And I guess Colombia vs Portugal was also there too Won’t be home from work until 10.45, so I expect it’ll be 5-2 at half time and then the 2nd half will be the finest display of paint drying witnessed by humanity.
It’s on ITV though, so at least that’s 45 minutes of Matterface and Dixon I don’t have to listen to
6 - 0 to England tonight
I can’t be arsed working it out properly. Can anyone confirm the permutations of England topping the group and not? Is it top means Senegal and if we beat them possibly Mexico, and finish second means Dr Congo and if we beat them probably Portugal?
Second in the group gets Portugal in the RO32 and then probably Spain. Group winner gets one of Senegal, Algeria and Dr Congo, and then Mexico in the Azteca (or Ecuador)
DR Congo are not …
Yeah, what @SimonT says
Obviously Algeria might beat Austria and Uzbekistan beat DRC, but… no.
So we’re rank outsiders whichever way it goes. The smallest horse racing against the odds. The tiny itom who dared to dream.
Portugal might also come second & face Argentina in the RO32 though no? Oh wait, that’s right
Confusing
It’s even feasible that England could still come 3rd in their group (though I doubt Panama will put us to the sword)
We finally have a winner.
Ok, so
We basically want to avoid this:
RO32 v Portugal followed by RO16 against Spain. Though if we got through that, a QF against Belgium or US would be alright … then it’s a semi against Argentina
Otherwise it’s this
An RO32 v Senegal* followed by RO16 v Mexico - much easier next two rounds, though a QF against Brazil, or maybe Norway, might be tricky, then a semi against France or Germany
Easy
Just for completenes
If we come 3rd it looks like this
An RO32 against Colombia (or Portugal), an RO16 against prob Switzerland, QF against Argentina, SF against Brazil
Portugal could of course still finish 3rd in their group if they lose to Colombia & DR Congo put 5+ past UZB, which would be fun (but not for Scotland)
Engalnd going through as group winners means I’ll be on a stag with a load of English lads for the quarter final. This will test my mettle as a true hater.
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Algeria Austria at 3am has gotta be the top sicko seed on paper.
If it wasn’t at a weekend it would require intervention from the world health organisation
Ignore me. On this, but also on almost everything else.
Where is the stag though
It would be good if they all came over to Dublin for it
…and attention turns to England
still a decent chance that 9 of the 10 african sides make the knockouts
very satisfying considering how many people were saying they’d given too many qualification slots to africa
This is good but don’t 9 out of 10 of all teams qualify
Finally