WC 2010: Which teams will qualify?

not at the expense of Achille Emana and especially Super Samu Eto'o!!!

No...but at the expense of Sébastien Bassong and Benoît Assou-Ekotto.
The only other African team I like right now is Ghana.

Achille Emana + Samuel Eto'o > any other reason ... haha ...

clearly, and for obvious reasons, I like (and have liked) Cameroon best out of the rest of Africa ... they can't miss another World Cup, it would be too cruel ...

care to explain why you only like Ghana (apart from Naija not-so-Super-at-the-moment Eagles )?

Hate Cameroon, love the players hate the team (refer to Ghana-Nigeria 2000 I was in the stadium).
Thinking about it now I'm actually for S.Africa (Tshabalala, Pienaar, Dikgacoi & Modise) + their U-20 team played some good stuff even though they...well...didn't win.

Republic of Ireland - France
Portugal - Bosnia-Herzegovina
Greece - Ukraine
Russia - Slovenia

Playoff teams confirmed. Nothing is obvious though.

bybuti;2749160 said:

Only Russia is obvious IMO.

btw, do these 'big' teams play the second leg at home or not. Coz from this draw it seems that France, Bosnia, Ukraine, and Slovenia are gonna have an advantage.

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I wouldn't disregard Slovenia Mr Obvious. They play really nice, technical football. They beat Poland 3:0 at home running like horny rabbits during the entire game.

Bosnia has advantage?

We. Are. Favourites. They have a great attack? We have a great defense. They should be worried about us, not us about them.

Bring it.

Portugal, France, Russia, Ukraine.

**** Greece.

Johnny_Big;2749194 said:

Bosnia has advantage?

We. Are. Favourites. They have a great attack? We have a great defense. They should be worried about us, not us about them.

Bring it.

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Oh please, you have great players but a very bad coach, Portugal should be happy that they even managed to get to the play-offs, they stuggled against easy teams in their group, I think that Bosnia can get them easily if we do well away but anything can happen, I wish Portugal the best of luck but we never worry about opponents, we simply crush them. Anyway, my expectations on who will qualify are these: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Greece and Ireland, I wish good luck to all teams

portugal will rape bosnia, acept it.

The last time France played the Rep. of Ireland over two matches was in the 2006 qualifiers. France won away and drew at home. Teams to make it through:

France, Portugal, Russia and Ukraine.

Arnau;2749304 said:

portugal will rape bosnia, acept it.

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Truth.

Recrero152;2749237 said:

Oh please, you have great players but a very bad coach, Portugal should be happy that they even managed to get to the play-offs, they stuggled against easy teams in their group, I think that Bosnia can get them easily if we do well away but anything can happen, I wish Portugal the best of luck but we never worry about opponents, we simply crush them. Anyway, my expectations on who will qualify are these: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Greece and Ireland, I wish good luck to all teams

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Queiroz (our coach) needs more charisma and stop kissing Ronaldo's ass. The game is in November so i hope that at that time the players can have another attitude. I think that you're putting Portugal in a very low level, i know that Bosnia in this times has a great squad, but... we are Portugal!

With charisma we can get trough it easily. Scolari was a damn bastard, but he gave charisma to the team, and put Ronaldo in his place. If Queiroz could make the same, our team would be the best!



PORTUGAL VAI ESTAR NO MUNDIAL!!!!!!!!!

Should Ireland fail to qualify to the WC, the FAI should keep Trappatoni as a coach.

He's done a marvelous job so far.

Johnny_Big;2749194 said:

Bosnia has advantage?

We. Are. Favourites. They have a great attack? We have a great defense. They should be worried about us, not us about them.

Bring it.

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Like you were favourites for the Portugal-Denmark game?

I'd laugh my arse if Trappatoni, an Italian coach throws France out of the world cup

Bosnia were plain unlucky, the draw is a death sentence. There is no way they make it past Portugal, no way.

bybuti;2749605 said:

Not with its current form.

If they change (i.e. they get back their form which we've seen a lot of times) then yes.

We were witness of what happened in qualifications, so that still stands. It's still that Portugal. They have great players, that's a fact, but nowadays that's nothing. You need a Good TEAM. And a good coach who's gonna lead that good team. Just your name doesn't play football anymore.

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they are not that good, spain outplayed them with some reserves. Portugal will made it.

Portugal have a strong team, against Denmark we made 36 shots on goal but we only scored one. I think we had bad luck in the qualification. Bosnia have a great players, but they are forwards and midfielders, they don't have a good defense. So I think Portugal have much more chances to go to the World Cup than Bosnia.

(Sorry my English)

I just heard that Ronadlo still will be playing when it comes to the play-off Portugal against Bosnia which I think is a terrible decision, not only are they risking that his injury becomes even more serious, and that Ronaldo hasn't scored a single goal in the qualifiers, if the coach wants goals, they don't need Ronaldo...

Anyways, Portugal has a good team with nice, talented players but so does Bosnia and when our defence works as a unit and organized, we can outplay anyone but anything can happen, I'm hoping for Bosnia to win but I wish good luck to Portugal too. Plus, about the Spain match, if you had seen the match yourself, you would NOT say that they outplayed us. If we had scored those first couple of attempts that we had near goal, it would have been a completely other story, we were unlucky

Ronaldo will not play if Portugal health department says no.

Ronaldo is injured, can't play, otherwise "Pepe el brujo" will make himself richer if he got injured once again.