Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2022

[Monzanator 5,136]

23 minutes ago, Belle said:

Swedish Football Federation is not happy about this decision. 

 

But it’s a strange situation. Whatever decision FIFA takes it will be always be complaining about it. 

 

We got a new head coach who is a complete "park the bus" guy. Playing Poland might be the easier part of the double if you can hold off Lewandowski. I mean we played Sweden at the Euros not so long ago

 

When Michniewicz was the coach of our U-21 team in Euro qualifying we drew with Faroe Islands twice(!) but in the finals we beat Belgium and Italy. His park the bus tactics always does well vs better teams

[hckošice 16,647]

10 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

We got a new head coach who is a complete "park the bus" guy. Playing Poland might be the easier part of the double if you can hold off Lewandowski. I mean we played Sweden at the Euros not so long ago

 

When Michniewicz was the coach of our U-21 team in Euro qualifying we drew with Faroe Islands twice(!) but in the finals we beat Belgium and Italy. His park the bus tactics always does well vs better teams

Slovakia approve ! Here, we do not know any other effective tactic than the 11-0-0

[Belle 1,047]

19 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

We got a new head coach who is a complete "park the bus" guy. Playing Poland might be the easier part of the double if you can hold off Lewandowski. I mean we played Sweden at the Euros not so long ago

 

When Michniewicz was the coach of our U-21 team in Euro qualifying we drew with Faroe Islands twice(!) but in the finals we beat Belgium and Italy. His park the bus tactics always does well vs better teams

Haha you said this just as Lewandowski did a hat trick in Champions League. I’m not optimistic about Sweden’s chances even IF we beat Czech Republic. 

[Monzanator 5,136]

3 minutes ago, Belle said:

Haha you said this just as Lewandowski did a hat trick in Champions League. I’m not optimistic about Sweden’s chances even IF we beat Czech Republic. 

Bayern is slightly different level. Under Michniewicz Lewandowski might as well run around the midfield circle 95% of the time. We lived through this when Fornalik was our head coach in the 2014 WC qualifying Mateusz Klich will be suspended for the SWE/CZE game.

[LDOG 2,489]

27 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

We got a new head coach who is a complete "park the bus" guy. Playing Poland might be the easier part of the double if you can hold off Lewandowski. I mean we played Sweden at the Euros not so long ago

 

When Michniewicz was the coach of our U-21 team in Euro qualifying we drew with Faroe Islands twice(!) but in the finals we beat Belgium and Italy. His park the bus tactics always does well vs better teams

They also lost 5-0 to Spain so not so sure. 

 

Anyway, it's just one match, at home, not against a top opponent... anything is possible.

[Monzanator 5,136]

22 minutes ago, LDOG said:

They also lost 5-0 to Spain so not so sure. 

 

Anyway, it's just one match, at home, not against a top opponent... anything is possible.

 

Yeah, that was the third group game when the opponents finally scored in skittles. The actual playing style was terrible, that team was never supposed to even win one game.

 

Hah! Poland always has issues vs Scandinavian teams. Sweden has been our bogey opponent for years, first of all in the 1990 WC qualifying match which we supposedly threw away on purpose (a draw would be enough for England to qualify on goal difference ahead of Sweden). It was shortly after the communism fell and players were still looking to get any hardware income.

 

We last beat Sweden in a friendly game in 1977

 

This is the WC qualifying match from October 1989. A handball on the goal line (at 2:18) wasn't penalised with a red card back then

 

[Orangehair43 317]

I can see that final having to be postponed if CAS order an interim suspension in the qualifying group. 

[Monzanator 5,136]

Daniele Orsato has been chosen as referee for the vs / playoff final.

[vlad 404]

Scotland vs Ukraine has been postponed to June.

 

Today started Oceanian preliminaries (finally), which are held in Qatar. Some of Vanuatu players are positive to Covid-19 and entire team must stay in hotel. Following this, the match against Tahiti was cancelled Solomon Islands beat Cook Islands, 2-0.

[vlad 404]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

Daniele Orsato has been chosen as referee for the vs / playoff final.

He has the chance to revenge on Sweden because they beat Italy in 2018 WC qualifying play-off ...just kidding, of course...