In the European qualification for the Qatar World Cup, there will be no surprise, all the soccer powers of that continent always end up advancing, they should change the classification format, it is very repetitive and nothing exciting, with thrashing of the small teams that do not contribute anything to The spectacle, it would be good a classification against all as it happens with the World Cup qualification of South America in the conmebol, ten teams playing everything for everything where Argentina and Brazil are two of the great powers of the world, I hope they will soon change that format in Europe to see a more entertaining tie.
I agree that it is difficult for small teams to qualify. But some are able to take away points and prevent others from making it to the final stage. But there is unlikely to be another format. I'm sure there will be surprises. Countries where football is well developed, sometimes stumble because of excessive self-confidence.Miguelpaniura0893 said:
Yesterday were played first of the match in some of the groups. The were no so surprises, but one of them is France who struggled against Ukraine and made a draw 1-1.
Netherlands lost against Turkey, but here I don't think we can say that this is surprise as the Turkish side now are having very strong team and it expected a close match.
The loss of the vice-champions from 2018 Croatia is a little bit strange, but there are a lot of matches for corrections.
Netherlands lost against Turkey, but here I don't think we can say that this is surprise as the Turkish side now are having very strong team and it expected a close match.
The loss of the vice-champions from 2018 Croatia is a little bit strange, but there are a lot of matches for corrections.
World cup qualifiers Europe
Championship of each group, in my opinion:
Group A: Portugal
Group B: Spain
Group C: Italy
Group D: France
Group E: Czech Republic
Group F: Denmark
Group G: Netherlands
Group H: Croatia
Group I: England
Group J: Germany
Championship of each group, in my opinion:
Group A: Portugal
Group B: Spain
Group C: Italy
Group D: France
Group E: Czech Republic
Group F: Denmark
Group G: Netherlands
Group H: Croatia
Group I: England
Group J: Germany
Davey_H said:
You'll love the playoffs now then! 🙄 There's the 10 runners up added to 2 best group winners from the nations league. They are then drawn into a mini playoff tourney in 3 groups of 4, semi final and a final, with the winners getting to the WC!
Complicated enough?? 😎
SpanRmonka said:
wow. I know they had a more complex play-off system for the Euro qualification but it was no-where near as complicated as this!
The thing is I think the nations league is a good idea and could possibly replace the Euros - there's no need for it to be used as a back-door to the playoffs for "proper" tournaments.
I like to watch football, but it must be clear that the football level of many teams in Europe is very low and that is why there are too many goals, there should be a filter to reduce that type of selections that are only to fill the groups and that The heads of series look like Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, etc. They will always happen unless the big team has an incredible drop, but even so if it happens they will have a playoff to play, those European qualifiers are a joke, the same things always happen.
gabryyyel31 said:
it wasn't surprising at all. Today's Netherlands is far from being one of the top team in the world like they were back in the days. Instead Turkey is at their best form and definitely favourite against them. They have young/talented players and they're playing perfect team play. Did you watch Turkey vs France match?
