Finland - Poland

john_smullen · Post by **john_smullen** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:17 pm

Forssell to start me thinks. He has been good for Birmingham pre-season and the begining of the Prem scoring 4 goals in 4 games in Germany and scored Birmingham's first v Chelski in the opening game.

**Sponsor:**

JasonS · Post by **JasonS** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:16 pm

It's a good night for me being a dual Brit/Finn national.

I'm going to see the Finland national team in a full stadium managed by an Englishman followed by going to a (i would guess full) bar in Helsinki to watch the England game against Finland's old enemy.

Hyvä Suomi!!!!
C'mon England!!!!

jakub · Post by **jakub** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:42 pm

ok, now we (poland) only have to beat kazachstan...

aniorek · Post by **aniorek** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:59 pm

jakub wrote:ok, now we (poland) only have to beat kazachstan...

Yeah, but I am not sure if this is going to happen after today.

Anyway, good for us, bad for Finland. The game was horrible...

molon_lave · Post by **molon_lave** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:29 am

Finland caught a break after there 0-0 draw to Poland, Portugal was held 1-1 to Serbia so Finland is on course for qualification.

Standings
Poland 21 pts
Finland 19 pts
Portugal 17 pts
Serbia 16 pts

Salopian · Post by **Salopian** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:09 am

On course? Hmm. Beating Azerbaijan at home, sure. Belgium away? Tough one. And then - THEN - must defeat Portugal in Portugal. Finland, unfortunately, and despite the form of the Portuguese, aren't good enough.

aniorek · Post by **aniorek** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:51 am

Salopian wrote:On course? Hmm. Beating Azerbaijan at home, sure. Belgium away? Tough one. And then - THEN - must defeat Portugal in Portugal. Finland, unfortunately, and despite the form of the Portuguese, aren't good enough.

There is no way Finns will beat Portugal. Of course, yesterday's tie in Lissabon means that all 4 teams still can grab some precious points to qualify. But I believe that it will be much harder for Finns to win in Portugal than for Poles in Belgrade (a tie is OK for us, assuming that we win with Belgium and Kazakhstan).

simon · Post by **simon** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:09 am

It will be Poland ,Portugal.

dax · Post by **dax** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:11 pm

No,No,No my friend.
Poland is not in such good position.They have last match i belgrade.
Its will be portugal and SERBIA

ajdias · Post by **ajdias** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:37 pm

Everyone seems to think that Portuguese will go through. I hope they are right but have lost much faith on this team

Finland reminds me of Portugal some 10/20 years ago. We would play well against the top teams (not necessarily win) and would be contending until the last games only to see the favorite, who had been doing a "miserable" campaign, snap it at the last minute. On the other hand Portugal is now the favorite, I hope the story still holds true

aniorek · Post by **aniorek** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:58 pm

dax wrote:No,No,No my friend.
Poland is not in such good position.They have last match i belgrade.

We do but I am quite positive we will win in Asia and in Belgium before that. Then we only need a tie in Serbia and that assuming that Serbs will win it all, which I doubt. Portugal should have won yesterday, that last score was clearly offside.

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:02 pm

jakub wrote:ok, now we (poland) only have to beat kazachstan...

This is quite clearly utter nonsense. Beating Kazakhstan should not be beyond you, but will give you only 24 points.

Portugal would have no difficulty collecting that many points (7 required) from their remaining four games. Serbia, too, especially with Serbia having the attraction of playing you last.

The Poles need six points from Kazakhstan and Belgium. THEN, perhaps, they can relax and throw away the Serbia game.

Truth is, in any case, Poland are in the driving seat, and Portugal (and even Serbia) come next, and only then comes Finland.

simon · Post by **simon** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:44 pm

otyikondo wrote:
jakub wrote:ok, now we (poland) only have to beat kazachstan...
This is quite clearly utter nonsense. Beating Kazakhstan should not be beyond you, but will give you only 24 points.

Portugal would have no difficulty collecting that many points (7 required) from their remaining four games. Serbia, too, especially with Serbia having the attraction of playing you last.

The Poles need six points from Kazakhstan and Belgium. THEN, perhaps, they can relax and throw away the Serbia game.

Truth is, in any case, Poland are in the driving seat, and Portugal (and even Serbia) come next, and only then comes Finland.

What utter nonsense man, youve been reading the HS too much

Gold old Suomi will come through to defy all odds.

dax · Post by **dax** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:36 pm

[quote="aniorek"][quote="dax"]No,No,No my friend.
Poland is not in such good position.They have last match i belgrade.[/quote]
We do but I am quite positive we will win in Asia and in Belgium before that. Then we only need a tie in Serbia and that assuming that Serbs will win it all, which I doubt. Portugal should have won yesterday, that last score was clearly offside.[/quote]

It was not an offside.That is clear.
Ask people here.Maybe they now a litle bit more about this game.
Serbs play the best when is hard.we have gift to complicate.But on the end everything will be god for us.sorry for my bad typeing English.
pozdrav

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