Dusan Tadic was influential as Serbia made it four points from two FIFA World Cup
European Qualifying Group D games with a comfortable 3 - 0 win over Moldova in Chisinau.
Not exact matches
The fact is that Wenger did manage to realise at least some of those hopes by keeping the club among the
European elite by
qualifying for the Champions League
group stage every year without fail.
England brushed
European minnows Malta aside tonight on their way to an easy World Cup
qualifying victory as the Three Lions maintained their lead over Slovakia at the top of
group F.
Lose 1 game out of the first 9 League games,
qualify for the
European Cup and now in second place in their
group with strong chance of making the play - offs!
Michael O'Neill's side of Premier League rejects and Football League journeymen topped their
qualifying group to reach a first
European Championships.
They steamrolled their way through their
qualifying group in UEFA with a perfect record of 10 wins in 10 matches, and despite the setback of their disappointing 2016
European Championships performance, they look more than ready to make that dream a reality.
Despite having an adorably small
European coefficient of 15.256 — lower than every other
qualified team except fellow debutantes Rostov — they strutted into Pot 1 as champions, nodding confidently at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and so reaped the benefits of UEFA's structural favouritism when it came to the
group stage draw.
Norway last reached the finals of a
European Championship in 2000 and the Scandinavian side face a difficult task to
qualify from a
group that includes Italy and Croatia.
The England Under - 21 side is currently competing in the
European championships of course, but will do well to
qualify from their
group after losing their opening fixture to the talented Portuguese.
The
Qualifiers in South America have a completely different format to the
European Groups, and all ten teams are in one
group with the Top Four all automatically
Qualifying for the 2018 finals in Russia.
Slovakia scored three times in the first half as they cruised to a 4 - 0 home victory over Lithuania in World Cup
Qualifying European Group F.
With the
group stage over and nine of the
European teams at next summer's FIFA World Cup now known, we review the headlines from the
European Qualifiers.
Slovenia are up to second in World Cup
Qualifying European Group F after Benjamin Verbic's delightful finish just after half - time earned them a 1 - 0 victory in Malta.
Ten - year
European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise) 2016/17: round of 16 2015/16: UEFA Europa League round of 32 2014/15: UEFA Europa League semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play - offs) 2013/14: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League
group stage) 2012/13: UEFA Europa League round of 32 2011/12: round of 16 2010/11: UEFA Europa League round of 32 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: UEFA Cup first round (having
qualified as UEFA Intertoto Cup winners) 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA club competition
In previous seasons, CSKA used to really struggle away from home in
European competition, yet this season won their two away
group matches in the Champions League, which gives them a decent chance to
qualify for the last 16.
• Lazio, who have
qualified for the UEFA Europa League knockout phase in each of their last five participations — after that initial lapse in 2009/10 — have lost two of their last three
European fixtures outside Italy, against Zulte Waregem (2 - 3) and FCSB (0 - 1), having previously equalled a UEFA Europa League record,
group stage to final, by going 11 successive away matches unbeaten (W4 D7).
The
European champions topped their
group in
qualifying to narrowly clinch top spot ahead of Switzerland.
Germany are set to visit Ireland as they take on Northern Ireland for the
European World Cup
qualifier in
Group C game this Thursday night, 05 October 2017.
England
qualified for the KO rounds of the
European Championships as runners up of their
group and will face Iceland in the Round of 16.
Italy are second in
Group G for
European 2018 World Cup
qualifying with five wins and a draw from six games, second behind Spain on goal difference.
Three goals in 12 second - half minutes from Sandro Wagner, Antonio Rüdiger and Goretzka put Germany in the driving seat before Emre Can sealed it from long range — the 43rd for Germany in
Group C, a
European qualifying record.
Peer Bork, head of the Comparative Sequence Analysis
group at the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, gives an inside view of biocomputing research at one of Europe's top research institutions and also points out what
qualifies young researchers to join the bioinformatics elite.
Originally a
European - market exclusive, the Ford Escort RS Cosworth, which was built as a homologation special so that it can
qualify for
Group A in the WRC.
A member of the Law Society and Mackrell International
European Junior Lawyers
Group, Josie has been in the Surrey office since
qualifying in 2006.