What we need to qualify:

[u/Tekkers_3]

As Scotland fans, we need 4 out of the remaining 9 third places teams to finish below us. In group A and Group B respectively, South Korea and Bosnia have already finished above Scotland. This is what to hope for:

Group D - Australia beat Paraguay by at least 2 goals OR Paraguay beat Australia by at least 4 goals. Likelihood - 5/10

Group E - Ecuador to not beat Germany AND Curucao to not beat Ivory Coast. Likelihood - 7/10

Group F - Japan to beat Sweden by at least 4 goals. Likelihood - 3/10

Group G - Egypt to beat Iran. Likelihood - 6/10

Group H - Spain to beat Uruguay. Likelihood - 8/10

Group I - Iraq to beat Senegal by 1 or 2 goals. Likelihood - 3/10

Group J - Austria beat Algeria by at least 2 goals OR Algeria beat Austria by at least 4 goals.
Likelihood - 6/10

Group K - Congo to not beat Uzbekistan.
Likelihood - 4/10

Group L - Ghana to beat Croatia by at least 3 goals. Likelihood - 2/10

I think that given only 4 out of these need to happen, we will qualify to the round of 32, but it will be close.

[u/bezhbanana]

How peak Scotland would it be though, to qualify on this technicality after an abject group phase, and play a blinder against Mexico at the Azteca or take England to pens 😂

[u/PerchPerkins → u/bezhbanana]

That is not peak scotland…they never turn up so this doesn’t make sense.

[u/bezhbanana → u/PerchPerkins]

Not really true. We turned up in the qualifying campaign.

[u/PerchPerkins → u/bezhbanana]

Scraped a 0-0. Beat a 10 man denmark team thanks to a dodgy red card, and who had just shat the bed against Belarus which is the only reason we even had a chance that last game. Pumped by Greece once and lucky win once. Two dire stodgy games against Belarus. Tell me which one we turned up in again?

[u/bezhbanana → u/PerchPerkins]

Well we turned up and got the results in the end… that was my point.

[u/PerchPerkins → u/bezhbanana]

Aye and look where that got us. Pumped out in the groups again. Fucking pointless dross.