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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 8, 2007 21:12:12 GMT 1
it was punishment to them from above for playing on Shabbat.
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Post by suedehead on Sept 8, 2007 22:16:42 GMT 1
Embarrassing result of the night
Malta 2 Turkey 2
Malta actually led twice!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 8, 2007 22:35:53 GMT 1
malta are a great footballing nation lol
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Post by suedehead on Sept 8, 2007 23:20:05 GMT 1
Embarrassing result of the night Malta 2 Turkey 2 Malta actually led twice! And another one Iceland 1 Spain 1 Spain equalised in the last few minutes
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Post by o on Sept 9, 2007 9:09:25 GMT 1
Spain were down to 10 men for 80 minutes I think?
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Post by suedehead on Sept 9, 2007 11:16:15 GMT 1
70 minutes. Even so they should be able to beat Iceland.
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Post by Mart!n on Sept 9, 2007 12:27:15 GMT 1
Good game overall and had most of the ball possession, hope they can keep their heads together for Wednesday, Russia will be tough to beat, me thinks. Hesky, Wright-Phillips and Micah Richards played a blinder of a game. Should have taken Owen off after their 3-0 lead, didn't need to play the full 90 mins.
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Post by Panda on Sept 9, 2007 12:54:24 GMT 1
Well done England yesterday and well done McClaren. The question is will he keep things the same for Russia?
Israel were very poor. They were beaten as soon as England's first goal went in. They expectedly came and played for the draw but they had no plan B. They barely got out of their own half until they brought that Nigerian guy on at half-time.
With England and Russia still to play each other twice, Israel are just about gone so it's 2 from 3 now. If we get 4 points from the Russia games and 4 from the other two games, we'll qualify.
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Post by Thor on Sept 9, 2007 14:36:35 GMT 1
Here's how the Group E table looks when we take the bottom 3 out...
Pos - Country - Games- Points
1 Croatia 4 8 2 Russia 3 3 ------------------- 3 England 3 2 (would be 4 but they lose 2 for drawing with FYROM) 4 Israel 4 2
Games still to play are...
England v Russia
Russia v England Croatia v Israel
Israel v Russia
England v Croatia
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Post by Thor on Sept 9, 2007 14:50:18 GMT 1
I find Group C to be really odd!
1 7 18 Greece 2 8 16 Norway 3 7 14 Turkey 4 8 13 Bosnia 5 8 09 Hungary 6 8 05 Malta 7 8 02 Moldova
Greece have won every game except a 4-1 battering AT HOME to Turkey! Norway put 8 past Hungary in 2 games but lost at home to Bosnia. Turkey couldn't beat Malta last night. Bosnia have been beaten by Hungary twice and are still 4 points ahead of them! Hungary managed to lose in Malta.
I think this can all be put down to the fact this group is relatively mediocre
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Post by Panda on Sept 9, 2007 14:54:05 GMT 1
The groups seem very lop-sided.
I seem to remember us having a similar conversation when the qualifying draw was made but it looks very silly now that we have one group with 3 quarter-finalists from the last World Cup and another group with no teams that even managed to qualify.
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Post by Thor on Sept 9, 2007 15:18:27 GMT 1
The groups seem very lop-sided. I seem to remember us having a similar conversation when the qualifying draw was made but it looks very silly now that we have one group with 3 quarter-finalists from the last World Cup and another group with no teams that even managed to qualify. I think we can safely put this down to Greece being given a top seeding. Swap them for France or the Netherlands and the group would instantly look stronger. I don't think any of the other groups look much stronger or weaker than the rest. Aside from the group you mentioned, although Ukraine haven't really been consistent enough in qualifying to warrant being seeded higher than third.
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Post by Panda on Sept 9, 2007 15:22:09 GMT 1
And apparently Greece will be among the top seeds for the finals if they qualify, along with Austria and Switzerland, so there will be some strong teams in the 2nd and 3rd pots of seeds...
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Post by Thor on Sept 9, 2007 15:27:35 GMT 1
And apparently Greece will be among the top seeds for the finals if they qualify, along with Austria and Switzerland, so there will be some strong teams in the 2nd and 3rd pots of seeds... Urgh what a joke. So there wil be one group with the remaining best seed, an excellent team from pot B and another great side from pot C. Really it would be better to avoid being the top seeded team!!
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Post by Panda on Sept 10, 2007 10:43:52 GMT 1
And apparently Greece will be among the top seeds for the finals if they qualify, along with Austria and Switzerland, so there will be some strong teams in the 2nd and 3rd pots of seeds... Urgh what a joke. So there wil be one group with the remaining best seed, an excellent team from pot B and another great side from pot C. Really it would be better to avoid being the top seeded team!! Well it certainly won't be England!
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Post by bugsbunysylvester on Sept 12, 2007 19:56:09 GMT 1
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Post by o on Sept 12, 2007 20:46:22 GMT 1
Great performance so far, lucky with Russia's disallowed goal, but what finishing from owen, man he looks GOOD!
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Post by bugsbunysylvester on Sept 12, 2007 20:51:38 GMT 1
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Post by Thor on Sept 12, 2007 21:50:54 GMT 1
Here's how the Group E table looks when we take the bottom 3 out...
Pos - Country - Games- Points
1 Croatia 4 8 2 England 4 5 (would be 7 but they lose 2 for drawing with FYROM) ----------------------- 3 Russia 4 3 4 Israel 4 2
Games still to play are...
Russia v England Croatia v Israel
Israel v Russia
England v Croatia
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