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1 hour ago, orangeman said:

Well, with Canada losing to Panama they are guaranteed to be in pot 4 for the draw now.  USA losing to CR is interesting, good thing for GD (for the Americans).  

Knowing our luck Poland will draw Canada now and promptly lose their first WC match to a CONCACAF team

is 4-0-0 vs CONCACAF teams (7-0 vs  in 1974, 3-1 vs in 1978, 3-1 vs in 2002 and 2-1 vs in 2006).

Well, this transgender woman potentially beating Laura Kenny of all people would blow up the idea that there is no performance advantage after sex change

Rumours about Bruce Willis' health have been confirmed. He was diagnosed with aphasia and will stop acting. This probably explains his questionable acting choices for the last few years that would make Steven Seagal B-level crap look like Ben Hur.

It's a shame, Willis is on my Mount Rushmore of US actors for over 30 years

Isn't Gassama the highest rated referee in Africa right now?

Matty Cash said he will drink Polish vodka for the first time if we qualify

Nice to see we had at least beer ready in the locker room

Dream group:

Manageable group:

Death group:

5 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah we can get a lot of crazy draw scenarios.

 

One thing that crossed my mind is FIFA didn't explicitly say they will take the remaining balls into account when drawing. So we could have a situation where the last ball in Pot 4 is Ecuador, but Group H has Argentina. Obviously they will switch them with the Pot 4 team in Group G (assuming there isn't another South American team in it), but it will be funny to see them place a team in one group, but being forced to switch them because they didn't have the foresight to place them in the correct group.

Yeah, they will swap groups knowing Ecuador from the last pot can only go to five groups to avoid BRA/ARG/URU. The same applies to the continental playoff winner since there's a good chance CONMEBOL team beats the AFC team. I'd say there's a huge chance potentially both CONMEBOL teams from Pot 4 will go into groups with two UEFA teams but they can always luck into the Qatar group as well if Uruguay doesn't get it first.

We could still get and which would probably be a dream group for Canada

10 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Not exactly, because we won't know the winners of the inter-continental match, the CONCACAF/OFC spot will be considered to be from both continents (same for AFC/CONMEBOL), but you can switch New Zealand for an African nation and you'll get the same result...

Yeah, it looks like Ghana, Cameroon & Tunisia (if Canada wins their last match) could all end up in Pot 4 with Ecuador, Saudi Arabia and the three play-off winners.

The drawing of the lots could be a short-lived mess in Pot 4 with Asians teams in three pots and African nations spread around two pots.

It would get hilarious if Uruguay gets drawn into the Qatar group straight away which would mean all 5 European teams from Pot 1 would be available to be drawn to all 5 European teams from Pot 2 and if that happens USA & Mexico would get Argentina or Brazil - that would mean Serbia and Poland would either get Qatar/Uruguay or the BRA-ARG/USA-MEX combo. And that would mean Wales vs Scotland/Ukraine winner wouldn't even be drawn since they would only have one option left.

So a group and is still possible.

8 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, getting Canada in your group means you can't get Mexico/United States from Pot 2.

I'm pretty sure they will start drawing from Pot 1 first so Canada will the team shuffled around Mexico & USA. You will literally only have six groups to be drawn into.

This group is still possible: and

A complete joke from Algeria in the end. Slimani wasted 3 minutes faking a cramp like an idiot and Cameroon literally had one chance to score the goal and they did.

Cameroon scores in 124th minute!

Slimani time wasting and faking an injury was useless.

Algeria scores for 1-1 in 118th minute!

Yeah, Egypt and Nigeria losing boosted Canada (and Tunisia) into the last two spots in Pot 3 but if Algeria qualifies they can till move up too?

I read that if the CONCACAF team beats OFC team in the intercontinental play-off then Mexico and USA could still end up in Pot 4 which would be all CONCACAF teams plus Saudi Arabia and the last European play-off winner (Wales vs Scotland/Ukraine). The CONCACAF vs OFC play-off winner will be in Pot 4 anyway.

1 minute ago, MHSN said:

South Korea will lose lots of points after losing to low ranked UAE but I believe they will still stay in Pot 3.

but I believe you don't want any Asian team but Qatar in your group

Yeah, Group A would be a great reward for anyone Getting Saudi Arabia from Pot 4 also wouldn't be bad.

It looks like Poland & Serbia will be the only European teams in Pot 3.

9 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Poland will be in pot 3 (right ?), there will be worse teams than Poland in that pot I can name one at least

Yeah, it's guaranteed we will be in Pot 3 so no Poland vs Iran match in Qatar

Apparently all Asian teams except for Saudi Arabia will be in Pot 3?

1 minute ago, Belle said:

Well- deserved win Poland, enjoy World Cup now. 

Thx hun I really had zero faith we could beat Sweden. We always struggle vs Scandinavian teams.

Poland wins 2-0! We are going to the World Cup!

Obviously everyone would want to draw us in Qatar. We last advanced to the knockout stage in 1986 (and got promptly blasted 4-0 by Brazil).

Zielinski scores for 2-0 after Danielsson's error!

Lewandowski scores from penalty. 1-0

Now it's time to park the bus.

Poland has a penalty in 49th minute!

wins 3-1 on penalties!

Match has resumed anyway

3 minutes ago, bestmen said:

why do they play in Portugal , Macedonia played vs italy in italy and vs portugal in portugal ....wtf of scam is that 

There was a draw which winner of SF will host the final before. Hence we knew Poland will host the final if we beat Russia (and Russia would have hosted it if they beat us). The Portugal/Turkey winner was drawn as the host for the final too.

Well, 3-5-2 vs Scotland was a decoy and we go back to 4-5-1 vs Sweden. Bereszynski at LB, same old crap that Brzeczek tried and it didn't work. Sadly Rybus is perenially injured, Reca is hilariously bad and Puchacz hardly better so we have to put a Sampdoria right-back at LB out there

Five hours until vs kick-off