Albanian Football Forum

Apparently 4/6 third placed teams will also go to the knockout. The worrying thing is that we've never beaten Switzerland, and Romania once in 1948. The only team we've beaten this century is France and that was in a friendly.

Switzerland is a deep shit, i don't like that much Switzerland nowdays, they didn't impress me during Quel group stages except their easy wins over San Marino, Lithuania and Estonia at home they didn't achieve anything else,

Slovenia 1-0 Switzerland
Lithuania 1-2 Switzerland (Shaqiri scored at the 84th min)
Switzerland 3-2 Slovenia (Slovenia were leading 0-2 and conceded 3 goals from the 80th till the 90+2 min)
Estonia 0-1 Switzerland (90+4 own goal)

Also two easy defeats against England. Switzerland is a joke as a team from the second Pot.

I don't know much Romania but they had the best defence of all teams during the EQ but it's not an high scoring machine neither,

Faroe Islands 0-3 Romania
Romania 1-1 Finland
Romania 0-0 Greece
Hungary 0-0 Romania
N. Ireland 0-0 Romania
Romania 1-0 Faroe Islands
Romania 2-0 N. Ireland
Finland 0-2 Romania
Romania 1-1 Hungary
Greece 0-1 Romania

11 goals scored including 4 goals against the poor Faroe Islands, it's not alot.

We have our chances.

Is there any other ways of purchasing tickets because by the time i get a passport the 'follow my team' applications will be closed. Also i found out that kosovar passport holders can purchase tickets through 'follow my team' which is good.

I really hope DB drops hacks like Salihi for Manaj. I've seen some training sessions of this kid, and his confidence is out of this world.

He doesn't have amazing abilities on the ball, but with that mentality we have a wild card up our sleeve.

Swiss scared , they've produced 90% of the players playing that match and sabotage is highly considerable :

Can general public not apply for tickets ? Or just Albanian nationals ??? ((

Albanian or Kosovar nationals. Not sure about emigrants with those passports.

Pleased with the group that we are in and honestly believe we have a good chance of progressing. This team under De Biasi you can see has an identity, something you could argue that previous teams in the past have not had. He's got them well drilled and you know now that when we lose possession, there is maximum effort to win the ball back. Also, we are tough to break down and familiar with keeping clean sheets against big teams. However, it's upfront where we are clearly lacking and this is my main concern. You just know if we had a star striker we could do damage in this tournament.

Also, a shameless self plug, I made a comp on our unforgettable qualifying campaign for Euro 2016, would appreciate your feedback on it! https://youtu.be/dFByYPJJt7Y

VicianumGunner wrote:Pleased with the group that we are in and honestly believe we have a good chance of progressing. This team under De Biasi you can see has an identity, something you could argue that previous teams in the past have not had. He's got them well drilled and you know now that when we lose possession, there is maximum effort to win the ball back. Also, we are tough to break down and familiar with keeping clean sheets against big teams. However, it's upfront where we are clearly lacking and this is my main concern. You just know if we had a star striker we could do damage in this tournament.

With all the youth talents we have probably we will have the star we miss but guess the most important thing in our team is the group. Also De Biasi's refusals to Avdiaj and Tarashaj limit us to our actual strikers pool.