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Beating FIs being a big deal was never my point. Nor was it not being a big deal your original point.
Why don't you just say what you want to say? You've picked on a series of my posts with responses unrelated to what I posted. You probably enjoy winding me up but I prefer the tone of this forum to be better than that. By all means challenge what I say but don't try and make out I'm saying something else.
Man City's Swedish striker John Guidetti is injured, and will miss the start of the new season. Don't know if this means he'll be out of the game in Dublin though: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....ns-set-4888751
(60 is his squad number, not his age!)Quote:
JOHN GUIDETTI (60) – The 21-year-old Sweden international striker will miss the start of the season following knee surgery, but hopes his nightmare of illness and injury will finally come to an end, with Pellegrini already a fan
forde has picked up a knee injury.
https://twitter.com/MillwallFC/statu...08644784902145
doesn't sound too promising.
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Originally Posted by zero
confirmed he has to undergo knee surgery - length of absence , not given - but surely wont be available for sweden and austria
We have a month...
Hopefully Westwood gets some game time. And Randolph.
Decision for Trap to make now is whether to play Randolph, who is first choice at Birmingham, against Wales or take a chance that Westwood will be starting for Sunderland this season.
My guess is Randolph. Though would prefer Westwood. Far from ideal.
Elsewhere, Sweden are playing Norway at home (just gone 1-0 up within 2 minutes) and Germany are playing Paraguay, while Austria host Greece and the Faroes travel to Iceland. Kazakhstan beat Georgia earlier today.
Goals from our group rivals' friendly fixtures last night...
Sweden beat Norway 4-2 in Stockholm:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x13...om=embediframe
Austria lost 2-0 at home to Greece:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x134qdf_austria-greece-0-1_sport
And the second Greek goal from that game:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x134r97_austria-greece-0-2_sport#from=embediframe
Germany also drew 3-3 with Paraguay:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x134zxb_germany-3-3-paraguay-highlights-14-08-2013-ourmatch-net_sport#from=embediframe
Faroes one up away to Kazakhstan after 23 minutes. Nearly half time now
1-1 Kazakhs got a penalty - its just after HT.
2-1 to Kazakhstan now, 72 minutes gone
2-1 final result.
No bed of roses to be a supporter of the fishing islands in the north Atlantic.
Armenia beat the Czech Rep in Prague with a last gasp goal, probably killing off their qual hopes stone dead.
Kazakhstan and Sweden just kicking off now in Astana. Well, **** that... Sweden are 1-0 up through Zlatan inside 30 seconds.
Over, 1 nil. Playing for 3rd now.
I think it was mentioned in another thread that the second-place finisher in our group will most likely end up as the worst second-placed finisher of all nine groups, but such is unlikely to be the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FI...d-placed_teams and http://www.football-rankings.info/20...lations_6.html
The simulation in the latter link was done on the 6th of September and was not inclusive of the games that night; the site had predicted a draw in our game with Sweden.
The Wikipedia Ranking of second-placed teams table is misleading because it includes results against the bottom placed team, in the points total.
There are so many variables but I'm heartedly assured that should Iceland finish second in group E, it's almost certain they will get through to the play-off draw.
I can hear the sound of the samba beat in the distance growing stronger.
Have had a quick look through and I'm pretty sure that it's only in Iceland's case has a fixture against the bottom-placed team in their (your?) group - Cyprus - been included in the points tally. Excluding that would leave Iceland on 10 points then in that table.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Actually Danny it was my foolish misunderstanding. The points table is correct and Iceland (my team) have 13 points as stated. 3 of their dropped points came against the now certified bottom team, Cyprus. They were beaten by Cyprus.
Oh, look. We can still 'qualify'.
:rolleyes:
http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...99082292_n.jpg
Maybe that was based on Ireland being the second placed team?Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
You'll see from the list that the simulation also calculated the likelihood of Sweden being the worst second-placed finisher. Essentially, it took all teams into account.
I see Sweden are beating Germany 2-1. They'd been 2-0 up before Özil pulled one back.
3-2 to Germany now.
George just whipped out 'you can never write off the Germans'
It's been a while.