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No Holland, no Argentina maybe, or Italy. No messi, will bale be there? No guarantee that Portugal will def make it either...how will Ronnie cope?
As long as England avoid every team, they'll win the cup.
You have to say it will prob alt be England’s beat chance to win for quite some time.
However it will also be probably the biggest humiliation yet if they fail to get out of a group.
Faroe Islands could go third in their group today, if they beat Latvia at home. They would go up to 11 points - more than they have won in their previous three qualification campaigns added up together.
Italy are paying the price for not being a seed for qualification. They're ranked 10th of all European countries at present. A home draw against Macedonia suggests Italy aren't close to being one of the very top European nations at the moment.
They'll still probably qualify through the playoffs.
It's just a change of focus; do you want the world's best teams or the best teams from each continent? Regardless, Argentina are one of the lowest scoring nations and their attack is their strongest position so it seems to be an Argentina side out of sorts - they don't deserve to qualify on past experiences.
For me the rule about yellow cards (2 yellows in 11 games could see you missing the second play-off leg) favours the teams with the deepest talent pools. England, Germany, Spain, Brazil out of that lot have the squad to win the world cup....if they don't mess it up (again).
Possibility that Syria can qualify even though they've got a tough task in hand going to Australia and beating them.
Drew 1-1 in the first leg and you never know.
I'd quite like to see them there.
Not really but South American qualifying is a tough group, the 5th place playoff is usually against oz or nz which the South Americans always win as they are much better...
Not at all. 13 out of 54 European teams qualify, that's about one in four. If Italy and Netherlands can't get into the top 25% of Europe then they're not owed anything.
Given that Wales is traditionally nowhere near making it, I find it bizarre that Welsh people are sad that the status quo is being broken.
Negative , side and back passing ,no risk football, is stifling the world game,that's how minnows are qualifying, very talented teams and players will be missing from the world stage ,hows that entertainment
The fact that Russia is about as warm as, well, Siberia both literally and metaphorically mean it will be the strangest WC of my lifetime.
That is until the corrupt WC in 4 years time where the only thing more nerve racking than the games will be if the fans come back with both hands still attached to their body.
France Euros will live with me for my lifetime and as much as I want to say I’ve seen wales get to a WC, you couldn’t pay me to go to that ludicrous country during an event.