Fading Away!

As we witnessed yesterday, our team's away performance once again put us down from very likely qualifiers to the bottom of the table with so a slim chance of qualifying that it makes your head spin to know how. We need miracle of all miracles to go to Ghana in 2008. After all these bad results, surprisingly we still have a chance to qualify as a group winners and probably with a distinction of being the only team with 0 away point. Here is how it might happen. First of all we need to take care of our business at home with Namibia. Not only that we need to win by at least four goals margin but also hope Libya ties DR Congo. In this scenario, Ethiopia and DR Congo will be tied at nine points and a team with a better goal differential will win it. Any other result will keep our team home yet again.

The other option for our team is a little bit complicated as it involves several teams and combinations of the following should happen for our team to qualify. Of the three spots left for best runner ups, Sudan claimed one and our team is going against the following odds to claim one of the remaining two.

-Ivory coast win/tie Gabon- Egypt win/tie Burundi- Egypt win/tie Botswana

- Mauritania win/tie Burundi -Nigeria win/tie Lesotho-Niger win/tie Uganda

-Cameroon win/tie Eq Guinea -Swaziland win/tie Eritrea -Burkina Faso win/tie Senegal( if tied, Ethiopia need to score at least 6 goal)

-Mozambique win/tie Tanzania -Gambia win/tie Algeria( if tied, Ethiopia need to score at least 6 goal)

-Cape Verde win/tie Guinea -Togo win Mali (Ethiopia needs 11 goals against Namibia)

-Sierra Leone win/tie Benin -Chad win/tie Congo-South Africa win/tie Zambia