Topic: 2018 World Cup discussion and information thread - page 9. (Read 16642 times)

Sweden is not a weak team and i think this is hard game for Italy because Sweden also have several good players who currently playing at european teams and i can't imagine if Italy defeated by Sweden and failure goes to world cup 2018 which mean we will lost again european national team who not able to playing in this event besides Holland

It must be taken into consideration that this is just first game and second game will be played in just few days so there will certainly be plenty of calculations,especially by the visiting teams.They will play defensive and try to surprise the hosts from the counterattack and score goal which has a great value for the next game.

Croatia vs Greece: Croatia have good players but they do not show their skills when playing for the national team(most of them),and only good game they play is against Ukraine second half.Teams like Kosovo and Finland was the tough challenges recently.Modric is not play good in Real Madrid in last few games,and Mandzukic is doubtful for this match.Intersting thing is that both teams have 7 players who can miss next game if they get yellow card tonight.For Greece Manolas is suspended,Torosidis and Sokratis doubful.Greece would be satisfied with a draw and I think they will park the bus and wait their chance.


Northern Ireland vs Switzerland : Northern Ireland is host in first game and although Switzerland is a slight favorite this game will not be easy for them.
Craig Cathcart from Watford will miss this game due to injury,and as can see he is only important absence for Northern Ireland.On the other side Switzerland have more problem with standard players who will not play tonight : Valentin Stocker,Josip Drmic,Johan Djourou,Eren Derdiyok.Since this is only first leg Switzerland will try keep the net clean,and Northern Ireland is score in every home match in these qualifications.I think they will score tonight also and raise the temperature in Belfast.

This two games are play tonight,Sweden vs Italy on Nov 10. and Denmark vs Ireland on Nov 11.

who will qualify for the next 2018 World Cup?

Croatia vs Greece: Croatia has so many talented players (Rakitic, Modric, Perisic, Kalinic, Mandzukic) and is surely the big favorite of this challenge.
In fact, Croatia's qualification is quoted [email protected], while Greece is quoted [email protected]

Switzerland vs Northern Ireland: Switzerland in his group won 9 games of 10 and came in second place only for the difference goals.
For me it is clearly favored but Northern Ireland is a complicated team that has good defense.
Switzerland's qualification is quoted [email protected] while Northern Ireland is quoted [email protected]

Italy vs Sweden: Italy is clearly stronger than Sweden (especially after Ibrahimovic's retirement) and must qualify for the next world cup.
Italy perhaps has less talent than in the past but remains a top team.
Italy's qualification is quoted [email protected] while Northern Ireland is quoted [email protected]

Denmark vs Ireland: This is definitely the most balanced match.
I see Ireland slightly favored, but I'm not surprised to see the qualification, determined by penalties.
Denmark's qualification is quoted [email protected] while  Ireland is quoted [email protected]

In 2006 the Italian national team was never qualified to win the world cup, even if they have an exceptional generation, In 2012 also nobody has predicted that italy will go to the end.
To do that, I advise you to wait because what is happening in our day is just the silence before the storm.

play off match, i think italy can easy win and get one ticket in world cup
iam not believe if italy can't get ticket, italy meet sweden in play off match

if say about chance in world cup, italy not big favourite, big favourite, still brazil, germany and argentina(although in qulaification argentina is very bad performance)

Italy historically never looked as the strongest candidate to take the world cup and yet they have done so in 4 different occasions, they have problems qualifying and then they have problems getting to the next rounds in the world cup, but somehow most of the time they overcome all of those obstacles.

Yes Italy big favourite,what will happen in Italy if italian team will not qualify,national tragedy and economic crisis,big loses for bar owners.If we look last Italy performences thay are really ;poor,big striking problems,but Italy will qualify .Other Denmark-Irerland will be interesting,Erickssen is booming in Totenham but Ireland will fight,

world cup 2018 is slightly different that some of big team have failed and will not playing and now Italy have to struggle through to playoff games against Sweden and compare between these team certaintly Italy is more favourite to qualified than Sweden but i wish there is no unpredictable results which make Italy failure goes world cup because i want to see other big national team play in this competition especially as their honour as the world cup 2006 champion will makes Italy more confident to facing this game

That is going to be one of the most interesting matches to watch, I do not have doubt that Italy is going to qualify even if the FIFA has to cheat a little bit in order to make Italy to qualify, many people think that cannot happen in soccer but it happens all the time.

World Cup 2018 will be a good one for sure, the qualifiers was quite unpredictable, many big teams didn't qualified, but we will get to see Panama and Iceland. Now I would like Italy to qualify playing Round 2, Play-off games. 1st leg against Sweden is on 10th Nov, Italy winning it will give keep them ahead as it will be there away match.

Despite  Argentina's finding it so hard to qualify for the World Cup, i really don't know why they are ranked so high in the Fifa ranking i really though games being played by the senior national team counted in the overall rank if that's the case, i don't think the current ranking to be fair at all.

Fifa World Ranking updated 16 october:

1)Germany      1631   =
2)Brazil            1619   =
3)Portugal        1446   =
4)Argentina      1445   =
5)Belgium        1333   =
6)Poland           1323   =
7)France            1226  +1
8)Spain              1228 +3
9)Chile              1173   =
10)Perù             1160   +2 (Best Ranking)
11)Switzerland  1134  -4
12)England        1116 +3
13)Colombia     1095  -3
14)Wales           1072  -1
15)Italy             1066  +2
16)Mexico         1060   -2
17)Uruguay       1034   -1
18)Croatia          1013  =
19)Denmark      1001 +7
20)Netherlands 931    +0


First 6 positions unchanged.
Spain earns 3 positions and returns to Top Ten.
Peru for the first time in its history is in the top ten of the ranking.
Chile is the only team in the top ten that will not participate in the next world cup.
Panama with the historic qualification makes his best ranking (49th)

on 23 November there will be a new update of this ranking that will be used for the 2018 World Cup drawings

Italy is going to the world cup since it is one of the teams that is always there, it may not be the best version of Italy but I do not think they are going to miss the world cup, if they did that would be one of the worst failures in the history of Italian soccer.

I think Italy e Switzerland are clearly favorite.
Croatia is also favored, but Greece is a tough team with many experienced players.
The most balanced match is surely Denmark Vs Ireland but for me it will qualify Ireland

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Today was drawing of play-off and as you can see above there is some good and interesting games which will be played next month for win last four european spots for Russia 2018.

On first sight game between Sweden and Italy seems the most interesting,and Switzerland,Croatia and Denmark look like favorites against Northern Ireland,Greece,and Republic of Ireland.What are your opinions about these games?

Without Italy, the world Cup will not be as spectacular. It is clear that they will leave the group, but to win the world Cup they will not succeed. There are much stronger teams that will compete for this trophy.

I hope no, soccer without drama is sucks!

After reading some opinions on the qualification of talia at the World Cup, I made sure that only a minority knows the history of the Niratzouri and its traditions and habits especially in the qualifications. To do this, I want to mention that Italy is in the World Cup by a percentage of 100% and what happening is not surprising at all.

Well it's also going to take some excitements out of the game if it I should played fairly because when certain teams get cheated it gives more dimensions to the tournament and weaker teams finally wake up and give off their best and the surprises makes the tournament exciting.