World Cup 2006 qualifying predictions - October

[Kitschum]

Originally posted by Paul
Equatorial Guinea - Togo 0-1

What's your source? The BBC (towards the end of the article), says the result is the opposite: that Equatorial Guinea won 1-0.

As for a system for the African matches, I just started with looking at the Fifa rankings. Then personal prejudice and things I might've heard about some of the teams. I had imagined that goal scoring was usually pretty low in Africa, so I adjusted down for that as well. It worked... so-so, I guess. I'd just have wished for a Benin win and a draw in Eq. Guinea. I figured those were the greatest chance predictions of mine.

[Kitschum]

Originally posted by Kitschum


What's your source? The BBC (towards the end of the article)

Actually, reading through that again, it also says Sao Tome e Principe lost 0-1 at home to Libya. It was a hassle getting quick news from these matches so errors could easily have slipped in in some sources, and it looks like that's what has happened.

[Locutus]

Yes, the official Fifa website confirms the BBC scores: http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/event/pr...40,1036,1.html

[Paul]

I got my results here. It's the only site I could find that had match results for most matches on the day they were played, but I guess that means that there will sometimes be mistakes. The results of those two matches are now changed on that site as well. So here are the new standings after I corrected those two results:

 1 Kitschum          25 (+2)
 1 Paul              25
 3 Fergus Horkan     23 (+2)
 4 Big Crunch        19 (+2)
 4 Bas               19 (-1)
 6 Zopperoni         18 (-1)
 6 MikeH             18 (+2)
 8 Wernazuma III     16
 8 Al'Kimiya         16
10 Locutus           15
11 Kaos XIII         11 (-1)
12 Chilean President  9
12 OneFootInTheGrave  9
14 JCG                8
15 Wille              6

[Locutus]

For the African matches, the BBC also has results on the day they are played (the BBC is probably the best English online source for any Africa related news -- football or otherwise). Heck, they even have (very brief) live match reports (though 'live' sometimes seems to include a lag of a few hours ).

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/ > Football > Africa > (the main story when matches are being played)