World Cup Play off Draw

[JimBHibees]

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I think they’ve been playing them at Cardiff city recently aye

Wonder if they would consider playing at Millenium stadium. Atmosphere would be amazing.

[Sir David Gray]

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Wonder if they would consider playing at Millenium stadium. Atmosphere would be amazing.

5 Live spoke to Nathan Blake tonight and they asked him that but he reckons Wales will prefer to play at the Cardiff City Stadium as it's smaller and they'll get a better atmosphere.

He also didn't fancy the idea of more Scotland fans being able to go to the Millennium Stadium if they did play Scotland in the final and it was moved there.

[houstonhibbee]

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Yes it did but Ukraine still sit 13 places above us.

Ukraine only one two games in their group and drew home and away with the bottom team Kazakhstan
nothing to be fearful of then

[JimBHibees]

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5 Live spoke to Nathan Blake tonight and they asked him that but he reckons Wales will prefer to play at the Cardiff City Stadium as it's smaller and they'll get a better atmosphere.

He also didn't fancy the idea of more Scotland fans being able to go to the Millennium Stadium if they did play Scotland in the final and it was moved there.

Yes thought that might be the case and to be fair probably right from their perspective just think Millenium is an amazing stadium.

[CMurdoch]

The tale of the tape for the Semi Final
Ukraine Population 45 million, Scotland population 5.5 million

Ukraine Ranked 25 in the Fifa rankings which is 13 places above Scotland

Scotland ranked 9 in the UEFA club coefficient predominately on the back of the performances of the Old Firm
Ukraine ranked 11 in the UEFA club coefficient predominately on the back of the performances of Dynamo Kiev & Shakhtar Donetsk

In the last 23 man Ukraine national squad 13 players were from Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk plus 2 other domestic players
The other 8 are playing in Italy, England, Portugal, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary but they have no big stars despite their massive population.

The countries have met twice before resulting in one win apiece

[cabbageandribs1875]

Scotland women v Ukraine woman just started on Alba, WC qualifier hopefully part 1 of doing the double against them

[Potty78]

Almost a perfect draw, think we'll beat Ukraine at home, think I'd rather play Austria away again though. Just cant believe Italy and Portugal ended up in same half of draw

[Hibee Mac]

I don't understand why people are making out as if Ukraine are a really difficult draw, we've ended up with probably the best draw for the final we could have hoped for.

By all means it's not anything close to an easy game, but no world cup play off will be, have some confidence!!

[Jim44]

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Scotland women v Ukraine woman just started on Alba, WC qualifier hopefully part 1 of doing the double against them

0-1 Ukraine. Shocking defending from Scotland, particularly no. 5.

[Pretty Boy]

Ukraine look a weird one.

Some of their results this year look very decent and then others look pretty poor. Draws v France, Czech Republic and beating Sweden are undeniably impressive. Draws with Kazakhstan, Bahrain and Bosnia and a defeat to Austria? Not so much.

[cabbageandribs1875]

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0-1 Ukraine. Shocking defending from Scotland, particularly no. 5.

i've missed a good bit of it, i've really not been hugely impressed the last few games to be honest, hence i asked for shelly kerr to come back a few games back

if Ukraraine win this they would go 3 points behind Scotland with a game in hand, Spain will win the group


still time though, at least one poor miss from Abi Harrison, ex hibs

HT

[Broken Gnome]

Any Scotland team could easily lose the Ukraine tie and any combination of the final, but hopefully THIS team takes us up to a 50/50 shot at least.

Saw someone say that if you want to qualify for a World Cup it's exactly the sort of task you should be capable of passing. That's it - we've been given a tough but nowhere near insurmountable shot at it, hoping for much better was chancing our arm.

[007]

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0-1 Ukraine. Shocking defending from Scotland, particularly no. 5.

Looked like she was towing a caravan.

[cabbageandribs1875]

Beattie subbed at HT, the No 5



goal coming surely


how on earth can the referee give a foul to ukraine there, not just male refs huh

[Sir David Gray]

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I don't understand why people are making out as if Ukraine are a really difficult draw, we've ended up with probably the best draw for the final we could have hoped for.

By all means it's not anything close to an easy game, but no world cup play off will be, have some confidence!!

Ukraine are the highest ranked unseeded team in the draw.

Ukraine - 25
Poland - 27
Austria - 30
Czech Republic - 31
Turkey - 37
North Macedonia - 67

Don't get me wrong Scotland's capable of winning this one, especially at Hampden but it could definitely have been better.

Should we win against Ukraine then a final v Wales or Austria for a place at the World Cup is decent.

[davhibby]

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They drew home and away with France

They also drew with Kazakhstan and couldn’t beat Bosnia. They were very poor at the Euros and lost to Austria too. Poland and Turkey were the unseeded teams to avoid, the rest were all worse than us by a distance

[Since90+2]

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They also drew with Kazakhstan and couldn’t beat Bosnia. They were very poor at the Euros and lost to Austria too. Poland and Turkey were the unseeded teams to avoid, the rest were all worse than us by a distance

Not sure you can say the Czechs are worse than us by a distance considering they beat us at Hampden in the Euros.

[Sir David Gray]

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They also drew with Kazakhstan and couldn’t beat Bosnia. They were very poor at the Euros and lost to Austria too. Poland and Turkey were the unseeded teams to avoid, the rest were all worse than us by a distance

Not according to Fifa.

We're the second lowest ranked side in the play offs.