FIFA World Cup 2018 Qualification - UEFA Play-Offs (9-11th and 12-14th November 2017)

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Originally Posted by IsMiseSean

I use three names. I'm not a serial killer, but I guess I would say that.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57mBdRyeB94

I'm onto you JG!

Draw starting at 1.08pm according to RTÉ

When will dates and the (home and away) order of the two legs be decided/announced?

Draw live here now: https://www.rte.ie/player/gb/live/7/

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Draw live here now: https://www.rte.ie/player/gb/live/7/

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Balls being pulled at 1.08

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Dates etc confirmed later today.

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Draw live here now: https://www.rte.ie/player/gb/live/7/

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Loving the Tuaisceart Eireann bit!

Denmark. Amazing. Away game first.

Denmark

Could be worser!!

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Balls being pulled at 1.08

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Is that anything like getting a tooth pulled, Bonnie? You might find you talk funny for a while afterwards.:cool:

I think it's the best draw we could have gotten.

I'll take that.

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Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid

Loving the Tuaisceart Eireann bit!

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Ha, that certainly made me smile.

Had to get a screenshot.

http://i68.tinypic.com/xgi3gy.png

I wonder did the IFA approve of that.

Lovely. Best we could have asked for. It gives us every chance.

Serious chance of making the World Cup now.

As above, good draw for us. Danish coach believes we'll look to play on the counter in Copenhagen. Says they'll need to go all out to break us down, and they'll have to win the 50:50 battles and take chances.

I had a slight preference for Switzerland, but wanted to avoid Italy and Croatia. I'll take Denmark, with the home leg second.
They had a good qualifying campaign, beating eventual group winners Poland 4-0 in Copenhagen, but also lost at home to Montenegro

Well that could have been worse!

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

I had a slight preference for Switzerland, but wanted to avoid Italy and Croatia. I'll take Denmark, with the home leg second.
They had a good qualifying campaign, beating eventual group winners Poland 4-0 in Copenhagen, but also lost at home to Montenegro

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I think the Swiss are underrated. Some weak spots but a tidy enough team with some good attacking players too. I think we got the best available draw.

Perfect draw for the Irish sides

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

I had a slight preference for Switzerland, but wanted to avoid Italy and Croatia. I'll take Denmark, with the home leg second.
They had a good qualifying campaign, beating eventual group winners Poland 4-0 in Copenhagen, but also lost at home to Montenegro

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Those are the two games to focus on, for sure. In one of them Denmark did everything right, in the other it was all wrong. Both are probably fluky in their own way, but show how dangerous and how vulnerable the Danes can be. If we could take Eriksen out of the tie somehow we could really neuter them.