15-10-2014, 07:45
NI's start has been excellent so far and in what is not the strongest group, they look like they have a definite chance to keep up the good form.
You are right about Scotland's result in Germany. Once you lost that game, the hope had to be that all the other teams would lose to them as well and they would run out as group winners. This would hve left the rest to fight it out for second place. As it is with other beating or taking points off them, it leaves Scotland needing to beat the other contenders. Still, so far you have played arguably the hardest two away games and although you only picked up 1 point from them, the performances were encouraging.
You are right about Scotland's result in Germany. Once you lost that game, the hope had to be that all the other teams would lose to them as well and they would run out as group winners. This would hve left the rest to fight it out for second place. As it is with other beating or taking points off them, it leaves Scotland needing to beat the other contenders. Still, so far you have played arguably the hardest two away games and although you only picked up 1 point from them, the performances were encouraging.