btw. did you hear the joke that Poland is the only representant of British Isles in Euro2008? Razz (you must live in Poland, England or Ireland to understand)

I don't live there but I know that in UK live too much Poles.
Soon the Brits will be a minority in their own country.

This is the thread about the next WC. We can guess the qualifying games, starting this september.

And my predictions for group9
1. Netherlands
2. Macedonia (not to be too optimistic, but this is the best chance they've had to get to 2nd place)
3. Scotland
4. Norway
5. Iceland

mmm
1. GROUP
Portugal
Sweden
2. GROUP
Switzerland
Greece
3. GROUP
Czech Republic
Poland
4. GROUP
Germany
Russia
5. GROUP
Spain
Turkey
6. GROUP
Croatia
England
7. GROUP
France
Romania
damn, hard group for Serbia. But hope that they ll be 2d finally. I'd prefer them to change places with Russia...
8. GROUP
Italy... and... i dunno)
9. GROUP
The Netherlands)

For me another good news. Japan which is one of my favorite teams qualified!

Corn wrote:For me another good news. Japan which is one of my favorite teams qualified!

eh if you mean they qualled for the WC 2010 itself... there's still one group stage for them left to survive.

predictions, i've already made some way time back, but these are slightly different.

#1: 1. POR, 2. SWE (wish: 1. SWE, 2. DEN)
#2: 1. ISR, 2. SUI
#3: 1. POL, 2. CZE (wish: 1. CZE, 2. NIR)
#4: 1. GER, 2. RUS (wish: 1. FIN, 2. WAL)
#5: 1. ESP, 2. TUR
#6: 1. ENG, 2. CRO (they get their revenge)
#7: 1. FRA (altho having a s*** coach), 2. ROM (wish: 1. AUT , 2. eh.. France?)
#8: 1. ITA, 2. IRE (wish: 1. IRE, 2. BUL)
#9: 1. NED, 2. SCO (wish: 1. NOR, 2. ICE, 3. SCO)

go austria and north europe !

uhu these wishes won't come true in hell

My predictions :

Group1
Portugal
Sweden

Group 2
Greece
Switzerland

Group 3
Czech republic
Poland

Group 4
Germany
Finland

Group 5
Spain
Belgium

Group 6
England
Croatia

Group 7
France
Austria

Group 8
Italy
Republic of Ireland

Group 9
Netherlands
Scotland

pjelacki, yes you are right. but at least they qualified out of their group, i'm so glad because there was only 1 to qualify, and i was afraid of Bahrain

The Wednesday friendly games:

Slovenia - Croatia 2:3, this was a good game
Romania - Latvia 1:0
Ukraine - Poland 1:0
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria 1:2
Turkey - Chile 1:0
Switzerland - Cyprus 4:1
Germany - Belgium 2:0
England - Czech Republic 2:2
Slovakia - Greece 0:2
Norway - Ireland 1:1
wales - Georgia 1:2
Lithuania - Moldova 3:0
Russia - The Netherlands 1:1
Denmark - Spain 0:3
Finland - Israel 2:0
Sweden - France 2:3
Scotland - Northern Ireland 0:0
Italy - Austria 2:2
Albania - Liechtenstein 2:0
Estonia - Malta 2:1
Iceland - Azerbaijan 1:1
Hungary - Montenegro 3:3, goal show
Portugal - Faroe Islands 5:0,
and
Luxembourg - MACEDONIA 1:4,

My Star wrote:

aletem wrote:Macedonia always plays good against the island countries. So Scotland won't have much chance in Skopje for sure!

scotland isnt an island

Im happy with the Irish group - I can see us getting through

OK performance against Norway, we might have a chance. There is a good chance we could beat Italy as Trap knows them inside out. Bulgaria could be the bogey team and surprise us all!

eurovisionireland wrote:

My Star wrote:

aletem wrote:Macedonia always plays good against the island countries. So Scotland won't have much chance in Skopje for sure!

scotland isnt an island

Im happy with the Irish group - I can see us getting through

OK performance against Norway, we might have a chance. There is a good chance we could beat Italy as Trap knows them inside out. Bulgaria could be the bogey team and surprise us all!

If you do well against Italy, then you don't have to worry to much about the others. Montenegro are dangerous as debutants and Bulgaria is good at home and be aware of Cyprus...cause you know what happened last time (5-2 the SetantaTV commentator was then very surpriced)

I remember that match well. We deserved to lose though, the manager was inexperienced that we had and they were cocky and oversure.! Macedonia have a good team , a lot of the Macedonian players play in leagues outside of Macedonia so have lots of different styles, all our players play in Britian

uhm, I think we are lucky. It's possible to beat Croatia ... not sure about England, lol.
my prediction:
I can't decide between Romania/Serbia ... both teams are quite good.

GROUP 1
1. Portugal
2. Denmark

GROUP 2
1. Greece
2. Switzerland

GROUP 3
1. Poland
2. Czech Republic

GROUP 4
1. Germany
2. Russia

GROUP 5
1. Spain
2. Turkey

GROUP 6
1. England
2. Ukraine

GROUP 7
1. France
2. Romania

GROUP 8
1. Italy
2. Ireland

GROUP 9
1. The Netherlands
2. Scotland

oh Zeus

nobody predicts Bulgaria Ireland is not that good

we must surprise you

Before the olympics i said: Spain may be 1st in our group and we may 2nd. But now i'm worrying about Belgium too. And sure getting a point from Yerevan'll be really hard. First match of us'll be in 6th of Semptember and after that Belgium waits for us. Grrr.... Worry days wait for us
I wish the best wins.

eurovisionireland wrote:I remember that match well. We deserved to lose though, the manager was inexperienced that we had and they were cocky and oversure.! Macedonia have a good team , a lot of the Macedonian players play in leagues outside of Macedonia so have lots of different styles, all our players play in Britian

Finnan has gone to Espanyol . Thank god for that... I hate Ireland's obsession with the premier league... you'd swear it was our own the way some people go on.

