Football Fanats 2007

[CTG]

Wake up Hungary, we are still crap in football. As I felt earlier, we got a great slap from the underdog Moldavian team.

Moldova - Hungary 3-0 (2-0)

Anyway dirty Israel for beating the "Sbornaja" and helping England with this.

[Krys TOFF]

Thanks to Italy for beating Scotland (2-1, last I9talian goal in the last minute of the match), and thanks to Scotland for loosing some weeks ago versus Georgia.
Now, France is already qualified, with Italy, for Euro 2008 even if we loose our next match in Ukraine.
Scotland is eliminated.

[BonzaiJoe]

All the wrong teams won today 

[CTG]

Go Croatia! Make those English asses suck!!!

Anyway in half time:

Hungary - Greece 1-1

[CTG]

England is dirty. Fake penalty for a fake fault. They will qualify to EURO2008 because it's good for the UEFA sponsor buisness (refree helps).

GO CROATIA, GO RUSSIA!!!

Hungary - Greece 1-2 (1-1)

Damn it we finished 6th in the group, overtaking only Malta! Disappointing...

[BonzaiJoe]

Goodbye to England!

Denmark won a useless 3-0 victory vs Iceland, and finished 4th :-/

[CTG]

Forever Croatia!!! England sucked finally, I love this result.

Poor Scotland, Northern Ireland and Finland. And dirty France.

[Krys TOFF]

Forever Croatia!!! England sucked finally, I love this result.

Poor Scotland, Northern Ireland and Finland. And dirty France.

Even with Scotland beating Italy or if they both had made a draw, France draw result in Ukraine would have been enough for us to qualify. And France should have had victory if our goalkeeper Sebastien Frey had not made such a big mistake on the 2nd goal of Ukraine... So, we deserve to be qualified.

Scotland was lucky both time they beat France : France dominated really these 2 matchs and both time we lost on one of the very very few Scottish goal possibility (compared to French goal possibilities). But Scotland really lost their qualification when they lost versus Georgia. With a victory there, they would have been qualified. Their fault, as for England.

British islands' football is not at his best, with no nation qualified for next Euro.

Now, let's see what will be the groups poll.

[BonzaiJoe]

Denmark vs Hungary (and Sweden, Portugal, Albania, Malta) in the World Cup qualifier. Looks like a good group for Sweden, not so great for the other teams.

[Krys TOFF]

Denmark vs Hungary (and Sweden, Portugal, Albania, Malta) in the World Cup qualifier. Looks like a good group for Sweden, not so great for the other teams.

Mmmm... My tips for this group : Portugal will be 1st, Sweden 2nd. Sweden will have to play elimination match among the best 2nds to be qualified. Then there will be Denmark 3rd, Hungary 4th, Malta 5th and Albania 6th.

For France, group doesn't seem too difficult : France (1st, of course , Romania (the main opponent for this group, will be 2nd), Austria (will finish probably 3rd), Lituania (4th), Serbia (5th) and Feroe Islands (6th).

For England, I fear they won't qualify, like for Euro 2008 : they have Ukraine and Croatia (again ) in their group.

[BonzaiJoe]

Very easy group for France... Strange that you believe Lithuania and Austria will beat Serbia though...

About Denmark's group, your guess separates itself from the seeding because Malta beats Albania... Well, it could happen. However, I think Denmark can do it. Portugal are not as good as Spain, Sweden are exactly as good as Sweden, and we did alright with them (remember the 0-3 defeat was because a spectator attacked the referee after Denmark had gone from 0-3 to 3-3). The real challenge will be consistenly beating Hungary and Albania.

[CTG]

Muhahaha, some of our football leaders say we have chance for the 2nd place in the group. That's a very big LOL, especially after the Euro2008 qualifications (0 point versus Turkey, Norway and Greece; 3 point versus Malta and Moldova; 6 point versus Bosnia). Even if our young team improves (not likely with the same asshole trainer), we can't finish higher than 4th.

My predictions:

1 Portugal 22 pts
2 Denmark 17 pts
3 Sweden 17 pts
4 Albania 12 pts
5 Hungary 11 pts
6 Malta 2 pts

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Group 1: the group of vulnerable top teams (POR, SWE, DEN) and competitive dicksuckers (HUN, ALB, MLT). The seedings correctly show in this group the strength of the teams, although there's a big gap between 3rd and 4th team in strength (DEN-HUN). I think the top teams will steal points from each other, maybe the group will be decided on how much points they lose against the dicksuckers. Sweden is a team - in my opinion - who can win against any team on their day, and can lose against a relatively weak team on a bad day, too. I guess for Hungary 4th place of the group is realistic, but if current trainer stays in his position, weaker can also occur. I can imagine 7 and 15 points too for Hungary, although I would consider the first one a big disaster (beating ALB and MLT home, stealing only 1 point from these team's home), the latter one a big miracle (beating ALB and MLT twice, and one top team, too, or stealing a point from each top team).

Predictions:

1 Sweden
2 Portugal
3 Denmark
4 Hungary
5 Albania
6 Malta

Group 2:

1 Switzerland
2 Greece
3 Israel
4 Latvia
5 Moldova
6 Luxemburg

Group 3:

1 Czech Republic
2 Poland
3 Slovakia
4 Slovenia
5 Northern Ireland
6 San Marino

Group 4:

1 Germany
2 Russia
3 Finland
4 Wales
5 Liechtenstein
6 Azerbaijan

Group 5:

1 Spain
2 Turkey
3 Bosnia and Herzigovina
4 Belgium
5 Armenia
6 Estonia

Group 6:

1 England
2 Croatia
3 Ukraine
4 Belarus
5 Kazakhstan
6 Andorra

Group 7:

1 France
2 Serbia
3 Romania
4 Austria
5 Lithuania (dirty Mingva)
6 Faroe Islands

Group 8:

1 Italy
2 Bulgaria
3 Ireland
4 Montenegro
5 Georgia
6 Cyprus

Group 9:

1 Netherlands
2 Norway
3 Scotland
4 Iceland
5 Macedonia

[Krys TOFF]

@BJ and CTG : is Malta so crappy ?
They beated Hungary 2-1 and made a draw with Turkey (2-2) during Euro 2008 qualifications. I still believe that they can beat Albania and Hungary when playing at home.

[Krys TOFF]

Group 3:

1 Czech Republic
2 Poland
3 Slovakia
4 Slovenia
5 Northern Ireland
6 San Marino

Quite easy group for Czech Republic. Poland-Slovakia-Slovenia seem more or less around the same level, 2nd place will be a hard fight.

Group 5:

1 Spain
2 Turkey
3 Bosnia and Herzigovina
4 Belgium
5 Armenia
6 Estonia

My tip : 1st Turkey, 2nd Spain, 3rd Belgium and 4th Bosnia.

For the rest, I aggree with Akoss.