Today's World Cup Games

[RicoS321]

Egypt give NZ a pumping, 3-1. Elijah Just not good enough.

Edited 6 hours ago by RicoS321

[RicoS321]

Both groups last night finish favourably for Scotland. We just need the group leaders, Egypt and Spain to win their games (Iran and Uruguay) and we're automatically ahead of the third place team regardless of our result on Wednesday. 

[swaddon]

Needing other teams to get results rarely works out.

Although it did for Mike Bassett when he managed England, so there is hope.

[RicoS321]

27 minutes ago, swaddon said:

Needing other teams to get results rarely works out.

Although it did for Mike Bassett when he managed England, so there is hope.

It's slightly different this time round, as twelve teams need other teams to get results and so it will be working out for 8 out of 12 sides. That has been known since the start, so short of beating either Morocco or Brazil, we'd have always been relying on other results. Clarke obviously feels Scotland's best chance comes from keeping it tight against Morocco and Brazil, trying to sneak a one goal win, with a draw and even a one goal defeat in both games giving more than 50-50 chance of going through. That's a fairly decent bet, if he can pull it off. The Haiti game was really where his conservative approach was at its most obvious. Keeping it tight after going a goal up to make sure we had something to play for, at the expense of a better goal difference, could be his undoing. Although, realistically, we'd have needed a 3 goal deficit in that game to have made a real difference, as that would have put us ahead of teams on three draws (assuming we only lost by one in the following two). I'm not sure we were capable of that. 

[manc_don]

2 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

Egypt give NZ a pumping, 3-1. Elijah Just not good enough.

Was a good game and NZ were more than in it in the first half. Second half Egypt got away with quite a few favourable moments but got into the groove after equalising. Meeting me in Florence at a steak restaurant really was the turning point in salah’s career. Hasn’t looked back since. Hes welcome,