Denmark missed being a seeded team by two points: 27,142 to 27,140. What are the odds! Now we'll probably draw Ukraine.
Denmark missed out on being seeded by two points out of over 27,000 in the calculation. Pot 1 (seeded) Team Coeff Rank Bosnia and Herzegovina 30,367 13 Ukraine 30,313 14 Sweden 29,028 16 Hungary 27,142 20 Pot 2 (unseeded) Team Coeff Rank Denmark 27,140 21 Republic of Ireland 26,902 23 Norway 26,439 25 Slovenia 25,441 26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2016_qualifying_play-offs
Im gonna call it. Hungary over Norway due to Norwegian ineffiency to score. A Viking Battle will be good to see. Hope ESPN is showing.
If it isn't on ESPN3 (for free) it will be on Fox Soccer to Go, which is only $10 for the whole month. I'm not happy about this matchup. For one thing, both Denmark and Sweden were the sides most directly screwed by the inability of Serbia and Montenegro to provide adequate crowd control, with Albania and Russia getting three points from matches they did not win. That proved to be the difference in qualifying for 2nd place ahead of Den and Swe. Now one of them will be out, and Zlatan will probably go crazy, so it will probably be Denmark.
Sweden seems to really get the juices out for the Euros but fail in recent WC campaigns. That being said Id back Denmark to win.
I understand your thinking but I think it will be a toss up as to who will advance. The Danes do have the advantage of the second leg in Copenhagen, and the Swedes have Zlatan. One thing we do know is that both matches will be passionate and therefor hard to predict. It sucks that these two were "drawn" together; I would love to have seen Ice, Nor, Swe, and Den in Euro 2016.
Ready for what? Well, no Denmark (I still can't believe we didn't qualify for a 24 team Euro), but it will be interesting to see what Iceland and Sweden can do, especially Iceland. I suspect Sweden goes out in the group stage, but Iceland could surprise, even top the group.
For Sverige and the fairy/elf believers from Island yeah I was disappointed that you Danes aren't going. Rough deal but hey with 24 teams you should def be qualifying from now on
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