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England are quite lucky to be placed in Group I, I guess the only toughest opponent to handle in this group would be Poland. I think Albania will struggle hard to prevent England claiming a victory from their hands today, even though the odds payout for England to win the match in full time is only @1.28 but I believe England should be able to beat Albania relatively easily today.

England are always lucky in this regard I feel at least,,, when I follow it seems they have an easy group with just 1 tough opponent so they should come out as the first seed from this one. Albania are good but there is no way they should be expected to get anything more than 1 point here. 1.28 reflects this easy match.
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I think today will be an interesting match between Armenia and Iceland... The odds are good for both teams - 3.4/2.2... I bet on the victory of Iceland, they had the strongest opponents and in my opinion they should win today! Although the chances of the teams are about the same but Armenia played with the outsiders... I hope that Icelanders will break their losing streak today! Cheesy
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Spain was the favorites to top the qualifiers from UEFA region. But so far their performance have been disappointing. They are facing Georgia today and they need to win that match by a good margin. The same goes for France as well. Today they have a relatively easy match against Kazakhstan and they need a big win here. France is placed in a tough group along with Bosnia, Finland and Ukraine and they need to be careful.
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Romania vs. germany in bukarest ! it will be a difficult game for the German team today. it won't be easy. they have to play in Romania.
unfortunately, some good players won't be there today. Toni Kroos, Jonas Hofmann, Marcel Halstenberg and Niklas Süle are missing.
and today it was announced that Robin Gosens and Leon Goretzka won't be playing either. that's already 6 good players who won't be there today.
but I hope that the rest of the team will still win the game and get a little closer to qualification.

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England are quite lucky to be placed in Group I, I guess the only toughest opponent to handle in this group would be Poland. I think Albania will struggle hard to prevent England claiming a victory from their hands today, even though the odds payout for England to win the match in full time is only @1.28 but I believe England should be able to beat Albania relatively easily today.

It is true that they really have one of the luckiest groups in the qualifiers. Poland are a really big threat for them. Albania may cause them to struggle a little in an away game today but I think England can get past them having a good result.
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I really feel the Russian striker dzyuba is a great goal scavenger, he would feet into an English premier league team like crystal palace or leads, wonder why he isn't receiving interest, he is always delivering for his Russian national team, it's also good to see ilicic scoring, exciting first two Europe, world cup qualifications games already, I actually bet on Russia and am happy it came through.

I don't agree with you. Dzyuba is already old, he is 32 years old. Even at the peak of his form he would not be suitable for the English championship. The Russian championship is very weak right now. In fact there are only two good teams and they play very poorly in European competitions. It seems to me that Dzyuba is the player who should be released at the end of the match as a substitute.
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England are quite lucky to be placed in Group I, I guess the only toughest opponent to handle in this group would be Poland. I think Albania will struggle hard to prevent England claiming a victory from their hands today, even though the odds payout for England to win the match in full time is only @1.28 but I believe England should be able to beat Albania relatively easily today.

True, i placed on England -2. Should be okay, but then again last fixture against San Marino the handicap started from -7. but they only won 6-0. So yeah...
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With the strong defense line established by the Turkish national team with Caglar, Merih and Ozan, it seems that they will not have a defensive problem for many years. And if they can catch a good generation in terms of attack, they can become a shy opponent for a few big tournaments.

I agree. Turkey's defense line is really great now. Caglar Soyuncu, Merih Demiral and Ozan Kabak all are playing at very strong teams and it really helps them improve themselves. So, I have also no doubt about the defense. But as you said, they must also maintain the same strength on the attacking line. For now, they are doing good but I hope they can continue like this in the future too.
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Turkey is on fire. First they beat Netherlands and now didn't had any probems against Norway, confident 3:0 win.
Another big upset is Luxembourg wing against Ireland. And what a great goal by Rodriguez.

The Ireland result was quite shocking, but I think the Turkey result is the biggest thing in this round of fixtures. A 3-0 away win vs Norway is quite an achievement, and it puts the Netherlands under huge pressure even this early on in the campaign. It already looks like their return fixture against Turkey could decide the group.
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The Turkish national team continued to play well and win against Norway. He took an advantageous position in the group with the victory of the Netherlands in his own field and Norway in the opponent field.

With the strong defense line established by the Turkish national team with Caglar, Merih and Ozan, it seems that they will not have a defensive problem for many years. And if they can catch a good generation in terms of attack, they can become a shy opponent for a few big tournaments.
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Damn Malta almost put up the biggest upset of the tourney so far. Didn't back them because well, it's Malta. But what the odds would have been for a halftime win eh? Belgium, Portugal drawing probably eventually expected.
Yes, Malta surprised me in this game, but I was still waiting for Slovakia to score the winning goal. But I was even more surprised by Luxembourg, who was able to beat Ireland on the road, this is perhaps the biggest sensation for me. Luxembourg, of course, has started to play a little better lately, but to beat the Irish at their home is of course a great feat for Luxembourg.
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England are quite lucky to be placed in Group I, I guess the only toughest opponent to handle in this group would be Poland. I think Albania will struggle hard to prevent England claiming a victory from their hands today, even though the odds payout for England to win the match in full time is only @1.28 but I believe England should be able to beat Albania relatively easily today.
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Ronaldo scored the 3-2 in the last minute the ball was inside but the referee did not validate the goal.
We have not the goal-line technology. It's a shame.
Is there no goal line technology for all the games or it depends on stadium? I am sure I was listening to the commentator a couple of days ago talking like it is not a goal since ref watch stayed silent. Could be he was just talking rubbish Smiley

I know there is no VAR in any qualification games.



