2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

conmebol seems to be one confederation where playing home or away does seem to make a huge statistical impact on the outcome of the game.

chile sitting third but conceivably could end up 6th and out. argentina win, colombia and peru draw and that would do it. fuuuuck.

if chile lose to brasil, which, they will

chile ought to be fine now

meanwhile, iceland!

i am very invested in chile qualifying and argentina not, but chile will absolutely lose in brasil taking things out of their hands.

yeah the iceland story is great, the gift that keeps on giving.

surely with peru and colombia playing each other you'll be ok, or have i not done the math

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if peru and colombia draw and chile lose colombia would go above chile on points and peru would go above chile on goal difference

if argentina and paraguay both win in that scenario then potentially chile could end 7th

tl;dr everyone from 3rd to 7th could end up eliminated. uruguay at 2nd could end up 5th and having to do the playoff

Why does the tunnel look like a nightclub?

Couldn't make it to the Azteca tonight but the match has been hilarious. Continuous Mexican pressure from the start with the team and the crowd increasingly incredulous that they hadn't scored. Shahdon Winchester nips up the other end to make it 0-1 T&T.

No way we hold on to the lead (and it is a dead rubber anyway) but this is great fun.

Wales v Ireland is going to be a proper cup final

Do us a favour and put Wales out fergawdsake.

Sweden leading 8-0 while Holland's only technical chance of q is trying to beat their goal diff lol. RIP us.

Do us a favour and put Wales out fergawdsake.

― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:47 PM (one hour ago)

Unlikely although Bale is out for the game

eh, two mediocre teams. It's up for grabs

lol Belarus equalise.

An hour in and it's Andorra 0 Portugal 0 too.

Netherlands need to beat Sweden by seven to have a shot at the playoffs.

I watched Costa Rica vs Honduras last night, which was an appalling match. Honduras needed a win to keep their chances alive, Costa Rica a draw to qualify.

Honduras were leading with twenty minutes to go and spent the rest of the match diving, feigning serious injury, taking forever with goal kicks, etc - leading to six minutes of added time. Costa Rica scored in sixth of them.

welcome 2 concacaf

liked the announcer on this

"El Mundial! El Mundial! El Mundial!" How Waston's goal sounded on Teletica: pic.twitter.com/9aYOsc6pAw

— Jon Arnold (@ArnoldcommaJon) October 8, 2017

God bless Leigh Griffiths, now watch Strachan fuck it up by playing nine men behind the ball in the second half.

surely not?

Slovenia equalize, what does Strachan do? Take off a forward and put on another midfielder of course!

Henderson is an absolute nothing in this team, he's like a science fiction concept midfielder

bye bye Scotland ;_;

Oh well, all over, hopeless in the second half, there's one guy who can score a goal out there, I doubt there's another Scotland player on the pitch whose career goal tally is in double figures.

SNODGRAAAAAAAASS

There you go, put on a player who knows how to score the occasional goal instead of fucking James fucking McArthur et al.

love a bit of Snod tbh

it's alarmingly like watching Wolves under Big Mick

At least we'll be rid of Strachan and his inexplicable favourites like Barry Bannan, Chris Martin, Anya, this useless cunt Phillips. Darren Fletcher, go and pick up your pension ffs.

Mo Salah making sure Egypt qualifies for the first time in 28 years. Odd stat seeing they won the African Nations thrice in a row ('06, '08, '10) but didn't qualify for the WC those years.

Shelvey >>>> All of England's current midfielders

That was the most Scotlandy most Strachany thing I have ever watched. It's so predictable.

Indeed, they're unlikely to get an easier qualification group next time out, Sloveniaka and as top seeds a boring crappy England team full of comically overrated Spurs players, managed by Gareth Southgate into the bargain.

Any chance that this isn't total dogshit

Watching anyway of course. Good anthem

Brady's existential despair over the omission of Hoolahan is quite something

Not good so far!

We can't string three passes together

This is fine

Disciplined stuff. Possession isnt the aim

McClean a cheap thug as always

Christie could do a job under poch imo

yaaaaaaas

\m/

Ramsey is so shit

5 mins!

Fuck off Wales a goals no good to ye

McClean still a stupid thug

Stupid stupid thug.