FIFA World Cup Thread

Madden · Post by **Madden** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:57 am

Australia has drawn by far the toughest of the groups in the Asian Confederation.

We play Iraq, China and Qatar. Need to finish in the top 2 in the group to progress to the next stage of qualifying. Will actually be quite a tough ask I think.

The rest of the groups ended up as follows:

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Asia
All group winners and runners-up progress to the next stage.

Group 1: Qatar, Iraq, China, Australia
Group 2: Thailand, Oman, Bahrain, Japan
Group 3: Turkmenistan, Jordan, North Korea, Korea Republic
Group 4: Singapore, Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia
Group 5: Syria, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iran

Europe
All group winners qualify. The 8 best runners up play off for the final four positions.

Group 1: Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Albania, Malta
Group 2: Greece, Israel, Switzerland, Moldova, Latvia, Luxembourg
Group 3: Czech Republic, Poland, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, San Marino
Group 4: Germany, Russia, Finland, Wales, Ajerbaijan, Liechtenstein
Group 5: Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Armenia, Estonia
Group 6: Croatia, England, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra
Group 7: France, Romania, Serbia, Lithuania, Austria, Faroe Islands
Group 8: Italy, Bulgaria, Ireland, Cyprus, Georgia, Montenegro
Group 9: Netherlands, Scotland, Norway, Macedonia, Iceland

Africa
The 12 group winners and 8 best runners up progress to the next stage.

Group 1: Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Tanzania, Mauritius
Group 2: Guinea, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Kenya
Group 3: Angola, Benin, Uganda, Niger
Group 4: Nigeria, South Africa*, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone
Group 5: Ghana, Libya, Gabon, Lesotho
Group 6: Senegal, Algeria, Liberia, Gambia
Group 7: Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Botswana, Madagascar
Group 8: Morocco, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mauritania
Group 9: Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Seychelles
Group 10: Mali, Congo, Sudan, Chad
Group 11: Togo, Zambia, Eritrea, Swaziland
Group 12: Egypt, DR Congo, Malawi, Djibouti

*Are in a group for African Cup qualification purposes only. They have already qualified for the World Cup by virtue of being hosts.

CONCACAF

Group 1A: Dominica v Barbados; winners play United States
Group 1B: Turks and Caicos v St Lucia; winners play Guatemala
Group 1C: Bermuda v Caymen Islands; winners play Trinidad and Tobago
Group 1D: Aruba v Antigua and Barbuda; winners play Cuba
Group 2A: Belize v St Kitts and Nevis; winners play Mexico
Group 2B: Bahamas v British Virgin Islands; winners play Jamaica
Group 2C: Dominican Republic v Puerto Rico; winners play Honduras
Group 2D: Canada v St Vincent and Grenadines
Group 3A: American Virgin Islands v Grenada; winners play Costa Rica
Group 3B: Surinam v Montserrat; winners play Guyana
Group 3C: El Salvador v Anguilla; winners play Panama
Group 3D: Nicaragua v Netherlands Antilles; winners play Haiti

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Probably the most interesting thing to come out of the draw is that England have drawn Croatia again.

Any other thoughts?

bomberdonnie · Post by **bomberdonnie** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:30 pm

Will be an interesting atmosphere at the North and South Korea games

I reckon we will be right too as long as we don't have to keep digging into our second string players... Cahill is the key!!

robrulz5 · Post by **robrulz5** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:45 pm

Quite happy with Scotland's draw. Just need to win a couple of away games and we will be right!

Rossoneri · Post by **Rossoneri** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:44 am

robrulz5 wrote:Quite happy with Scotland's draw. Just need to win a couple of away games and we will be right!

And not lose to the shit teams.

I think with a full team, we will get past China quite easily. Iraq will definitely be a handful.

robrulz5 · Post by **robrulz5** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:02 pm

Rossoneri wrote:
robrulz5 wrote:Quite happy with Scotland's draw. Just need to win a couple of away games and we will be right!

And not lose to the shit teams.

