EURO 2016 Qulifications

Today matches results are:

19:00      Armenia - Albania                            0 - 3

19:00      Faroe Islands - Romania                0 - 3

19:00      Finland - Northern Ireland              1 - 1

19:00      Greece - Hungary                            4 - 3

19:00      Serbia - Portugal                              1 - 2

21:45      Germany - Georgia                          2 - 1

21:45      Gibraltar - Scotland                          0 - 6

21:45      Poland - Ireland                                2 - 1

Tomorrow matches are:

19:00 Austria - Liechtenstein

19:00 Russia - Montenegro

19:00 Sweden - Moldova

21:45 Belarus - FYR Macedonia

21:45 Estonia - Switzerland

21:45 Lithuania - England

21:45 Luxembourg - Slovakia

21:45 San Marino - Slovenia

21:45 Ukraine - Spain

Disappointing results of this qualification for Serbia...  Defeats, bad performances, UEFA punishments and a bad atmosphere around the national team cause that result.....

Some portals are conveyed information that there is a suspicion that the players of Armenia, goalkeeper and three defenders taking bribe of 2 million euros.

Which is logical when you watch the game and see how it looked defence of Armenia, and they played like amateurs, especially the goalkeeper.

Ukraine vs Spain will be a very important match for Hungary, because if Ukrain won't be able to win Hungary will qualify to the final tournament as the best 3rd team. This is the starting XI for Spain:

De Gea – Mario, Nacho, Etxeita, Azpilicueta – Thiago Alcántara, San José, Isco – Mata, Paco Alcácer, Nolito

This is not a strong team. Ukraine have a good chance to win against the Spaniards.

But last time when Hungary qualified for an EURO tournament was in 1972. Hungary finished that tournament in the 4th place. Florian Albert, Golden Ball winner in 1967, was in that team. Now we have a Balazs Dzsudzsak. Lol.

What's happened in 1972?

Black September terrorist attack at Munich Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes killed

Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment.

Last US ground units leave Vietnam

The SALT treat is signed between USA and USSR ( limiting nuclear arms)

Watergate scandal

FBI starts employing female agents

Apollo 17 - the last Moon mission

Atari launches the first computerised game.

FedEx is founded

The Godfather movie

Swedish band, ABBA

My picks are:

Ukraine vs Spain

Ukraine to win @2,8

correct score: 2-1 @12,5

Ukraine are a very dangerous team at home and Spain have no full squad. This is a very important match for the home side, so I think they will win.

here are to many of these young big time charlies in Holland, they are managed horrifically by the agents mainly Mino Raiola, they leave clubs in Holland very young to bigger leagues but fail to materialise their careers or you get players like Depay who get to a certain point and think they have made it, then their careers stop also that applies to players in the past like Babel, Van der Wiel who were big talents.      Another thing is that their are too many mixed backgrounds of most the players coming through, mainly Moroccan. They can be hard to deal with, also they also made such a fuss who they should actually play for like recently El Ghazi who had to take the advice of Cristiano Ronaldo! if you have to choose then you should fuck off! you should feel 100% to play and represent your country from the start. 

The players are just not there or having their careers ruined by seeing the bright lights at an early age chasing money instead of advancing their careers which mainly sums it up.   

Today`s results are:

19:00      Austria - Liechtenstein                3 - 0

19:00      Russia - Montenegro                  2 - 0

19:00      Sweden - Moldova                      2 - 0

21:45      Belarus - FYR Macedonia        0 - 0

21:45      Estonia - Switzerland                0 - 1

21:45      Lithuania - England                    0 - 3

21:45      Luxembourg - Slovakia            2 - 4

21:45      San Marino - Slovenia              0 - 2

21:45      Ukraine - Spain                          0 - 1

Tomorrow matches are:

21:45 Belgium - Israel

21:45 Bulgaria - Azerbaijan

21:45 Cyprus - Bosnia & Herzegovina

21:45 Italy - Norway

21:45 Latvia - Kazakhstan

21:45 Malta - Croatia

21:45 Netherlands - Czech Republic

21:45 Turkey - Iceland

21:45 Wales - Andorra

Not any surprises really in today's games but it was expected when the opponents in almost every game are so far in the  class.

Bulgaria - Azerbaijan

Big value here. Odd are not correct. Bulgarian national team is in crisis. One interesting fact is the match with Croatia - the goalkeeper Bojidar Mitrev had more passes than 3 players from Bulgaria -Ivanov , Terziev , Nedelchev.  Totaly unadequate players which play with connections because dont have practice in their teams in Europe or local players play beccause want to go abroad. In the other side Azerbaijan is not so good team but made some good results like draw with Croatia and Norway and also scored one goal vs Italy.

