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[naut]

Seems the video has been removed. What was so humourous?

And back onto the subject of kits, what is with England's new kit?! Then again I kinda like the minimalistic look.

[Jolt]

Portugal's practically out of the WC. gg.

[Sarmatian]

Another great game from Serbia, a 3:2 away win against Romania in Constanta and another fantastic game by Krasic, he's really matured into a great player. First Romanian goal is a real masterpiece by Mutu and Marica, hats off...

Romania pretty much lost all chances to qualify, there's only France and Serbia competing for the top spot now.

I still can't believe this is Serbia playing. We'll probably be disqualified when FIFA finds out we've painted white 11 Brazilians to play

[naut]

Portugal's practically out of the WC. gg.

I wouldn't write yourselves out just yet, there's still the matter of 5 games to play!

[Rhyfelwyr]

Seems the video has been removed. What was so humourous?

And back onto the subject of kits, what is with England's new kit?! Then again I kinda like the minimalistic look.

Boruc's mistake in the Poland v Northern Ireland fixture. Here's another link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWKSVLHNC8

[Afonso I of Portugal]

Boruc's mistake in the Poland v Northern Ireland fixture. Here's another link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWKSVLHNC8

No video again...

Gah! Sweden have just 1 opportunity in the entire match but we were unable to score again! With Carlos Queiroz as coach we just draw!!! Too many opportunities missed...in 6 matches we beat...Malta! We don't have a world class stiker and we will pay for that...we are almost out of the tournament!
Please...Portuguese board, Queiroz must be fired at once!!! Please....

[Beefy187]

No video again...

Gah! Sweden have just 1 opportunity in the entire match but we were unable to score again! With Carlos Queiroz as coach we just draw!!! Too many opportunities missed...in 6 matches we beat...Malta! We don't have a world class stiker and we will pay for that...we are almost out of the tournament!
Please...Portuguese board, Queiroz must be fired at once!!! Please....

You guys do have a amzing range of talented midfielders. But the only Potugease striker I can name is Pauleta and he was the man a while ago IIRC.

Portugal, Netherland and England is the three european team I support so I wish you lads, best luck.

[Afonso I of Portugal]

You guys do have a amzing range of talented midfielders. But the only Potugease striker I can name is Pauleta and he was the man a while ago IIRC.

Portugal, Netherland and England is the three european team I support so I wish you lads, best luck.

Yep! Pauleta already retired...Almeida is not enough good and no goals, no victories...

[naut]

Boruc's mistake in the Poland v Northern Ireland fixture. Here's another link:

Ah right, I saw some of that game. Yeh. Horrid mistake.

Yep! Pauleta already retired...Almeida is not enough good and no goals, no victories...

Almeida is more of a support striker. You'd think Deco/Ronaldo and co would be able to score from the midfield though?

Condolences to the families of those killed in the Ivory Coast stadium tragedy.

[LittleGrizzly]

Portugal's main fault to my mind was thier lack of strikers... midfield is great.. just need a good striker up there..

I predict England to win the Ukraine game... qualification is looking good for England!

[naut]

I predict England to win the Ukraine game... qualification is looking good for England!

They're playing well. We seriously need J.Cole back though. Downing is useless. And on the right Lennon and WP can get past players, they just don't have the ability to pick out the killer ball in and around the box. When Cole and Walcott are both fit and in the side we are much more impressive. Gerrard had a blinder, worked well with Rooney. I hope Heskey's injury isn't serious, otherwise we're a bit short up front.

Edit: Heskey and C.Cole are injured which is a big blow. Bent's been called up, he's in pretty good form for the Sp*ds. He's a bit lightweight though, I'd much prefer that Crouch starts.

[quadalpha]

Oh yes, fire Queiroz so we can have him back at Old Trafford.

[edyzmedieval]

Another great game from Serbia, a 3:2 away win against Romania in Constanta and another fantastic game by Krasic, he's really matured into a great player. First Romanian goal is a real masterpiece by Mutu and Marica, hats off...

Romania pretty much lost all chances to qualify, there's only France and Serbia competing for the top spot now.

I still can't believe this is Serbia playing. We'll probably be disqualified when FIFA finds out we've painted white 11 Brazilians to play

That was probably the luckiest 3 goals ever scored I have ever seen in my entire life.

First one was a bounce from the goal post and ended up in the feet of a Serbian attacker who scored with the empty goal, second one was a complete miss by Vidic which ended up in the head of a Romanian defender - own goal, third one was a bicycle form an offside...

And basically those were the chances of Serbia...

Incredibly lucky.

[InsaneApache]

Shearer takes over the barcodes. Talk about a poisoned chalice.

[LittleGrizzly]

IDK.. to what extent would he be blamed if they went down...?

Its not as if thier form can exactly drop much...

[Sarmatian]

That was probably the luckiest 3 goals ever scored I have ever seen in my entire life.

