England Fixture List for 2009
Not much England news to report lately (although Emile Heskey joining Villa should be filed under good news, I think).
But international football will be back on the menu soon enough, with two friendlies in the next two months and World Cup qualifiers beginning again in April.
Here’s the England fixture list for 2009:
All kick off times local (though everything after March is apparently TBD)
Feb 11th – friendly vs Spain (away) 9pm
Mar 28th – friendly vs Slovakia (home) 5:15pm
Apr 1st – WCQ vs Ukraine (home)
Jun 6th – WCQ vs Kazakhstan (away)
Jun 10th – WCQ vs Andorra (home)
Aug 9th – friendly vs Netherlands (away)
Sep 5th – friendly vs Slovenia (home)
Sep 9th – WCQ vs Croatia (home)
Oct 10th – WCQ vs Ukraine (away)
Oct 14th – WCQ vs Belarus (home)
Source: The FA
So April 1st is the big day. If we can beat Ukraine at home on – gulp – April Fool’s Day – (or even just avoid defeat) then we’re in the driving seat for WC2010 qualification. Because if we can’t beat Kazakhstan and Andorra then we don’t deserve to go to South Africa anyway.
Let’s hope I didn’t just jinx us.
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The only matches left for England to play that we might lose are against Croatia (once) and Ukraine (twice). I don’t underestimate Belarus, but I’d like to believe we’d beat them again.
If we lose all three, which I’m hopeful won’t happen, then we’ll have 21 points, and it’s generally a given teams need at least 24 points (I think) to have a certainty to qualify. Which means we need to win at least two of those three games.
Personally I hope we beat Ukraine, but I think we might draw with them one of the two times, and hopefully beat them the other time. I think Croatia will beat us but a draw would be just fine, and hopefully not unachievable considering our great form.
Of course that said we could lose to Ukraine, it’s not that impossible. But overall I predict we finish qualification with…
Maximum: 25 points with a loss to Croatia and a draw to Ukraine
Minimum: 22 points, with a loss to Croatia and Ukraine, and maybe an embarrassing slip up at home to Belarus, or maybe just a heroic performance by them.
You’d expect Croatia to win all their other matches, so it will be tight. Even being ahead at this stage is no guarantee we’ll finish first.
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