Slovenia won so good start.
Live text updates for the other qualifiers in our group
France - Netherlands: https://www.uefa.com/european-qualif...s-netherlands/
Gibraltar - Greece: https://www.uefa.com/european-qualif...tar-vs-greece/
France game is on Virgin Media as well
This is the French side, can expect to see some of them start on Monday night
Lads, this is brilliant. Exactly what we want. France to destroy Holland twice. Gives us a chance. Especially with a draw to France on Monday! Let them get their scoring out of the way tonight.
I think Kerr is just jealous Kenny's been given a fairly easy time of it and he didn't. And he's also afraid Kenny might do better than him and his monopoly on the LOI all knowing will be gone
France could easily get 5 or 6 tonight if they don't take their foot off the pedal
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
There's no doubt that if we are to qualify Holland are the target, Greece will think the same
4-0 thrashing. Perfect start really. France will be arrogant on Monday but it will be a full house in Lansdowne. I really think we have a chance of getting a draw at least.
Hopefully they got that whole World Cup Final business out of their system tonight and have a serious drop in intensity between now and Monday.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Think we'll have a long running view on potential play off places as this campaign goes on.
There are 7 potential places available that we can get into (8 in the very unlikely event that Estonia come out of the group with Belgium, Austria and Sweden)
We really really need the "seeded teams" to perform and get out of their groups to give us a decent shot at a minimum play off spot
The ones I'd watch out for, who I would see struggle to qualify directly would be
A. Scotland or Norway - Spain will definitely qualify, so one of these two, likely to miss out.. I reckon Scotland
C. Ukraine - England and Italy have to be favourites
D. Wales - could struggle post Bale, possibly losing out to Turkey
E. Unlikely anyone will get past Czech Republic and Poland
F. Belgium will qualify.. we really need Austria to keep out Sweden (who are bringing back Ibra at 41)
G. Need Serbia and Hungary to hold off Montenegro
H. Really need Finland or Slovenia to hold off Northern Ireland for second in this group behind Denmark. Both Finland and Slovenia would get play off places before us, so can't hope for the lads up North to qualify
I. This is a pox ball of a group.. Israel finished in no. 1 spot in Path B, because the Russians were booted out, and they fell on their feet getting an Iceland team on the slide and a poor enough Albanian team.. but you wouldn't put your house on them holding off Romania or even Kosovo.. we hope that they will
J. Iceland are falling like a stone in terms of chances to qualify.. but because they finished ahead of us in that 3 team group, they'll be entitled to a play off place ahead of us.. (this is very unfair, but is what it is)
Which means.. in my opinion, in the worst case scenario..
Group A teams that will struggle to qualify..
Wales
Austria
B teams that will struggle
Scotland/Norway
Ukraine
Israel
Iceland
Slovenia/Finland
As Estonia have to go from D to A..
Theres potentially only 1 space in the A play offs with Austria, Wales, Estonia,
It looks like 5 teams in B may not qualify, meaning there'll be a full path B, and 1 extra.. who would then go into Path A..
By my reckoning..
Our qualification chances could now hinge of Austria or Wales qualifying.. and Northern Ireland not qualifying
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