Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2026

[MHSN 3,619]

We had few early red cards in today's AFC qualifier matches.  PRK managed to get a draw from so-called Asian Champion Qatar despite playing almost the whole match with 10 men! Saudis despite one man down saved themselves by a very late goal and beat China

 

 Iraq also played the entire match with 10 players and managed to not lose to Kuwait. I believe they have a good chance to qualify behind South Korea which will qualify anyway

 

Japan destroyed Bahrain too, 12 goals in 2 matches  they are clearly a head and shoulder above everybody else. the rest have to fight for the 2nd spot in that group. Australia is in big trouble now with 1 point after 2 "easy" matches.

 

as for  Iran, despite playing not-so-good they still found a way to win matches 1-0. this reminds  me of 2022 qualification campaign, when the team was playing no good yet managed to win matches mostly 1-0.

[LDOG 2,418]

 1-0  

 

 

BTW that Bolivia win was their first away win since 1993 and only their 4th away qualifier win in history.

[heywoodu 15,135]

4 hours ago, LDOG said:

 1-0  

 

 

BTW that Bolivia win was their first away win since 1993 and only their 4th away qualifier win in history.

That is awesome  

 

Seems like it was a quite fun night for the neutral observer, Colombia beating Argentina, Bolivia beating Chile, Paraguay beating Brazil  

[vlad 359]

7 hours ago, MHSN said:

We had few early red cards in today's AFC qualifier matches.  PRK managed to get a draw from so-called Asian Champion Qatar despite playing almost the whole match with 10 men! Saudis despite one man down saved themselves by a very late goal and beat China

 

 Iraq also played the entire match with 10 players and managed to not lose to Kuwait. I believe they have a good chance to qualify behind South Korea which will qualify anyway

 

Japan destroyed Bahrain too, 12 goals in 2 matches  they are clearly a head and shoulder above everybody else. the rest have to fight for the 2nd spot in that group. Australia is in big trouble now with 1 point after 2 "easy" matches.

 

as for  Iran, despite playing not-so-good they still found a way to win matches 1-0. this reminds  me of 2022 qualification campaign, when the team was playing no good yet managed to win matches mostly 1-0.

For me, the Asian surprise is Indonesia, with 2 draws against big teams in Asian qualifications, Saudi Arabia and Australia.

 

About Iran, I think you'll qualify easy from this group. Qatar looks very weak at the moment, you need a good result in Uzbekistan next month and that's all, I would say.

[vlad 359]

Argentina and Brazil losing in preliminaries in same day, that's something which we not see every year ok, Argentina lost in Colombia, but Brazil...damn

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

I was about to joke that home field advantage strikes again, but I learned that they won away.

 

Congrats

[hckošice 14,822]

Finally a win

 

[LuizGuilherme 267]

This brazilian NT is the worst we ever had, the lack of quality and a good manager is insane.

 

Thanks God there are 6,5 beths, if not we would not qualify tô the next WC.

[MHSN 3,619]

10 hours ago, vlad said:

For me, the Asian surprise is Indonesia, with 2 draws against big teams in Asian qualifications, Saudi Arabia and Australia.

 

About Iran, I think you'll qualify easy from this group. Qatar looks very weak at the moment, you need a good result in Uzbekistan next month and that's all, I would say.

Indonesia did great so far, but if they want to achieve something they also have to beat weaker teams (Bahrain, China) which is probably even a tougher task for a team like Indonesia.

 

about Iran, under the current coach (who is a mafia boss IMO and I hate him more than any other sportspeople in the world) we only played one great match which was against Japan in Asia Cup QF and unfortunately that single win will keep him in this position for a long time 

 

I also think Iran came to this NT window completely unprepared. we were lucky to collect all 6pts. I believe we will do better next window.

[Orangehair43 251]

Is Trump becomes President is he really going to let in the likes of Iran if they qualify. Fifa could protest if he won’t but sort of cancelling it they don’t have much leeway.