France vs Ireland highlights goals

Goal video highlights from the France vs Ireland second leg World Cup 2010 Playoff tie on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. France lead 1-0 from the first leg, which was played at Croke Park a few days ago. The Republic of Ireland need a miracle to progress, but will be backed by over 25,000 travelling fans at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.

Full time score :- France 1-1 Republic of Ireland ( William Gallas 103’/ Robbie Keane 32′)

( France win 2-1 on aggregate)

France grab Europe’s final playoff spot thanks to William Gallas’ extra time goal, but the Irish will be feeling hurt after taking the French to extra time, and then losing to a strike that should have never have been allowed in the first place. “La main de Henry” ( The hand of Henry), Le Maradona Francais ( The French Maradona), those are the names being used in France to refer to that goal. So that is it folks- Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and France progress from the playoffs.

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Republic of Ireland vs France highlights goals- World Cup 2010 playoff

This is the post for the first leg. Please click here for the second leg.

Video goal highlights from the Republic of Ireland vs France first leg World Cup 2010 playoff game on November 14, 2009- Saturday. Game kicks off at Croke Park, Dublin- 20.00 GMT. Big, big game for the Irish- they need a good result here ahead of the second leg in Paris.

Final full time score :- Republic of Ireland 0-1 France ( Nicolas Anelka 72′)

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World Cup Qualifying- Europe results- October 14

Here are the results and final scores from the final round of UEFA ( European) qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 2010 played on October 14, 2009. 24 Qualifiers in all ( Three from each group- eight groups in all)

CONMEBOL Group Round October 14 WC Qualifying Results

October 14 CONCACAF Round 10 Qualifying Results

Group 1 :-

Denmark 0-1 Hungary ( Akos Buzsaky 35′)

Sweden 4-1 Albania ( Olof Mellberg 6′, 42′, Marcus Berg 40′, Anders Svensson 86’/ Hamdi Salihi 56′)

Portugal 4-0 Malta ( Nani 14′, Simao 45′, Miguel Veloso 56′, Edinho 90′)

Group 2 :-

Greece 2-1 Luxembourg ( Vasilis Torosidis 30′, Theofanis Gekas 33’/Avraam Papadopoulos 90′ OG)

Latvia 3-2 Moldova ( Andrejs Rubins 33′, 44′, Kristap Grebis 76’/Gheorghe Ovseannicov 25′, Veaceslav Sofroni 89′)

Switzerland 0-0 Israel

Group 3 :-

Czech Republic 0-0 Northern Ireland

Poland 0-1 Slovakia (Seweryn Gancarczyk 3′ OG)

San Marino 0-3 Slovenia (Milivoje Novakovic 24′, Dalibor Stevanovic 67′, Marko Suler 81′)

Group 4 :-

Azerbaijan 1-1 Russia ( Vagif Javadov 53’/ Andrei Arshavin 13′)

Germany 1-1 Finland ( Lukas Podolski 90’/ Jonatan Johansson 11′)

Liechtenstein 0-2 Wales (David Vaughan 16′, Aaron Ramsey 80′)

Group 5 :-

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