If anyone is interested, the Iceland-Greece was televised and the entire game is available at the broadcaster's site ruv.is.
Today Sweden - Romania 2-0 France - Iceland 2-1 Greece - Serbia 0-5 Netherlands - Belgium 3-0 Ukraine - Portugal 1-1 Poland - Russia 1-4 Qualified teams : France , Sweden and Germany
Host, direct qualified: Finland Qualified as group winners: France, Sweden and Germany Playing to win group or go to play-off: Denmark-Ukraine (Ukraine qualifies in case of draw) Russia-Norway (Russia needs a blow out to qualify otherwise Norway will) Three team fight for the last direct spot the other two will go to playoff, with two games left (England and Spain have 16 point each and Czech Rep 14 points before them): Czech Rep-England Spain-England Ready for the play-off: Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland The last play off spot goes to Slovenia if they win the Game Greece-Slovenia otherwise it goes to Scotland if they win the Game Scotland-Slovakia otherwise to Slovenia if they draw the Game Greece-Slovenia otherwise to Austria*. * I am assuming Slovakia do not beat Scotland with 13 goals or more, if they do they would get the play-of spot before Austria.
Scotland 6 Slovakia 0 http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scotland_squad_news.cfm?squadid=2&curpageid=862 Scotland strike 6 for playoff berth http://www.uefa.com/competitions/woco/fixturesresults/round=2381/match=85473/report=rp.html Scots women reach Euro play-offs http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/women/7631785.stm
Host, direct qualified: Finland Qualified as group winners: France, Sweden and Germany Playing to win group or go to play-off: Denmark-Ukraine (Denmark is qualified if they win otherwise Ukraine will) Spain-England (Spain is qualified if they wins with 2 goals or more otherise England will) Russia-Norway (Russia needs a blow out to qualify otherwise Norway will) Ready for the play-off: Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Rep, Scotland. NB! My mistake about Slovenia yesterday was that I thought the four best third placed teams actually meant the four 3rd placed team with best results against the other team in the groups, not so the best 3rd placed team according to UEFA is the ones with best results against the group expect the last team in the group.
Sweden-Ireland: 1-0 Sweden quailfied, Ireland to play-off (that was already clear for it before the game)
jbalk: did you happen to see the sweden-ireland game? i think it was on tv live in sweden? any thoughts if you did? i was surprised the score was that close, i think it was 5-0 last time?
According to Swiss and German media, Switzerland is not in the playoffs, since they are not among the four best third-placed teams. Don't ask me for details though - I don't understand the complicated calculations.
The six group winners will be ensured their berths in Finland along side the hosts, with the runners-up and the four third-placed teams with the best record against the rest of the top four in their pool will go into five two-legged play-offs in October which will complete the lineup. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/woco/format/index.html
England comeback ensures finals berth http://www.uefa.com/competitions/woco/fixturesresults/round=2381/match=85403/report=rp.html
Yes, not a note-worthy game at all. Sweden was resting a few of their top players and didn't actually put any press on Ireland. Letting ireland build up and attack, Sweden had more and more dangerous chances but not by far. I got the impression that Sweden probably had another gear they didn't use that Ireland may not have had.
Well apparently I must have done another misscaluation since according to UEFA the paly-off teams are: Spain, Iceland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Russia and Czech Republic, Scotland, Ireland and Slovenia. So Slovenia and not Switzerland to play-off.
Match Ups For the Playoffs Are In: http://www.uefa.com/competitions/woco/news/kind=1/newsid=758510.html Republic of Ireland v Iceland Czech Republic v Italy Scotland v Russia Slovenia v Ukraine Spain v Netherlands