N.Ireland v switzerland
Croatia v Greece
Denmark v ROi
Sweden v Italy
Just realised that Slovakia who were 2nd in our section, didn’t qualify😳
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Thread: WC 2018 play off draw
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17-10-2017 12:27 PM #1
WC 2018 play off draw
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17-10-2017 12:37 PM #2
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17-10-2017 12:38 PM #3
One in the eye for those that thought the draw would be rigged in favour of the remaining 'big' nations. The Italians and swedes won't have wanted to be drawn together.
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17-10-2017 12:48 PM #5
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Sweden v Italy will be a cracker.
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17-10-2017 12:51 PM #6
Switzerland Croatia Denmark and Italy to qualify IMO. Hopefully one or even both of the Irish sides get through but I don't think they will.
Last edited by Mr White; 17-10-2017 at 12:54 PM.
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17-10-2017 12:59 PM #7
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Sweden Italy will be a cracker, very tough draw for NI, ROI must fancy their chances.
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17-10-2017 12:59 PM #8
Some tasty draws there.
But it's the 2018 World Cup, not the Euros.Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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17-10-2017 03:39 PM #10
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17-10-2017 03:49 PM #11
It wasn't that long ago that a game v Switzerland would be viewed as winnable but their qualifying results were brilliant and they were extremely unlucky to be paired with Portugal, who were equally as good.
Very tough for Northern Ireland.
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17-10-2017 03:54 PM #12
As much as we slaughter our team, there's nobody there that I'd have been particularly anxious about Strachan's squad playing.
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17-10-2017 04:59 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
played 5 against croatia, drawn 3 and won 2...why couldn't we beat them again ? croatia is the team i hoped we would have been drawn against, and my 2nd choice would have been italy
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17-10-2017 05:03 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-10-2017 05:38 PM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As it turned out we couldn't have played any of them as they were all unseeded (as we would have been).
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17-10-2017 09:00 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Zlatanless Sweden wouldn't really worry me.
Italy would normally worry me, but Macedonia beat them last month. If Macedonia can beat them, surely there's not that much to fear.
Switzerland are a good side and would be the one of all of them that I'd want to avoid but they're not unbeatable.
I normally quite fancy Scotland taking on bigger teams in ties like this. We punch above our weight at home and can sometimes pick off surprisingly good away results. Strachan seemed to have s bit of momentum and some pretty good spirit in the squad and I'd have fancied our chances.
I'd certainly fancy that over a game in Georgia/ World Cup game vs Costa Rica/ Peru/ Iran/ 10 man Uruguay/ game in Faroe Islands etc etc etc.
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17-10-2017 10:05 PM #18
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When have we been beating these big teams again?
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18-10-2017 07:24 AM #19
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When you look at some of the teams that have (Iceland, Serbia) and haven't (Wales, Holland) qualified and the way their respective fortunes have changed recently, you can see that international football doesn't always work out as an exact science. I don't think we're anything special at all but we're also not a million miles away from getting to one of these tournaments.
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18-10-2017 08:09 AM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Italy have some really promising players coming through just now but Ventura is really struggling to get the team playing fluently and they look too disjointed, in my view. A mad 424 system also doesn’t suit the players and part caused the 3-0 hammering in Spain, with 2 versus 6 in midfield meaning they were completely overrun!
Despite this, they pretty much always do enough when it’s needed or the chips are down - as well as Scotland did in the latter half of qualifiying, it would have been an almost impossible task to overcome Italy in a playoff game. Sweden will be very tough but I fancy Italy to qualify..
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