I think the NT games will improve the sharpness of Neco, Tsimikas, Kabak and Shaqiri. But I do hope the likes of Trent (San Marino), Robertson (Faroe Island), Wijnaldum (Gibraltar) and Jota (Luxemburg) are used judiciously.
In African Cup of Nations qualifications; Senegal has already qualified, so hopefully Mane will be spared. However Guinea and Egypt are yet to qualify.
Bloody hell 
These are our players called up for the internationals:
Defenders: Kabak, Robertson, Tsimikas, N.Williams
Midfielders: Thiago, Wijnaldum, Jones, Keita*, Shaqiri
Forwards: Salah, Mane, Jota
Not called up: Alisson, Adrian, Kelleher (injured), Phillips, R.Williams, Davies, Alexander-Arnold, Milner, Fabinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Firmino, Origi (injured)
** Keita to return after first game.*
WC Qualifiers: Europe
Robertson (Scotland): Austria (home), Israel (away) and Faroe Island (home)
Neco (Wales): Belgium (away) and Czech (home)
Tsimikas (Greece): Spain (away) and Georgia (home)
Kabak (Turkey): Netherlands (home), Norway (away) and Latvia (home)
Wijnaldum (Netherlands): Turkey (away), Latvia (home) and Gibraltar (away)
Shaqiri (Switzerland): Bulgaria (away) and Lithuania (home)
Thiago (Spain): Greece (away), Georgia (home) and Kosovo (away)
Jota (Portugal): Azerbaijan (away), Serbia (home) and Luxemburg (away)
Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers
Keita (Guinea): Mali (home) and Namibia (red listed, away)
Salah (Egypt): Kenya (away) and Comoros (home)
Mane (Senegal): Congo (away) and Eswatini/Swaziland (home)
Turkey seem to be smashing Holland
Giniās picked up a yellow. Heās hopefully aiming for another one, so that he gets a ban and consequent rest.
Michael Oliver is in charge so Gini should just ask for the second booking.
Whatās baffling is the games over, Gini is on a yellow and yet De Boer keeps him on.
The guy has never got over us not being interested in him.
Wilson gave wales the lead against 
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We played a game today. We won 3-0 (of course, it was only Gibraltar), but we played really unimpressive. Erling Braut Haaland had a very off day (managed to miss 5 chances, never ever seen him miss anything close to that before) and Ćdegaard stepped over, so went off injured. We need to play a lot, lot better if we are to have a competitive chance against Turkey. Actually, we probably need to play better to beat Montenegro as well, since Balkan teams, however small and tiny, have a tendency to have have good technical players.
I do expect to beat Montenegro though. But we need to play better, be more effective at the very least.
That is all from this Norwegian.
Ireland beat by Serbia. Played ok but beat nonetheless. Might be up against Serbia for a play off spot, with Portugal favs, if we can keep Azerbaijan and Luxembourg at bay. So not a great start at all.
NI away to Italy tomorrow night, Will be a tough call.
England host the mighty San Marino and Scotland away to Austria which should be a good one to watch.
I saw that your players displayed t-shirts in favour of human rights, as an indirect protest against the slave-holders from Qatar. Hats off for that.
Great start in the group for you also with the Dutch result. I like to keep an eye on the Norweigan results. My friend moved there a number of years ago. Iāve been a few times over the past 10 years or so. What a place.
Itād be so much better if all the players just came out and said āfuck it weāre not playing in that slave trade desert in decemberā if they really wanted to protest.
Yeah, without any question, Iād wish it to happen. But on the other hand, itās not them who chose to hand the world cup to Qatar, so I can understand that they want to play.
But at least, showing that they donāt agree with what happens over there helps to put light on these malevolent, disgusting practices.
Itās a rather long list of thing we wish the players should/would do. But itās not going to happen.
The Norwegian players did exactly that, hence why I take my hat off to them.
I appreciate what they did and I also appreciate your and JimBoukiās PoV. Call me cynical, but Iām tired of isolated, selective, and symbolic gestures that ultimately comes to nothing. Again, yes what they did what nice, but to what end?
It just cause a debate, in a way taking the knee will probably come back up again when the fans are back, hopefully most clubs donāt do a Millwall but I worry.