sky digital. im dreading ireland going to cyprus.

[irishultra]

I'm not. By the time we face them, we will have hopefully bet them at home giving us the mental advantage...

.....

Well I hope so...yeah to be honest I think its going to be tougher than Bulgaria.

[christo]

Montenegro gone 2-1 up

[irishultra]

WOW. Big result

[Delbertt]

456 on sky digital. im dreading ireland going to cyprus.

So will Bulgaria, its great to have a group like this imo:)

[the-blue-harp]

its a tricky one! for sure. thats why three points today are massive for us.

a draw in montenegro would be good enough for me. id say teams are gonna be taking points off each other all over the place in this group.

[irishultra]

If we get a result there it will be huge, even 1 point.

[Wheels]

Bulgaria equalise on 90 mins!

[pineapple stu]

2-2 last kick. Bulgaria had a man sent off for the penalty.

Romania 0-3 Lithuania.

[conlonn]

Montenegro 2 - 2 Bulgaria now
Bulgaria down to 10
draw best result for Ireland

[pineapple stu]

Montenegro manager out, eh conlonn?

[christo]

Bulgaria grabbed one back 2-2 final minutes

[conlonn]

Montenegro manager out, eh conlonn?

relax pineapple stu.

This is interesting these results
Ireland can still and will improve so much once they learn from tonight
when they do then they can challenge to top the group:)

[Wheels]

And Italy still drawing with Cyprus.

[irishultra]

Draw good for us, yeah? I honestly feel after our next game we will have a good indication of where this group is going.

[conlonn]

Draw good for us, yeah? I honestly feel after our next game we will have a good indication of where this group is going.

once we perform to a high level we have our fate in our own hands. We should not be relying on other results but concentrate on our own.
Trap should and I am sure is drilling this into the players.
Hoe he is livid after conceding the late goal.
Have to cut that out as it happens too often for Ireland in qualifying games

[beepbeep]

no whipping boys in this group, only good thing is, lots of teams will drop points. we need a good result on wed, i fear the worse tho.
we should be good enough.
if cyprus hang on here against the italians it would be great.:D

[tricky_colour]

Draws all round would be excellent results for us.
It will leave us two points clear at the top of the group!!
I just hope Cyprus can hold on for the next 30 mins or so.

Cyprus Italy here:-
http://www.justin.tv/gindilla

[Montenegrin]

Unlucky,but we are better team.I know that know.These Bulgarians does not play football.They are only defending.We should be able to beat them away.Surelly they will not have referee support like this.
Ireland,prepere yourself for defeat;)!Our offense is stroooooong!

[the-blue-harp]

cyprus look more likely to win it at the moment.

di'natale looks a smashing player, he's going to be a handful.
this is gonna be a nail biter of a group. A draw in the montenegro game is a good result for us too, so far so good, we'll be top of the group!!:)

[beepbeep]

Unlucky,but we are better team.I know that know.These Bulgarians does not play football.They are only defending.We should be able to beat them away.Surelly they will not have referee support like this.
Ireland,prepere yourself for defeat;)!Our offense is stroooooong!


ahh we have shay given: the human wall !

[the-blue-harp]

when cyprus attack they get serious numbers in the box!