2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

Madness.

Five minutes of injury time for my boys to hold out.

US defending a free kick on the edge of their box with five players in the T&T half.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSS!

Costa Rica waste a whole minute of time added on arguing about a goal kick.

Just down to Honduras to run the clock.

lol, we're celebrating like we're going to Russia instead.

Expect more to be made of the equaliser, they've just shown it again and it's even more ridiculous this time round.

lol Mexican television dgaf about losing because it knocked out USA.

That is amazing. It never went anywhere near the line and was being held at the time!

fuck, i'm just gutted. i've been following this generation of Chilean players since they were teenagers. you could see the magic fizzle out this year, but still didn't think they'd screw up the qualifiers this badly. ugh.

It's going to be strange with no Chile, Netherlands, USA, Cameroon, Ghana, Algeria, probably Ivory Coast, etc.

yup

HI DERE. Barely paid attention to this and now reading this thread. Wtf

wtf nwc

Whoa, scenes. Very harsh on Chile. Especially considering they successfully appealed against Paraguayan Cabrera playing for Bolivia. It earned them a win instead of a 1-1 draw, but it also lead to overturning the Bolivia-Peru result (1-0) into a 0-3 win for Peru. And now Chile are out on goal diff. Dang.

Quack quack oops

WOW WOW! Video of what appears Falcao convincing Peru players one by one to deal for a draw that would qualify both pic.twitter.com/8laXomElvY

— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) October 11, 2017

Could have made a bit more of an effort to be subtle tbqh.

lol

Peru's goal was pretty unique too.

It was an indirect free kick which Guerrero curled in - which obviously shouldn't have stood if it had gone in directly but Ospina got a touch on it trying to make a save which meant it was no longer counted as a direct goal. I don't think i've ever seen that happen before.

If Ospina had let it just fly past him, it wouldn't have counted. Guerrero must have been counting on him trying to save it as he definitely went for goal.

Guerrero's goal by Peruvian TV.

Narrator: "Indirect free-kick, Paolo!
He takes it... GOAL!
He (Ospina) touched it!
He touched it!" pic.twitter.com/ihNUlVRT3W

— FlamengoENG 🇺🇸🇬🇧 (@FlamengoENG) October 11, 2017

https://youtu.be/Zu9aEuNXshQ

That Panama equaliser, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

lol at all this, amazing

Whoa, scenes. Very harsh on Chile. Especially considering they successfully appealed against Paraguayan Cabrera playing for Bolivia. It earned them a win instead of a 1-1 draw, but it also lead to overturning the Bolivia-Peru result (1-0) into a 0-3 win for Peru. And now Chile are out on goal diff. Dang.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, October 10, 2017 10:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this would be hilarious to me if i weren't so mad at chile for not qualifying !!!1111!!11

4-1 Croatia. Woeful defending from Greece. That Watford keeper playing for Greece is well dodgy

he pretty much handed everton the win on his own last week

Shocking penalty call against the Nordies

Norn Iron robbed, so they were.

33 team world cup

Italy going out if they can’t score in the next 25 minutes.

loving this ref

3 subs down and no insigne :/

Losing to this Sweden is a disgrace tbh :-/

all these playoff teams are crap

Otm. Worst play-offs in forever. And to think we'll only get more and more countries at the WC in the coming years... Fitba's in the gutter etc

Loving this game tbh and I'm a Italy fan

So am I. They're pressing hard now.

5 mins

Netherlands not being at a WC is a shame, but Italy; Italy not being there is a fucking tragedy.

That's why we have qualifiers

First time since '58 no Italy..

no goals in nine and half hours of playoff football

since Sweden scored in the first leg

#DeRossi: "Che cazzo entro io? Non dovemo pareggià, dovemo vince!", indicando Insigne. pic.twitter.com/Vr2uTy9wnF

— Valerio Curcio (@ValerioCurcio) November 13, 2017

"Why the fuck would I come on? We need a win not a draw"

(apparently)

Swedes were organised well at the back but Italy are so useless up front, no ideas

Darmian was one of their main attacking outlets...

Yeah yeah tragedy whatever there just aren't really any good players in this Italy team any more are there?

nope

Lots of good players, just not a team.

yeh agree with LBI - finally they replaced gabbiadini / darmian with belotti / el shawaaary with 30 mins left & looked way more dangerous immediately
obvs the insigne thing is insane but no idea what gabbiadini has done this season to deserve > belotti

I don't really keep up with Italian football that much but yeah my comment was mostly driven by Gabbiadini being in the team and thinking surely they'd have to do better upfront, in an absolutely crucial game, than some dude who isn't even holding down a consistent place in the Southampton team?

with their midfield they could almost certainly suffice with a lone forward in immobile or belotti but this is a manager that played 4-2-4 away vs spain haha

We've had our backs against the wall before. But we've raged... raged against the dying of the light #IRLDEN #RTEsoccer pic.twitter.com/djC9eJW2Lo

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) November 14, 2017

nice understated promo from irish tv