World Cup Qualifying

lassassinblanc wrote: Trap junior wrote: How is this Northern Ireland v Czech game 0-0?? Millions of chances I was half expecting the North to nick a goal at the end, Woeful game between two woeful teams. Germans are going to coast that group and from last nights viewing of games Norway will probably come second by some way, as North and Czech Republic won't be doing anything special

pre Madonna wrote: lassassinblanc wrote: Trap junior wrote: How is this Northern Ireland v Czech game 0-0?? Millions of chances I was half expecting the North to nick a goal at the end, Woeful game between two woeful teams. Germans are going to coast that group and from last nights viewing of games Norway will probably come second by some way, as North and Czech Republic won't be doing anything special Norway are poor as well though. Whatever about the performance that result gives them a great chance of a playoff spot.

pre Madonna wrote: lassassinblanc wrote: Trap junior wrote: How is this Northern Ireland v Czech game 0-0?? Millions of chances I was half expecting the North to nick a goal at the end, Woeful game between two woeful teams. Germans are going to coast that group and from last nights viewing of games Norway will probably come second by some way, as North and Czech Republic won't be doing anything special Norway are poor as well though. Whatever about the performance that result gives them a great chance of a playoff spot.

yes Norway are poor too but I think they'll have a good chance over both those teams last night.

I really don't get this hoodoo though about North though, they're piss poor, last night as I said they could have nicked it at the end, as that is what they do keep men behind the ball and catch teams on the break, they did that exactly in the Euros against the Polish and the Germans they played 11 men behind the ball.

The only reason they drew that game last night was because the Czech don't have a decent striker they haven't really since Baros (and he wasn't the greatest either).

Of course though you have to commend them for it, they are playing to their strengths and if they get through fair play to them.


Edited by lassassinblanc - 05 Sep 2016 at 9:34am

Roberto Baggio wrote: One thing i'll give the north is that they're very hard to score against. Whether its heroic goalkeeping as we saw in the Euros, being well set up, the performances of the likes of Evans and McAuley, you very rarely see them being torn apart. Last night it was a combination of Evans and some woeful finishing at times by the Czechs

Extremely under rated defender in my eyes

pre Madonna wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: The Czechs finished bottom of their group in Euro2016 qualifying with 1 point, NI won their group.   It was a good enough result for the north last night, wouldn't say fantastic.   They both won their qualifying groups.

Perhaps he is confusing qualifying with the tournament 

They topped a difficult group, the one with Iceland, Turkey and Holland. That is a huge point for the Pub team.

From an Irish point of view I'd much rather fancy NI in the playoffs than the Czech so good luck to em!

darragh90 wrote: From an Irish point of view I'd much rather fancy NI in the playoffs than the Czech so good luck to em!

Nah

irishmufc wrote: Anyone that wants to put down the pub team's important result is only doing it out of spite. We'd be delighted with that ourselves.