LIVERPOOL FORWARD IAGO Aspas has not enjoyed the best of seasons this year.
Aspas has been overshadowed by the incredible form of fellow strikers Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez, and has failed to score a single goal in the 14 league appearances he’s made since joining the club from Celta Vigo.
Consequently, the odds were not good when he agreed to undertake a bin challenge for the club’s official TV channel (see above), and the results probably won’t surprise seasoned Liverpool fans.
How do they get the figs into those fig rolls? :)
Regardless of all the permutations, one thing remains unchanged – UEFA should reinstate goal difference as the primary way to separate sides the with the same points.
Nice work, but a little confusing where you write: “Should Russia gain a draw [against Slovakia], then Ireland can only qualify in the highly unlikely scenario that they fail to beat Andorra in their final game.” What you mean is that Ireland then could only win the group in that highly unlikely etc. Elsewhere you’ve been using ‘qualify’ to mean ‘come first or second’, which is fair enough. Especially since coming second could still mean automatic qualification as best second-place team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2012_qualifying#Ranking_of_second-placed_teams
Thanks Harry. I’ve altered the sentence slightly to make it clearer.
What about the best second place team , they qualify automatically. Can we do that?
It’s still mathematically possible, though it would require a number of results in other groups to go our way.