Nothing to stop Estonia from drawing Italy again, no.
Yes I figured playoffs wouldn't count because it would be pretty arbitrary for us to get the benefit of playoff points and thus jump above say Denmark who qualified outright.
Again, lets get by Estonia but the irrespective of the fact we'll be in pot 4, tha doesn't neccessarily preclude a handy enough group. For example How does Poland, Russia, Denmark and Ireland sound?
Or Spain, Germany, France and Ireland?
Playoffs do count. See on UEFA.com.
"The reigning champion Spain will also be top seed, together with the team with the highest national team coefficient ranking, as established at the conclusion of the play-off matches"
Ya, figured that out eventually. When they say, what they meant was that if hypothetically Ireland and France finished level(we can't), then only coefficient points from the last campaign, excluding playoffs, are taken into consideration.Results from the play-offs referred to in paragraph 7.07 are
thereby not taken into consideration.
Thanks for that Edgar. So what would you reckon realistically is our chances of making the third pot?
Do we need to rely on both Portugal and Croatia losing their playoff matches or could we still qualify for the third pot, with 2 wins over Estonia, even if both Portugal and Croatia qualify?
Ukraine, Croatia, Denmark please Bob. There are a couple of horrendous, really really horrendous draws we could get.
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I want England or France!!!
what about England? I'd love for us to play them again in a finals (theoretically and hypothetically speaking)
I'd take 1 win and 2 draws right now. Hypothetically.
Someone who might have a maths head on them.....if a team was to get 5 points in a group, can they be eliminated?
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If we get to the finals, I'd love to draw England, if only because I know we would lift our performance for that game at least. There are definitely draws that are tougher than others but in reality we are going to deservedly be bottom seeds and will need to defeat better/higher-achieving teams no matter who we get.
Any combination of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, would not be good. On the other hand we could definitely eck something from Poland, Ukraine, England and Italy. England would have us written off from the get-go, which would be to our advantage.
Portugal probably to be avoided, and personally I wouldn't want France, but after that open season!
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Didn't have you pegged as superstitious tets.
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