Very true.

grassy1 · Post by **grassy1** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:05 am

Qatar and Iraq for me.China 3rd.

HEH!HEH!HEH!

Back to normal for the FLOPPEROOS.

hillchaser · Post by **hillchaser** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:05 pm

Did anyone see the Article on the world game website. http://www.theworldgame.com.au/socceroo ... cid=103287

Are we going to go with A league for the Qatar match in Feb... It sounds like we have no choice .. would love to see carney and any others that aren't seeing regular time in Europe arrive early. Outside that who will our strikers be.

Article leans towards Aloisi and Archi .. possibly griffiths or BROSQUE

Would be interested to see what others think if we have to go with A League ?

84859300 · Post by **84859300** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:23 pm

hillchaser wrote:Did anyone see the Article on the world game website. http://www.theworldgame.com.au/socceroo ... cid=103287

Are we going to go with A league for the Qatar match in Feb... It sounds like we have no choice .. would love to see carney and any others that aren't seeing regular time in Europe arrive early. Outside that who will our strikers be.

Article leans towards Aloisi and Archi .. possibly griffiths or BROSQUE

Would be interested to see what others think if we have to go with A League ?

3-4-3 for mine

Aloisi CC, Griffiths (Joel) NJ, Brosque SFC
Thompson MV, Dodd AU, Muscat MV, Vargas MV
Durante NJ, North NJ, Thompson NJ
Keeper: Ante Covic NJ

hillchaser · Post by **hillchaser** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:54 pm

Any guesses as to our team for next week ...I don't think verbeek is playing games when he says that the a-league is below par ... so that means we have a bunch of jetlagged expats flying in .. this sounds worse han the asian cup .. couldn't we have arranged our home games in London .?? I'm guessing that our home games had to be somewhere in the asian region ..

Lineup thoughts ?

hillchaser · Post by **hillchaser** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:14 pm

Looking forward to tommorows game !

grassy1 · Post by **grassy1** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:57 pm

Australia 0 - 2 Qatar

bomberdonnie · Post by **bomberdonnie** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:35 am

grassy1 wrote:Australia 0 - 2 Qatar

Other way around

robrulz5 · Post by **robrulz5** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:41 pm

Australia should win. Looks like there won't be many A League players in the starting lineup which is to be expected as it isn't a strong league at the moment.

Rossoneri · Post by **Rossoneri** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:01 pm

$4.50 for the draw, I say take it.

Would like us to win 3-0, we must beat Qatar twice, and as long as we win our home matches against Iraq and China, we SHOULD qualify for the 2nd phase.

KaaN10 · Post by **KaaN10** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:36 pm

Rossoneri wrote:$4.50 for the draw, I say take it.

Would like us to win 3-0, we must beat Qatar twice, and as long as we win our home matches against Iraq and China, we SHOULD qualify for the 2nd phase.

Well were up 3-0 half time.

Rossoneri · Post by **Rossoneri** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:35 pm

KaaN10 wrote:
Rossoneri wrote:$4.50 for the draw, I say take it.

Would like us to win 3-0, we must beat Qatar twice, and as long as we win our home matches against Iraq and China, we SHOULD qualify for the 2nd phase.
Well were up 3-0 half time.

Yeah, but read the whole thing, I got my wish.

grassy1 · Post by **grassy1** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:23 pm

OH BUGGER !

dom_105 · Post by **dom_105** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:56 pm

grassy1 wrote:OH BUGGER !

Why no love for the Socceroos?

grassy1 · Post by **grassy1** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:51 am

It's an old story Dom.

But for now,it's for the LOVE and PROTECTION of AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL.

Well over here in WA it is.You lot in VICTORIA might just get by !

BERT · Post by **BERT** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:31 am

I went last night and it was great. If you don't get shivers down the spine when 50,000 are singing the national anthem you are not Australian.

The only downer was the 6'6 copper that decided to stand in front of me where he wasn't suppose to be standing. When I asked him to move with about 10 others he told us to get farked.