FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 - RUSSIA

[EscGeek]

i just hope some swiss and albaninan players will decide to play for
for equal distribution of power...otherwise kosovo will play like moldova or malta while switzerland will qualify for the WC again with non swiss players

 

[Schlagerman1]

As always, I have a little too much freetime , am a bit of a nerd , so I decided to check out if the last encounters for each match were counted as result, which countries would qualify to Russia 2018 in the end? I decided to check out the current standings and groups for all qualifications around the globe and continue on their result, to see how it would end in each group.

I have used this site to look for past meetings between teams. If two teams has never met, I have used the current fifa ranking and randomized the results.
I will in this post announce the results in Africa (CAF), Asia (AFC) and North, Central America + Caribbean (CONCACAF), While announcing the next three regions in the next post, that will be up someday tomorrow.

So here it goes:

Africa (CAF)

GROUP A:
13 3 +10 13p
Guinea 8 7 +1 10p
DR Congo 4 7 -3 8p
Libya 1 9 -8 2p

GROUP B:
15 5 +10 16p
7 7 0 9p
::cm 6 10 -4 7p
Zambia 3 9 -6 2p

GROUP C:
::ci 6 3 +3 12p
Gabon 9 9 0 8p
::ml 8 8 0 7p
6 9 -3 5p

GROUP D:
7 5 +2 11p
5 4 +1 10p
Senegal 9 6 +3 8p
Burkina Faso 5 11 -6 4p

GROUP E:
13 8 +5 15p
14 8 +6 10p
Uganda 7 9 -2 7p
Congo 7 16 -9 3p

That means that these 5 countries would qualify to Russia 2018:
::ci

Asia (AFC)

GROUP A:
10 3 +7 20p
16 11 +5 17p
13 8 +5 16p
Qatar 11 15 -4 11p
::na 9 16 -7 10p
::sy 8 14 -6 6p

GROUP B:
25 7 +18 25p
17 9 +8 23p
Saudi Arabia 17 17 0 17p
8 12 -4 9p
Iraq 9 19 -10 5p
7 19 -12 4p

Pre-Intercontinental Playoff:
0-0 Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia 0-2

That means these countries qualify to Russia 2018:


To Intercontinental playoff:

North, Central America + Caribbean (CONCACAF)

(The first groups has already begun with a few games, I've kept those results and just continued from there)
GROUP A:
12 1 +11 16p
::hn 12 6 +6 8p
2 13 -11 5p
El Salvador 3 9 -6 3p

GROUP B:
::cr 12 5 +7 14p
6 4 +2 9p
4 6 -2 8p
Haiti 1 8 -7 1p

GROUP C:
15 4 +11 13p
12 7 +5 11p
::gt 12 7 +5 10p
St. Vincent & The Grenadines 4 25 -21 0p

FINAL GROUP:
::cr 19 12 +7 22p
17 11 +6 16p
13 11 +2 13p
::hn 11 12 -1 12p
10 13 -3 9p
11 22 -11 7p

Countries going to Russia 2018:
::cr

Country to go to the Intercontinental Playoff:
::hn

Intecontinental Playoff AFC - CONCACAF:

4-0 ::hn
::hn 0-3

go to Russia 2018!

More to come!

 

[Schlagerman1]

So, let's see how the outcome was in Oceania (OFC), South America (CONMEBOL) and Europe (UEFA)

Oceania (OFC)

GROUP A:
8 2 +6 12p
New Caledonia 8 7 +1 4p
Fiji 4 11 -7 1p

GROUP B:
Papua New Guinea 7 5 +2 8p
Tahiti 5 5 0 5p
Solomon Islands 4 6 -2 3p

Final Playoff:
0-0 Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea 3-1

So to Intercontinental Playoff:
Papua New Guinea

South America (CONMEBOL)

28 11 +17 35p
40 26 +14 32p
::uy 28 25 +3 32p
27 16 +11 31p
26 15 +11 30p
27 16 +11 29p
Paraguay 20 29 -9 17p
18 34 -16 17p
16 32 -16 11p
Bolivia 17 43 -26 11p

So countries that will go to Russia 2018 are:
::uy

Country to go to Intercontinental Playoff:

Europe (UEFA)

GROUP A:
21 11 +10 24p
21 11 +10 21p
13 11 +2 19p
26 14 +2 13p
11 20 -9 10p
1 16 -15 1p

GROUP B:
31 2 +29 28p
17 8 +9 21p
22 9 +13 20p
6 21 -15 10p
10 16 -6 7p
1 20 -28 1p

GROUP C:
39 8 +31 24p
24 4 +20 23p
19 9 +10 15p
10 18 -8 11p
::ulst 10 16 -6 9p
2 51 -49 3p

GROUP D:
22 4 +18 28p
13 6 +7 18p
10 10 0 16p
10 9 +1 13p
7 22 -15 7p
4 15 -11 4p

GROUP E:
17 4 +13 26p
17 10 +7 20p
10 9 +1 14p
11 11 0 14p
11 14 -3 14p
3 21 -18 0p

GROUP F:
32 8 +24 30p
17 10 +7 18p
13 11 +2 15p
9 14 -5 11p
8 16 -18 7p
7 27 -20 3p

