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And they looked completely comfortable and in control until four days ago. Another meltdown like in Qatar. They even chose to prematurely extend Riemer's contract a few weeks ago, that's how confident they were. He deserves to be sacked on the spot if you ask me.

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH HUMILIATION!

Schmeichel has been dreadful tonight. His time has to be up now.

Ahahahahhahahhahahaha

Denmark man, masters of their own downfall. How they've conceded 4 goals in the last two games having only conceded a consolation goal to Greece up until that point... I hope Scotland win, because they desperately need a kick up their backsides. Qualifying like this feels almost embarrassing. Edit: Make that five goals....

Who's the pundit? Løvenkrands?

Vestergaard dropped for tonight's game. Might have a decent chance at getting over the line now!

Funny that. In Scandinavia we tend to support our Nordic cousins, particularly if our own countries aren't in the competition, i.e. I rooted for Norway and Sweden at the '94 World Cup. Isn't that normal for the British countries?

I don't know if it was the Qatar factor, but Morocco making it to the semis surely means we cannot completely discount a team from a different container being a dark horse. Japan last time around were a strong outfit and could be even better this time around.

Wow Ireland!

If Belarus can score twice in Copenhagen and you can nearly claw yourself back from 3-0 down, you have every chance of winning next week. It's a disaster of proportions for Denmark. They got the result in Greece they needed and fluffed it when the ball was on the goal line...

Embarrassing, Denmark. What a calamity.

Jannik missed a big chance in the final minute...

Haha Denmark losing at home to Belarus. They beat them 6-0 a month ago.

Tbf Sweden could still qualify through their group and they won the Nations League group too.

They made a bloody good go of it though. For them to finish on 12 points and a positive goal difference (!) is absolutely mindboggling in a group containing Croatia, Czechia and Montenegro. They've outperformed Finland and Sweden which sounds unbelievable. It feels wrong that San Marino still have a chance of making it based on Nations League while the Faroes actually managed to stay in the C-tier.

I was actually surprised at the critical tone of the questions, especially considering it's a club employee putting them forward. That Top waffles and doesn't answer them meaningfully is a different matter altogether.

I'll be honest, I struggled to make much sense out of Top's interview. I understood he wants "more communication, more closer", but that just leads me to more questions.

Oh my word, Faroes leading in Croatia. They couldn't, could they?

Curacao being so close to qualifying as well, pretty cool.

Yes, and the ridiculous situation is that they are incentivised to lose (heavily) to Romania in their last game, should Romania beat Bosnia first.

I had Mavididi ask me to renew his contract with another 2½ years to run saying he's a different player to when he signed it. I declined and he and the squad were completely in uproar about it! Just had one of the most ridiculous matches in my entire FM career just now though:

Lucky you, could only get rid of Soumaré and Winks on permanents. No interest in Ayew, Daka, Kristiansen or Skipp. Faes out on loan.

The counter argument is that people were quick to discard Schmeichel and his proven ability for a guy in his late 20s who'd never proven himself above Championship level. Had Ayew been injured in the summer, I'm sure a lot would have believed him to be good enough at this level, especially with him having scored a handful of goals in an exceptionally poor team in the PL.