Thread 151392351

>Bolivia
>San marino
>United Arab Emirates
All of these countries can qualify and make wtf.

we didn't know how good we had it with sepp blatter

>>151392383
San Marino only has a chance to qualify for the playoffs because of their Nations League wins against Gibraltar and Liechtenstein. If all the stars align for them, they will make the playoffs. Then they will have to beat two different opponents to actually reach the World Cup. Not gonna happen, they are way too weak
But the format is dumb
>>151392391
Indeed. Cruel irony that FIFA promised to „weed out corruption“ only to end up WAY more corrupt than ever before. And no one really cares anymore. Now imagine who will succeed Infantino …

>>151392351 (OP)
They represent Italy now

>>151392508
Sadly they are too yt. You are the true representatives of Shitaly.

Not only is it a possibility, it's actually a fairly realistic scenario too. There are 4 slots available to NL group winners that fail to finish in the top 2 of their qualifying group.
Spain, Portugal, England and Norway have already guaranteed a top 2 finish.
Germany, France and Czech Republic will almost certainly get a top 2 finish.
Wales and North Macedonia are fighting for 2nd in their group so only 1 of them will take one of the 4 NL slots while the other reaches the play-off through the normal route.
Romania have a good chance of moving into 2nd in their group, they are 3 points behind Bosnia and only need to play Bosnia and San Marino (easy win), whereas Bosnia also need to play the group leaders Austria.
Northern Ireland are in pretty much an identical position to Romania, their remaining matches are against 2nd place in the group (Slovakia) and a micronation (Luxembourg), while Slovakia also need to play the group leaders (Germany).
Sweden look unlikely to finish 2nd in their group, so will likely take 1 of the NL slots.
Moldova would definitely take 1 of the NL slots over San Marino since they can't finish 2nd anymore.

So basically if Romania and Northern Ireland move to 2nd in their group, San Marino will progress. Although they would still need to win two matches in the second-round so it's unlikely they'll actually play in the World Cup.

>>151392632
Also it's very unlikely at this point, but if Sweden and Serbia also manage to get 2nd place, Israel would also progress to the next round.

>>151392735
and then yuros will tell you their qualifiers are actually hard

>>151393593
in your qualifiers, 6 countries out of 9 get an automatic wc spot lmaooooooooo
conmebolcacas will say their qualifiers are difficult when you only have to be better than bolivia, venezuela and chile

>>151393593
they are

>>151393786
Not really, but the Nations League doesn't have anything to do with it, although it leads to retarded situations like these. But CONMEBOL's are probably even easier now that 7/10 teams can qualify
The expansion of the World Cup and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

>>151393593
More teams can qualify in your confed than not

>>151393593
Fact is they are hard enough for Italy to fail them 3 times in a row.

>>151392632
This site gives them a 20% to go to the playoffs

>>151392351 (OP)
>San Marino will qualify for the World Cup before shitaly does
grim

>>151393803
4 of the playoff spots are coming from the nations league rankings

>>151392351 (OP)
>71' Bellingham
>87' (Missed Penalty) H. Kane
>90+10' Nanni (P)

>>151406215
minmaxing is for real ballers

As long as Israel doesn't I'm happy.

>>151394167
Sweden??? Bottom of its group Sweden?

rolling for san marino to qualify instead of italy

>>151392383
>Ronaldo rn

>>151406262
I'm surprised Trump hasn't started barking now that Israel has been eliminated.
I wouldn't be surprised if he forced FIFA to allow Israel in the World Cup.

>>151394340
Wow that stinks. Working at UEFA has to be the easiest thing ever, you create a problem so that you can fix it later and pat yourself on the back.
At least things are simple with CONMEBOL.

>>151392632
Wait, this is hilarious. San Marino needs Romania 2nd, they play their last match against them, and goal difference is now a meaningful tiebreaker.
It's gonna be a funny game, that one.

>>151406288
Yes, see >>151392632
For some reason the genius at UEFA thought that winning your group in the League C is more important than being in the League A in the first place.

Kinda like saying that the Sudamericana champion is better than the Libertadores semifinalist because one won a trophy and the other didn't, even when one requisites of playing the Sudamicana, is not being good enough for Libertadores

>>151406355
Kek

>>151392522
>We actualy entertaint and habe ofensive atackint style went we need to.

No, we are better.

>>151393760
Brasil almost left out and they would steam roll in european qualifiers

>>151392735
is that real

>>151418803
yes

>>151406955
It's a deliberate attempt to shake up the qualifiers especially now theyre split into 12 groups

>San Marino - Cape Verde
>in front of 500 people in Arrowhead Stadium
make it happen

What a retarded system
32-team World Cup with no Nations League bullshit NOW

>>151419025
You know it's more likely they expand it further, rather going back to the original format.
CONMEBOL has sent a letter to FIFA saying they want 64 nations in 2030

>>151419025
>>151419089
Give some meme countries their independence and let's have a 256 team KO tournament.

>>151392351 (OP)
They're doing the Nations League DEI shit for World Cup too? That's how >we made the Euros but I thought they'd be more serious about the World Cup.

>>151392474
>that FIFA promised to „weed out corruption“ only to end up WAY more corrupt than ever before.
That's not ironic. It's what happens every time someone promises that.

>>151419117
>but I thought they'd be more serious about the World Cup.
What made you think that?

>>151392351 (OP)
Imagine being the Faroe Islands ... they are in the NL tier above San Marino, but didn't win. They managed to avoid relegation there AGAIN, but couldn't win the group. Now they're at fucking 12 points in their World Cup quali group and will at least finish 3rd, so first of the losers, while San Marino takes L after L. But San Marino is the one having a playoff chance because they beat Liechtenstein for once while the Faroe Islands already can do that routinely but now get punished for it. It's obvious that they are MUCH stronger than San Marino despite being of similar size, but they suffer because of that
It's quite the bullshit

>>151419539
more like the farce islands! lol

>>151419539
the KWABoer islands

>>151419109
I know you're shitposting, but something like this would be amazing. make it so the actual teams dont have to play until there's 64 teams or whatever, and those games all happen in the conventional WC style in a host nation

>>151392351 (OP)
This shit system cost us a playoff spot last EURO
Estonia got a playoff spot for hammering Malta and San Marino in NL League D
Georgia who finished behind us in our qualifier group also got a playoff spot from winning League C against Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Gibraltar
They ended up qualifying for the EURO after beating Luxembourg 2-0 and Greece on penalties

>>151418991
I goes against all sport merits and justice.

It's like in the actual World Cup they would make the pots like they always do, but the teams in pot 1 go together, pot 2 with pot 2 and so on.

We would have one group be Brazil, France, Belgium and Spain and antoher one being Cape Verde, Jamaica, New Zealand and Jordan.

Belgium wouldn't qualify to the KOs but Jordan would because they won their group. The same is happening with their current system. I hope that San Marino lets their rival score 20 on them so UEFA can see the bullshit this is and change it.

>>151406955
UEFA already give a Champions League spot to the Europa League winner (37th best team in Europe). This new qualification change is just keeping in line with that same philosophy.

>>151392632
Luxembourg is not a micro nation. All of the European micro nations combined can fit inside of it.

>>151435190
it's a sanctimonious pile of shit