First one was a bounce from the goal post and ended up in the feet of a Serbian attacker who scored with the empty goal, second one was a complete miss by Vidic which ended up in the head of a Romanian defender - own goal, third one was a bicycle form an offside...

And basically those were the chances of Serbia...

Incredibly lucky.

As you're still in your teens, trust me when I say you still have a lot more to see. I understand no one likes getting beaten at home and losing practically all chances of qualifying after only 5 matches, but please, a little decorum .

Learn from our mutual neighbours Bulgarians - when they were trounced 6:1 in a friendly couple of months ago, first thing they did was to congratulate

[Jolt]

The first Romanian goal was awesome.

[naut]

Tonight should see Denmark and Hungary set up very good chances for qualifications. Isn't the last game they play against each other? That'd be one hell of a match.

Both Norn Iron and Eire have pretty good chances. Who does Scotland play next? Iceland?

[Ferret]

Shearer takes over the barcodes. Talk about a poisoned chalice.

I still think that's an april fool's joke...I distinctly remember him saying he definitely didn't want the job on match of the day earlier this year, I really don't think he's the managing type...

[Sarmatian]

The first Romanian goal was awesome.

In my opinion, Mutu is a world class player. He should have achieved even more...

[InsaneApache]

I still think that's an april fool's joke...I distinctly remember him saying he definitely didn't want the job on match of the day earlier this year, I really don't think he's the managing type...

Wrong date though.

[Afonso I of Portugal]

Bolivia 6 - Argentina 1!

Where's Messi?

[naut]

Norn Iron! Norn Iron!

England played too casually, almost threw the result away in the second half.

[LittleGrizzly]

Bolivia the new world footballing superpower!!

Argentina had most of thier best players playing as well... messi tevez ect... is crazy!

Great to see Northern Ireland doing too well... they were unlucky if thier last qaulification campaign.. came close i think... beat spain 3-2 at home which is pretty impressive...

England weren't paticular impressive... the lanky guy that doesn't get into many peoples England XI produces the results yet again... he does have a hell of a goalscoring record! has to be in the world cup sqaud imo, barring a bad injury

Captian marvel came through in the end... was a captians type of goal... nothing impressive but just there to win it for us at the end...

With Khazakstan and Andorra as our next 2 fixtures... qualification is a walk in the park from here...

[edyzmedieval]

As you're still in your teens, trust me when I say you still have a lot more to see. I understand no one likes getting beaten at home and losing practically all chances of qualifying after only 5 matches, but please, a little decorum .

Learn from our mutual neighbours Bulgarians - when they were trounced 6:1 in a friendly couple of months ago, first thing they did was to congratulate

Ok, when you get trounced 6-1 there's no point in saying your team is better or is unfair. You get 6 goals, enough said...
But when you're defeated by one goal while your team's posession is 60% for you, when you have one own goal resulted of a deflection and a goal from an offside, you have every right to feel aggrieved...

[Jolt]

To be fair with Argentina, they played at Bolivia. That's like playing on top of the Everest for any of us.

[Andres]

Belgium virtually out of the World Cup

[naut]

Tough group though Andres Turkey and Bosnia are no push-overs. Not over yet either.

[InsaneApache]

McGregor and Ferguson, V for err...victory?

[Sarmatian]

Ok, when you get trounced 6-1 there's no point in saying your team is better or is unfair. You get 6 goals, enough said...
But when you're defeated by one goal while your team's posession is 60% for you, when you have one own goal resulted of a deflection and a goal from an offside, you have every right to feel aggrieved...

Feeling aggrieved and belittling your opponent's victory are two different things. What's wrong with the first goal? A nice run by Krasic followed by a nice shot. Goalkeeper was already beaten but the ball hit the post and then Jovanovic was there with the follow-up. What's so incredibly lucky about that? It happens all the time in football.

Third goal could have been offside but I couldn't make it out, although I've seen it several times. Ivanovic indeed was behind at that point, but there was one Serbian and two Romanian players trying to get to the ball and you can't see which one of them did, at least I couldn't make it out from that angle. Offside rule doesn't apply if the ball was deflected by one of the two Romanian players.

Possession isn't everything. If you've watched some of the Serbian games, tactics isn't to keep the ball but to deliver it to the wingers or forwards as soon as possible. That's a sound tactic because we don't have a quality playmaker. I'd argue that part of the reason we've played so bad in the last several years was because various managers tried constantly to play with a playmaker. In my opinion Antic made a mistake when he didn't introduced a central midfielder in the game, like Kacar who wouldn't so much try to organize the attack but keep the ball. Instead he thought it would be better to introduce a defender. Also an option, but Neven Subotic didn't perform quite well, actually his performance was quite bad, but it was his first game. That led to a lot of panicky clearings and allowed Romanian players to get possession again easily. Especially evident from 65-80. Even then it's not like Romania had a loads of clear cut chances. You guys had the initiative in the second half, but only a couple of decent shots. Most of it were long shots.