Subject: Mini World cup

Group C, group stage

Results

Ísland - República Dominicana 3:1

Only 8 minutes were played when Haraldsson took straight red card and we played game to the end with 10 men. Terrible start... and excitement got even more painful when opponent took 0-1 lead.

Before half time Yngvarsson managed to score and with his hattrick we secured second place.

Nice result. Now we have to wait and see who comes against us.

Bulgaria - Cymru 4:1

Standings

1. Bulgaria......13-3..9
2. Ísland..........6-5..6
3. Cymru.........5-9..1
4. Rep.Domin..5-12..1

Nice!

From Mini world cup thread.

For the draw tonight:


Seeded teams:

1. Scotland - 16:3 - 9
1. Ireland - 15:3 - 9
1. Bulgaria - 13:3 - 9
1. Rossiya - 10:2 - 9
1. Hellas - 11:3 - 7
1. Andorra - 6:3 - 7
1. Canada - 8:2 - 6
2. Bosna i Hercegovina - 12:2 - 6

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Unseeded teams:

2. India - 7:2 - 6
2. Malta - 10:6 - 6
2. New Zealand - 9:6 - 6
2. Ísland - 6:5 - 6
2. Australia - 6:4 - 5
2. Malaysia - 3:4 - 1
3. Latvija - 7:3 - 4
3. Moldova - 5:7 - 3

1/8 finals

Andorra - Ísland

Form

(MWC matches): Andorra 2-1-0 / Ísland 2-0-1

Thomas Bjartmannsson, Björn Þór Edvínsson (slight injury)
Ásbjörn Haraldsson

Predictions

Two small but tough sokker countries against each other! We miss couple first team midfielders, but otherwise our team looks good.

Because only the winner goes through this match will be played with cup rules (extra time, penalties).

Andorra's first goalie is injured and it is big loss for them. Opponent has good players for each position - so this might be a thriller !!!

Lineup

-Top secret-

1/8 finals

Results

Andorra - Ísland 2:4

Yeah! Game didn't go as I planned, but at last our tactic started working after Elisson and Baldursson came in. Last 20 minutes we were dominating game totally and that secured our victory. Baldursson was our key player today scoring 2 goals.

Andorra was very difficult opponent and they got those breakthroughs too many.

But we are through and now we must wait and see who comes next ! :)

Matches for next round:

Bosna i Hercegovina vs Hellas
Australia vs Island
Scotland vs Russiya
Bulgaria vs New Zealand

Quarter finals

Ísland - Australia

Form

(MWC matches): Ísland 3-0-1 / Australia 2-2-0

Thomas Bjartmannsson
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Predictions

Australia won Canada 2-0 with average marks 74.4.

Dangerous team who's playing quite defensively, but their lineup is full of quality players.

Our goalie is key player against them - few gamesavers needed. We can't give any easy goals.

Interesting match coming!

Lineup

-Top secret-

First 30 minutes went like I was planned, but then two easy goals for opponent and after that our game looked very disappointing.

I tryied to use low defence line and when the ball was in the middle our defence ran up fast. This went just fine, but somehow we fouled opponents player time after time and lost some important tackles. Australia's striker was hard to handle for our defenders...

Next we play friendly matches and I will use little younger team for those games. More future players in lineup.

Transfterlisted => Sigurvin Yngvarsson, Age:29

Against Moldova we play with U26 players. Here is our lineup =>

1. Magnús Hjaltson
2. Máni Hjörvarsson
3. Gísli Bjarnarsson
4. Sigurgeir Birgisson
5. Knútur Fannason
6. Guðgeir Sigurðsson
7. Elvar Örn Arnbergsson
8. Björn Friðbjörnsson
9. Ólafur Helgi Karlsson
10. Unnsteinn Elísson
11. Kolbeinn Baldursson

12. Knútur Þorbergsson
13. Runólfur Pálmason
14. Stefán Alexandersson
15. Ólafur Jónmundarson
16. Henrik Eysteinnsson

Baldursson and Elisson changed their places... That first minute conditional order went totally wrong, because it should only happen if our striker got injury. But I put it wrong and that conditional happened right away... That's why our game was disaster and we lost 2-1 against Moldova. Okey, they got much better average marks, but still we could done better job.

you have quite good score in the wins and the losses are bad but you faced good opponents . ddecent results iceland have a good team ,. i just saw a match of yurs

Thanks, I preciate your thoughts. :=)

i really appreeciate if you look in sokker O'zbekiston . im t coach of O'zbekiston . in forum theres something funny

I think you mean that Uzbekistan problem -thread...
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yes obviously