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Today was the perfect chance for Ajax to climb out of the bottom places as they played bottom side FC Utrecht. Instead, Utrecht won 4-3, they overtook Ajax who are now in the automatic relegation places.
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45 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said:
If Wales end up in the playoffs they'd be at home to Estonia? FFS.
No, the highest Path A team will be at home to Estonia if there are 3 or 2 Path A teams in the play-offs. Wales can at best be the second highest as one of Poland or Czech Republic will definitely be in the play-offs and both are above Wales. If they are second highest, they'll play a Path B team at home. If they are third highest, they will play Poland or Czech Republic away.
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21 minutes ago, BucksburnDandy said:
Path A with a Croatia v Italy final would be unbelievable. Disastrous for UEFA if one of those two miss out.
Path B, a huge drop off in quality, with two rotten teams in Iceland and Bosnia there. An Israel v Finland final should be a sure bet.
Path C, that Greece v Kazakhstan semi looks very hard to call, if the good Luxembourg turns up, Georgia could be in for a real test too. Tough one to call, quite an evenly balanced path.
Agreed with all of that. Regarding Path A there is a decent chance Croatia will still make it. They are level in points with Wales but behind them in H2H. Croatia's remaining games are Armenia at home & Latvia away, you'd expect them to get the full 6 points from that. If they do, they will qualify if Wales drop points either at home to Turkey or away to Armenia. If that happens, the semi finals would become Italy v Estonia & Poland v Wales. Even with Italy's recent record of messing up qualification chances, you'd expect them to beat Estonia and then either Poland or Wales.
And if Italy beat North Macedonia at home and then Ukraine away, they will qualify automatically. That would pass a Path A play-off spot down to a team from Division B. Ukraine would then be in the PO with one of them, Finland & Iceland being drawn in the Path A PO.
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24 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
Bangladesh game was in the First round, not really the tournament proper, and WI I'll grant you, though I don't really consider T20 cricket to be serious international cricket in the same way that 50 over format is. I clearly wasn't talking about Qualifier wins either
In fairness, the qualifier should count too in this as it's a tough tournament in itself due to only 10 countries being at this World Cup. I've never agreed with only 10 countries at the WC and am glad it gets expanded to 14. Scotland have shown they deserve to be at this stage too. IMO, both The Netherlands and Scotland should be in with a shout of becoming full members with how both have consistently shown to not be any worse than the lesser full members.
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Ukraine taking the second place in their group from Italy changes the play-offs. As it stands, no teams from path B will be needed to fill up path A, it will now be as follows:
Path A: Croatia v Estonia & Italy v Poland
Path B: Israel v Iceland & Bosnia and Herzegovina v Finland
Path C : Georgia v Luxembourg & Greece v Kazakhstan
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Oh my... I can't quite believe it. I didn't see that coming when we were 140/7!
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2 minutes ago, GAD said:
I was reading somewhere that it's now basically in Ireland's interests to lose to Netherlands, as it gives them a better chance at a nations league playoff.
It could be in Ireland's interests if we qualify automatically, but results in other groups have already made any scenario that would make them reach the playoffs unlikely. However, as we still play Gibraltar after Ireland and we only need to win one of these games to qualify (and that is assuming Greece beat France), I doubt that will be on their mind much anyway at this stage.
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Assuming we don't f*ck it up against both Ireland and Gibraltar, that means that our PO ticket will get passed on to a League B team based on the current standings. As things stand, these are the teams in the play-offs now:
Path A: Croatia, Poland, Estonia
Path B: Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Path A or B: Finland, Ukraine, Iceland (one of those will be drawn into path A, the other 2 go in path B)
Path C : Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg
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Just now, Donathan said:
He's just ignored VAR again
Yep, must be some words between him and the VAR referee after the game.
Anyway, not good from our side, but we got the win and are as good as qualified so I'm definitely happy with that.
