It's really not, they are extremely proud and they've made sure it's understood many times. Couple of years ago, they responded to Muller like this, after he was arrogant to them.
Internationals November (World Cup Qualifiers)
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No it wouldn’t. If I could I’d love to play for San Marino. Some of the names they’ve gotten to play against would be brilliant.
Fair play to them so but as a player it can't be fun.
Southgate deserves credit for putting in place a path from U21's to senior team but still need a more attacking manager
Yip. 3 goal win over Belgium incoming. Piece of piss.
You just need a point now as you have the superior GD against Turkey and Poland lost tonight as well.
Again, will see how serious Belgium will take this game.
I was so confident Poland would win, I was focussing on Scotland.
A chance, a slight chance but need the team to put in a collective performance, like Scotland did. But I know we'll end up playing Italy away.
Expect 3 or 4 of the regular starters at the very most.
5 players didn't travel today (Courtois, Hazard and Denayer among them). De Bruyne won't start. Lukaku, Alderweireld and Tielemans are injured. Third goalkeeper will start.
Actually it must be pretty fun, you are a non-professional footballer who gets to play in big stage games at Wembley, Santiago Bernabeu, Stadio Olimpico etc.
Italy has blown it; the current Euro champions; makes no sense to me...
England lost their most important game of a generation - were schooled tactically in fact a mere 2 months ago. We’ve just beaten the dog and duck of international football 10-0. What do we learn? The grand sum of f all.
It's ridiculous that Kane has helped himself to seven goals in essentially 90 minutes of international football.
He's now on 16 for 2021 international goals in a calendar year. For context, Ronaldo managed 32 once and Messi's highest is 25.
The games against San Marino, Malta, Gibraltar, Andorra, etc are a bit of a joke really, but they absolutely have to be allowed to participate.
He's now on 16 for 2021 international goals in a calendar year. For context, Ronaldo managed 32 once and Messi's highest is 25.
The games against San Marino, Malta, Gibraltar, Andorra, etc are a bit of a joke really, but they absolutely have to be allowed to participate.
Great to see England kicking arse!
A bit of a joke? They are completely a joke.
UEFA is the only confederation that has such rubbish teams in the main qualifiers, Asia and Concacaf have pre-qualifiers for such rubbish teams.
UEFA is masquerading his greediness with "equality of opportunities for everyone", what they want is more money from these extra meaningless games against San Marino, Gibraltar,Andorra,etc.
Just like they expanded the Euro from 16 to 24 teams..."opportunities for everybody" (more matches = more money for us), just like FIFA expanded the WC from 32 to 48 teams.
"Opportunities for everybody" = more money for suit guys
FIFA, UEFA and the FA are all about money.
That is why we have scum owning football clubs.
That is why we have scum owning football clubs.
Wrong on both counts. Ronaldo’s highest in a season is 14 and Messi’s is 12. It would be absurd for either of them to score 1/3 of their total international goals in one year.
Its a bit disrespectful to Albania to dismiss them. A number of their players play in Serie A and they beat Hungary home and away in this campaign, the side that nearly got out of the group of death with France, Germany and Portugal a few months ago.
Kane only started one of the four games against San Marino and Andorra in this campaign too. That said, Andorra are a different prospect to San Marino. They generally lose but keep the score down a lot more now and have some professional players. I wouldn’t disagree with the worst teams in European qualifying having to play pre-qualifiers though.
edit: I've noticed that you've got your numbers from the IFFHS award but this ranking includes numerous club matches like the European Super Cup, Charity Shields and Club World Cups.
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Holland's GK Bijlow (Feyenoord) injured. Krul received a call up, but it will be either Flekken (Freiburg) or Cillessen (Valencia) replacing him in the starting XI.
It seems like Portugal always end up in the playoffs and make it through in the end.
It would be nice to see Wales vs Scotland in the playoffs.
It would be nice to see Wales vs Scotland in the playoffs.
