Anyone notice that Argentina
lost today to Paraguay. Wow. Paraguay are now thru with Brazil to South Africa. However Argentina have much work to do. I felt that the Albiceleste are now in real trouble...not how I felt this past
weekend. I did not see 2 losses in a row for Messi, Tevez, Heinze, et al. They now face the last two fixtures which become must wins if they do not want to have to count on other nations for their ticket to South Africa. The latest standings:
What should be very interesting is that teams involved in the last 2 spots are facing one another:
- Argentina faces Peru and Uruguay
- Uruguay faces Ecuador and Argentina
- Venezuela faces Paraguay and Brazil
- Ecuador faces Uruguay and Chile
Chile, Brazil and Uruguay are heading to South Africa (ok Chile could still be outdistanced, but they should be fine). Argentina should beat last place Peru and will head into the last game, at Uruguay at 25 points. Regardless of how Ecuador vs Uruguay ends, Argentina would need the full 3 points to get through. Uruguay would also be battling for a spot in the World Cup, so no quarter will be given. What if Venezuela snuck in? There are too many situations to figure out, needless to say the last two days will prove very interesting in South America qualifications.
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since 1986...world cup loosing one semifinalist team were not qualify for next world cups final round. Like 86 loosing semifinalist France Team did not qualify 1990 world cup. 1990 loosing semifinalist England were unavailable 1994 wc. Same Sweden Team in 1998 also Holland and Turky did not qualify for 2002 and 2006 wc.
Now question.. what will append in 2010 WC. Germany or Portugal?? Which Team
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Lekarlokin
From
Bangladesh
interesting statistic, clearly Portugal is favorite to keep that streak alive. Although if you look Russia is nipping at Germany's heels and might force the Germans into a second place playoff...
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