The Road to the FIFA World Cup - South Africa 2010

Black Magic wrote:

Fey wrote:International football is a joke, only germans like it. Seriously everyone plays abroad and they stop the league for this They ruined my football weekend!

At least Feyenoord didn't lose this weekend.

At least the home side finally won in the Feyenoord stadium Though it was a shame to see it filled with all those orange nutters. They dont even like football.

The Barnes effect has obviously kicked in already. However, as soon as he turns up in Jamaica it will all go horribly wrong.

In case you haven't heard Luis Oliveira Goncalves is no longer coach of Angola - Maby de Almeida has taken over - and the biggest shock in African groups so far is that Angola not only went out but came third in their group. Benin won it and Uganda beat Angola on head to head.

It is a big disappointment for the hosts of the next ACN. They were quarter-finalists in Ghana and went to last World Cup at Nigeria's expense.

Edit: Apparently goal difference rather than head to head is the deciding factor, so Angola is second in that group.

The first round of qualification in Africa is over. Eight second place teams were due to qualify as well, but it got complicated due to the suspension of Ethiopia and withdrawal of Eritrea. FIFA decided that the fairest way to resolve it was to discount the results of the second and fouurth placed teams when considering the second place results.

The twelve group winners are as follows: Cameroon, Guinea, Benin, Nigeria, Ghana, Algeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Mali, Zambia and Egypt - all of whom qualify outright for the next stage.

After the FIFA ruling is taken into account, Kenya, Gabon, Gambia, Rwanda, Tunisia, Sudan, Togo and Malawi qualify.

Mozambique missed out on the second tied breaker to Gambia by having one less point in total than Gambia.

The second place teams to miss out are the Cape Verde Islands, Angola, South Africa and Mozambique.

That is unless I have miscalculated somewhere.

Why were South Africa in the qualifying?

kas wrote:Why were South Africa in the qualifying?

ACON qualification

Black Magic wrote:

kas wrote:Why were South Africa in the qualifying?

ACON qualification

Probably shouldn't be in this thread then

Tweedle wrote:

Black Magic wrote:

kas wrote:Why were South Africa in the qualifying?

ACON qualification

Probably shouldn't be in this thread then

The WC qualifiers are also for the ACON.

Tweedle wrote:

Black Magic wrote:

kas wrote:Why were South Africa in the qualifying?

ACON qualification

Probably shouldn't be in this thread then

The WC qualifications ARE the ACON qualifiers.

It' both. Angola also took part in qualifiers despite qualifying as host of the next ACN. Both they and SA finished second in their groups but went out, so the hosts of both the World Cup and ACN will not have any competitive matches before each tournament and neither will qualify for the other tournament

I still can't work this out but Mozambique rather than Gambia qualified. I guess that they meant total points after the deductions and then went to goal difference. Ridiculous system.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=910476.html#joy+pain+africa

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/africa/secondplace.html

Rankings of runners-up
Along with the 12 group winners, the 8 best runners-up also advanced to the third round. In determining the rankings of the runners-up, results against the fourth-placed team (for groups with 4 teams) would be excluded (and are hence excluded from the table below).
TeamGrpPldWDLGFGAGDPts

Rwanda	8	4	3	0	1	7	3	+4	9
Kenya	2	4	2	1	1	6	3	+3	7
Tunisia	9	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
Togo	11	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5	6
Gabon	5	4	2	0	2	3	3	0	6
Sudan	10	4	2	0	2	5	6	−1	6
Malawi	12	4	2	0	2	3	4	−1	6
Mozambique	7	4	1	2	1	5	3	+2	5
Gambia	6	4	1	2	1	2	2	0	5
Angola	3	4	1	1	2	6	6	0	4
Cape Verde	1	4	1	0	3	3	7	−4	3
South Africa	4	4	0	1	3	0	4	−4	1

Matches against the fourth-placed team in the group are not included in this ranking.
Ranking rules:

1. Total points
   
2. Goal difference
   
3. Goals scored
   
4. Away goals scored
   
5. A play-off decider at a neutral ground (if necessary)
   

First time ever that I've seen a case of HTML-dyslexia

Looking forward to Belgium v Spain. By far the most interesting match in the UEFA zone imo.

OZ have already nearly qualified after trashing Qatar 4-0 & Japan only managing a home draw v Uzbekistan.

Russia winning 2-0 against Finland
both own goals

Finland are totally defensive and frankly awful

Holland starts with the same team as v Iceland. Midget & RVP start on the bench. Wonder if they'll sit next to eachother....

Khadrim wrote:Russia winning 2-0 against Finland
both own goals

Finland are totally defensive and frankly awful

3-0 wonderful goal by Arshavin

Khadrim wrote:3-0 wonderful goal by Arshavin

68' Czechs v Slovenia 1-0 - Sionko 61'

can anyone furnish me with a stream for the Norway vs Holland match?

I've got about 47 for you:

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=20958&part=sports


Dirty unpunished foul by Gamst on Babel, was dark yellow/red. Got away with putting his studs deliberately on Babel's ankle. Unfortunately babel is OK

Babel off injured.

Afellay to come on for him.

Did anyone else notice Kuyt trying to do a flick, but it came back off him

yep, was funny. what about de zeeuw missing the ball completely when he wanted to shoot form outside the box...

Lucky escape...

Van Persie warming up.... maybe he'll come on the second half.

I'ld take off Huntelaar. He offers nothing bar his goals.

HT Norway v Holland 0-0

Very little to do with football so far.

De Guzman wrote:HT Norway v Holland 0-0

Very little to do with football so far.

Absolutely! Is the dutch team for real?