GROUP G:
29 4 +25 28p
14 7 +7 21p
12 10 +2 16p
6 12 -6 11p
9 14 -5 9p
3 26 -23 0p

GROUP H:
19 7 +12 23p
14 12 +2 18p
21 10 +11 17p
14 18 -4 11p
13 23 -10 9p
Gibraltar 5 16 -11 5p

GROUP I:
17 7 +10 24p
9 8 +1 18p
12 10 +2 14p
15 14 +1 13p
12 12 0 12p
8 22 -14 4p

Ranking of third places (Matches against 6th placed team not counted):
+8 17p
+1 17p
+7 15p
+5 15p
+4 15p
+4 14p
+3 12p
+1 12p
----------------
-1 12p

Playoff (matches randomly selected after being seeded according to the FIFA-ranking):
2-0
0-2

1-2
2-2

2-1
0-2

2-2
0-1

Countries qualifying to Russia 2018:

Intercontinental Playoff OFC-CONMEBOL:

Papua New Guinea 0-1
1-0 Papua New Guinea

Qualifying to Russia 2018:

Here is the full list of countries competing in Russia 2018 (alphabetical order):

::cr ::ci
::uy

Well it is absolutely not certain it will be these 32 countries in the end, but we'll see what happens!

 

[EscGeek]

^just one correction...

will not have 30 points because in october 2016 will not lose to them
they'll have 29 or 27

some predictions are very brave....i'm more realistic

 

[lucian-crusher]

- 1 - 1
Shame on that penalty + we played awful!

 

[EscGeek]

2-2

we also played awful

 

[ShoeFlo]

- 0:3

We played okay.

Today playing against ... Áfram Ísland!

 

[blue00eyes]

2-2

we also played awful

Haaa what about us?
From 2:0 to 2:2 against... Kazakhstan

 

[Edward]

 

[QwaarJet]

Malta 1-5 Scotland. Potential banana skin avoided. I'll take that result all day long.

 

[aletem]

2-2

we also played awful

And you wanna beat England?

 

[EscGeek]

And you wanna beat England?

yes,just once! We always played good with (yes we also always lost,but i know at least two times when we deserved a draw (in 2009 and 2015)

 

[EscGeek]

fun fact (well not fun for me..)

For the first time after 17 years football team went from 0:2 to 2:2,Meanwhile there were 6 cases when we were leading with at least 2:0 and then the match ended with a draw or a loss

 

[AdelAdel]

I must say, Europe has to be the absolute worst when it comes to not only holding grudges, but also influencing sports because of those grudges. Armenia and Azerbaijan / Serbia & Kosovo. I say - draw should be based purely on pots, and not on silly political reasons, if two teams refuse to play against each other - let them be! No points for them! Look at other confederations - South Korea plays against North Korea, Algeria plays against Egypt, China plays against Taiwan... um... "Chinese Taipei" Even Rwanda and Burundi play against Congo DR, even though they had a bloodbath not so long ago.

 

[AdelAdel]

Oh, and of course we had to be unlucky as heck :? We got the strongest team from the weakest pot and guess what - draw

 

[ShoeFlo]

Oh, and of course we had to be unlucky as heck :? We got the strongest team from the weakest pot and guess what - draw

To be honest, I think the strongest team of Pot 6 is Kosovo

...and this brings me to the subject of the incredible unluck of Iceland in terms of getting weak teams into their group
I support Iceland since 2010. In the World Cup 2010 qualifiers Iceland ended up in a 5er group without a Pot 6 team and the same happened in the Euro 2012 qualifiers. Then, in the qualifiers for WC 2014 Iceland themselves were in Pot 6. Ironically, they had a lucky draw back then, getting weak teams of all other pots.
However in the Euro 2016 qualifiers we got Kazakhstan from Pot 6 instead of weak teams such as San Marino and so on
Iceland were in Pot 2 for the Euro 2016 qualifiers and I hoped for an easy group and what did they get? Three other participants of Euro 2016, and probably the best teams of Pot 5 & 6
I dont complain as Iceland had so many great moments in the last few years but I still miss a 4:0, 5:0 thrashing against a minor side. Would be fun to watch

 

[EscGeek]

you gotta love group I standings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_%E2%80%93_UEFA_Group_I

 

[AdelAdel]

To be honest, I think the strongest team of Pot 6 is Kosovo

Maybe, but when the draw was made Kosovo wasn't there yet.

 

[Charly]

If Uzbekistan keeps it up, we will have a new country in the WC scene

 

[Edward]

No idea what happened with Croatia there a couple of nights ago, aside from the fact that they played behind closed doors. But not even 2 months ago they could have trashed Turkey 10-0 in France and now they draw at home 1-1?

Strange. At least for someone who hasn't watched the match.

For sure it is an interesting group but I'd rule Kosovo out. Drawing with Finland isn't that much of an achievement, despite being first match and all. Having followed Finnish football for over 10 years...it is simply stalled since then. It's like the country doesn't care. Even Iceland went places recently. But Finland resists developing their football. Wouldn't be surprised with a last place for them but hope not, hope that they can come through with a few surprises. But damn, it's more than time for Finland to awake football-wise.

It's like as long as if things are ok with Leijonat in ice hockey other sports don't really matter then X-OI