After a dull and ill-tempered first half, Australia got a goal of a set piece in the first 10 minutes of the second half. Honduras just need one to advance, but they are looking pretty gassed with 20 minutes to go.
Congrats. Honduras got what it deserved.Couldn't have been worse. Honduras were fucken shit. We were also shit. Well, onto to Russia to make up the numbers!
The second half, when they were down, they stopped being down, so to speak. The falling over shit (that Mike warned me about) stopped miraculously and they looked dangerous with the ball. An incredible change.Honduras struggles when they leave CONCACAF and they can't get away with their brand ofmartial artssoccer.
CONCACAF owes Australia a debt for preventing Honduras from embarrassing the region on the world stage one more time.The second half, when they were down, they stopped being down, so to speak. The falling over shit (that Mike warned me about) stopped miraculously and they looked dangerous with the ball. An incredible change.
Yeah, if you end up in a group with Brazil, Spain, and Denmark it might not be much fun for you.Bah, wait till you see us give up 7 goals to whoever is the dominant team in our group. But at least our guys will give the old 100 %
Yeah and certain other countries have been gaming the system too, like Wales and Romania.From what I've read, it's because Poland doesn't play a lot of friendlies (which provide fewer points than qualifying matches) and the ranking is based on average points, not total. So, bizarrely, if I'm understanding it right, if you played the same team twice (once as a friendly, once in a qualifying match) and won 1-0 both times, your ranking would actually be worse than if you beat that team 1-0 once in a qualifying match and never played them in a friendly. Also, goal differential doesn't factor in at all.
So, yeah - FIFA rankings are dumb.