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Just now, craigkillie said:
Watching on mute, but I was very confused about why the ref was asked to go and check that Dutch penalty. Dumfries definitely went down easily but it looked a pretty blatant foul, didn't see much scope for overturning it.
Seems to me that the referee wasn't sure why he had to check that when he was at the screen and stuck with his decision as a result. I admit the first penalty was really soft, but this seemed clear enough.
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This time it was a clear penalty, 1-0 up at last!
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Not exactly exciting stuff from us...
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2 minutes ago, PSJ.84 said:
Guys now saying he’s killed three people. Games been abandoned.
Awful stuff, hopefully they can catch whoever is doing this before more are killed...
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Apparently 2 Swedish fans who wanted to attend Belgium v Sweden have been shot dead...
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8 minutes ago, stevieKTID said:
Heel veel succes, that's quite the injury list Oranje have at the moment.
Dank je wel and that's exactly why I'm not overly confident at the moment...
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A bit late, but congratulations to Scotland for qualifying with 2 games spare, some achievement that!
Hopefully we will follow. If we beat Greece in Athens tonight we'll be as good as qualified (3 more points needed but we're still to play Gibraltar). A draw means we'd still have it in our own hands if we beat Gibraltar & Ireland (at home). A loss would mean that we have to win those 2 games and hope Greece lose to France.
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Lochee United 2-1 Tayport
Wow, what an ending to the game. In all honesty, this was our poorest game of the season so far. The first half both teams were poor, although I'd say we were slightly better. In the second half, they were better and their goal was coming. Nothing seemed to work after that and it looked like we were heading to a 0-1 defeat. In stoppage time Jack Neave scored an absolute screamer from a distance. As we were just happy with the likely looking draw, Kerr Hay scored the completely unexpected (and in all honesty, undeserved) winner. The game was poor, but if you want to win the league, you need to win these games as well.
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9 hours ago, lichtie23 said:
Dutch Referees
Being Dutch, I fully agree.
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2 minutes ago, parsforlife said:
Is that riots in the street sort of stuff? They don’t exactly seem like a Fanbase that takes that sort of form lightly
Might well be as you are right in that. I haven't kept up much with the news though today as I'm away.
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That defeats gets Ajax down to 16th, which is a relegation play-off place.
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One pub recommendation in Amsterdam: go to "In de Wildeman", less than 10 minutes walking from central station, just slightly out of the tourist area and a hell of a lot cheaper than the places inside the tourist area. Cracking wee bar with a wide beer selection and friendly people running it. I don't often go to Amsterdam as usually I head for Rotterdam and surrounding area when I'm in NL as that's where my family is, but when I went to Amsterdam about a year ago with a mate I was recommended that pub and loved it.
Make sure you follow navigation on your phone as otherwise it might be hard to find though!
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Excellent win against Maybole today, started poor, but from 20 minutes in or so we've been easily the better team and deserved our 3-2 win.
Next up Culter away, looking forward to it, but it won't be easy at all!
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Lochee United 3-2 Maybole Juniors
Lochee United got through to the third round of the Scottish Junior Cup by beating the visitors from Ayrshire in a good game. Maybole started well and took an early lead. After about 20 minutes, Lochee United got more into the game and got a deserved equaliser with a brilliant goal. In the second half, Lochee United were firmly in control and took the lead 10 minutes in, followed by a third about 10 minutes later. It got exciting near the end as Maybole scored a second but Lochee carried the deserved win over the line. I'm very pleased with this as Maybole were very decent opponents, much better than most teams we've faced in the league.A big well done to the ground staff, the pitch looked in excellent condition despite the torrential rain.
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7 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
Hadn't realised next Club World Cup is in Jeddah in Dec; also bought the Spanish and Italian supercups (both Jan). Plus hosting Asian Cup 2027.
Also the Dakar Rally... and Asian Winter Games 2029
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What's next? Them hosting the Ashes?
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2023/24 Dutch football
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Ajax dropped into the auto relegation places and she made such a statement?