New Zealand beat New Caledonia 7-1 in their WCQ group match tonight. Believe it or not it was actually 1-1 for a short while.
Don’t know why they bother tbh. It’s like England being asked to qualify from a group containing only San Marino, Liechtenstein and Andorra.
So the Semi-Finals now consist of
New Zealand vs Tahiti Solomon Islands vs Papua New Guinea
United Arab Emirates must have blown their chances of progressing to the Play-Offs against Australia - Lost 1-0 to Iraq and now end their campaign against South Korea... Iraq a point behind face Syria who are already eliminated, whilst Lebanon (three points behind) go to Iran.
New Zealand beat New Caledonia 7-1 in their WCQ group match tonight. Believe it or not it was actually 1-1 for a short while.
Don’t know why they bother tbh. It’s like England being asked to qualify from a group containing only San Marino, Liechtenstein and Andorra.
If Australia was allowed to join the AFC, why wouldn't NZ be?
Mind you, from 2026, Oceania will be guaranteed a spot at the World Cup, so a massive chance that NZ will feature it most of the future world cups.
Wonder if Australia might try to rejoin OFC in that case.
Its not like they've done a great job in AFC - Nor do their club teams do overly well in the AFC Champions League - Gone massively backwards, although replacing the likes of Kewell / Viduka / Schwarzer... That aint gonna be easy.
Austria back in it. 2-1 now. Good game. Bale had put Wales 2-0 up with another excellent goal, and the commentators then spent the next 10 minutes sucking him off. He’s a great player, no doubt, but the gushing hyperbole gets a bit much sometimes.
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New Zealand vs Tahiti
Solomon Islands vs Papua New Guinea
United Arab Emirates must have blown their chances of progressing to the Play-Offs against Australia - Lost 1-0 to Iraq and now end their campaign against South Korea... Iraq a point behind face Syria who are already eliminated, whilst Lebanon (three points behind) go to Iran.
Its not like they've done a great job in AFC - Nor do their club teams do overly well in the AFC Champions League - Gone massively backwards, although replacing the likes of Kewell / Viduka / Schwarzer... That aint gonna be easy.
Bale had put Wales 2-0 up with another excellent goal, and the commentators then spent the next 10 minutes sucking him off. He’s a great player, no doubt, but the gushing hyperbole gets a bit much sometimes.
"Come bet in play with us......"
25 shots off target or 6???
Now they’ve failed to qualify for TWO world cups IN A ROW!
But they managed to win the European Championship in between.
Imagine the scenes in North Macedonia tonight ..