EURO 2020 qualifiers

thebronze14 wrote:

irishmufc wrote:

SuperDave84 wrote:

I think the results we want tonight are as follows:

Germany to beat Northern Ireland

Netherlands to beat Estonia

We want Germany and Netherlands to qualify out of that group

Slovakia to beat Hungary

Croatia to beat Azerbaijan

We want two from Slovakia, Wales and Croatia to qualify out of that group

The Poland v Austria one is tricky but probably Austria to beat Poland and Israel and Slovenia to draw

We want Poland and Austria to qualify out of that group

In fairness I'd want ISIS and Al Qaeda to qualify out of that group if they were in with those sh*tebags up the road.

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Scotland surrendered after just 8 minutes. Unbelievable!!!

Paul Andrew White wrote:

Scotland surrendered after just 8 minutes. Unbelievable!!!

They can take our points... But they'll never take our...

Edited by eireland - 09 Sep 2019 at 9:14pm

SuperDave84 wrote:

I think the results we want tonight are as follows:

Germany to beat Northern Ireland

Netherlands to beat Estonia

We want Germany and Netherlands to qualify out of that group

Slovakia to beat Hungary

Croatia to beat Azerbaijan

We want two from Slovakia, Wales and Croatia to qualify out of that group

The Poland v Austria one is tricky but probably Austria to beat Poland and Israel and Slovenia to draw

We want Poland and Austria to qualify out of that group

SuperDave84 wrote:

I also forgot that of course we want Belgium to beat Scotland and Russia to beat Kazakhstan.

Northern Ireland 0 v 2 Germany - tick

Estonia 0 v 4 Netherlands - tick

Netherlands and Germany looking stronger now and Northern Ireland probably need 4 points v Netherlands now which is a huge ask.

Hungary 1 v 2 Slovakia - tick

Azerbaijan 1 v 1 Croatia - nope

This was probably the biggest group and the Slovakia win the biggest result of the night - even with Croatia dropping points, it was a good night for us in this group. The key point is that Hungary not qualifying is more likely now than it was before, especially as they have to go to Croatia and Wales.

Poland 0 v 0 Austria - nope

Slovenia 3 v 2 Israel - nope

This group is looking tighter now and we could do with Austria getting their sh*t together from here - Slovenia v Austria next month is a big game and we could do with Austria going there & winning.

Russia 1 v 0 Kazakhstan - tick

Scotland 0 v 4 Belgium - tick

This group is close to over now and the results tonight were excellent for us - this group could be completely over after the next games, if Kazakhstan and Cyprus draw and Russia beat Scotland.

Edited by SuperDave84 - 09 Sep 2019 at 9:49pm

The Scotland post match is grim..

"we're really poor but we hav'ny hit bottom yet...we're close ,but not quite"

Paul Andrew White wrote:

Shame on you Scotland!! I think the only one who can bring them back again is king Kenny Dalglish

How would Dalglish do things differently ?

Steve Clarke took up a huge challenge with things already wrecked before he even signed his contract. I'm fully behind Clarke and will give him time. I am reminded of the atrocious start Michael O'Neil made as the IFA team manager but how it very gradually began to get better for them.

I am expect another doing when we go to Moscow next month, so he must start to rebuild slowly but surely with a home win against San Marino, an away win against Cyprus and a home win against Kazakhstan.

Anyone who was expecting him to work miracles against a top team such as Belgium clearly can't tell the difference between a Football Manager 2020 or FIFA 20 game and harsh reality.

I do have some hope that players such as Billy Gilmour, David Turnbull and Fraser Hornby may progressively improve things.

Het-field wrote:

I still feel that Scotland do have a significant number of better players, at an individual level than we do. But it does show that having PL players at decent clubs, and lots of European football is perhaps a little over-rated.

That's not really new though.

Take Brian McClair, Graeme Sharp, Alan Hansen & Paul Sturrock from yesteryear. Really good club level players. Incapable of doing anything at international level for some reason, and they had some good international teammates too !

Darren Fletcher sometimes really struggled at international level.

And yet in the past I've witnessed supposedly bang average club players like Paul Hartley, Gary Caldwell, Kenny Miller, Graham Alexander, Lee McCulloch, David Weir and Gary Naysmith play brilliantly against teams like France and Italy.

Edited by ErsatzThistle - 09 Sep 2019 at 10:29pm

I think the scots should have kept strachan. Did a decent job. Defo have some decent players on paper anyway. Really made a balls of this group tho. Belguim aside they should be challenging for 2nd spot.

Edited by doherty - 09 Sep 2019 at 10:36pm