The thread of official Euro 2008 qualifying

[xvis]

Poland have slipped up after their good Group A start, losing 1-0 in Armenia. ..Portugal and Serbia back are in the hunt for first spot.

Sweden holding off Spain in Group F, ..both winning comfortably, two more goals for Villa against the mighty Liechtenstein.

Joe Cole's just scored for England to save McClaren.

Slovakia drawing in Hamburg 1-1 in our Group, in a tight game, Slovakia doing well.

[afeencalleddan]

Germany 2-1 up now. That's good for Ireland.

[gregson1]

sweden 5-0 up.. last goal was a joke... then so are iceland

[xvis]

Germany 2-1 up now. That's good for Ireland.yup,

2nd spot is where it's at.


The gooners Quagliarella puts Italy one up in...Lithuania, ..and then two up.


Spurs target and Berbatov's buddy Petrov scored earlier for Bulgaria.

[gregson1]

2-0
http://blogs.indiewire.com/twhalliii/_41727998_petercrouc h_1416pa.jpg

[gregson1]

3-0

owen

becks cross

[xvis]

'The new Zidane' 19 year old Nasri scores for France, after making his competitive debut at the weekend.


..if Becks can drag England into the play-offs the knighthood will be in the bag!

[afeencalleddan]

play-offsYou're lucky Lamps isn't a nocturnal beast.

[xvis]

You're lucky Lamps isn't a nocturnal beast.

doh.

[xvis]

As it stands, Group E would be....

Croatia 18 / Isreal 17 / Russia 16 / England 15


..with four games left to play each, nicely poised. Isreal hanging in there again, and Russia holding on in Croatia with 10 to play.

[afeencalleddan]

The gooners Quagliarella puts Italy one up in...Lithuania, ..and then two up.Holy shit lads, these goals are really worth seeing :shock:

[Forsberg]

Holy shit lads, these goals are really worth seeing :shock:

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Quagliarella%2Blithu ania/video/x26wuo_euro-2008-qual-lithuania-v-italy-go

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Quagliarella%2Blithu ania/video/x26wx3_euro-2008-qual-lithuania-v-italy-go

[Carmona]

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Quagliarella%2Blithu ania/video/x26wuo_euro-2008-qual-lithuania-v-italy-go

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Quagliarella%2Blithu ania/video/x26wx3_euro-2008-qual-lithuania-v-italy-go

First one is a superb goal. The pass, the touch, turn, run and shot. Perfect.

[gregson1]

heh heh heh

Sg6g3iW5dcc

[afeencalleddan]

Well Wales are 3-1 up in Slovakia at half time. It puts Ireland's poor efforts at holding onto a lead into even more perspective now. Slovakia have been the dominant force but Wales, yes Wales have managed to put two clear goals between the sides.

[ebenezer]

Freddy Eastwood on target again.

[Captain Planet]

Well Wales are 3-1 up in Slovakia at half time. It puts Ireland's poor efforts at holding onto a lead into even more perspective now. Slovakia have been the dominant force but Wales, yes Wales have managed to put two clear goals between the sides.

this is sickening.

[AmadeusDC]

"It's going to be a much tougher game but we realise that and we've got to rise to the challenge once again.

"When the pressure's really on I think we do rise to it."

Does he think it's Chelsea V's Russia tonight or what???? Surely he can't possibly mean England.........

-AmadeusDC-

[afeencalleddan]

Does he think it's Chelsea V's Russia tonight or what???? Surely he can't possibly mean England.........

-AmadeusDC-It doesn't get much bigger than Paraguay, Trinidad & Tobago and Ecuador.

Edit: and of course Israel.

[afeencalleddan]

Scotland 1 up in Paris, Albania holding the Dutch 0-0 late in both games.

[st finnbar]

Scotland 1 up in Paris, Albania holding the Dutch 0-0 late in both games.

scotland won 1.0

[afeencalleddan]

FT: FRANCE 0-1 SCOTLAND

That shows what can be achieved with moderate players.

[wayne gayle]

FT: FRANCE 0-1 SCOTLAND

That shows what can be achieved with moderate players.

Remember when we went to Paris in the last qualifying campaign, dominated the game and drew 0-0 and came home delighted with ourselves?
Roy Keane was right, we are happy with moral victories. Scotland showed us how it should be done.

[Edmund Blackwater]

McFadden's strike.
Nice shot, goalie (Cpupet?) should have saved it.

http://www.d1g.com/video/show/1371766

[afeencalleddan]

(Cpupet?)Landreau.

[Jim Comic]

great result for the scots, fair fux to 'em

[homer jay]

McFadden's strike.
Nice shot, goalie (Cpupet?) should have saved it.

http://www.d1g.com/video/show/1371766

bad mistake by the keeper alright. fair play to scotland tho, some result.

[Rebelred]

bad mistake by the keeper alright. fair play to scotland tho, some result.

great results for the scots, shows what can be done with decent organisation and tactics.

[marco 2005]

great results for the scots, shows what can be done with decent organisation and tactics.

Difficult to swollow...that scotish team won't make it to the Euro, the italians will beat them in Scotland, and im pretty confident they'll drop points versus Georgia or Ukraine.

I still cant believe they got away with the 3 points. Dominating outrageously didnt win us the game...sometimes i wish France could more often play this ugly/efficient football so many people praise so much...

i can't even say well done to the Scots as they got fucking lucky...

[xvis]

Another great result for the Scots, 3-1 v Ukraine. They still need 4 points to be certain to qualify (Georgia A & Italy H) at the expense of probably Italy.

France won by 6 v the Faroes and two more wins, (Lithuania H Ukraine A) would guarantee them a spot at the finals.

..so pressure on Italy later on, and it'll be down to Italy in Scotland last day.

***

A sad day for football as henry joins Platini as France's top scorer.

[afeencalleddan]

Amazing scenes in Minsk... Luxembourg won an international soccer match!

[Actin_the_Sham]

Amazing scenes in Minsk... Luxembourg won an international soccer match!

Day off on Monday for me so. Nice wan.