Belgium - Israel

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Here are my picks:

Turkey vs Iceland

Turkey to win @1,65

Turkish are very fanatic. Iceland have a good team but in my opinion they are really lucky as well. The Turkish fans will help their team to win.

Cyprus vs Bosnia and Hercegovina

Bosnia and Hercegovina to win @1,85

Cyprus have to attack so Bosnia will have a lot of possibiltiies to counter attack.

Bosnia will face tough challenge against Cyprus.I can see them winning this,they are good under pressure.

Here are my picks:

 

Turkey vs Iceland

Turkey to win @1,65

 

Turkish are very fanatic. Iceland have a good team but in my opinion they are really lucky as well. The Turkish fans will help their team to win.

Cyprus vs Bosnia and Hercegovina

Bosnia and Hercegovina to win @1,85

 

Cyprus have to attack so Bosnia will have a lot of possibiltiies to counter attack.

On those 2 matches I think we will see over 2.5 goals. Both matches will be interesting and I hope to see more goals.

Cyprus vs Bosnia is a really crazy match. Bosnian's CDM,  Medunjanin scored twice, Bosnia took the lead but Cyprus fought back and took the lead but before the half time Bosnia equalized.

Second half will be very interesting.

I have a bet on over 4,5 (@1,25) and 5,5 (@2,2) goals. C'mon goals! 

Italy scored twice on last 15 minutes vs  Norway ( 2-1 ) and pushed Croatia national team direct on EURO 2016...

Turkey qualified to the final tournament as the best 3rd placed team.

Turkey vs Iceland 1:0

Latvia vs Borat 0:1

Results of today matches are:

21:45      Belgium - Israel                                                3 - 1

21:45      Bulgaria - Azerbaijan                                      2 - 0

21:45      Cyprus - Bosnia & Herzegovina                  2 - 3

21:45      Italy - Norway                                                  2 - 1

21:45      Latvia - Kazakhstan                                        0 - 1

21:45      Malta - Croatia                                                0 - 1

21:45      Netherlands - Czech Republic                    2 - 3

21:45      Turkey - Iceland                                              1 - 0

21:45      Wales - Andorra                                              2 - 0

Kazakhstan won 1-0 against Latvia and Turkey won 1-0 against Iceland.

Turkey Qualified for the Euro 2016 as the highest ranked third-placed team.

Kazakhstan helped Turkey to Qualify LOL

Qualified teams:

France (host nation)

Czech Republic

Iceland

Turkey

Belgium

Wales

Spain

Slovakia

Germany

Poland

England

Switzerland

Northern Ireland

Romania

Austria

Russia

Italy

Croatia

Portugal

Albania

Final four qualified teams will be decided after the playoffs. These eight teams will be involved in the playoffs:

Hungary

Ukraine

Norway

Denmark

Sweden

Ireland

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Slovenia

Hungary will have to play against Swweden, Denmark, Ireland or Ukraine. I think we have 0% chance against Ukraine, less than 5% against Denmark, 10% against Sweden and 25% against Ireland. High stake play is coming :D

The biggest news for me is that Netherlands is out of the championship. They've reached the bottom in this qualifications. Nice to see Wales qualified and  will hope that Ireland will be there too.

Hungary will have to play against Swweden, Denmark, Ireland or Ukraine. I think we have 0% chance against Ukraine, less than 5% against Denmark, 10% against Sweden and 25% against Ireland. High stake play is coming :D

Things are changed. Hungary will be seeded team.

Seeded teams are: Ukraine, Sweden, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Hungary

Not seeded: Ireland, Slovenia, Norway, Denmark

Hungary will have to play against Swweden, Denmark, Ireland or Ukraine. I think we have 0% chance against Ukraine, less than 5% against Denmark, 10% against Sweden and 25% against Ireland. High stake play is coming :D

 

Things are changed. Hungary will be seeded team.

 

Seeded teams are: Ukraine, Sweden, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Hungary

Not seeded: Ireland, Slovenia, Norway, Denmark

No mater who will face who, these  will be some tough games to predict. Pretty even teams so probably will be some great matchups.

