I think the best result here is for a Croatia win, which is what I expect.
Italy winning is not very good.
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I think the best result here is for a Croatia win, which is what I expect.
Italy winning is not very good.
Or a draw. Croatia win then they are on six points and we will need to beat Spain.
I was thinking an Italian win would suit us, no? Italy beat croatia 1-0, we draw with Spain, we beat Italy 1-0, we go through.
With a Croatia win we'd have to beat Spain.
Anyone who has a link to a decent stream for this, it would be much appreciated, also the Ireland game later.
http://premier--streams.info/Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
An Italy win is exactly what we want. A Croatia win is the worst result for us, especially if we only draw later.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
See:
http://greenscene.me/2012/06/euro-20...-permutations/
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Originally Posted by micls
No problem!! ;)
Ideal would be a narrow Italy win with Modric picking up a booking to rule him out of the Spain match.
Pretty sure best result for us is an Italy win over Croatia. See all the permutations here:
http://neverfeltbetter.wordpress.com...ield-problems/
Brian Kerr might be the worst commentator ever. He's inventing words and his monotone voice is grating.
Italy struggling.
The problem with a Croatia win is they would have nothing to play for on match day 3, having accumulated 6 points which no one could best. This scenario assumes an Ireland/Spain draw, which is the min we need. A Spain win v. Croatia, especially likely w/ Croatia looking to 2nd round, would put Croatia on 6, Spain 5, us 4 if we beat Italy, and Italy 3.
Looks like both Italy and Spain will be getting the early bus home.
Since a draw with Spain is the realistic positive outcome for Ireland, operating from that, an Italian win is the optimum result here without a doubt. That set of results eliminates our reliance on the result between Croatia/Spain to as much of a degree as possible. We'd need to beat Italy and just need a winner, any winner, in the other game.
And in the event of a draw in that game we could still potentially still scrape through on GD.
But, whatever, Ireland need at least four points in the next two games.
A draw would be best.
Should have had a man on the near post, basic error.
good free
Two draws today and we'd need Spain to drop points to Croatia in what would be a very competitive game. I know you seem to have little regard for Spain. but they're more then a match for this Croatian side, especially on the evidence of this game so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Seems like we made the Croats look a lot better than they actually are. Italy giving them a bit of a chasing here.
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Originally Posted by tricky_colour
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Originally Posted by tricky_colour