The Finnish women’s national football team remained in the 1–1 draw as a guest of Slovakia, which was a big blow to the World Cup dreams. Sports expert Jonne Kunnas finds it difficult to reach the qualifying place. Helmarit will face Georgia on Tuesday.
12.4. 06:35 • Updated April 12th. 06:35
Finland-Georgia on Tuesday 12.4. from 6:15 p.m. The match will be shown live on TV2, Arena and .
The Finnish women’s national football team’s path to the World Cup final was complicated on Friday when the team ended up in a 1–1 draw against Slovakia in the heavy rain in Trnava.
The result was a huge disappointment for Finland, which opened the World Cup qualifiers with a 2–1 victory in Slovakia in September, as the team continues to be third in the block. Sweden tops down, but Ireland is less on the draw with Finland, and is in second place in the group qualifying for the World Cup qualifier.
The result was also disappointing for the events, as Finland was offered several great goals at the beginning of the match. However, the goal was only successful Tuija Hyyrynenwhose free kick sank a little luck into the Slovak net.
– The match ended in Finland’s inefficiency in the first period. Finland had places where it should have been able to resolve. In the second episode, ball play disappeared moderately. Finland was no longer able to create dangerous attacks. Solutions began to be hasty, and no goal points were created in the same way, Sport’s expert Jonne Kunnas saw.
The opening in Finland was made up of Signeul’s credit players, who have mostly been seen in the opening of Helmare over the past three years. The all-time paint cannon for helmsmen Linda Sällström suffered a minor injury and followed the match from the bench.
On Tuesday in Helsinki, Helmarit will be able to compete with goals when confronted by Georgia’s throw-in bag. Georgia, far weaker than the other teams in the block, lost to Sweden on Thursday in a dull 0-15 reading. The team has never succeeded in scoring, but has played 35 times on its own: an average of seven in each match.
Helmare’s previous victory is also against Georgia, when Finland claimed a 3–0 victory from Tbilisi last October. Since then, Helmarit has won six matches without winning, although there was a high-level French training tournament in February, where Finland faced the world’s top countries France, the Netherlands and Brazil.
In the last six matches, however, Finland has only succeeded in scoring three times. On its own, it has scored 13 goals.
– It is worrying, of course, that Finland has not been able to get a better result from the main opponents of the World Cup qualifiers. For Ireland, Finland lost at home, and now they are tied for Slovakia, Kunnas points out.
– But we have to put things into perspective: nothing is finally gone. There is still room for second place in the World Cup qualifiers. Summer games are just coming. It’s not worth pressing too big a panic button, but you have to worry, he formulates.
With these results, Finland’s World Cup follow-up dreams still exist
Ireland, which is second in the group, has played less of the match than Finland. It will face Sweden on Tuesday, Georgia in June and Finland and Slovakia in September. Finland is facing the Georgia-Ireland and Sweden matches.
In theory, Finland still has the potential to qualify for the World Cup qualifying place, but that requires at least defeating Ireland. Ireland has played equally with Slovakia in the past, but defeated Finland at the Olympic Stadium in the autumn.
See the statistics below to see how the scores in Finland and Ireland can still be distributed. If both defeat Georgia and lose to Sweden, Finland must defeat Ireland. At that time, it would be enough for Ireland to remain on par with Slovakia, just like Finland.
Jonne Kunnas sees Finland’s chances of advancing to further qualifiers thin.
– Finland will certainly win on Tuesday, but otherwise I see the opportunities as difficult. I would guess that the European Championships have been long awaited for many players, everything has been loaded there. It is possible that some player careers will end. After that, no matter how the Games went, the main matches of the World Cup qualifiers await: Ireland away and Sweden at home. You should get points for them. With these performances, it is difficult. Not impossible, but difficult, the Municipality decides.