Agree. There should be a prequalifying round for these teams.
Definitely. Qatar world cup is dumb anyways, good thing we're boycottingI'm sure our lovely Italy resident @giorno is quite thrilled right now
You could put a traffic cone in goal and we’d still not be able to score.
15 goals in a group that contains Gibraltar, Latvia, Montenegro and a leaky Turkey is criminal.
I saw your game against Latvia (I think?) where they parked the bus and you couldn't do squat. On the counter you'll still have chances against us, even without Haaland.
The Dutch will give away loads of space. Memphis will gift you the ball 20 times. Empty stadium and numerous injuries to boot.
Trust me, it's going to be a very close match.
Why’s the stadium empty?
Technically covid. It's more complex than just that, but I don't want to make it too political.
So you'd rather we face more of the larger teams in the qualification and then struggle to get through, if not through at all? Just for the sake of 'learning'.
I'm also pretty sure we weren't 'schooled' against Italy. They hardly dominated us, yes they were the better team but it was hardly a steam roll.
The torture of the Internationals is finally over. It seems like there weren't too many top players injured in this round of over-the-top friendlies - thankfully!
Of course it’s not and my comment didn’t say that at all, but it’s arrogant of a Denmark fan to make a comment like that as if Scotland is San Marino, personally it’s been great watching Denmark and there recent rise in the last few years but you’re not historically some kind of strong big weight champion so to talk down on Scotland like that is extremely ignorant , you need some humility
Lets see what the Netherlands will do tonight!
If we will qualify tonight the shocker against Montenegro will be soon forgotten from collective memory. If we somehow fail to qualify it will go down in history as one of the greater deceptions in history.
If we will qualify tonight the shocker against Montenegro will be soon forgotten from collective memory. If we somehow fail to qualify it will go down in history as one of the greater deceptions in history.
United should sign Billy Gilmour.
There should be an unwritten gentleman's rule that the bigger national teams should only field their U23s and fringe players against the likes of San Marino.
It gives the fringe players more chances and also spare these smaller NTs the embarrassment of a whupping everytime they step out on the pitch.
Mind you, England U23's will probably still win 4 or 5 nil.
It gives the fringe players more chances and also spare these smaller NTs the embarrassment of a whupping everytime they step out on the pitch.
Mind you, England U23's will probably still win 4 or 5 nil.
Anyone see this "penalty" in the African qualifiers?
Christ I'm nervous. Surely we can secure a home draw against a Norway without Haaland. No fans in the stadium is shite though. Blegh.
Norway was so wasteful against Latvia. I'm sure if Van Gaal decides to park the bus you can easily force a draw to make you win the group.
Question is if he's willing to do that at home?
Nah I think Norway will park it until the 70th minute and hope for a counter. Norway hasn't beaten us in 3p years, surely we will get it done. Right?
Please don't quote me saying this aged well in 6 hours....
As usually Im getting more confident about upcoming matches of Ajax/NL as they draw closer. At this point im positive we will win this quite comfortably. Ask me again in 4 hours and I will be utterly convinced we will whipe them.
Seriously though, they don't even have Haaland. Easy win, it has to be. I don't believe in jinxing either, feck that.
Same.. If we dont win this, we sure as hell wont deserve to be there.. This should be a formality considering the absence of Van Dijk De Ligt De Jong Wijnaldum and Depay in the centre.
You're just being paranoid because of the Montenegro result. Those last 10 mins were purely down to complacency and carelessness. Won't happen again.
Reality is we've bottled every single deciding game in the past 20 years and this won't be any different. Plus we've got 4-5 first choice players missing too. At best we might sneak a draw but even that is unlikely. You can start the celebrations already.
Even Vangle himself is injured. Danny Blind will be on the sideline.
At least we have a handy scapegoat ready.
At least we have a handy scapegoat ready.
Not going to keep many clean sheets with this VVD at the back. Which is ridiculous timing for Holland since he should be back to his best as the season goes on