World Cup 2026 Qualifiers

[Genti]

Another 3-0 win guaranteed in belgrade when they can't control themselves and storm the pitch again?

[Florian]

Honestly there are no easy groups, even North Macedonia cannot do anything against teams like Belgium or Wales with most of welsh players being Premier League players and been in WC in Qatar. All the Pot 1 teams will qualify for WC anyway then it will all depends during PO stage about wich team will be in bigger form or wich one will create the surprise.

But 99% Pot 1 teams will go through except maybe between Swiss/Sweden there are some doubts as Sweden seems to be better. Even the group of Romania, Bosnia etc.. would have been hard for us, Austria would have beaten us up home and away.

[artan]

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.

Serbia was definitely much more talented in 2014 and probably by a considerate margin (even if they were massive underachievers then) but you have to worry if our guys will choke under pressure against them. And if we're being honest Serbia still probably has a more talented team than ours despite the gap not being as significant in 2014.

Albania needs to play fast and small against Serbia but I have a feeling Silvinho will be a coward and go defensive with the likes of Seferi.