05 September 2017

In start of the night we saw some amazing goals

Armenia - Denmark 1:4

Scorers: 1:0 05 Ruslan Koryan
              1:1 16 Thomas Delaney
              1:2 28 Christian Eriksen
              1:3 81 Thomas Delaney
              1:4 90+3 Thomas Delaney

Azerbaijan - San Marino 5:1

Scorers: 1:0 20 Afran Ismayilov
              2:0 24 Araz Abdullayev
              3:0 57 Afran Ismayilov
              4:0 70-own goal Michele Cevoli
              4:1 74 Mirko Palazzi
              5:1 81 Rashad Farhad Sadygov

England - Slovakia 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 03 Stanislav Lobotka
              1:1 37 Eric Dier
              2:1 59 Marcus Rashford

Germany - Norway 6:0

Scorers: 1:0 10 Mesut Ozil
              2:0 17 Julian Draxler
              3:0 21 Timo Werner
              4:0 40 Timo Werner
              5:0 49 Leon Goretzka
              6:0 79 Mario Gomez

Montenegro - Romania 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 74 Stevan Jovetic

Northern Ireland - Czech Republic 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 27 Jonny Evans
              2:0 41 Chris Brunt

Poland - Kazakhstan 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 11 Arkadiusz Milik
              2:0 74 Kamil Glik
              3:0 86-pen Robert Lewandowski

Scotland - Malta 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 09 Christophe Berra
              2:0 49 Leigh Griffits

Slovenia - Lithuania 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 24-pen Josip Ilicic
              2:0 61-pen Josip Ilicic
              3:0 82 Benjamin Verbic
              4:0 89 Valter Birsa

First points for Libya

Cameroon - Nigeria 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 30 Moses Simon
              1:1 74-pen Vincent Aboubakar

Libya - Guinea 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 36 Hamdou el Houni

04 September 2017

Derby game at the hexagonal

Playing second against first is nothing new, but having three teams fighting for only one direct place is quite something. One other will celebrate of staying 'alive' and having a chance to go to Russia in additional matches. But without doubt, everyone will want to see how the match will end between the runner-up and the leader.

05 September, Tuesday at 23.36 CET: Honduras - United States of America.

06 September, Wednesday at 04.05 CET: Costa Rica - Mexico.
06 September, Wednesday at 04.05 CET: Panama - Trinidad and Tobago.

Complications never ends

With three more matches to go in South America 'only' seven teams want tickets. Unfortunately three of them will go direct, one is already occupied, one will go to an intercontinental play off, while three will watch the World Cup from home. After very strange results last round we are expecting (almost) the same next week. As anybody can beat anybody here nothing will surprise us anymore.

05 September, Tuesday at 22.00 CET: Bolivia - Chile.
05 September, Tuesday at 22.30 CET: Colombia - Brazil.
05 September, Tuesday at 23.00 CET: Ecuador - Peru.

06 September, Wednesday at 01.30 CET: Argentina - Venezuela.
06 September, Wednesday at 02.00 CET: Paraguay - Uruguay.

Bye bye to group stages

The 'other' part of Asia - the strongest teams - are fighting among each other to be seen at the World Cup finals next year in Russia. And slowly we came to the end of group stages. Only two direct spots are remaining plus one lifeline, which will go through the back door. Of course this requires more matches and a long, long journey to the other side of the world. Who will go direct and who will make additional expenses, we will find out in two days time.

05 September, Tuesday at 12.00 CET: Australia - Thailand.
05 September, Tuesday at 16.00 CET: Iraq - United Arab Emirates.
05 September, Tuesday at 17.00 CET: IR Iran - Syria.
05 September, Tuesday at 17.00 CET: Qatar - PR China.
05 September, Tuesday at 17.00 CET: Uzbekistan - South Korea.
05 September, Tuesday at 19.30 CET: Saudi Arabia - Japan.