Lot's of strange results today, biggest surprise for me was Malta leading 2:0 against Slovakia on HT, it ended 2:2 but still a big surprise.
Turkey looking on fire, I expected them to score a couple of goals today but I also expected Norway to match them.
Croatia still playing like shit but we got 3 points, so we will just forget about the game and remember the points Smiley
Portugal loosing 2:0 lead, Ireland loosing at home against Luxembourg....

For me, these results are also a big surprise.
It seems that Serbia is slowly returning to the top of European and world football with a new coach and Slovakia may have already lost the chance to fight for the top 2 in the group after two consecutive failures.
Croatia has been playing very badly not since today but for the last 3 years, since the World Cup in Russia.
It seems to me that some older players play because of their old merits rather than current quality and the Croatian coach seemed to have lost the idea or plan of how to lead the team to victory.
Russia started very well and it seems that they will continue to fight for the first 2 places in the group with Croatia and Slovenia.
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Damn Malta almost put up the biggest upset of the tourney so far. Didn't back them because well, it's Malta. But what the odds would have been for a halftime win eh? Belgium, Portugal drawing probably eventually expected.

It's worth to mention that Estonia were missing maybe over 20 players because of Covid. Even with all main players they aren't better than Belarus. But red card that they got was game-changer.

Yeah, can't believe they actually led twice, and it was for sure a balanced game until that red card. Except for possession, shots and chances were pretty much equal.

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today we continue with the qualifying matches and maybe we will see more surprises today and some said favorites will not win their matches... in the evening we will be wiser Grin

From favorites Spain, Italy, France, Germany won't lose. I don't expect surprise results for top teams.

Odds are too low to play for teams against weaker opponents. Some don't even give odds because other results are impossible.

Spain and France both lost points in their first game in their group which was unexpected for sure. This time, I think both of them won't make a mistake and will manage to get a nice win. Italy have an easy game against Bulgaria and they will continue winning most probably. But when it comes to Romania-Germany, I think Germany may have some difficulties as their opponent is not easy to defeat. But I think they can win by 1 or 2 goals.
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today we continue with the qualifying matches and maybe we will see more surprises today and some said favorites will not win their matches... in the evening we will be wiser Grin

From favorites Spain, Italy, France, Germany won't lose. I don't expect surprise results for top teams.

Odds are too low to play for teams against weaker opponents. Some don't even give odds because other results are impossible.

The top teams did not perform well yesterday, although the other favorites had really weak opponents today! I think that today you can make express bets on the favorites - France, Spain, Germany, Italy...
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Is there no goal line technology for all the games or it depends on stadium? I am sure I was listening to the commentator a couple of days ago talking like it is not a goal since ref watch stayed silent. Could be he was just talking rubbish Smiley

I know there is no VAR in any qualification games.

It seems that FIFA recommends VAR in all games, but the qualifications are the responsibility of the continental associations.
In that sense, it seems that UEFA is not using VAR in any game, because there are no conditions to be used in all games.

We have to realize that it is a very expensive technology (not least because games don't even show on TV), and UEFA is an organization with little financial resources (despite being the most important football organization after FIFA).  Roll Eyes

Portugal was surprised in the 2nd part by Servia. And then he had the misfortune of that goal canceled.

Unfortunately, we will see more errors throughout the classification, which could be avoided with the VAR.

But, unfortunately, FIFA and UEFA are corrupt organizations that care little for the truth in sport.
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I don't expect surprise results for top teams.
When the top teams meet weak teams such as Georgia, Moldova, and other weak teams.

I was quite surprised to see the results of the Republic of Ireland Vs Luxembourg. The Republic of Ireland, full of players who played a lot in the Premier League, lost against Luxembourg.

Not only that, Belgium which incidentally was filled by the world's top players only gave a draw against the Czech Republic.
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today we continue with the qualifying matches and maybe we will see more surprises today and some said favorites will not win their matches... in the evening we will be wiser Grin

From favorites Spain, Italy, France, Germany won't lose. I don't expect surprise results for top teams.

Odds are too low to play for teams against weaker opponents. Some don't even give odds because other results are impossible.
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today we continue with the qualifying matches and maybe we will see more surprises today and some said favorites will not win their matches... in the evening we will be wiser Grin
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