Hungary will have to play against Swweden, Denmark, Ireland or Ukraine. I think we have 0% chance against Ukraine, less than 5% against Denmark, 10% against Sweden and 25% against Ireland. High stake play is coming :D

 

Things are changed. Hungary will be seeded team.

 

Seeded teams are: Ukraine, Sweden, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Hungary

Not seeded: Ireland, Slovenia, Norway, Denmark

No mater who will face who, these  will be some tough games to predict. Pretty even teams so probably will be some great matchups.

No. Hungary are very weak, maybe this is the weakest team in our history. We have only one chance to qualify if we get Slovenia. They are only slightly better than us (maybe 60-40 for them). In my opinion Ukraine have the best team, 2nd is Denmark, 3rd Sweden, 4th Norway, 5th Bosnia, 6th Ireland, 7th Slovenia and 8th Hungary.

Last time when Hungary played a playoffs was in 1997 (road to World Cup 98). We had to play against Yugoslavia. The first match was in Budapest, Yugoslavia won by 7:1  :D. The second leg was in Belgrad and the home side won by 5:0. Predrag Mijatovic scored SEVEN times (he retired from the national team with 26 goals!. 

After these preliminaries injuries , (some very serious ) club clubs that belong players ,will receive compensation. For serious injuries will have to seek replacements in  mercato.

Someone will considere Northern Ireland,Albania and Iceland as underdogs on Euro...I think that only Albania has not deserved their spot on this competition...

Someone will considere Northern Ireland,Albania and Iceland as underdogs on Euro...I think that only Albania has not deserved their spot on this competition...

Albania are much better than Northern Ireland. You're right Albania don't deserve the 2nd place but they were helped by UEFA. I cannot understand why the Serbians was punished but it's another tale... But I think if Albania found guilty in match-fixing against Armenia they would be disqualified and Serbia will get the 3rd place. In this case I hope Hungary won't get them in the playoffs round.

I'm really happy that Croatia reached the 2nd placed. UEFA punished them too for a fancied swastika. They deserved the qualification.

But I'll miss the Netherlands and Serbia as well. 

The playoffs will be very interesting there are 6-7 teams which deserve the qualification.

UEFA announced the European Qualifiers all-star:

GK: Courtois (BEL)

DEF: Rat (ROU), Cahill (ENG), Williams (WAL), Darmian (ITA)

MID: Alaba (AUT), Davis (NIR), Sigurdsson (ICL)

ATT: Bale (WAL), Lewandowski (POL), Müller (GER)

Subs: Tatarusanu (ROU), Alba (SPA), Glik (POL), Hamsik (SVK), Perisic (CRO), De Bruyne (BEL), Dzyuba (RUS).

UEFA announced the European Qualifiers all-star:

 

GK: Courtois (BEL)

 

DEF: Rat (ROU), Cahill (ENG), Williams (WAL), Darmian (ITA)

 

MID: Alaba (AUT), Davis (NIR), Sigurdsson (ICL)

 

ATT: Bale (WAL), Lewandowski (POL), Müller (GER)

 

Subs: Tatarusanu (ROU), Alba (SPA), Glik (POL), Hamsik (SVK), Perisic (CRO), De Bruyne (BEL), Dzyuba (RUS).

I think they drew the names randomly from a hat :) Eden Hazard for instance should have been there in my view, maybe Rooney as well.

UEFA announced the European Qualifiers all-star:

 

GK: Courtois (BEL)

 

DEF: Rat (ROU), Cahill (ENG), Williams (WAL), Darmian (ITA)

 

MID: Alaba (AUT), Davis (NIR), Sigurdsson (ICL)

 

ATT: Bale (WAL), Lewandowski (POL), Müller (GER)

 

Subs: Tatarusanu (ROU), Alba (SPA), Glik (POL), Hamsik (SVK), Perisic (CRO), De Bruyne (BEL), Dzyuba (RUS).

 

I think they drew the names randomly from a hat :) Eden Hazard for instance should have been there in my view, maybe Rooney as well.

I agree with You. England won their group without dropping points and only one English is named? Where are Ukrainians (Yarmolenko or Konopljanka)? Williams? Davis? Sigurdsson? Don't joke me. :D

UEFA announced the European Qualifiers all-star:

 

GK: Courtois (BEL)

 

DEF: Rat (ROU), Cahill (ENG), Williams (WAL), Darmian (ITA)

 

MID: Alaba (AUT), Davis (NIR), Sigurdsson (ICL)

 

ATT: Bale (WAL), Lewandowski (POL), Müller (GER)

 

Subs: Tatarusanu (ROU), Alba (SPA), Glik (POL), Hamsik (SVK), Perisic (CRO), De Bruyne (BEL), Dzyuba (RUS).

