RIPPA Posted March 28, 2022 Author Posted March 28, 2022 Oh BTW - Mexico and Honduras is still scoreless
cubbymark Posted March 28, 2022 Posted March 28, 2022 Mexico finally scored in Honduras. Curious if there's a weird way Mexico ends up in the intercontinental playoff.
RIPPA Posted March 28, 2022 Author Posted March 28, 2022 27 minutes ago, cubbymark said: Mexico finally scored in Honduras. Curious if there's a weird way Mexico ends up in the intercontinental playoff. It would require them losing at home to El Salvador and Costa Rica winning by enough to pass them in goal differential but not enough that the US drops below Mexico so I definitely would categorize that as weird
RIPPA Posted March 28, 2022 Author Posted March 28, 2022 Okay - here are the official scenarios US - clinches WC with a win or draw or losing by less than 6 goals to Costa Rica Mexico - clinches WC with a win or draw or maintaining a +4 GD over Costa Rica Costa Rica - clinches WC by beating US by 6 or more goals or beating US and Mexico loses while making up a -4 GD
RIPPA Posted March 29, 2022 Author Posted March 29, 2022 Okay - AFC wrapped up most of their qualifying Iran, South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia all automatically qualified United Arab Emirates vs Australia (as the two third places teams) will take place on June 7 in Qatar with the winner playing the 5th place CONMEBOL team in the inter-confederation playoff a week later (5th place CONMEBOL will be either Peru, Colombia or Chile - that will be decided late tonight)
RIPPA Posted March 29, 2022 Author Posted March 29, 2022 Portugal, Poland, Ghana, Senegal are all in Meaning - Sweden, North Macedonia, Nigeria and Egypt are out (respectively)
RIPPA Posted March 29, 2022 Author Posted March 29, 2022 I saw Barnwell make a comment about the fiasco of the laser pointers during penalty shootouts but now I can see what he was talking about Now - I will also point out that there a bunch of folks in the comments that the same exact thing happened last week during the first leg in Egypt So long story short - I am almost amused when a federation is just as bad as CONCACAF
RIPPA Posted March 30, 2022 Author Posted March 30, 2022 20 hours ago, RIPPA said: (5th place CONMEBOL will be either Peru, Colombia or Chile - that will be decided late tonight) It is Peru 1
Happ Hazzard Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 New Zealand beat the Solomon Islands and will play the 4th place CONCACAF team (almost certainly Costa Rica) in the other inter confederation play-off.
RIPPA Posted March 31, 2022 Author Posted March 31, 2022 With it being scoreless at halftime and Costa Rica only having one shot on goal... I think the US is okay
RIPPA Posted March 31, 2022 Author Posted March 31, 2022 And as soon as I post that - Costa Rica scores 1
RIPPA Posted March 31, 2022 Author Posted March 31, 2022 Pots are now know for tomorrow's draw (all based on FIFA ranking) US and Mexico are both in Pot 2 (Mexico would have been in Pot 1 if Portugal hadn't qualified). Apparently, if Canada had beaten Panama (instead of losing 1-0 last night) they would have been in Pot 3 instead of Pot 4 The are 3 "place holder spots" that were all put in Pot 4 - the 2 inter-confederation playoff spots and the one remaining UEFA spot Spoiler Pot 1: Qatar Brazil Belgium France Argentina England Spain Portugal Pot 2: Mexico Netherlands Denmark Germany Uruguay Switzerland United States Croatia Pot 3: Senegal IR Iran Japan Morocco Serbia Poland South Korea Tunisia Pot 4: Cameroon Canada Ecuador Saudi Arabia Ghana Wales or Scotland / Ukraine Costa Rica or New Zealand Peru or Australia / United Arab Emirates
Jenalysis Posted March 31, 2022 Posted March 31, 2022 How the hell is Ghana Pot 4? Watch US get a group of Argentina, US, Iran, and Ghana.
RIPPA Posted March 31, 2022 Author Posted March 31, 2022 1 minute ago, alstein said: How the hell is Ghana Pot 4? Watch US get a group of Argentina, US, Iran, and Ghana. Because Ghana is ranked 60th by FIFA In fact they are the lowest ranked team to automatically qualify (and, at best, they will be the third lowest team as out of the remaining teams only UAE (68th) and New Zealand (101) are lower than them) Obviously FIFA rankings aren't the greatest metric but Ghana's highest ranking was 16th in 2010 and they have been going down since then
RIPPA Posted April 1, 2022 Author Posted April 1, 2022 (because of the draw constraints - the US has to have at least one of Serbia/Poland in their group or the unknown UEFA spot (they could have one of each))
RIPPA Posted April 1, 2022 Author Posted April 1, 2022 And here are the probabilities for Canada Obviously because they are in Pot 4 - Canada has a high probability of being drawn into a Group of Death
odessasteps Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 How long will it take to actually get to the draw?
RIPPA Posted April 1, 2022 Author Posted April 1, 2022 1 minute ago, odessasteps said: How long will it take to actually get to the draw? I assume at least 30 minutes
odessasteps Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 I got to BW3 just in time to see Idris and the lady whose name I didn’t see come on stage.
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