Road to France Euro 2016 : Albania

[Simboli i Diellit]

These are the rules taken from the Euro regulations.

http://www.uefa.org/MultimediaFiles/Dow ... WNLOAD.pdf

See page 13. These are the rules that should apply to these qualifiers no?

Missunderstanding , read again carefully:


If two or more teams in the same group are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:


a. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the
teams in question;
b. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
c. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
d. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
e. if, after having applied criteria a) to d), teams still have an equal ranking, criteria a) to d) are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria f) to j) apply;
f. superior goal difference in all group matches;
g. higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
h. higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
i. fair play conduct in all group matches as defined in Annex C.5.1;
j. position in the UEFA national team coefficient rankings (see Annex B.1.2.b).


Teams in question means only between albania and denmark , it doesn't count the others.

So out of all the point D puts Denmark ahead of us. i already had this discussion with a panorama sport journalist few weeks ago

[andi2410]

You're right. Well let's hope that if we tie, we at least score a goal.

[Simboli i Diellit]

You're right. Well let's hope that if we tie, we at least score a goal.

Meanwhile Georgia scores to Scotland , hopefully they keep the lead so one less pretender for best third

[artan]

Arranged in order of lowest completed passes. Interesting.

You should arrange them by % because we actually are one of those teams that doesn't like having possetion and have few passess compared to medium level teams.

Kinda makes sense. Teams that high press usually play in very quick when the get the ball back and are very uptempo. We are the same and we make quick counters through the flanks. I think it fits us well

[EddieAFC]

We definitely are on the lower end of completed passed but does that total take into effect we have played less games? also we didn't play a half against Serbia.

[Plako]

These are the rules taken from the Euro regulations.

http://www.uefa.org/MultimediaFiles/Dow ... WNLOAD.pdf

See page 13. These are the rules that should apply to these qualifiers no?

The app I use has us second place. Strange.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

The app I use has us second place. Strange.

DK beats us head to head (away goals), and I heard that the UEFA 3-0 goals don't count for GD. So either way, we're behind them. But we got a game in hand at least.

[Shpati]

We definitely are on the lower end of completed passed but does that total take into effect we have played less games? also we didn't play a half against Serbia.

Nope. It does not.

That table was arranged by passes completed. Not percentage, possession, etc. So you can't really measure the quality. Albania actually had decent numbers for completion percentage and possession.

Many teams have played 7. Most have played at least 6. We've only have 5, and you have to consider all those stats from the Serbia game are nullified. So that's really only 4 games they are taking into consideration. So of course we are going to be on the bottom of that table.

Unless I'm missing something and they included the France friendlies.

[Simboli i Diellit]

[Shpati]

Hahaa. Nice. That'd would've been known as the "super group of death" because it has 2 pot-1 teams instead of one pot-1 and one pot-6.

But if those were legit matches for points, I think we lose.