World Cup 2026 Qualifiers

[Princ]

Group is fun but very tough..

England is on another level. Serbia is one of the stronger teams from pot 2.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Imagine if we beat Serbia, but still don't qualify because they manage to take some points away from England, and we don't.

That stat I quoted a while back, that the 0-0 in 1968 against Germany, was the only positive result we've ever gotten in our history in an official game vs. a Top 5 league NT, needs to change.

[Dallku]

Serbia plays slow and methodical. That's a good matchup for Albania that mostly struggles against pace and high press. They are not the strongest mentally either.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Serbia plays slow and methodical. That's a good matchup for Albania that mostly struggles against pace and high press. They are not the strongest mentally either.

Yeah but they can actually get some points against England. Our players are mental midgets when it comes to big NTs.

[artan]

Against Serbia I'm 100% behind Asani doing whatever the f*** he wants. This is a matchup that he is meant for. Might need to trot Daku out there but he'd probably get red carded in the 15th minute.

[RedFootballs]

Can someone answer how we without exception always draw the very hardest groups in every tournament?

How is it possible we haven't been lucky once? Let alone lucky, how it is possible that we were unlucky every time?

We have just come from likely the hardest group in European Championship history... incredible.

[RedFootballs]

Nice group! Would rather face Serbia 10x more than Czech Republic.

Not really, because the pot1 is a guaranteed 1st.

We could have got a weaker pot1 like Switzerland and had outside chances to win the group, or at least take points off them.

England is a guaranteed two losses so we will have to hope Serbia does not take any points from them and that we get the head to head over Serbia so that we can get playoffs.

[Dallku]

Not really, because the pot1 is a guaranteed 1st.

We could have got a weaker pot1 like Switzerland and had outside chances to win the group, or at least take points off them.

England is a guaranteed two losses so we will have to hope Serbia does not take any points from them and that we get the head to head over Serbia so that we can get playoffs.

Of course a team like Switzerland in pot 1 would be nice but even in the Swiss group they have Sweden as pot 2 and Sweden is pretty much pot 1 level with Gyokeres and Isak leading their attack.

I think all groups are more or less equally balanced. Only truly weak one is group J with Macedonia, Wales and Belgium. Macedonia got really lucky! Bosnia's group would've been nice too.

[Princ]

Of course a team like Switzerland in pot 1 would be nice but even in the Swiss group they have Sweden as pot 2 and Sweden is pretty much pot 1 level with Gyokeres and Isak leading their attack.

I think all groups are more or less equally balanced. Only truly weak one is group J with Macedonia, Wales and Belgium. Macedonia got really lucky! Bosnia's group would've been nice too.

I think Serbia is stronger than Sweden..

4 wins, 1 loss in 5 games and won last 3 in a row against them.

In UNL 2022/23, Serbia was favoured to beat Sweden both at home and on the road..

Last match was a friendly back in June 2024 where Serbia beat them 0-3 in Stockholm.

[Dallku]

I think Serbia is stronger than Sweden..

4 wins, 1 loss in 5 games and won last 3 in a row against them.

In UNL 2022/23, Serbia was favoured to beat Sweden both at home and on the road..

Last match was a friendly back in June 2024 where Serbia beat them 0-3 in Stockholm.

That was not the real Sweden. Look at their lineups during their bad spell.... It was a transition period for them. In the upcoming qualifiers they will be more stable and motivated.

Serbia in 14/15 was much stronger than this Serbia... at least on paper. That's when you really didn't want to face them. Prime Ivanovic, Matic, Kolarov, etc... In this Serbia I don't recognize more than half of the squad.