Topic: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers - page 141. (Read 35004 times)

Football is not always about the best team or the most skillful will be guaranteed to win, sometimes all it takes is a little bit of some luck and the rest is history just as inbthe case of North Macedonia

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Woow and the thing with such odds is we punters play with a safety net in mind to avoid losing money, imagine staking $100 or more...the payout comes out as good money  

What you say is true, if Burak Yilmaz managed to score a goal through a penalty in the 85th minute, maybe the result of the match would be different.
Because Turkey failed to score a goal through a penalty it made the confidence of the Turkish players decreased slightly, and finally provided a chance
for Portugal to score their third goal in the 94th minute and ensure Portugal's victory. But if Burak Yilmaz manages to score the second goal through
a penalty, the match will be more interesting and there is a possibility that Turkey will win the match. Although Portugal was more in control of
the match, but the opportunities created were not much different, so the missed penalty did indeed bring luck to Portugal.

Then Portugal can smile because luckily their next opponent is North Macedonia, because Italy was surprisingly knocked out by a single goal from
North Macedonia in the last minute of the match, that's because the Italian players lost concentration because they were too focused on attacking.
Of course this is good news for Portugal, because with the quality of players that Portugal has, it will not be difficult to beat North Macedonia.
Most importantly Portugal can learn from Italy's mistakes, not to underestimate North Macedonia. After all, it is true that it is impossible for
North Macedonia to surprise a second time by beating Portugal. North Macedonia were just lucky to get rid of Italy and I firmly believe that it will not
happen again against Portugal.

I missed the upset of the season guys, can't believe it. It was 31/1 at Sportsbet, 27/1 at Fairlay but come on, this was Italy. Full of incredible talents, an attacking front bristling with goals, even with my love for longshots, this was never going to be on my list of considerations. Value wise, very poor, you'd never expect them to win in 50 games.

Still hating myself for it. @cryptofrka yeah Portugal will be so happy they avoided the champs of Europe, lucky bastards.

Regardless of luck or not this has happened now and indeed Italy lost to North Macedonia so I feel this is something that really has to happen now.
They couldn't participate in 2 world cups because previously they also lost and this is certainly not a good thing for them and they have to make an update in their squad because it can be said that Italy is one of the great national teams but it's a shame they have to see world cup only from tv without being able to participate

Before yesterday, Italy played 59 WC qualifying games at home. They won 48 and drew 11. Yesterday's loss is their first one ever in a WC qualifying match.

Portugal is probably the luckiest team in the world. First they get lucky with that Yilmaz penalty - and then they get North Macedonia instead of Italy.
They will breeze through that game - I really don't think that Macedonia can make 2 big surprises in a row.

Italy played so bad, they would have been beaten hands down by Portugal should they have beat Macedonia. Macedonia will put up a better show against Portugal and not make it so easy like Italy would have. Although because i want the world cup to be thrilling, I still want Portugal to beat Macedonia to it, so we can see ronaldo try again to win the world cup for Portugal.

Luis Suarez and Cavani as well will have a go at the world cup for the fourth time together again as the team have qualified and joined the likes of Brazil, spain, france, England, Argentina, Germany etc.

Senegal to face egypt again for world cup qualification, Egypt cannot repeat the same  pattern they played in the AFCON finals where they play to get a draw and hope to win on penalties, they need to play to win from the kick off whistle.

Sometimes people get carried away and think there is a 100% safe bet! And then they invest more money to make that safe income, but sometimes it doesn't go that way, which can be seen in this case!
And I lost some tickets because of Italy, who could have thought that Macedonia would celebrate in the middle of Italy?! Not even in my wildest dreams! But my losses are not big, and I won some singles, so I am like on zero!
After this can we say that Macedonia has pretty nice chances to win against Portugal?!

Odds on this game was so small for Italy, even with handicap you needed -1.5 to get over 1.5x. I never really understand why people put a lot of money on small odds games, especially when it comes to football, where there are probably a lot more upsets than we think (even a draw is an upset!).

Can't believe Italy is out either. Wow.

