football thread No11

[BirraImperial]

Looks like Argentina is at least securing the playoff spot for now...Ecuador started winning the game, but 2 goals from Messi have turned things around...Elsewhere it seems that teams are being way to careful as the other important matches (Brazil vs Chile, Peru vs Colombia) are 0-0...

 

[Takhisis]

Paulinho scores for Brazil!

 

[Arwon]

Uh the US are down 2-0 but both Panama and Honduras are also losing

 

[Takhisis]

Brazil score again, giving Peru the playoff spot on goal difference, assuming all current results stand.

 

[ThERat]

I guess Australia will be happy to face Panama iso USA in the play offs...

 

[Takhisis]

Colombia score in Lima! Chile back in for the playoff spot.

 

[Arwon]

I guess Australia will be happy to face Panama iso USA in the play offs...

I think I'd rather the troll value of playing the US. America plays weird sports so we don't get to have a rivalry with them in anything.

 

[Takhisis]

Messi scores again right after the radio commentator says he's not up to the same form as in the first half (to his credit, he acknowledged it).

 

[Takhisis]

Peru score, they're back on the playoff spot and Colombia takes the last place for now, assuming it ends 1-1.

 

[Takhisis]

Paraguay collapse at home losing 0-1 at home to Venezuela… I don't understand how they win their away games, big matches, and lose to the same teams at home.

And Brazil score again. 3-0

 

[Takhisis]

Brazil 3 -0 Chile
Paraguay 0 - 1 Venezuela
Uruguay 4 - 2 Bolivia
Ecuador 1 - 3 Argentina
Peru 1 - 1 Colombia

 

[Arwon]

Peru seems like the best opponent NZ could have hoped for?

 

[BirraImperial]

Chile is out...Unbelievably disappointing for the South American champions...

Panamá tied the game (On a huge blunder by the refs, btw)...As things stand, the US is going to the playoff and Honduras is beating Mexico and qualifying to the WC...

 

[Arwon]

Oh wow

 

[Arwon]

SCENES in CONCACAF

 

[BirraImperial]

USA is out! Panama is through to the WC and Honduras will play Australia in the playoff...

 

[Takhisis]

Chile is out...Unbelievably disappointing for the South American champions...

They asked CONMEBOL/FIFA to award them a match they'd drawn against Bolivia. Which ended up entailing Peru were awarded a match they had lost to Bolivia. So, 2 points for Chile, 3 for Peru… and Chile miss out by one point.

Brazil have scored an impressive 12-5-1, the second-best performance since the South American qualification became round-robin in '95.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I think this is definitely the low point for the US men since I've been following the sport. An own-goal against a team we should have maimed, in a game that shouldn't have made any difference anyway. Soccer/football is the analogy people use for "sometimes you have to go backward to progress", but there would have be a stunning turnaround - some kind of unexpected "Golden Generation" - by the next qualifying tournament to retrospectively justify this level of ineptitude. I don't see even a hint of a silver lining.

 

[BirraImperial]

Anyone understands this new "UEFA Nations League"? I don't get how this new league impacts qualification to the Euro 2020...

 

[AdrienIer]

The 4 best teams in the UEFA NL get automatically qualified for the Euro. Then 20 teams are qualified normally.

Edit : to be more precise, everyone will play the qualifiers normally, with 20 teams qualified. The 4 last teams to be qualified will be the teams who did best in the UEFA NL but didn't qualify.

Edit 2 : scrap that it's more complicated than that

Edit 3 : I think I understand it, but if I'm right then it's the stupidest thing I ever saw. Way to destroy a good idea.