These seedings are all over the shop. Makes qualifying more exciting I suppose.
These seedings are all over the shop. Makes qualifying more exciting I suppose.
Do top two qualify even in the 5 man group?
Yes, the groups of 5 just get rid of the comedy microstates from the bottom.
Poland are a top seeded team but England and France aren't? Makes sense.
Hold on, Spain stilling refusing to play Gibraltor
Proper small time.
Could easily see England not getting out of the group.
Can’t even get Gibraltar. Fuck sake.
Spain
Scotland
Norway
Georgia
Cyprus
Quite a fun group to be fair. Haven’t played Spain in ages and only Georgia we’ve played recently in a group. Should be able to win 4/5 at home and win the away games to the bottom two sides (I hope). Just depends on Haaland raping us and Spain if he fancies it
What was the reason Andorra couldn't be drawn in Group H?
4/5? Are you planning to play yourselves at home?
Wait, what, it's the Euros. There's no home and away right?
I smell 7 points after a plucky home draw against Greece.
Ronaldo clearly going to carry on for a few more years looking at Portugal's group.
We can't stay away from Italy, it seems.
Yep. Kazakhstan can only be drawn with one of Andorra, England, France, Gibraltar, Iceland, Malta, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Wales, and they already had Northern Ireland.
Why on earth are they in the European qualifying realm anyway? Or are they basically too far from everywhere?
Given that the top 2 go through to the finals, England should be fine.
Does third get you a play-off against a [presumably] god-awful side as well? Ukraine are shit though so England should be coasting second as a minimum [they'll win it].
All the problem sides being thrown into Group G.
When you look at some of those other groups, how the hell have both the finalists of the last Euros ended up in the same one?
Have Casillas and Puyol's twitter been hacked because they're coming out of the closet
both hacked - 1/4
casillas hacked/puyol trying to be funny - 6/1
casillas genuine/puyol trying to be funny - 8/1
both genuine - 20/1
I’m presuming so as it comes across if they’re marrying each other lol
Aaronson's run deserved a goal. Shame he himself didn't get it.
Or the somehow most stupid option.
Continuing from the September thread.
News of Thiagos demise greatly exaggerated. Looks like he just got a rest in training.
Don't worry, he's still got the warm-up to navigate yet.
I didn't see any of the Rangers game, what is this line-up from Liverpool? 4-2-4?
That’s a lovely goal from Palace. They need to just continue with this front 3 with Eze in the midfield. They’ll win more games than lose.
Jordan Henderson going to have to cover for Thiago, Alexander Arnold and the front four. Poor bastard. Martinelli should have fun on the counter.
If it plays the same as it did against Rangers, Trent didn't go too far forwards. However he's shit enough at defending that it shouldn't matter.
Don'tbog yourself down with silly tactical formations and numbers, just enjoy the fucking vibes of starting all 4 attackers. Bobby should have started ahead of Diogo but fuck it, these fucking hyped up little pricks are in for a wake-up call.
Can you not just back Arsenal or something?
That's a 5-0 to Arsenal tee'd up if ever I've seen it.
Also, what's the deal with this? Didn't a similar thing happen in another game recently [maybe a womens game]?
Yep, that was a women's Champions League game where Ajax brought out smaller goals.
I'm going to go for 2 clear cut chances missed by Nunez today. I'm feeling generous.
How many headed shots on target though?
Good to see VAR and the officials still cocking everything up. Funny how it's always the smaller club that seems to get fucked over - all 3 goals today for West Ham (the last 2 especially) should not have stood. Utterly infuriating and it could be so costly for Fulham when it gets down to the end of the season.
Are we really doing the 'balls kicked at you from half a yard away' are penalties thing again?
The high risk/reward stuff would be great if we didn't chuck the opposition a goals head start in every single game.