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Schmelzer's now been done twice in the last 2 minutes since the goal and now he's just decided to go and hack an Austrian down to get rid of the frustration, and Hummels & Götze just gave the ball away outside the area.... all Dortmund players who seem to be taking it a bit too easy.
FT 1-2... Austria missed a sitter a minute from the end....
By the looks of it we will be doing good to come away from there wit some kind of result.Quote:
Originally Posted by graham_d
They're a bit like us though, better against the good teams...... he says trying to forget the summer....Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish_Praha
Oh yeah. I don't think anyone outside of Ireland expects us to finish any higher than fourth. Germany will win the group, and it is likely between Austria and Sweden for second place. I believe we were the third seeds in the group.
We definitely need to sort out our own LB situation. Can't see Austria being so motivated against us (or Sweden) though. We might get lucky if the other 2 take points off each other and lose to Germany.
An absolute sitter, with the goal at his mercy, sliced wide from 1 metre out.Quote:
Originally Posted by graham_d
German TV just showing the Swedish highlights - lovely goal from Elm for 1-0. Ibra not having a good day.....
2-0 in the end, second goal in injury time.
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Ibra not having a good day.....
ibra dominates the 9 line report from Reuters on the game
'Playing in his home town of Malmo, Sweden captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic drifted out to the right to pick up the ball and crossed to Mikael Lustig.
The defender mis-hit his shot but Rasmus Elm pounced on the rebound to volley home.
Ibrahimovic tormented the Kazakhs throughout the second half and he passed to Berg, who scored in the final minute of added time to put the game beyond reach'
Group gone to plan so far (result wise)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_h0tdTEwu2C...at_success.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
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Originally Posted by graham_d
If that's a bad day lets hope he doesn't have an "ok" day against us.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Maybe it was the selection of highlights.... but while most of the clips involved him, there were lots of shots wide, through-balls too long etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Sweden made hard work of Kazakhstan, but reading the Swedish papers this morning, it was of their own making. Only saw the last 20 or minutes of the game myself but there was a fair bit of wayward passing. At one point, Sweden's striker Elmander had a go at somebody in the crowd for something that was said. :-) Ibrahimovic lost the head late on and picked up a yellow card for mouthing to the ref.
But isn't 'Ibra' untouchable? If you believe some on here...
The ref didn't think so.
Yes, because that's exactly what some were saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
Faroes v Sverige 0-0 at ht.
The Swedes should be happy to get in without conceding a goal.
The local stadium is unrecognizable, gone are the rocky grassy slopes, stands on 3 sides now and something being done on the 4th side
don't think this one will finish with 11 on each side - lots of late challenges flying in. faroes look decent enough, bit of a concern for tuesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
i'd expect sweden to kick on in the 2nd half so best chance of a good result here for ireland is if the faroes can nick one first.
kazakhstan also holding austria goalless.
A few surprise latest scores in qualifying.
Czech Rep 1-1 Malta HT
Faroes 0-0 Sweden HT
Kazakhstan 0-0 Austria HT
Russia also beat Portugal 1-0 today at home.