And to call staunton inexperienced would be a compliment to him

So the georgia match will be in Mainz. Good for us as i couldnt see us winning out in Georgia.

eurovisionireland wrote:I remember that match well. We deserved to lose though, the manager was inexperienced that we had and they were cocky and oversure.! Macedonia have a good team , a lot of the Macedonian players play in leagues outside of Macedonia so have lots of different styles, all our players play in Britian

Yeah lot of Macedonians play in different leauges which is hard to make the team consistent and work with one style. The Scotts were saying that they will win in Skopje easily, but now that they play without few key players and on 35 degrees Celsius, they are already in panic. Its good that all of your players play in Britain (though that has some disadvantages... people like their big club money, rather than the national team money ), British soccer gives you more speed and soccer that you want to watch. I know Ireland has a good team (S.Ireland, R.Keane, Shay Given (is he still playing or is he retired?) Finnan as well). But you are lucky to play in Germany against Georgia, that could be easy points for you.
I can't wait for Scotland's game. I can't believe they underestimate us, when this group is just what we need to do well. I could see Scotland loosing on 6th of September.

Armenia-Turkey match in the same night with Edc i wanna watch the match and the contest too

Good luck to all.

Don't worry Gazel. Thanks for time difference. You know we've 2 hours difference with Armenia. So the match'll start realy early. 18:55. So we can watch Edc on İtv and support Azerbaijan.. Yayyyy

marais wrote:oh Zeus

nobody predicts Bulgaria Ireland is not that good

we must surprise you

Surprise ? The boys in green will hammer you


May the best team win

M.A.[D].E.L.I wrote:Don't worry Gazel. Thanks for time difference. You know we've 2 hours difference with Armenia. So the match'll start realy early. 18:55. So we can watch Edc on İtv and support Azerbaijan.. Yayyyy

oleeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy Thanx Erennn for infooooo
Yeah support Azerbaijan and again good luck to all for the match

Armenia-Turkey difficult match. this match is the most difficult match of Turkey in this group. because, this match will be played in Armenia.

Chance (i think):
Armenia, %40
Turkey, %55
Draw, %5

btw. important injury of Turkey; Mehmet Aurelio and Servet Çetin.
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Macedonia-Scotland; pfff this match is another difficult match too. i hope, we'll win

Elena_Lover wrote:Armenia-Turkey difficult match. this match is the most difficult match of Turkey in this group. because, this match will be played in Armenia.

Chance (i think):
Armenia, %40
Turkey, %55
Draw, %5

btw. important injury of Turkey; Mehmet Aurelio and Servet Çetin.

Injury ism't important for Servet you know. Bionic Man

But i don't think it'll be the hardest match that we'll play. If we look as rivals Armenian team isn't as strong as us! But the match to play in Yerevan and the stress over the Turkish footballers might us some fall down. But it's the worst possibility.
As i said in my signature: I wish the friendship and the best to win
Good luck both countries.

eurovisionireland wrote:

marais wrote:oh Zeus

nobody predicts Bulgaria Ireland is not that good

we must surprise you

Surprise ? The boys in green will hammer you


May the best team win

Bulgarians are good, except when they play Sweden or Denmark. That group has 4 teams that can surprice and do well for sure: Italy, Ireland, Bulgaria and Montenegro. Cyprus could do well, but maybe not in this group. And Georgia, I think they'll end up last in the group.

Btw, does anybody knew that on the last qualifiers Azerbaijan and Armenia didn't play against each other twice? (In the official UEFA web-site both games are left empty without a score)

I think Armenia - Turkey will be a tough game, because Armenia plays good at home (even though away they are weak team).

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I'll post some (or all) the games around Europe in the qualifiers. BTW, if you want I can pm you a link where you can watch other games, besides your own country.

aletem wrote:Bulgarians are good, except when they play Sweden or Denmark. That group has 4 teams that can surprice and do well for sure: Italy, Ireland, Bulgaria and Montenegro. Cyprus could do well, but maybe not in this group. And Georgia, I think they'll end up last in the group.

Montenegro? Who are Montenegro? okej, we'll see this Saturday.. Montenegro-Bulgaria

I think the real danger is Cyprus.. they won't qualify, they just cause problems.. like Albania... they are hard to be beaten
Moreover, they have a team in the Champions League - Anorthosis. That shows some quality.

marais wrote:

aletem wrote:Bulgarians are good, except when they play Sweden or Denmark. That group has 4 teams that can surprice and do well for sure: Italy, Ireland, Bulgaria and Montenegro. Cyprus could do well, but maybe not in this group. And Georgia, I think they'll end up last in the group.

Montenegro? Who are Montenegro? okej, we'll see this Saturday.. Montenegro-Bulgaria

I think the real danger is Cyprus.. they won't qualify, they just cause problems.. like Albania... they are hard to be beaten
Moreover, they have a team in the Champions League - Anorthosis. That shows some quality.

I know about Anorthosis, and about APOEL (Limasol was it right?) and Omonia (Lefcosia), but even though Montenegro are new commers, they showed quality in the friendly games, so I expect them to battle for second place, besides I think they are capable of surpricing Italy just like Slovenia, Serbia or Croatia.
Its a debut qualifier for Montenegro, they should do well (no offence)... imagine how excited they will be in Podgorica on the 6th.