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Had a quick check to see potential match ups for Wales and Ireland ( hopefully these are the top 2 but I'll keep quiet who I want to be the automatic qualifiers 😃)
Northern Ireland , Iceland and Greece maybe Scotland or Slovakia all look beatable.
However there is a real horror story in either Spain or Italy as potential opponents 😱😱😱😱
I'm hoping Ireland smash Serbia Tuesday which may derail them a bit.
My preferred wish ( may as well have the bollocks of my convictions ) is Ireland to win group, Wales second and facing Northern Ireland in play off.
Not sure how the seedings are decided though.
If we win all 4 games and finish on 20 I'd be amazed that we don't get a play off place. Still 3 other groups where 2nd are on 13 points with only 9 to play for.
So we would end up with 14 points if we win our remaining games?
It just seems remarkably stupid that the authorities have devised a system whereby runners up in 8 of the nine groups make the play offs penalising the team in a really tight group that finishes second but doesn't qualify for a play off place.
After this.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/f...young-12182795
I can believe anything when it comes to mad formulas for deciding who qualifies and who doesn't.
Looks like we need more scores like Finland 1 Iceland 0 in other groups.
Yeah just looked at the groups, they all have 6 teams it's not like one group has 5?!?
Group H looks like being our saviour. Providing we win all our games and finish on 20 points (or 14 excluding Moldova points) then if Belgium beat Greece tonight they can only finish on 19 points (or 13 excluding Gilbraltar points).
Bosnia can get same points as us if we both win our last 3 games but they also have Belgium to play so will hopefully drop points there.
So basically we need a little help from our Belgian friends in their next 2 away games.
All this is hopeless if we don't win our last 3 of course.
I still think Wales can top the group. Need Ireland to beat them on Tuesday, then for Wales to win all remaining games. Serbia still have to go to Austria who are a good team.
If Ireland beat Serbia and Wales beat Moldova the group looks like this
Ireland 16
Serbia 15
Wales 14.
Serbia then go to Austria, Ireland play Moldova and Wales have the tricky game in Georgia. Assuming Wales and Ireland win, and Serbia fail to win we have
Ireland 19
Wales 17
Going into the last game.