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Watching Serbia vs Georgia was a pain. Georgia was actually a better team in the first half (I missed first 15 minutes or so), but that's not saying much. In the second, Serbia picked up the pace, had some rather good chances but failed to score and finally managed to break the deadlock around 70th minute. And then magic happens! Our manager takes out Mitrovic who set up the goal immediately, even before the ball is kicked off from the center spot and brings on a defensive midfielder to keep it 1-0. Against Georgia... AT HOME!!!

We're going to get so thrashed next summer it won't even be funny.

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The Australia/Syria playoff is tense as hell. 1-1 (2-2 on aggregate) going into the second half of extra time and Syria a man down. It's been all Australia for the entire game but they just cannot find that second goal. This has penalties written all over it.

 

ETA. Finally, Australia get the second goal. Cahill is still the man. That should be enough for Australia unless they get sucker punched again.

ETA2. Australia go through to the final qualifying round - just barely as Syria hit the post from a free-kick in the 121st minute which would have taken them through. If I'm not mistaken, their potential opponents would be either Panama, Honduras or USA.

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2 hours ago, Consigliere said:

 If I'm not mistaken, their potential opponents would be either Panama, Honduras or USA.

This is correct.  Australia will play CONCACAF 4th place team.

US can secure 3rd place and qualification with a win tonight at Trindad & Tobago.  A tie would get them to 13 points and virtually assure them through, as well, since they are +5 on goals.  Panama (-2) and Honduras (-7) are both at 10 points and would need to win by ridiculous scores against Costa Rica and Mexico respectively to leap the US in that scenario.

The nightmare scenario for the US would be losing to T&T, while Honduras and Panama both win to leapfrog up to 13 points.  It's not out of the realm of possibility.  Dammit, why did I just type that.

Here's hoping the US squad that showed up in Orlando against Panama shows up at the Ato Boldon Stadium tonight.  The track is flooded and players are piggybacking across the water to get to the pitch

Ahh, CONCACAF; never a dull moment.

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1 hour ago, JordanJH1993 said:

Martinez hasn't risked Lukaku from that start, despite him being declared fully fit. Learned from his previous mistake with Fellaini.

More like this one actually being a match without any importance.

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And Robben has retired from International football after the Netherlands failed to qualify for the WC. Not really a surprise. Let's see what will happen with the Dutch next. Now they can no longer hide behind Robben and hope for the best.

On the bright side. The World won't end during the Presidency of Trump, as the Netherlands won't win a World Cup title (one of the signs for the pending apocalypse, somewhere around birds dropping from the skies).

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