Atleast Australia will be comfortable Sunny stadium with some Indian supporters. Japan is always cold cold night with close to zero Indians in the stands and formidable away supporters. Lookout for huge Japanese contignent in India also.
one more funny scenario:- Iraq, Syria, India, Bhutan, Yemen. All games in Iraq, Syria, Yemen are banned due to security concenrs. Then we will play at neutral Dubai or Doha.
Regardless, we will be playing only defensive for almost the entire match against almost all the teams in pot 1, I will be happy if we don't concede more than 5 goals in the away matches and 3 at home against pot 1 team.
Home Draw is possible against Pot 1 teams as Big name teams do not bring their Europe based star players so early in their Qualification campaign. Having said that, I dont think home draw is possible against Japan, Korea, Australia even if they bring their 2nd string team.
Our target is not WCQ, our target is to remain 3rd in the group and be in contention for AFC Cup qualification. Plenty of games will be there- Play off Round, Third Round and lot of FIFA points.
This qualification and Staff cup gives India a golden chance to get into top 100 by the yr end. Until we get an extremely easy or extremely tough draw we should ideally finish 3rd in our group.10-12 pts is what I feel we should get in our kitty and than we have a good chance to get into Afc cup via the remaining 12 slots.
There is no weak team in second round,all are very strong,even malasia,singapore,tajikistan these teams are hard to beat and if we get yemen and north korea in our group there is no hope to finish 4th in our group....so india need to put hard fight against every team in our group...otherwise forget about wcq and asian cup
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one more funny scenario:- Iraq, Syria, India, Bhutan, Yemen. All games in Iraq, Syria, Yemen are banned due to security concenrs. Then we will play at neutral Dubai or Doha.
Our target is not WCQ, our target is to remain 3rd in the group and be in contention for AFC Cup qualification. Plenty of games will be there- Play off Round, Third Round and lot of FIFA points.