UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying - The Road to France

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Thursday 9th October 2014

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group C
Belarus 0-2 Ukraine
Macedonia 3-2 Luxembourg
Slovakia 2-1 Spain

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group E
England 5-0 San Marino
Lithuania 1-0 Estonia
Slovenia 1-0 Switzerland

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group G
Liechtenstein 0-0 Montenegro
Moldova 1-2 Austria
Sweden 1-1 Russia


( a bit late on the new Thread, but better late etc. :p)
 
Sunday 12th October 2014

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group C

Ukraine 1-0 Macedonia
Belarus 1-3 Slovakia
Luxembourg 0-4 Spain

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group E

Estonia 0-1 England
Lithuania 0-2 Slovenia

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group G

Austria 1-0 Montenegro
Russia 1-1 Moldova
Sweden 2-0 Liechtenstein


Saturday 11th October 2014

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group D

R. of Ireland 7-0 Gibraltar
Scotland 1-0 Georgia
Poland 2-0 Germany :shock:

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group F

Romania 1-1 Hungary
Finland 1-1 Greece
Northern Ireland 2-0 Faroe Islands

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group I

Armenia 1-1 Serbia
Albania 1-1 Denmark

Friday 10th October 2014

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group A

Latvia 0-3 Iceland
Netherlands 3-1 Kazakhstan
Turkey 1-2 Czech Rep.

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group B

Belgium 6-0 Andorra
Cyprus 1-2 Israel
Wales 0-0 Bos-Herce

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group H

Bulgaria 0-1 Croatia
Italy 2-1 Azerbaijan
Malta 0-3 Norway

* * *

A win and three points, but a ordinary performance by England again. Thay played like a good Pub team, Estonia did well enough but weren't really stretched.

Germany lost to Poland! :? Have they been taking coaching from the England team, what the heck happened in Poland? :?
 
And Russia only played 1-1 against Moldova, and unlike Moldova only scored from the penalty point. Excellent! :thumbsup:
Yesterday I learned that the melody of Lichtensteins national anthem is "God save the queen".
 
We're playing England on the 15th. We might surprise them. We probably won't, but we might!
 
And Russia only played 1-1 against Moldova, and unlike Moldova only scored from the penalty point. Excellent! :thumbsup:
Yesterday I learned that the melody of Lichtensteins national anthem is "God save the queen".

I didn't know that, so they are stuck with the same dirge as England.

[video=youtube;i9nnnM-__JQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nnnM-__JQ[/video]

:lol:

I'm now officially supporting Iceland, cos Portugal can down right go #%&! itself.

Still 0-0 against Denmark so far, things may improve.

We're playing England on the 15th. We might surprise them. We probably won't, but we might!

I think Slovenia may get a point or more, whilst England are "reorganising".

:smile:
 
That was hilarious in the Serbia - Albania game. Some Albanian separatists flew in a quadcopter with some propaganda flag on it, a Serbian player managed to grab it and pull it down. Then the albanian players got involved and it almost turned into a 22 person fist fight with a few thousand head Serbian mob chanting stuff like "Kill the Shqiptar!" (derogatory term for Albanians).

Slovenian text, but has a bunch of photos: http://www.24ur.com/sport/nogomet/tekma-med-srbijo-in-albanijo-prekinjena.html

And they wonder why they aren't allowed into the EU. :rolleyes:
 
Tuesday 14th October 2014

Germany 1-1 R. of Ireland
Gibraltar 0-3 Georgia
Poland 2-2 Scotland


UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group E

San Marino 0-4 Switzerland

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group F

Faroe Islands 0-1 Hungary
Finland 0-2 Romania
Greece 0-2 Northern Ireland

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group I

Denmark 0-1 Portugal
Serbia vs Albania - Match Abandoned :rolleyes:

Monday 13th October 2014

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group A

Kazakhstan 2-4 Czech Rep.
Iceland 2-0 Netherlands
Latvia 1-1 Turkey

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group B

Andorra 1-4 Israel
Bos-Herce 1-1 Belgium
Wales 2-1 Cyprus

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group H

Croatia 6-0 Azerbaijan
Malta 0-1 Italy
Norway 2-1 Bulgaria


:no:

A win, but that was not good.

Well, Iceland did get a good win against the Netherlands.

That was hilarious in the Serbia - Albania game. Some Albanian separatists flew in a quadcopter with some propaganda flag on it, a Serbian player managed to grab it and pull it down. Then the albanian players got involved and it almost turned into a 22 person fist fight with a few thousand head Serbian mob chanting stuff like "Kill the Shqiptar!" (derogatory term for Albanians).

Slovenian text, but has a bunch of photos: http://www.24ur.com/sport/nogomet/tekma-med-srbijo-in-albanijo-prekinjena.html

And they wonder why they aren't allowed into the EU. :rolleyes:

Wow, that looks a stupid mess. Match Abandoned after 41'!

UEFA are not going to like that. Very bad for commercial/TV revenues.
I sense bans of crowds being imposed or maybe even teams.

:shakeshead:
 
Serbs and similar ethnicities in the area have often seen bans from soccer matches, because of how they behave.
 
Sunday 16th November 2014
UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group A
Netherlands 6-0 Latvia

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group B
Belgium 0-0 Wales
Cyprus 5-0 Andorra

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group H
Azerbaijan 0-1 Norway

Saturday 15th November 2014
UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group C
Luxembourg 0-3 Ukraine
Macedonia 0-2 Slovakia
Spain 3-0 Belarus

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group E
England 3-1 Slovenia
San Marino 0-0 Estonia
Switzerland 4-0 Lithuania

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group G
Austria 1-0 Russia
Moldova 0-1 Liechtenstein
Montenegro 1-1 Sweden

Friday 14th November 2014
UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group D
Georgia 0-4 Poland

Germany 4-0 Gibraltar
Scotland 1-0 R. of Ireland

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group F
Greece 0-1 Faroe Islands
Hungary 1-0 Finland
Romania 2-0 Northern Ireland

UEFA European Championship Qualifying - Group I
Portugal 1-0 Armenia
Serbia 1-3 Denmark

* * *

A good result for England with a slightly better performance than previous games. The players still seem only able to give about 60% as good as they do for their clubs. Strange, but has been like that for a long time.

A good away point for Wales in Belgium, plus San Marino got their first point in decades in a major qualifying. The away win by the Faroes was great too, but cost Coach Ranieri his job.

Well done to all the smaller countries who did well this round. :cool:
 
Group A should be France's. And I can't imagine France playing outside Paris, so there's a 90% chance you'll be watching "les bleues".

Nope. 100% chance of not seeing france in that match :) I only applied for the matches without France because the chances of getting tickets for those were even slimmer than for the rest ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2016#Group_A (my tickets are for Match 14 - A2 vs A4)

France plays in the Stade de France (just outside of Paris), Marseille and Lille. For the group phase at least. Can?t imagine them not advancing.
 
It's been a rather surprising qualification phase, with a number of teams under-performing, and others over-performing. Iceland and Austria have qualified for the first ever. I attribute it to the "boost effect" of the new qualifying system (2 assured entries/group, all the 3rd place teams with a chance of making it). In four year's time that psychological boost probably will have faded.
 
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