It's not looking great for Scotland. Ok so you've had one win, one draw and a loss. But boy you should have beat Norway! The lad on his debut missing from 2 yards - shocker!
With FCY Madedonia on your tails and being the next game and away, you really have to get a win - somehow.
Then you can rest and enjoy your Christmas! But with the press at George Burley's through I don't see it being much of happy Christmas with anything other than a good win!
World Cup Football Blog Prediction: FYR Macedonia 0 - 1 Scotland
The Welsh aren't doing too bad, 6 points from 3 games and sitting 2nd in the table.
But you shouldn't take progression for granted. Wales only scrapped a 2-0 win against Liechtenstein, Finland on 4 points and Russia on 3 have a game in hand and you're playing the mighty Germany next.
If you manage a draw against the Germans then I'll eat a leak. I don't see it happening but I'll be over the moon.
World Cup Football Blog Prediction: Germany 2 - 0 Wales
England fly to Minsk knowing that if they win against Belarus that they're 50% the way to South Africa. I know its a case of famous last words and all that, but we should do win over there - even if we just scrape a crappy goal from Heskey.
We can't get carried away with our win over Kazakhstan as it was against a team ranked something like 130th in the FIFA Rankings. Belarus may have only 3 points also, but if we put a solid performance and get a win and with Ukraine not playing until next year, we can go into Christmas with a 5 point lead of our nearest rivals.
I'm thinking that Capello may drop either Lampard or Gerrard to be bench and play Barry in there. He should play Rooney up front with Heskey and just drop Rooney behind.
World Cup Football Blog Prediction: Belarus 0 - 2 England
It was such a dull first half I actually walked away and packed for my holidays. This meant that I missed some of the second half and some pretty average goals. But goals is goals and they all count!
Wayne Rooney's were scuffy affairs, Rio has started scoring for club and country, there was an unlucky own goal and a neatly taken one from Dafoe.
It just proves that changing your formation to accommodate Lampard and Gerrard is not a wise move. At half time England went from 4-3-3 to 4-4-2 with Wayne taking a more central position. If we don't do this against Belarus on Wednesday then I'll be very much disspointed!
We should come out on top of that game, but its a tricky away tie so you can never take them for granted!
And for Ashley Cole being booed, I don't like the fella but come on! Don't boo him because he's playing like a Sunday League defender - give him some support!
And why is football more interesting in a foreign language?
