Do I have this right: 43 - 41 from CAF soon 40-39 from CONMEBOL late tonight 38 from OFC tomorrow Then, 37, 36 and 35 from the AFC playoffs and the ICQs and 34 and 33 from the Wales/Ukraine/Austria group Although the order of 37-33 is not correct.
Sweden lost 4 out of 5 away games this WCQ cycle. That’s simply not good enough at this level even if you win all your home games.
43. Mali (0-0 at Tunisia after Tunisia won 1-0 at Mali) 42. DR Congo (Morocco won 4-1 today after a 1-1 draw in DR Congo) Algeria and Cameroon each had the away team up 1-0 after 90 minutes, so they are going to extra time.
I started watching in the 120+2nd, and guys were pushing. In the 120+4th, Cameroon scored for a 2-1 win, 2-2 aggregate, and 2-1 away goals. It turned out bad for Algeria to host the second leg because Cameroon had more time to score away goals. An announcer did not know that away goals were used in extra time, so he talked about penalty kicks.
40. Chile 39. Colombia Chile lost 2-0 hosting Uruguay that ended before Peru's 2-0 win hosting Panama, which ended before Colombia's 1-0 win at Venezuela. Peru had 24 points, Colombia had 23, and Chile had 19.
Sorry. I don't know how I typed a team that didn't play today. I made a spreadsheet of what each team did when they got eliminated, and after tomorrow I'll post how many of each here. I have one column that says whether it was from a one game playoff, two legs, a group stage before the last matchday, a group stage on the last matchday, or an unusual reason. I have another column that says whether the team had a win, draw, loss, did not play, or had an unusual event on their elimination day. Assuming no teams drop out, I can add the five June eliminations. The only thing I can't do is note if future games are decided in extra time or penalty kicks. If anybody wants my spreadsheet, e-mail EvanJ35@hotmail.com and I will attach it.
If it's UAE then sure. If it's the Aussies then Peru isn't much further away from Qatar that Australia. I don't think nations like Japan and South Korea are going to have some significant home confederation advantage. I'd even say the north African sides were better set up, but two failed to qualify.
There wil be still some sense of "this is on territory of our confederation" that will fire Asian teams up a tiny bit more than elsewhere.
We'll see our 38th and final team eliminated for the next 10 weeks or so - either New Zealand or Solomon Islands.
New Zealand won 5-0. The June eliminations will all be one game that must have a winner, so we're done with scenarios.
The UAE will be quite familiar with conditions in the middle east. Even if we qualify for the playoff we will also be quite familiar with the conditions as we played the majority of our qualifying games in the middle east (11 from 18). As its only a one off game not sure how much familiarity with conditions will have an effect though. If we can defeat UAE I would expect us to remain in camp for the IC playoff which may be more of an advantage than any familiarity with conditions.
This would be last time that NZL will be eliminated from WC participation. Smooth ride for Oceania NZL from here on.