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2026 World Cup

By StanSP, in World Cup 2026

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bovril

bovril

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1 minute ago, shen said:

Were Bulgaria ever big? They had one good tournament ever that I remember. I'd argue Romania have been a bigger, and more surprising, miss.

Qualified for 7 world cups up to 1998 then none after. Produced a fair amount of good players. They were never massive but the decline is stark, probably the biggest drop off of any European country

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Fear Of The Fox

Fear Of The Fox

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Vestergaard is the most impactful player in the history of football. Since he was subbed in:

- Scotland scored 3 goals. 

- Most of the time he was wandering somewhere in the left side of the pitch (check heat maps) 

- He failed to jump twice for headers because some kind of magical Force from Star Wars was preventing him to make any move. 

- He decided not to throw his body to stop the direction of the ball because "F* that, I'm not scoring an own goal". 

 This player will come back to Leicester tomorrow. Oh the terror. He should stay in Braemar and open an Inn or something. 

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Super_horns

Super_horns

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2 minutes ago, Lionator said:

All jokes aside, Scotland have continuously been decent under Clarke in qualifiers, they just need a good run in an actual tournament now 

Can they get out of their group for once ?

shen

shen

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Interestingly, this was Denmark's first red card in 18 (!) years!

Not happened since an infamous punch by Christian Poulsen in 2007 in an epic game against Sweden. That incident prompted a fan to run onto the pitch and attempt a swipe at the ref, who called off the game. Denmark subsequently lost the game 0-3 by default.

Equally calamitous consequence this time around.

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The Year Of The Fox

The Year Of The Fox

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5 minutes ago, shen said:

Interestingly, this was Denmark's first red card in 18 (!) years!

Not happened since an infamous punch by Christian Poulsen in 2007 in an epic game against Sweden. That incident prompted a fan to run onto the pitch and attempt a swipe at the ref, who called off the game. Denmark subsequently lost the game 0-3 by default.

Equally calamitous consequence this time around.

I’m more shocked that 18 years ago was 2007

 

 

Shoot me

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-sodapop

-sodapop

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Could be a mad set of play-offs. On paper you'd be picking the 1 seeds (Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Ukraine), with Poland and Wales as outside shouts, possibly Sweden if they get their shit together (doubt they will, they look a mess).

 

Really hope another one of Wales/Ireland/N. Ireland make it though. 

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-sodapop

-sodapop

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4 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

So do two teams get through via the play-offs?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_–_UEFA_second_round

It's 4 more. Those 16 teams will play 4 mini tournaments of 4 sides each.

 

Edit: Just to add: there's also 2 inter-regional playoff spots up for grabs outside of UEFA. These have been pretty cut-throat to even qualify for (Nigeria and Cameroon both missed out through the first stage of the CAF part).

 

That'll be 2 teams from:

Bolivia, DR Congo, Iraq, New Caledonia and 2 CONCACAF teams which will be decided tonight. The CONCACAF qualifying is insanely tight where basically every group can be won tonight, and then only 2 of the 3 second placed teams get to go to these playoffs. 

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Dan

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Scotland have had every bit of luck they could possibly have had in this qualifying group but to go through like that I find it hard to knock them at all, incredible stuff and why you get into football in the first place.

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Leicesterpool

Leicesterpool

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Strange world cup with a lot more minnows that have qualified. Also showcases that some big nations are certainly underperforming. We may moan about England sometimes but less face for the last 16 years qualification as never been issue for England. Even when we don't play well we win games. Just at the tournament itself we seem to just look very a different team. Whilst others thrive at the tournaments. 

cruzFOX

cruzFOX

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Cracking game that! Wish it was beer drinking time here in California.

end to end drama and spectacular goals.

i was just thinking Scot’s should prey on vestergard. We all know he’s a liability when charged at. Felt a little bad for Kasper at the end getting beat from distance. Congrats to the Scot’s and we welcome the tartan army next summer

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The Doctor

The Doctor

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8 hours ago, Lionator said:

All jokes aside, Scotland have continuously been decent under Clarke in qualifiers, they just need a good run in an actual tournament now 

good results but it is consistently a case of pretty dour and shit football. Something to be said for knowing the limitations of your team (no one with a 43 year old first choice goalkeeper has business qualifying for major tournaments) and setting up to smash and grab, but it doesn't give you much grace for results like greece at the weekend, which is why when bad results happen, Clarke immediately gets it in the neck despite making it to 3 out of 4 tournaments having not made it to any in 20 years before that

Scotch

Scotch

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2 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

good results but it is consistently a case of pretty dour and shit football. Something to be said for knowing the limitations of your team (no one with a 43 year old first choice goalkeeper has business qualifying for major tournaments) and setting up to smash and grab, but it doesn't give you much grace for results like greece at the weekend, which is why when bad results happen, Clarke immediately gets it in the neck despite making it to 3 out of 4 tournaments having not made it to any in 20 years before that

Craig Gordon isn't Scotlands #1 GK. Angus Gunn was injured. 

AjcW

AjcW

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34 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

Am i right in saying that ALL the home nations could potentially qualify? 

 

 

I'm pretty sure the Vatican City are still in with a chance at this point mate, so probably...

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