It's a long way away, but how do you rate your team's chances at this time, Kajoo?

 

Based on our current performances, not high. We have good players but we cant make the best of it it seems. Thanksfully there is still a lot of time to fix it. Greece wins it imo, we shall fight for 2nd

 

Very competitive group, with Greece being favourite, Bosnians trying hard and baltic teams being dangerous at home.

 

Easy group for Slovakia.

 

Cant complaint to be honest, Greece is definitely more playable than Spain or Netherlands, but BiH is quite a nightmare draw for us.

 

I just cannot make out my predictions on this group for us in all honesty. We have a golden chance to qualify but yet still every away game in the group will be tricky to negotiate. I don't see a team in this group that we can't take at home, though. I think the amount of away points gained and home points lost is going to be the crucial factor to first place, in my opinion.

The top three have equal chances, while the Baltics are outsiders and could pose threats. Lithuania were second in a group, with France, Austria, Romania, and Serbia in the last WC qualifiers, for quite a bit.

 

absolutely agree with you, its tricky group, with strong bottom 3. These can cost us some points and not even 2nd can guarantee us a playoff. Btw lithuania finished 4th, not 2nd.

 

out of top 3 sides, 2 qualified to last world cup and 3rd made it to playoffs. Neither team is big gun but top 3 is very competitive, with bottom three stealing points here and there.

 

kajoo, come this time we will be enemies :clint:

 

i never liked you anyway :ass: :kiss:

 

you just broke my heart

 

who wouldnt love you ? :heart:

 

Lol.

 

We beat you 3 - 2 at Bratislava with ease, I don't know if much will change.

 

qualifier vs friendly dude. Everything shall be different.

 

Yeah especially since what happened in a friendly game nearly a year ago matters. Are you dumb or what?

 

and our next game shall be played in next 1-2 years. Thats a lot of time.
Btw i wouldnt blame him for that lazy assumption. In that game we played poor, defence without skrtel looked like disaster waiting to happen and our midfield was completely dominated by yours. And last but not least, i lost my avatar bet with dirlija

 

Prediction:

1. Bosnia
2. Slovakia
3. Greece
4. Lithuania
5. Latvia
6. Liechtenstein

 

Absolutely. Riga, Kaunas, Athens, and Bratislava are not easy places to win at, they are tricky visits that BiH will have to make and the amount of points we can get from our travels could be decisive in our final position in the group, because I really think we should be winning all of our games at home.

 

Greece and Slovakia though BIH are mysterious.

 

Bosanac and Yashimi Nakitu voted for Liechtenstein?!? :dielaugh:

 

basically those votes are meaningless.

 

I see Homes agrees with us :thumbsup:

 

Wow, that hurts

 

Meh, time will tell...

 

I hope we shall qualify to euro first, this is still quite a distant future.

 

You made it to last WC but our group was much harder than yours, and we lost 1 - 0 to Portugal both legs in play offs, although we had more possession and hit the crossbar once and post twice.

 

Portugal made it to last 16. As we did. Neither side is measure stick of quality.

 

At some point, and I am not sure when that will be, the young pieces of this Slovakian side need to come together and bring their collective game to the next level. Slovakia showed flashes at WC 2010, but inconsistencies led to Slovakia being eliminated. We shall see how things progress.

Like it has already been said, let's qualify for Euro '12 first, ehh?

 

good news is that core of this team is still young. In 2014, Hološko and Kopunek shall turn 30, Skrtel, Salata (I also add Guede) shall be 29, Kucka 28, Hamsik, Pekarik and Jendrišek 27, Stoch and Weiss 24. Plus a lot of promising youngsters probably make it into the squad meantime, like Kubik (25), Mak (23), Lalkovič (21), Gregus (24) etc.

Also, Durica, Vittek and Sapara shall be 32, Šesták 31, they can add veteran experience.

Only missing vets from 2010 squad shall be Karhan, Kozak (useless anyway) and Strba, and probably Zabavnik.

Karhan and Strba shall have adequate replacement in Kucka, Guede Kopunek or Gregus. Zabavnik is replacable by one of Lukšík or Hanzel.

 

double

 

Slovakia´s fixtures:

7. september 2012: Lithuania - Slovakia
11. september 2012: Slovakia - Liechtenstein
12. october 2012: Slovakia - Latvia
16. october 2012: Slovakia - Greece
22. march 2013: Slovakia - Lithuania
7. june 2013: Liechtenstein - Slovakia
6. september 2013: Bosna a Hercegovina - Slovakia
10. september 2013: Slovakia - Bosna a Hercegovina
11. october 2013: Greece - Slovakia
15. october 2013: Latvia - Slovakia

 

I agree with Kajoo. The Slovaks are really set up to have a solid side for the 2014 tournament.