THE REPUBLIC OF Ireland dropped two places in the latest Fifa ranking, despite picking up two victories in October.
Although they beat Georgia and Moldova, Martin OโNeillโs team fell to 33rd in the table, which was updated on 20 October, and they find themselves behind Senegal and the Ivory Coast.
The drop marks the first change in three months, after staying fixed in August and September.
Irelandโs next World Cup qualifying opponents, Austria, who they face in November, have also dropped places, falling four to 30th. Group Dโs top seeds, Wales, meanwhile dropped out of the top 10 and are now 11th.
Lionel Messi and Argentina are still ranked number one in the world, while Germany and Brazil have moved up into second and third respectively. Belgium have dropped two places to fourth.
Cristiano Ronaldoโs Portugal have dropped one place to eighth, despite the Euro 2016 champions posting 6-0 wins over the Faroe Islands and Andorra last month.
Northern Ireland, who lost to Germany and beat San Marino in October, have continued their slide down the ranking table and they now find themselves below their southern counterparts in 36th place, just ahead of Paraguay and Tunisia.
Elsewhere, England remain unchanged in 12th, while Scotland fell a massive 13 places to 57th.
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How do Wales only drop one place? Thought a team ranked 10TH would lose more places for failing to beat a team 127 places lower, Ireland didnโt even stoop that low and lost even more places.
Itโs more a reflection on teams around us doing better than the teams just behind Wales. The Welsh ordinarily would have slipped up more but Italy and England each had unimpressive results against lower-ranked sides. Wales also got an away draw against Austria, which would have offset the Georgia result. They still dropped 48 points though. If they do that every month they wonโt be long sliding down th rankings.
Mabey one day we can get to the high levels of Senegal. Howbthe fรนck can we drop places in the table when we on twice
@smithers: We beat teams we should be beating and so the number of ranking points we earned was relatively small. If someone directly below us in the rankings beat a team much higher up, theyโd get a much bigger boost in the ranking points and overtake us.
damned if ye do damned if ye donโt
Must remember this for the quiz tomorrow!
https://www.balls.ie/football/wales-rankings-calculator/345346