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| Merengue | Mar 29 2009, 07:53 AM Post #46 |
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And Portugal-Sweden ended 0-0, both teams are struggling but remarkably still are in with a chance to finish second in the group. Portugal have now lost to Denmark and drawn with Albania and Sweden in their home matches! You have to give Carlos Queiroz credit, not everybody could take a team which made the Euro 2004 final, the World Cup 2006 semifinals and Euro 2008 quarterfinals and have them struggling to qualify out of an average group! At Real Madrid we saw Queiroz "magic" touch too, he took a Champions League winning team and made them struggle! |
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| Yogi | Mar 29 2009, 12:36 PM Post #47 |
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The complete set of qualifying scores from Europe: World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 1) March 28 Malta 0 - 3 Denmark Albania 0 - 1 Hungary Portugal 0 - 0 Sweden World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 2) March 28 Luxembourg 0 - 4 Latvia Moldova 0 - 2 Switzerland Israel 1 - 1 Greece World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 3) March 28 Northern Ireland 3 - 2 Poland Slovenia 0 - 0 Czech Republic World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 4) March 28 Russia 2 - 0 Azerbaijan Wales 0 - 2 Finland Germany 4 - 0 Liechtenstein World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 5) March 28 Armenia 2 - 2 Estonia Belgium 2 - 4 Bosnia-Herzegovina Spain 1 - 0 Turkey World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 7) March 28 Romania 2 - 3 Serbia Lithuania 0 - 1 France World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 8) March 28 Cyprus 2 - 1 Georgia Ireland 1 - 1 Bulgaria Montenegro 0 - 2 Italy World Cup qual. - Europe (Group 9) March 28 Holland 3 - 0 Scotland I still think the most impressive win of the day was by Serbia at Romania. Puts Serbia in excellent position in their group. You also have to like Holland's easy win over Scotland and Spain's win over Turkey. Hungary are keeping up pace with Denmark in their group as they are separating themselves from Portugal and Sweden. |
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| Nkono | Mar 29 2009, 10:18 PM Post #48 |
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I thought France played a pretty good game on a horrible pitch in Lithuania. Yogi, Luyindula actually played pretty well at forward as his speed and mobility caused problems for Lithuania. benzema has been struggling lately with Les Bleus so using hm off the ebnch was I thought a pretty smart move. Ribery won the game with abrilliant strike from outside the penalty area. he is learning something at Bayern Munich, how to shoot with power and precision from long range as so many German players are capable of doing. Serbia's win over Romania did France a favour, now the Serbians are in a good position to win the group but France, with two games against the faroes still to play are well placed to at least claim 2nd in the group. The game against Serbia may end up being what determiens the group winner. An impressive win for Holland. After their near miss in qualifying for Germany 2006, Scotland are back in the doldrums and were not much opposition for Holland who with Robben and van Persie have a pair of attackers who can unbalance any defense. Then there is Huntelaar to finish the scoring chances off. If the Dutch develop a decent defense, watch out! |
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| Manzanares | Mar 30 2009, 06:36 AM Post #49 |
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Click on the video link on this page for a play by Poland's goalie Artur Boruc which I am sure brought a smile to historyman! http://www.marca.com/2009/03/30/futbol/mun...1238407107.html Boruc's error ended up being the difference as Northern Ireland beat Poland 3-2 in the extremely close Group 3. Northern Ireland with the win jumped into the group lead although they have played one game more than the rest of their rivals and two more than Slovakia. Northern Ireland 10 points [6 games played] Slovakia 9 [4 games] Czech Republic 8 [5 games] Slovenia 8 [5 games] Poland 7 [5 games] San Marino 0 [5 games] Now that is a close race! Actually can we really blame Boruc for the own goal? Watch the horrible bounce the ball takes just before it reaches him. |
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| gaviota | Mar 30 2009, 06:52 AM Post #50 |
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Boruc will take the blame for that mistake but Manzanares is right, the field was in bad condition and you see the ball take a bigger bounce just before reaching him. Also blame the defender for returning the ball to the goalie directly on frame with the goal, kick it slightly off to a side to prevent an own goal was what I was always taught. |
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| Dr. Z | Mar 30 2009, 09:33 PM Post #51 |
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I agree gaviota but it is still worth a good laugh at Boruc's expense. By the way look at those pictures again, Boruc looks overweight. He plays for Celtic in Scotland, been eating too many fried Mars bars? |
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| Merengue | Mar 30 2009, 10:51 PM Post #52 |
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What a howler by Boruc! Dr. Z you may be right about Boruc's weight, damn the Scots will fry anything, no wonder they have the highest heart attack rate in the world. Back to football, here is a wire service preview of the midweek qualifying games, http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-...v=afp&type=lgns |
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| raconteur | Mar 31 2009, 03:12 PM Post #53 |
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I am looking forward to the Italy-Ireland game, a Lippi-Trappatoni duel. Both teams are in comfortable position in the group so the pressure won't be enormous on them both but Ireland typically gives Italy some difficulties with their combativeness. And without Toni, Gilardino and now DiNatale, I expect Italy will have some problems scoring. I am wondering how the crowd in bari where the game will eb played, which is Antonio Cassano's hometown, will react to his exclusion from the team by Lippi? No Cassano but his Samp teammates Pazzini and palombo will be there. Who would have expected a team with Cristiano Ronaldo, Simao, Quaresma, Maniche, Deco, Pepe, Carvalho and Bosingwa is on the verge of not qualifying for the World Cup? |
