Kejan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Oceaniafootball.com A bit of an end to end game going on between Soloman Islands and Papua New Guinea, 1-1 right now and SI missed a penalty just before half-time to go 2-1 up. Its like watching 5 a sides, fucking brilliant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 No offence to New Zealand but I’m rooting for the pure chaos of one of their minnows getting through. Even better still if it happens in 2026 when they have a direct qualification spot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kejan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 4 minutes ago, Donathan said: No offence to New Zealand but I’m rooting for the pure chaos of one of their minnows getting through. Even better still if it happens in 2026 when they have a direct qualification spot. 100% Sound like a p***k saying this or a hipster, but seeing Tahiti at the 2013 Confederations Cup was probably my favourite ever moment in international football. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 9 minutes ago, Donathan said: No offence to New Zealand but I’m rooting for the pure chaos of one of their minnows getting through. Even better still if it happens in 2026 when they have a direct qualification spot. Yeah, I think Tahiti's games were the only Confederations Cup matches I ever bothered watching. Be a laugh if a team like that ever made it to a World Cup. Bound to happen one tournament with the automatic place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kejan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 PNG have had a few chances, but Soloman Islands a lot more clinical. 3-1 SI and with 10 mins to go they'll surely be going through to face NZ (hopefully Tahiti though) on Wednesday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 7 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Yeah, I think Tahiti's games were the only Confederations Cup matches I ever bothered watching. Be a laugh if a team like that ever made it to a World Cup. Bound to happen one tournament with the automatic place. Probably the only good thing about the 48 team tournament, tbh. The 3 team groups are going to be awful. If they really wanted to go to 48 and not have anyone playing 8 games then it should just be 12 groups of 4 with the winners and best four runners up qualifying for the last 16. This would also be better from a TV perspective (88 games rather than the proposed 80 and the current 64) Although I suppose the proposed format has 80 games in 80 unique slots whereas my format would necessitate twelve pairs of games being played simultaneously. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Honestly I wouldn’t be mad if they went to 64 and only the group winners qualify. 112 games across 96 unique slots, no team has to play more than 7 games, and more opportunity for banter teams to qualify. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kejan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Magnificent shots when the teams score cutting to the players all going wild and waving the flag. 3-2 now! 89th minute! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Donathan said: Honestly I wouldn’t be mad if they went to 64 and only the group winners qualify. 112 games across 96 unique slots, no team has to play more than 7 games, and more opportunity for banter teams to qualify. Would just go with 64 teams and top two through. If you played all the group games and, say, the last 32 as double-headers, it wouldn't take that much longer than it does currently to complete. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Would just go with 64 teams and top two through. If you played all the group games and, say, the last 32 as double-headers, it wouldn't take that much longer than it does currently to complete. I thought the reason the 48 team format was chosen was because it was a deal-breaker for the clubs to have teams playing > 7 games? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 f**k the clubs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 New Zealand still haven't scored after an hour. I'm not sure they're really very good at the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Jinxed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Costa Rica/Panama will pap them out comfortably 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Costa Rica/Panama will pap them out comfortably Those teams are also shite if they finish 4th in North America. Panama were comfortably the worst team at the last World Cup. It's a one-off game too so I can see it being close. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Still hoping America somehow manage to f**k it up again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 One thing I’ve noticed from watching both the OFC games today is that there didn’t seem to be any fans in the stadium. Is Qatar still under covid restrictions or do the locals just not care about Oceanian World Cup qualifiers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 HERE WE GOOOOOO!!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 (edited) YAASSSS!!!! Stephen Eustaquio played Cyle Larin in and Larin finished with a lovely little flick over the goalie 1-0 Edited March 27, 2022 by senorsoupe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 2-0!!!! TAJON!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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