Mexico's Football Related Random Thoughts Thread - Volumen Cincuenta Tres

DR Congo beat Nigeria on penalties to qualify for the inter-confederation playoffs in March.

They’ve not been to the World Cup since 1974 🔥🇨🇩 pic.twitter.com/KjtiQyG7VE

— B/R Football (@brfootball) November 16, 2025

 

DR Congo was the better team the entire second half and extras had they lost in PKs what a crime that would have been.

 

👽 Erling Haaland this season so far…

🏆 16 goals in World Cup qualifiers.
💙 32 goals with club and country.
🇳🇴 55 goals in 48 Norway games.

…and bringing his country to the World Cup! pic.twitter.com/YjdOMuTIiG

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) November 16, 2025

 

Does this mean that Nigeria are out of the WC? Asking for a Ghana fan?

Edit: nvm

Nigeria fail to qualify for the 2026 World Cup 😮 pic.twitter.com/97GOCT7ORQ

— B/R Football (@brfootball) November 16, 2025

 

Padding stats against the San Marinos, Liechtensteins and Cypruses of the world.

 

And Italy.

 

🇮🇪 Irlanda y 🇺🇦 Ucrania entran al repechaje sobre la hora, con bombo por definir.

El primer juego de 🇮🇹 Italia será contra uno de estos:

🇸🇪 Suecia: los eliminó en 2018.
🇷🇴 Rumania
Irlanda del Norte: los eliminó en 1958.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gales o🇲🇰 Macedonia del Norte, que los eliminó en 2022. pic.twitter.com/hJr0x474Zo

— Cambio de Juego (@_cambiodejuego) November 16, 2025

 

It’s such a wonky unnecessary classification process

 

Was it Pacquiao’s mom?

 

Germany crushing Slovakia ATM while Netherlands are beating Lithuania sin despeinarse.
Poland will be so vulnerable in the playoffs.

 

Four-time champions Germany qualify for the #FIFAWorldCup 🇩🇪#WeAre26 pic.twitter.com/Up6rEuRUFp

— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) November 17, 2025

🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 🇳🇱 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 🏆

The Dutch sweep aside their opponents in Amsterdam, qualifying for back-to-back World Cups 🎫 pic.twitter.com/hwnaxaK606

— 433 (@433) November 17, 2025

 

Oslo showed out to celebrate Norway's World Cup qualification 🇳🇴 pic.twitter.com/aaGEYgBgvu

— B/R Football (@brfootball) November 17, 2025

 

Prueba de juego 🔥
Para el 2026 la Selección Colombia enfrentaría previo al Mundial a Francia, Portugal y Croacia 👏👏
Tres rivales de peso y que lucharán por levantar la copa Mundo pic.twitter.com/OJGbDvNze1

— Colombia Scouts 🇨🇴 🏟⚽️ (@JvenesPromesas3) November 18, 2025

@sidspaceman

 

AMIR AL-AMMARI, WITH A LAST MINUTE PENALTY, PUTS IRAQ IN THE INTER-CONFEDERATION PLAY-OFFS 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

UAE ARE ELIMINATED 🇦🇪

WHAT A NIGHT IN BASRA https://t.co/DA0YEat9ZX https://t.co/jGX27naNkV

— dedo ⚽️ (@dlicps) November 18, 2025

 

Uruguay is trash.

 

That was their Z team.

 

If piojo doesn’t qualify Costa Rica to this World Cup it might be the worst failure of any Mexican coach ever