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| Pepe | Apr 1 2009, 06:54 AM Post #54 |
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There are some good matchups tonight such as Italy-Ireland, Turkey-Spain, England-Ukraine and France-Lithuania. raconteur has already set out what makes Italy-Ireland a fascinating game, Turkey-Spain and France-Lithuania are return games from this past weekend where Spain and France each won. Another Spanish victory and they can all but book their ticket to South Africa, while Turkey need the points to stay ahead of Bosnia and Belgium in 2nd place. France can move ahead of Lithiania into 2nd place in their group with a win tonight. Meanwhile England can really take control of it's group with a home win over Ukraine. |
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| Mr. Pither | Apr 1 2009, 09:52 AM Post #55 |
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I am a little late to the discussion but wanted to make a few remarks about Wales embarrasing home loss to Finland. The Welsh youngsters were given a lesson by Finland's 30 something team. Who knew Jari Litmanen was still playing? Not only did he play but he starred in the match. Finland gave a reminder than if you make the ball do the work you can go places even if you don't have the speed or stamina you once had. Now Wales face Germany and while they gave the Germans a good run for it last fall in Germany, the result against Finland does not install any confidence in Wales. Northern Ireland are doing well with their limited resources but Wales with an arguably better set of players are not. Simon, I read where Peter Crouch may start for England tonight!!! He benefits from injuries to his fellow strikers. Is that what happened to rule Heskey out (an injury)? Bosnia if they beat Belgium tonight will be in 2nd place in their group no matter what Turkey do against Spain. Great job by Bosnia so far in these qualifiers. Seems as if every qualifying series there is one ex Yugoslav republic who surprises, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, now it seems it is Bosnia's turn. |
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| Simon | Apr 1 2009, 02:15 PM Post #56 |
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Yeah, Heskey went off injured shortly after scoring the opener in the 4-0 win over Slovakia at the weekend. His replacement Carlton Cole also had to go off injured later on and Darren Bent, who was called up into the squad as a replacement, was injured in training yesterday. Not that it necessarily needs those circumstances for Crouch to start, because he's a good player and tonight he scored a nice acrobatic volley for his 13th goal in 15 starts for England, and it's hard to argue with those figures! I think he sometimesgets a hard time because of his ungainly size, but his game actually centres around his skill and close control rather than his heading, oddly enough he's not even all that good in the air. England played well tonight and Rooney was fantastic, as he was on Saturday (let's keep it up when you're back in red, Wayne) but they got a bit too pleased with their level of control and slackened off in the second half thinking the job was done, only for a set piece to fall straight to Shevchenko who knocked it in. Fortunately Terry was on hand to score a late winner and maintain our 100% record in what is a pretty tricky group, apparently the only one with 3 top 20 teams in it. Anyway, job done and back to club football! |
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| Loco4LosChe | Apr 1 2009, 02:36 PM Post #57 |
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Bolivia beat Argentina 6-1. No April fools joke. Wow... Worst lost for Argentina ever. Fact. |
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| Gunners | Apr 2 2009, 04:53 AM Post #58 |
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Great hearing that Jari Litmanen, one of my all-time favorite players, is still going strong. It's almost amazing to hear that a player who starred at Ajax alongside the likes of Dennis Bergkamp, Frank Rijkaard, Marc Overmars, Finidi George, the De Boers, and Danny Blind is still starring in international football! |
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| Winslow | Apr 2 2009, 07:32 AM Post #59 |
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Group One: Denmark 3, Albania 0; Hungary 3, Malta 0. Group Two: Greece 2, Israel 1; Latvia 2, Luxembourg 0; Switzerland 2, Moldova 0. Group Three: Czech Republic 1, Slovakia 2; Northern Ireland 1, Slovenia 0; Poland 10, San Marino 0. Group Four: Liechtenstein 0, Russia 1; Wales 0, Germany 2. Group Five: Bosnia-Herzegovina 2, Belgium 1; Estonia 1, Armenia 0; Turkey 1, Spain 2. Group Six: Andorra 0, Croatia 2; England 2, Ukraine 1; Kazakhstan 1, Belarus 5. Group Seven: Austria 2, Romania 1; France 1, Lithuania 0. Group Eight: Bulgaria 2, Cyprus 0; Georgia 0, Montenegro 0; Italy 1, Ireland 1. Group Nine: Netherlands 4, Macedonia 0; Scotland 2, Iceland 1. Exhibition: Norway 3, Finland 2; Serbia 2, Sweden 0. It's interesting to see Hungary second in Group One (ahead of Portugal and Sweden!) and Northern Ireland atop Group Three. However, the Magyars and Ulstermen have both played all their easy games, so I'm not optimistic. Compare them to Israel, which is fourth in Group Two but has some easy games coming up. Good to see Scotland win, but Norway has two games in hand and could easily go from last to second in Group Nine very quickly. Geez, what happened to the Romanians? Now they're losing to Austria? |
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| Manzanares | Apr 2 2009, 10:24 AM Post #60 |
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Apart from Spain, Germany and Russia, three of the four semifinalists from Euro 2008 winning away from home, one of the few other away victories was by Slovakia at Czech Republic. At 1-1 and with the Czechs pushing fo a winner, the Slovaks caught them on a counter, Cech saved the initial shot but the rebound was put away. Like Portugal and Sweden, Czech Republic are another perennial World Cup qualifier who are in danger of not making the trip to South Africa next year. I did not see the game but saw the higglights and Wales were wronged against Germany when a penalty was not called against a German with the score 1-0 in Germany's favor. A second goal came much later when a speculative cross was redirected inot the Wales goal for an own goal. And Italy were definitely wronged with the sending off of Pazzini. |
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