The biggest surprise of last night was realized by North Macedonia. Italy dominated the game for almost 90 minutes. They got a lot of chances but couldn't score.  North Macedonia, on the other hand, eliminated Italy with a great goal at the end of the match. They were probably working on taking the game to penalties and eliminating that goal, which was great for them. The last European champion, Italy, could not make it to the world cup.  In the final, they will fight Portugal

After trailing by 2 goals in the first half Turkey came back in the second half but it is a shame that Burak Yilmaz failed to score from the penalty spot in the 85th minute, and because the Turkish players continued to attack in the last minute Matheus Luiz managed to score again for Portugal to make the score 3 -1
from all the matches Turkey only played well in the second half, maybe if they started the game with the same game as they showed in the second half maybe the result of this match would be different.

next match Portugal really benefited because of the elimination of Italy so they will face Macedonia, I think no luck for Macedonia for the second time. Portugal will be very easy to beat them because the players Portugal have have a much higher quality.

It will be interesting to watch Egypt vs Senegal tonight... They recently met in the African Cup of Nations final, with Senegal winning on penalties! Will Egypt be able to take revenge and beat their opponents on home field? Bookmakers have about the same odds of winning - 2.7/3.0... I don't think there will be many goals in this game, so it could well be a draw!

It was a really unfortunate day for Turkey yesterday. The defining moment of the match was the penalty Burak Yilmaz took. If he was able to score that penalty, the score would have been 2-2 and the match could have been much more interesting. But after missing it, they were devastated and Portugal benefited from it nicely.

I hope the same that Portugal qualifies but I remember in Euro 2016 qualifiers in the first opening game at home Portugal lost 0-1 against Albania,a team in almost same quality as North Macedonia.Yes Portugal tends to make these kind of games difficult enough but sometimes they score early and win big,I hope this is the case against North Macedonia as it would be a shame if the upcoming World Cup misses two big European teams like Portugal and Italy.

Well, I was right that Italy vs N Mac would be a low-scoring game, and that N Mac would put 11 men behind the ball, and right that anything can happen in a single winner-takes-all knockout match... but still, despite all that, I'm hugely surprised that they won.

So Italy are now in the crazy position of not qualifying for two world cups in a row... and what did they do between those two failures? Entered Euro 2020 and won the tournament!

Of course it's not impossible that Macedonia gets another surprise win, but I wouldn't bet on that. Quotes will be similar as for the Italy game with sth like Portugal @1.2 and Macedonia @15. I am rooting for Portugal, just for the sake of having more competitive teams at the World Cup (and to see Christiano Ronaldo at the World Cup  )

I've seen Portugal complicate a lot of games that should be easy. But if you play like you played against Torquia, you'll probably win. Even because Portuguese players know this type of game, very defensive in Macedonia. In the championship in Portugal, the small teams tend to have a similar style of play, which sometimes surprises, as it happens.

The Italian fans must be devastated, this should be the game they never imagined they would lose. Congratulations to North Macedonia.

Bookies get a lot of money and make a lot of coffers of money, because all of them place bets for Italy's victory, Macedonia will meet Portugal in the final, does anyone dare to bet on Macedonia's victory?? Although Macedonia managed to make a surprise but I am optimistic that Macedonia will not beat Portugal, maybe Portugal's steps are getting easier to get a ticket to the Qatar world cup, I will bet on Portugal's victory with a 3-1 victory..

Holy f what the f is wrong with this world,Italy is eliminated from the World Cup from North Macedonia with a goal scored in the 92th minute.I agree with Mancini as he said yesterday was the darkest moment in the football history of Italy as no one expected a North Macedonia win,nevertheless congrats to them for believing till the end and by not playing like an inferior team to Italy which everyone was expecting.Personally I am shocked by this result.

Congratulations to Northern Macedonia for the historical victory against Italy.
Sometimes being better than your opponent simply isn't enough.Sometimes football is all about luck.
The Italians had lots of luck during the penalties in Euro 2020,now their luck has disappeared.
Usually the teams,that are wining Mondial or Euro trophies disappoint in the next qualification season,right after the Mondial or Euro tournament.
I don't think that Portugal would make the same mistake as Italy in the upcoming match against Northern Macedonia.Christiano Ronaldo will definitely play in another World Cup tournament(probably the last World Cup in his career).

Boy, these were some intense games! Italy of course was a huge surprise. But things like this can happen in sports. Congratulations to all that had the balls to bet on North Macedonia 
My other bets were rather successful though, so all in all it was a good day 

Portugal is pretty safe to qualify now with a win against North Macedonia on Tuesday. Poland vs Sweden is more of an open game. Both teams have good chances to make it to the World Cup, I don't dare to bet on either team here. I don't expect many goals here though.