World Cup qualifying dominates proceedings today, as countries in Europe, South America and the CONCACAF region look to move closer to the 2014 World Cup.
World champion Spain faces off against France in the day’s best match-up, with the French looking to move ahead of the Spanish in Group I. In other match-ups of European group leaders, Germany takes on Sweden and the Netherlands takes on fellow unbeaten Romania.
In South America, group leader Argentina takes on Chile in a crucial match-up in Santiago. Chile can jump right back into a qualifying place with a victory, but must first contend with a red-hot Lionel Messi.
In CONCACAF, while all American fans will be tuned into USA-Guatemala, Canada and Honduras will be facing off in a winner-take-all match-up in San Pedro Sula, with the victor earning a place in the CONCACAF Hexagonal.
Here is a rundown of all of today’s soccer action on TV:
TODAY’S TV SCHEDULE
Noon- ESPN3- Belarus vs. Georgia
Noon- ESPN3- Israel vs. Luxemburg
1pm- ESPN3- Latvia vs. Liechtenstein
1pm- ESPN3- Andorra vs. Estonia
2pm- ESPN3- Bostnia-Herzegovina vs. Lithuania
2pm- ESPN3- Cyprus s. Norway
2pm- GolTV- Ukraine vs. Montenegro
2pm- ESPN3- Croatia vs. Wales
2pm- ESPN3- Czech Republic vs. Bulgaria
2pm- ESPN3- Romania vs. Netherlands
2:30pm- GolTV- Austria vs. Kazakhastan
2:30pm- ESPN3- Slovakia vs. Greece
2:30pm- ESPN3- Iceland vs. Switzerland
2:30pm- ESPN3- San Marino vs. Moldova
2:30pm- ESPN3- Macedonia vs. Serbia
2:30pm- ESPN3- Hungary vs. Turkey
2:45pm- ESPN3- Germany vs. Sweden
2:45pm- ESPN3- Albania vs. Slovenia
2:45pm- ESPN3- Belgium vs. Scotland
2:45pm- ESPN3- Portugal vs. Northern Ireland
2:45pm- ESPN3- Italy vs. Denmark
3pm- ESPN3- Poland vs. England
3pm- ESPN/ ESPN3- Spain vs. France
4pm- beIN Sport en Espanol- Honduras vs. Canada
5pm- beIN Sport- Bolivia vs. Uruguay
6pm- beIN Sport en Espanol- Venezuela vs. Ecuador
7pm- beIN Sport- Paraguay vs. Peru
7:15pm- ESPN2/Telefutura- USA vs. Guatemala
8pm- beIN Sport- Chile vs. Argentina
9pm- Univision- Mexico vs. El Salvador
10:30pm- beIN Sport- Honduras vs. Canada (Delay)
Canada trounced 7-1 in a must win or draw game… while getting beaten by Honduras is nothing to be ashamed of… surely this laughable result will get the Canadian SA motivated to try something different… The country has a great following now but surely it can produce better talent…
Sorry make that 8-1 now… double hat-trick Bengston and Costly…
Just saw the highlights in the pre-game. How the heck can you go into a game against a roughly comparable team needing a tie and come out losing 8-1? I know Honduras is a good team and has substantial homefield advantage, but that is an absolutely horrific for Canada.
Canada is getting embarrassed by Honduras. Woe Canada.
France deserved that goal. Completely different team n second half.
This coming from a Spain fan born in Madrid lol. (Though I’m USA through and through and only support USA soccer…so effing stoked for tonight)!
And France gets a draw on the last kick of game.
Incredible!!! France equalizes with literally last kick of game!
Wow turned off the Germany Sweden game at 4-0….Sweden came back to tie 4-4
Ha same here, switch offed to a different game, do’h.
Luckily I tuned in for the tieing goal….then went back the the France-Spain game to catch the end up that one. I’m jacked now. Lets geaux Yanks!
Honduras is absolutely destroying Canada 4-0 in the 33 minute. Bengston, Bengston, Costly, Martinez.
damn and I was hoping Lloris would flop against Spain tonight thus showing that Friedel played a role in France not making to the next WC
Any suggestion for places that has a good soccer crowd to watch the game from in NJ? In Monmouth county? Thanks!
Any suggestion for places that has a good soccer crowd to watch the game from in NJ? In Monmouth county? Thanks!
