At the end of the month, the final European spots in the World Cup will be decided. A reminder of the path layout:

Path A

Mar 26 SF | Bergamo, Italy | Italy vs. Northern Ireland

Mar 26 SF | Cardiff, Wales | Wales vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina

Mar 31 FINAL | Final venue at either Cardiff, Wales or Zenica, Bosnia.

Winner of this path is placed into Group B at the World Cup, to play Canada, Qatar, and Switzerland.

Path B

Mar 26 SF | Valencia, Spain | Ukraine vs. Sweden

Mar 26 SF | Warsaw, Poland | Poland vs. Albania

Mar 31 FINAL | Final venue at either Valencia, Spain (if Ukraine wins) or Solna, Sweden.

Winner of this path is placed into Group F at the World Cup, to play Netherlands, Japan, and Tunisia.

Path C

Mar 26 SF | Istanbul, Turkey | Turkey vs. Romania

Mar 26 SF | Bratislava, Slovakia | Slovakia vs. Kosovo

Mar 31 FINAL | Final venue at either Bratislava, Slovakia or Pristina, Kosovo.

Winner of this path is placed into Group D at the World Cup, to play the United States, Paraguay, and Australia.

Path D

Mar 26 SF | Copenhagen, Denmark | Denmark vs. North Macedonia

Mar 26 SF | Prague, Czech Republic | Czech Republic vs. Republic of Ireland

Mar 31 FINAL | Final venue at either Prague, Czech Republic or Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

Winner of this path is placed into Group A at the World Cup, to play Mexico, South Africa, and South Korea.

Who do you want to win these matchups?

Who do you think will win them?

Will Italy fail again?

Yeah Italy have no chance here with their low quality squad.

I think Ireland do make it.

I'd like to see Wales, Albania, Kosovo, and Ireland win these, but think it will be Wales, Poland, Turkey, and Denmark.

Voted for Italy to qualify and Ireland to lose.

I have a season ticket for Ireland so fully expecting them to be beat by a Patrick Schick brace in Prague or more likely for us beat on penalties but if they somehow win will be going to the final in Dublin the following Tuesday 🤞

I think Italy will make it this time to the World Cup and I think it will be Denmark that qualify from Path D instead of Republic of Ireland.

I want Wales, Poland, Romania and Ireland to qualify.

I think Italy, Poland, Turkey and Denmark will qualify.

Not gonna lie, pretty nervous tonight….

Tonight has the potential to be one of the most engrossing evenings of football for many a year.

There are eight World Cup play-off semi-finals across Europe which determine who plays who on the 31st March to get to the World Cup.

You’ve got 🇮🇪 Republic of Ireland travelling to Prague to take on 🇨🇿 Czech Republic with the dream of a first World Cup appearance in 24 years there to be grabbed.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales hosting 🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina with Craig Bellamy hoping to improve his fine record of 8 wins in 16 games as national team boss in front of their own fans and keep the dream of making it to a third ever World Cup alive.

Northern Ireland travel to Bergamo to face 🇮🇹 Italy with the hosts desperate not to make it three straight World Cups without their participation. It’s a true David v Goliath game for Michael O’Neill and his players.

🇹🇷 Turkey host 🇷🇴 Romania in Istanbul at 5pm. The atmosphere will be incredible because… It’s Turkey playing in Istanbul in an all-or-nothing World Cup play-off match.

There’s also 🇩🇰 Denmark v 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇵🇱 Poland v 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇸🇰 Slovakia v 🇽🇰 Kosovo & 🇺🇦 Ukraine v 🇸🇪 Sweden in Spain, with all games other than Turkey’s (5pm) kicking off at 7:45pm.

Turkey are the first semi-final winners then! Certainly some interesting games to come - will Italy fall at the first hurdle again?

Gutted.

Bad luck Wales and ROI.

Italy will qualify on Tuesday.

28 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

Gutted.

Wales, NI and ROI out :(

Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Romanian all out. :(

All of those results were absolutely brutal. Sorry to the Brits and Irish. Also devastated for Albania after getting the lead.

Kosovo the underdogs now.

Yeh hope Kosovo qualify!

2022 was the aberration then.