Other playoff latests

**pete** · 14/11/2001, 5:37 PM

Romania 1-1 Slovenia (2-3 agg)
15mins left for Slovenia to hold out.

Turkey 0-0 Austria (1-0 agg)
just kicked off, Turkey look like making first ever WC finals.

**pete** · 14/11/2001, 6:02 PM

Romania 1-1 Slovenia FT

lets hope no more shocks

**joe** · 14/11/2001, 6:33 PM

didn't Turkey make the '54 finals?

**jbrazil** · 14/11/2001, 9:00 PM

Originally posted by joe
didn't Turkey make the '54 finals?

yeah that was their only appearance in the wc finals.

**jbrazil** · 14/11/2001, 9:01 PM

it is slovenias first time though i think.

**Iri** · 15/11/2001, 1:35 AM

Brazil 3 - 0 Venezuela

Neil · 15/11/2001, 8:07 AM

Originally posted by IRI
Brazil 3 - 0 Venezuela

It's good news. We could never really consider ourselves World Champions without beating Brazil on the way.

**pete** · 15/11/2001, 10:18 AM

I think in hindsight Austria would have been the easiest playoff opponent.

Brazil are supposed to be dire at the moment. Can't remember the exact quote by their manager but he was saying something about hacking/fouling players a legitimate defensive strategy. Apparently Brazil have abandoned the samba footie complete for negative tactics!