***UEFA WCQ Playoffs***

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Some great matches today:

Wales vs Austria
Sweden vs Czech Republic
Italy vs North Macedonia
Portugal vs Turkey

Russia was disqualified so Poland moved forward already. Ukraine set to play Scotland in June.

Bale scored a nice free kick for Wales already - hoping we get to see Bale in Qatar
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Portugal up 1-nil. But, more importantly, Portugal's collared jerseys are lit.
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2-nil Portugal.
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Here is Bale's free kick

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Portugal's first goal

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Portugal's second goal

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WOW! Bale just scored off an amazing corner
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Austria pulls one back off the foot of the Bayern man

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Getting a little sweaty for Italy, still 0-0 with North Macedonia. The same N. Macedonia that beat Germany in qualifying... can they do it again??
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North Macedonia besting Italy is only second to a win at Azteca tonight for me.
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Fantastic
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Sweden-Czech going to extra time.

Winner gets to play a well-rested Poland.
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ChipFTAC01 said:

North Macedonia besting Italy is only second to a win at Azteca tonight for me.
From winning the 2020 Euro's to crashing out of WCQ... What a roller coaster of a ride for Italy!
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Thats two world cups in a row italy has missed
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With the draw on april 1st, how do they seed the teams
That still havent finished qualifying?
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gambochaman said:

Thats two world cups in a row italy has missed


Imagine the blood that will be spilt in Italy over this.

Now imagine it here in a week if things go tits up. There would be a complete destruction of US Soccer and the control that the Athletes council wields would be shredded instantaneously.
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Holy eff Italy out. Gotta love it
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akm91 said:

ChipFTAC01 said:

North Macedonia besting Italy is only second to a win at Azteca tonight for me.
From winning the 2020 Euro's to crashing out of WCQ... What a roller coaster of a ride for Italy!


Holy ***** I didn't realize these weren't two-legged!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Great schadenfreude!
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https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/procedures-for-the-final-draw-for-the-fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022-tm-released
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young eugene said:

https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/procedures-for-the-final-draw-for-the-fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022-tm-released
Man that sucks for Wales if they end up advancing in that spot. Their coefficient (20th as of Feb) puts them as a high Pot 3. They could even sneak into Pot 2 if some teams ahead of them fail to qualify.
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Why does the draw have to occur on April 1st? Why not just push it to June or July? That will still give teams 4 months to prepare
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deadbq03 said:

Sweden-Czech going to extra time.

Winner gets to play a well-rested Poland.
Poland played Scotland.
Mathguy64
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TRM said:

deadbq03 said:

Sweden-Czech going to extra time.

Winner gets to play a well-rested Poland.
Poland played Scotland.


Yes. But that's because Russia got kicked out of the qualifier. So Poland got the bye and played Scotland just to play. It's was basically a friendly.
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I know. The point was Poland wasn't rest.
EconAg18
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They rested key guys, like Lewandowski, and used this match to see some of their younger guys in international play
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Legal Custodian said:

Why does the draw have to occur on April 1st? Why not just push it to June or July? That will still give teams 4 months to prepare
Maybe the rationale is available windows left? If they wait till late June to draw, there's only one more international window until the WC.
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Cannot believe Italy is missing back to back world cups. Just insane to even think about in say 2017 or 2016. Hell even 2021 when they won the Euros.
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Agree. I dont understand what there is to gain by having it sooner. Does it take 4 months to plan out logistics/venues for each team?
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Wow. I had seen the Italy-Macedonia scoreline and knew that it knocked Italy out of the WC, but I didn't realize how late Macedonia had scored. What a gut-punch.
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young eugene said:

Agree. I dont understand what there is to gain by having it sooner. Does it take 4 months to plan out logistics/venues for each team?
It's not like Qatar is some vast country that logistics is going to be a big challenge like the '26 WC across 3 countries. You won't need 4 extra months to plan out the logistics for a country the size of Connecticut.
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With Qatar being A1, it sounds like the best place to be drawn is Group A by a long shot. What a joke.
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i listened to an interview after Italy won the Euros, and the guy was talking about Italy missing the last world cup. he said that while the 2018 WC was going on, you wouldn't even know it was happening in Italy. because they were not in it, restaurants really didn't show the matches. people didn't talk about it. i was just amazed because of how much Italy care about soccer.
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ThunderCougarFalconBird said:

With Qatar being A1, it sounds like the best place to be drawn is Group A by a long shot. What a joke.
I don't know about that. They had a decent showing during Gold Cup this past year.
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