Wow, Poland screwed up their qualifier. They didnt close the roof and now field is unplayable! England didnt even come out to warm up, due to the soaked pitch.
Hopefully this performance makes Lloris a starter for the spurs, too much talent to be sitting on the bench.
Lloris. Man is playing alright. Suppose he’s ok.
Lloris bails out Koscienly after a moronic challenge
PK save! Woooooo. Love when keepers come up with great saves!
France should have been awarded the equalizer. Dude was definitely onside. Spain dominating as usual and France not doing much but they should be equal despite playing so poor.
Halftime highlight 100% confirms that French player was onside on the no-goal. Shame. I thought a goal for France would have really made the second half super interesting.
Ramos! 1-0 Spain.
I just checked the watchespn website, and it says the USA/Guat game is on at 6:30PM EST on ESPN2 and ESPN3…I guess I’ll be watching it replay when I get home from work.
The Spain vs. France game is on actual television. It’s on ESPN@ and ESPN Deportes
Oops — That should read ESPN2
I’d love to see Canada and Panada in addition to the USA and Mexico at the next WC
what’s the chances of Gooch being called in for qualifying next year?
He was a starter at Sporting Lisbon until Feb when injuries set him back 2 months. He’s now on the bench at Malaga but they’re in so many competitions and losing badly that you just have to bet he makes an appearance by November?
we have Boca, Cameron, Goodson for sure. Ream, Gonzalez. Gooch should definitely be in for competition if only for DEPTH
God Bless ESPN’s coverage of soccer. It’s a shame that they don’t have WC 2018 and 2022 rights as FoxSoccer has a looooooong way to go to get to their amount/quality of content.
I don’t know if I’d be blessing them given the trajectory I’m looking at. Lost World Cups, beat out for road qualifier TV, lost UEFA CL. They’re down to what, MLS, an EPL game of the week, home US qualifiers, one last World Cup, a bunch of international and club friendlies. Bears noting that’s a pretty sporadic TV schedule. They then have a bunch of internet stuff, but the reality is that’s probably some global rights spillover — they buy UEFA qualifying rights so we get to see too — and 90% of that is not compelling, eg, Estonia v. Andorra. Gol TV also has an interesting international pastiche of soccer that lacks much of a focus too.
I agree re Fox production values but if you look at the arc they have CONCACAF CL, UEFA CL, EPL for at least this year, World Cups next two cycles. The core stuff that both regular and new fans will want to see. ESPN sure as heck has not started up a soccer channel and the long term arc, particularly if they can fend off the competition and keep EPL, would look strong, perhaps stronger than Disney.
Throw in that NBC already has a strong spanish language side and is now dipping its toe into MLS, I don’t know if I’m thanking ESPN for its mere existence.
Latvia vs. Liechtenstein!
But when will I get to see some anti-Julian Schreibman ads on TV?
What channel is that on?
Most of you probably have other unbearably annoying ads… that’s just the one I get blasted with when I come to this site.
Sweden vs Germany
Italy vs. Denmark
Poland vs. England
Spain vs. France
Most excellent matches today
Cue Hungary vs Turkey puns…
I was Hungary so I had Turkey for dinner
thanks for the laugh.. hahahahahaa
Hey Ives how about a live chat after these qualifiers. Say later on the week or early next week. Its been awhile…..
screw ESPN, tired of them showing fat guys sitting around a table playing poker on ESPN (regular) instead of a real sport. I will watch in spanish.
For some reason soccernet doesn’t list the USA game as a match ESPN3 will be carrying. Anyone know what’s going on? Is it only going to be available on ESPN 2?
No, it won’t be on ESPN3 – but if you have access to WatchESPN, you can watch it there on ESPN2. New thing ESPN has been doing, any event aired on one of the ESPN networks will only be on WatchESPN – ESPN3 will be for events that won’t be on TV.
But can you watch the replay on ESPN3?
Perhaps a stupid question, but aren’t WatchESPN and ESPN3 the same thing? I thought the former was the new name for the latter. Regardless, I just checked the more advanced listing and it says the game is blacked out on ESPN3.
No they are not.. actually. ESPN3 means that it is not carried by the network regular TV.
Watch ESPN means it is actually being shown on the TV station and thus can broadcast the regular national commercials.