 

I think they drew the names randomly from a hat :) Eden Hazard for instance should have been there in my view, maybe Rooney as well.

 

I agree with You. England won their group without dropping points and only one English is named? Where are Ukrainians (Yarmolenko or Konopljanka)? Williams? Davis? Sigurdsson? Don't joke me. :D

I personally wonder where on this list Jarmolenko or konopoljanka. Ukraine played very well, Cahil ( Eng ) , too easy group for England, maybe other DF ...

After end of the qualiication,I think it is fair to say that biggest disappointings are results of Netherlands and Serbia.

Yes of course Serbian and Netherlands are big dissipointing and the biggest surprises for me are Albania and Iceland.

Also Greece finishing last in the weakest group is a pretty big surprise, even the Faroe Islands beat them twice in this campaign!

Also Greece finishing last in the weakest group is a pretty big surprise, even the Faroe Islands beat them twice in this campaign!

The Faroese players are enthusiastic amateurs. I become a fan of them. But really  :D

Olsen is a very good manager, and I think he would be very successful with a better team. 

Grecce has had a lot of problems from the start of qualifications.

The economic crisis has affected many and they were not just to football.

Serbia a big letdown in these qualifications , also the Netherlands ... On the EURO 2016 are going in my opinion a few bass weak team ... Germany and France are the main favorites to win the championship.

Still hard to believe that the Dutch didn't make it. There you have 24 nations being in the competition and Netherlands didn't make it.

I am not surprised by the Iceland team, they are the same guys who had some refreshing SUB21 perfomances and now they have developed.

Albania is surprising, but also Turkey. Unbelievable both countries celebrating this.

Playoffs are announced next week I think.

Playoffs are announced next week I think.

Playoffs will be announced on Sunday 18 October in Nyon, Switzerland.

I dont see some big matches in playoffs.System of the qualification is pretty easy,so almost all good teams are already in the final tournament.

I dont see some big matches in playoffs.System of the qualification is pretty easy,so almost all good teams are already in the final tournament.

There are just more spots on the championship now, not big clashes but they all will be interesting and equal I think no matter the draw.

I dont see some big matches in playoffs.System of the qualification is pretty easy,so almost all good teams are already in the final tournament.

You must be joking! Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Ukraine are really strong. Ireland and Norway are good too. Only Slovenia and Hungary play badly. Denmark and Norway are unseeded teams so there will be minimum one good duel.

Playoffs round's matches:

Ukraine vs Slovenia

Sweden vs Denmark

Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Republic of Ireland

Norway vs Hungary

Sweden vs Denmark will be a very good one, but Ukraine have the easiest task. Bosnia and Norway should qualify too.

 

Ukraine vs Slovenia

Sweden vs Denmark

Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Republic of Ireland

Norway vs Hungary

 

I'd bet on Ukraine, Sweden, Bosnia and Norway.

 

Ukraine vs Slovenia

Sweden vs Denmark

Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Republic of Ireland

Norway vs Hungary

 

 

I'd bet on Ukraine, Sweden, Bosnia and Norway.

I'm not sure about Sweden. Denmark have a good team as well.

Ukraine have an easy route to EURO 16, they should win twice. Ireland are not too bad, if they can achieve a good result in Bosnia... Norway are in the driving seat as well, and in my opinion they'll start this playoff with an easy home win (3:0).

I'll have a large bet on Ukraine and Norway. But I won't have a bet on the others.

I think that Ukraine,Sweden ,Republic of Ireland and Norway will be the teams that will qualify for EURO 2016,but none of them will have an easy task.

In my opinion these teams will qualify:

Ukraine vs Slovenia    --> Ukraine

Sweden vs Denmark  --> Sweden

Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Republic of Ireland  --> Bosnia & Herzegovina

Norway vs Hungary    --> Norway

Probably  Euro 2016 is one of the last chances to to see Zlatan Ibrahimović in a tournament so I hope to qualify Sweden...but qualify the best ...

I Think the last four teams who join the Euro 2016 are :

Ukraine .. Slovenia    -- Ukraine

Sweden --- Denmark  -- Sweden

Bosnia & Herzegovina ---  Ireland  --> Ireland

Norway ---- Hungary    -- Norway

Tightest clash will be clash between Sweden - Denmark.Sweden has Ibrahimovic,but Denmark has good team play.