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What does that mean? Why are you posting it?

And at least I just saw a poll in a Swedish tabloid which had over 50% saying Sweden's chances were 40/60 or less :-)

What a shit draw    Possibly the best team, and it also means no chance of both Denmark and Sweden at the championship.

At least we've had a good grip on Sweden during our latest games.

Good job. No easy task for sure.

But I hope there's some economic rationale, not just the old trick about making the population feel national pride so they can forget about social and economic issues...

My theory is that we'll miss the 70000th post. We will simply go straight from 69,999th to 70,001st. It will be a big disappointment.

Hungary is ranked above Denmark in UEFA's rankings, so you will play Denmark, Slovenia, Norway or Ireland, while we will play Hungary, Sweden, Ukraine or Bosnia. I have to say I'd prefer Hungary...

So.... Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Bosnia, Ireland, Ukraine, Slovenia.

All of almost equal strength. Maybe Sweden and Ukraine are a bit stronger than the others.

Oh no Hungary 

They win the world cup of syllables.

After a deeper analysis, I have found that Hungary will also miss direct qualification if Turkey beats Iceland while Kazakhstan beats Latvia. In that case, Turkey will score a massive 7 points for the table of 3rds in the last round, seeing that Latvia will finish last in the group instead of Kazakhstan and Turkey has two victories vs Kazakhstan and two draws vs Latvia.

If we simply forget about Denmark's 5-team group for a moment and just compare the actual points of the 3rd placed teams without arbitrarily deducting points, we can see that Slovakia/Ukraine and Norway/Croatia have both earned more points than Hungary, as will Sweden.

To complete the irony, Hungary may actually end up having earned the LEAST points of all 3rds (except Denmark who has played two less matches) and still qualifying directly as the best 3rd.

Yes but nevertheless we've played all our games and only scored 12 points.

As far as I can see, the only way Hungary can fail to qualify directly is if Ukraine beats Spain in the last round while Slovakia beats Luxembourg. Hungary's own match is irrelevant in this matter. It only has any significance if Romania fails to win against Faroe Islands, in which case Hungary can qualify with a win, regardless of what happens in Kiev.

With Turkey's victory today, the Dutch disaster seems very realistic.

Denmark's fate will be sealed tomorrow, when Albania plays Armenia in Yerevan. Albanian victory = playoffs
Draw = direct qualification
Armenian victory = direct qualification

What? I never crash 

My death is scheduled for ZCT724 :-(