It’s an advanced course of to make it by means of the playoffs and assure a ticket to the 2023 Girls’s World Cup. It will make life easy for Scotland on Tuesday night time if both Portugal or Wales win of their respective video games.
Portugal play Iceland and Wales are up in opposition to Switzerland with each video games kicking off two hours earlier than Scotland face the Republic of Eire at Hampden. The perfect two groups from the three European playoffs advance with the third winner going through a February Inter-Continental playoff in New Zealand.
With Scotland kicking off later, they need to have a greater thought about what the consequence will imply. However – right here is the complicated half – Scotland don’t need both staff to win too properly as there’s an opportunity they’d leapfrog us within the rankings. If Portugal win by extra targets than we win, they'll overtake us.
If Scotland win on penalties and Wales win in regular time, they are going to overtake us. Scotland can’t move Switzerland in the event that they win on penalties and would wish to win by 13 targets to move Iceland in the event that they win on penalties. The Irish, third on the premise of their qualification report to this point, should win and hope at the very least Switzerland or Iceland lose or win on penalties.
The 2 top-ranked winners from the three play-offs will qualify for the finals. The third faces a play-off in New Zealand in February.
For all of the ifs and buts, although, decided Caroline Weir insists Scotland can solely maintain their very own enterprise. The Scotland star, who joined Actual Madrid from Manchester Metropolis in the summertime, mentioned: “It means nothing if we don’t win.
“We are able to chat for nonetheless lengthy however we have to step out and win. The staff received’t be too frightened about different outcomes. We received’t be checking our telephones and looking for out different outcomes as we’re on the brink of exit."
Play-off fixtures : Switzerland vs Wales (18:00), Portugal vs Iceland (18:00), Scotland vs Eire (20:00)
Desk as issues stand
| Crew | Factors | GD | Scored |
Switzerland | 19 | 19 | 23 |
| Iceland | 18 | 22 | 25 |
| Eire | 17 | 22 | 26 |
| Scotland | 16 | 9 | 22 |
| Portugal | 16 | 9 | 18 |
| Wales | 14 | 8 | 13 |
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