I'm not getting any younger and these things come around once every 4 years so it'd be nice if we didn't have to wish it away till next cycle
True, I was looking at it more from the strength of opponent perspective. Using that logic, we would rather draw an AFC nation (Iran, Korea,...
My pot preferences from best option to worst option: Pot 1: Qatar Portugal Spain Argentina Belgium England France Brazil Pot 3: Tunisia Morocco...
Uruguay recovered this match window but Colombia has now gone seven matches without a goal. That's really tough to do, even if you're trying not...
Peru with 3 straight wins. Now in position to knock out one of the traditional WC participants (Chile/Uruguay/Colombia) and send another to the...
I don't believe this is correct. Everything I've seen said Ayew and Iwobi will miss the playoff due to their respective red cards:...
We had zero shots on goal...it wouldn't have mattered if he added 30 minutes of extra time
That was a 100% dive. Yedlin didn't touch him
Why do we play out of the back?!? We look like an 8u team
Played soccer as a kid and first tuned in to the World Cup for Italia '90. Followed all WCQ games in the cycles that came after that. I started...
Absolutely, ELO Ratings have Canada (58) and Haiti (67) as the two highest ranked teams outside of the top 5. Haiti drew an incredibly easy group...
Here's is the general WCQ qualifying schedule. I'm listing the top seed from the sub-qualifying group: June '21 @ Trinidad & Tobago/El Salvador...
New format announced for 2022 WCQ:...
The FIFA June rankings will be published on June 11th - just after the international window. Canada is 14 points behind El Salvador, so they were...
His lack of athleticism is shocking
Goal differential ...and Scott does not inspire confidence in any way
Tab holding his subs way too long. Get a couple of guys with fresh legs in to replace the kids that have played 160 minutes over the last 4 days....
Nigeria will beat Ukraine (fingers crossed) so if we can see this out and then take care of Qatar we'll go from the out house to the penthouse...
Most likely, but it will depend on goal differential and the results from other groups. For example, a draw in the New Zealand/Norway match would...
I was really impressed by how Ecuador took it to Italy today despite being down a man for most of the match. A likely knockout stage match with...
4-0 leads for both New Zealand and Nigeria. Not surprising that both are winning but it does cement Qatar and Honduras in 4th place in their groups
Correct, 2022 will remain at 32 teams. I'm glad sanity prevailed on this one. One more cycle of the traditional qualifying format
My dark thought is that there will be no majority, it's opened up to the rest of the world, and China is ultimately awarded 2026.
This is going to be rough. We should be playing a creampuff in our own feel-good send off and instead we've become someone else's fodder.
If the unthinkable happens and Greece lose to Gibraltar, Slovakia would take Greece's spot in the "unseeded" pot, as they'd finish with 885 points.