Onderwerp: World Cup 2014 Qualifying stage - Europe

Well, it's weird because usually they did extremely well in the qualifiers...so I'm a bit surprised with the level of their performance.

Italy losing 0:1 to Czech Rep. doesn't surprise me at all :p.

btw. Poland has 0.017% of chances to qualify to WC from what I've read today.

Go Polska! :p

According to this site (great site on ranking and statistics), Poland had a 2,59% chance to qualify before the Friday matches.

Yeah, but we've drawn with Crna Gora, which hurt our chances a lot.

Actually, if we would've won [we deserved it - played much better, had more situations, didn't get a deserved penalty + red card] and if we would've beaten Moldova in previous game, then we would have a decent chance to qualify. Oh well :).

Belarus 1:0 France

now that's an interesting turn of events. I guess it will end 1:2.

Well, now you'll (probably) have to beat both Ukraine and England to qualify. So no, Poland won't make it :p

Well, in qualifiers for 2012 they collected 4 points against France :p

Belgium the first team to be sure of at least European play-off spot. Who'd have thought that in a group with Croatia and Serbia?

I wouldn't be surprised if we beat England and drawn with Ukraine

we're good at being close to win/qualify/whatever but still failing...:P

And Van Persie freeing the Dutchies.

Who'd have thought that in a group with Croatia and Serbia?

Well Serbia is nowhere near to what they used to be...and Croatia is decent player-wise, but doesn't impress on the pitch lately

Belgium has a lot of amazing, world class players...so it's normal, imo. It wasn't normal that you played so shitty before :p.

Serbia has really a nice team. They're not there yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did well in the next qualification. Croatia has a world class attacking side, but their defense is too poor to really get great results.

Yeah, Serbia was pretty overrated. No more Vidic and Stankovic. They still have a decent defense, but barely average players in midfield and attack. Still nice performance by Belgium though. Looking forward to see them in Brasil.

but barely average players in midfield and attack

Did you see the first half from Serbia-Belgium? Or the (recent) game against Croatia?

No, but I wouldn't judge on one or two good games. They may have some talents.. but as Belgian you should know that talent alone doesn't make it to the World Cup :p

The things is that a team needs 14-15 [at least] high level players, among them at least 3-4 top level to play well, also time to make it work.

Poland has some top level players like Lewandowski, Blaszczykowski, Piszczek and some decent like Obraniak, Krychowiak, Boruc, Szczesny - but we don't function as a team...

Also, our new playmaker is 19yo Piotr Zielinski from Udinese. Great talent, but come on - 19yo, only a couple of games in Udinese? You can't expect much from him...

And we don't have a 2nd striker after Lewy - only Sobiech [first team/bench player of Hannover 96] and Milik [great talent, but only 19yo].

Plus our defence is shit, except for Piszczek. Even Glik, captain of Torino, plays horribly in the NT...

:(