Sentences with phrase «cup qualifying spot»

He helped Nigeria beat their closest rivals, Algeria, for the World Cup Qualifying spot last night, but all the focus was on this lovely bit of footwork.

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25 year old Serbian midfielder Milos Krasic has been proving his ability in the Russian Premier League for a number of years, helping CSKA Moscow to a couple of titles in his six year spell at the club, but now his performances in the Champions League and whilst helping Serbia to top spot in their World Cup qualifying group that has brought the talented visionary to the attention of the whole of Europe and beyond.

He'll also play an integral role for Belgium at the World Cup in Russia next summer, with Holland set to miss out on the tournament unless they can pull off a miracle and beat Sweden by seven goals in their final qualifier on Tuesday night to secure a playoff spot.

Age: 34 World ranking: 3 Ryder Cup record (Win - Loss - Halve): 16 -8-4 Past Ryder Cup appearance: 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012 How he qualified: Automatic spot - Third on World Points List

Age: 25 World ranking: 10 Ryder Cup record (Win - Loss - Halve): 0 -1-2 Past Ryder Cup appearance: 2010 How he qualified: Automatic spot — 2nd in standings (6,733.253 points)

Gerrard's first goal for England came in 2001 when he scored the second goal of a 5 - 1 rout over Germany during a 2002 FIFA World Cup Qualifying match in Munich, helping England secure a spot in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

I'll be getting up tomorrow at 3.30 am Australian time to watch Egypt and Algeria battle for a spot at the World Cup before poking my nose into the other European qualifiers.

Mark Bosnich scored Australia's last goal from the penalty spot as they beat the Solomon Islands 13 - 0 in a World Cup Qualifier

Serbia's Nemanja Matic insists they will not hand Ireland or Wales the opportunity to seal an automatic qualifying spot in the World Cup Tonight

The 29 - year - old striker came off the bench for Northern Ireland on Saturday when Stuart Dallas» dramatic late winner strengthened the country's hold on second spot in their World Cup qualifying group.

There would be no surprise if the men's national side qualified for the World Cup finals within the next 8 - 12 years under an expanded 48 - teams format with additional spots for the AFC.

This season we challenge for a Europa qualifier spot all season, make a deep cup run, but ultimately fall a few points short of a Europa spot.

Tottenham are in 6th place, level on points with Liverpool and just one ahead of Southampton in the race with 5th and 6th qualifying for the Europa League and only an Arsenal win in the FA Cup final giving the 7th placed team an automatic spot in Europe's second - tier tournament.

While Nigeria's spot at the 2018 World Cup was already secured heading into Friday's final qualifier against Algeria, the fixture in Constantine offered an ideal opportunity for several players within Gernot Rohr's squad to impress ahead of the showpiece.

His return to form will no doubt increase the battle for the number one spot of the Super Eagles, which Akpeyi lost to Ikechukwu Ezenwa during the Super Eagles last CAF groups World Cup 2018 Qualifiers tie against Cameroon, as he was injured for the back to back games against Cameroon.

The Israeli culture and sport minister Miri Regev has announced a review of the country's national team following a poor World Cup qualifying campaign and slipping to the 98th spot, behind their enemy Palestine.

However, and stick with us here, the winner of DFB Cup also gets a place, but if they have qualified for Europe through the league, that means seventh place in the Bundesliga gets the spot instead.

The next task of Age Hereide is to help Denmark qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and in order for this to be done, they will have to snatch the 1rst or the 2nd spot of Group E which consists of: Romania, Poland, Montenegro, Armenia and Kazakhstan.

Sebastian Rudy's thunderbolt inside the first two minutes saw Germany get off to a great start in Belfast and Die Mannschaft eventually prevailed 3 - 1 against Northern Ireland to make it nine wins out of nine in their group and book their spot at the upcoming 2018 World Cup in Russia Continue reading «Mannschaft qualify for WC 2018 Away record stays intact»

A loan move to Inter would provide time for Lamela to obtain playing time and attempt to earn a spot on Argentina's World Cup team — a team he has not started for since a 2016 qualifier against Venezuela.

England are closer to confirming their top spot in the group with the victory over Slovenia, who have reinvigorated the chances of qualifying for the World Cup 2018 by picking up three wins in the last five group matches.

Only the top 2 national sides are able to qualify for the upcoming edition of the FIFA World Cup and Netherlands is not one of those teams, they will have to start collecting points at a consistent basis which is a completely achievable task for a national side that is ranked at the 31st spot according to the latest edition of the FIFA Rankings.

Hope because, although top spot is out of the question, Switzerland are a far from terrifying prospect, Bulgaria are not the side they once were and Montenegro — despite boasting the mouth - watering pairing of Mirko Vučinić and Stevan Jovetić in attack — picked up just a single victory (over Georgia) in their World Cup qualifying campaign.

Spain and Italy Continue Battle for Top Qualification Spot The battle for direct route to World Cup 2018 between Spain and Italy continue as both teams won their latest group qualifying games.

With Argentina still yet to book their spot at next summer's World Cup Finals in Russia, Aguero will miss their final two vital qualifiers against Peru and Ecuador on October 5 and 10 respectively.

This year, a total of 16 spots will be available at the Capcom Cup offering players two different ways to qualify.