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1 minute ago, RossBFaeDundee said:

Moldova are surprisingly shit imo, you have to be to be in a pot below Andorra.

Moldova was in a Nations League Division C pool with Slovenia, Greece and Kosovo unsurprisingly they managed 1pt... whereas Andorra was in a Division D pool with Faroe Islands, Malta and Latvia unsurprisingly they managed 2pts. That plus loss to Andorra in a qualifier a few years ago was enough to transpose their places on world rankings.

In last year Moldova's results were:

France 2-1 Moldova
Moldova 1-2 Iceland
Sweden 1-0 Moldova
Moldova 1-1 Kosovo
Slovenia 1-0 Moldovoa
Greece 2-0 Moldova
Moldova 0-4 Slovenia
Moldova 0-0 Russia
Moldova 0-2 Greece
Kosovo 1-0 Moldova


Stuffy and always a risk of drawing away. They aren't really a Pot 6 side and we'd really have wanted someone like Gibraltar, San Marino or Malta.

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Just now, HibeeJibee said:

Stuffy and always a risk of drawing away. They aren't really a Pot 6 side and we'd really have wanted someone like Gibraltar, San Marino or Malta.

No shit. Just focusing on who we have drawn. In reality if we have any ambition to qualify at all, we should be beating Moldova, the Faroes and fucking Israel home and away.

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Just now, RossBFaeDundee said:

No shit. Just focusing on who we have drawn. In reality if we have any ambition to qualify at all, we should be beating Moldova, the Faroes and fucking Israel home and away.

Just answering on why they're Pot 6. Historically we have a brilliant record against "Moldova, the Faroes and f*cking Israel" of course 🤔

In all seriousness - it's a good draw if we take 16pts/18pts off those below.

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I’m going to learn fucking Hebrew at this rate. Cannot stand them. Their results over the past 3 years show they aren’t good at all, yet we make them look like 2010 Barcelona.

BTW - Moldova and Faroes are dodgy draws. Moldova very rarely get rattled and Russia could only muster a draw there recently. We would have benefited there from getting San Marino but we should be getting 6 points. Faroes are nowhere near as bad as what they used to be and will be stuffy, especially away.

Apart from Denmark and Austria definitely being beatable, the rest are potential banana skins. We all know about Israel and the other two lower seeds could shan a result if we don’t turn up and put on a professional display.

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24 minutes ago, Falcor Roar said:

I'm imagining an Israeli football message board where they're all raging at getting the jocks again. 

Given the quality they showed in a number of our recent matches, I rather think they will be pleased to be in our group once more.

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