World Cup 2022 qualifying draw

[Diclonius]

Monday 7th December. We're in pot 3 and will have to make the top two of our group.

Looking at the groupings, difficulty could probably range from:

Belgium, Switzerland, Scotland, Bosnia, Cyprus

to

Denmark, Romania, Scotland, Luxembourg, Andorra, San Marino

[Speedy]

Stick on to get Israel again

[Speedy]

Just looked at previous qualifiers, 19 or 20 points required for 2nd.

16 from seeds 4-6
3 from seed 2
1 from seed 1

Games against the smaller nations are pivotal to avoid needing miracles in the big games

[hibbysam]

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Just looked at previous qualifiers, 19 or 20 points required for 2nd.

16 from seeds 4-6
3 from seed 2
1 from seed 1

Games against the smaller nations are pivotal to avoid needing miracles in the big games

Basically have to beat all the crap, and win the head to head with the pot 2 side.

[Speedy]

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Basically have to beat all the crap, and win the head to head with the pot 2 side.

Aye, that should give us a great chance

[Magpie]

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Basically have to beat all the crap, and win the head to head with the pot 2 side.

Can already tell the opening game will be a 0-0 draw away to Estonia.

[greenlex]

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Basically have to beat all the crap, and win the head to head with the pot 2 side.

The problem is there aren’t many really crap sides around and we are closer to being their level than the pot 2 level.

[hibbysam]

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The problem is there aren’t many really crap sides around and we are closer to being their level than the pot 2 level.

You think? I’d be extremely confident in competing with Romania, Slovakia, Wales etc while pumping every single team in pot 5/6 and vast majority of pot 4.

[Magpie]

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You think? I’d be extremely confident in competing with Romania, Slovakia, Wales etc while pumping every single team in pot 5/6 and vast majority of pot 4.

Wales would beat Scotland.

[Dr What If?]

The days of a top two finish from a group of 5 being enough are long gone and there is a lot more quality around these days than there has ever been.....there will be big names missing when the draw in 2022 comes along. Every Hampden game now is a MUST win, away ties against the pot 4s and below are MUST wins. Actually the gap in quality between the European teams now is not huge, little decisions here and there in individual games will decide a few countries fate. We will need a bit of luck but more importantly, we need to avoid bad luck (see Czech Rep 2011....still hurts that one).

The big negative is the squad that got us to the Euro's and to runners up in the Nations League group are not good enough to get us to a world cup, the positive is that it is a young team and they will be better and more experienced this time next year....Clarke will also be much more savy to the international game. Who we get in the draw will be a big factor in our chances that is true....but more importantly we need to be looking for more quality to come in, be it pinching quality players with Scottish grannies (Che Adams?) or someone from the U21s to make a leap forward (Hornby, Turnbull, Porteous, etc).

We need to improve a hell of a lot from where we are, thing is we are improving though. Even our Slovakia defeat was night and day from our last trip there.....it was a 50:50 game that arguably on the balance of play we should have won. If the improvement continues at this rate then no one will want to play us, if it stalls or if this is the peak then we will struggle. Lets hope its the former.......come on Scotland, we love you!

[Glory Lurker]

We didnae want to go to Qatar anyway.

[bingo70]

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Monday 7th December. We're in pot 3 and will have to make the top two of our group.

Looking at the groupings, difficulty could probably range from:

Belgium, Switzerland, Scotland, Bosnia, Cyprus

to

Denmark, Romania, Scotland, Luxembourg, Andorra, San Marino

Is it not just the group winners plus 2 best runners up or something?

[Sir David Gray]

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Is it not just the group winners plus 2 best runners up or something?

All 10 group winners qualify, 12 teams (the 10 runners up and the top 2 Nations League group winners that finished outside the top 2 of qualifying) then go forward to 3 play off paths and play 2 rounds of single match play offs and the 3 winners from each path also qualify for the World Cup to make up Europe's 13 places.

[Billy Whizz]

Draw 5pm today and a reminder of the pots

Pot 1: Belgium, France, England, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands.

Pot 2: Switzerland, Wales, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Ukraine, Serbia, Turkey, Slovakia, Romania.

Pot 3: Russia, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic, Norway, Northern Ireland, Iceland, SCOTLAND, Greece, Finland.

Pot 4: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Israel, Belarus, Georgia, Luxembourg.

Pot 5: Armenia, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Andorra.

Pot 6: Malta, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, San Marino.

[Billy Whizz]

I’d love England from Pot 1

[Magpie]

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I’d love England from Pot 1

I’d like to see England, Wales and Scotland

[Billy Whizz]

Live on FIFA TV

https://youtu.be/2yuDDopwiyM

[The 90+2]

Group F please.

[The 90+2]

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Group F please.

Result.

[Billy Whizz]

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Result.

Who do we want from 4th pot

[Diclonius]

Hahahaha

[Billy Whizz]

So far
Group A
Portugal
Serbia
Republic of Ireland
Luxembourg
Azerbaijan

Group B
Spain
Sweden
Greece
Georgia
Kosovo

Group C
Italy
Switzerland
N Ireland
Bulgaria
Lithuania

Group D
France
Ukraine
Finland
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Kazakhstan

Group E
Belgium
Wales
Czech Republic
Belarus
Estonia

Group F
Denmark
Austria
Scotland
Israel
Faroe Islands
Moldova

Group G
Netherlands
Turkey
Norway
Montenegro
Latvia
Gibraltar

Group H
Croatia
Slovakia
Russia
Slovenia
Cyprus
Malta

Group I
England
Poland
Hungary
Albania
Andorra
San Marino

Group J
Germany
Romania
Iceland
North Macedonia
Armenia

Liechtenstein

Not too much travelling for the TA apart from Moldova

[SteveHFC]

Great draw for us.

[SJNB Hibby]

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Great draw for us.

No excuses this time
Best teams from those pools for us

[SteveHFC]

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No excuses this time
Best teams from those pools for us

We can that group for sure.

[we are hibs]

Surely we can finish above one of those teams and get at least 2nd. What an opportunity

[Mikey_1875]

Definitely best draw possible, puts us in with a real chance

[The 90+2]

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Definitely best draw possible, puts us in with a real chance

Avoid a couple here and get abania may as well apply for Visa

[we are hibs]

Israel again. **** off

[The 90+2]

Israel for a wee change.