The final matchday in Round Three of the Asian qualifying competition
for the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014™ takes place next Wednesday, and one
of the games of the day is Saudi Arabia’s daunting trip to Melbourne to take on Australia.
The Aussies have already secured top spot in Group D, making sure of their place in the final qualifying round. The question is: can the second-placed Saudis secure the win they need to make sure of joining them, or will they leave the door open for Oman – just a point behind in third – or even Thailand in fourth to sneak through?
Nerves on edge
This is not a situation the Green Falcons are accustomed to. Having qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals for the first time at USA 1994, they followed that up with appearances at France 1998, Korea/Japan 2002 and Germany 2006, before missing out on a place at South Africa 2010. Even on that occasion, however, they managed to reach the last qualifying round before losing to Bahrain, passing up the chance to face off with New Zealand for a world finals place.
Read more...
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=1588144/index.html
The Aussies have already secured top spot in Group D, making sure of their place in the final qualifying round. The question is: can the second-placed Saudis secure the win they need to make sure of joining them, or will they leave the door open for Oman – just a point behind in third – or even Thailand in fourth to sneak through?
Nerves on edge
This is not a situation the Green Falcons are accustomed to. Having qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals for the first time at USA 1994, they followed that up with appearances at France 1998, Korea/Japan 2002 and Germany 2006, before missing out on a place at South Africa 2010. Even on that occasion, however, they managed to reach the last qualifying round before losing to Bahrain, passing up the chance to face off with New Zealand for a world finals place.
Read more...
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=1588144/index.html
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