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Meanwhile, despite shocking everyone by racking up four wins in qualifying, the Faroe Islands? 3-1 loss to Croatia has ended their hopes of a World Cup fairytale. Shame, that, as it would have been a lot of fun.
There was bad news and good news for Northern Ireland last night. The bad news: they lost 1-0 to Slovakia in injury time thanks to a goal Michael O?Neill, the manager, felt ?should clearly have been disallowed?, ending their hopes of progressing from World Cup qualifying Group A. The good news: they still nabbed a qualifying playoff place via the Nations League after Croatia beat the Faroe Islands. In other words, they may not be going to the World Cup, but they aren?t not going to the World Cup, at least as things stand. Make sense?
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