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12th October 2015
12:27am BST

And, although one team go through automatically as the best third-placed team, the bad news for Ireland is that it will probably be Hungary (who are ranked below them). Ireland would've preferred a team ranked higher than them to go through automatically.
Points are accumulated from games against the top five seeds. The bottom seeds in each group (Gibraltar in Ireland's case) are not taken into account.
So Hungary could be gone. That makes it tougher for Ireland to be seeded.
If Ukraine beat Spain, they go through automatically - that's good news for Ireland. They will move up the rankings.
But they need to beat Spain. So let's assume Hungary will keep their place.
The slightly good news is that Croatia should also be gone from the third place teams.
They have one game left against Malta. We presume they'll win.
Norway are away to Italy and must win if Croatia do (a draw is no good to them).
Norway should drop down to third and they are ranked below Ireland.
So it would then look like this.
Even though Norway come in for Croatia and Ireland are bumped up one, the Irish are still outside the play-off spots.
Ireland would need to catch Sweden when the rankings are updated but that is unlikely considering they will have won both of their two games. Ireland won one, lost one.
Denmark lost both of theirs and didn't even score but it is such a big jump to overtake them. We'll see,
Ireland's best hope...
Cyrpus host Bosnia in a win or bust last game on Tuesday. Should they win, they overtake Bosnia and come into third and, being ranked below Ireland, who move up.
Another way, if Cyprus even hold Bosnia to a draw, a win for Israel (against Belgium albeit) would see them come third. And, again, Ireland would move up the rankings in Bosnia's absence.
Another hope...
Slovakia are ranked below Ireland and still not home and hosed.
If Ukraine (ranked higher than Ireland) win, they're through as best-placed third team anyway but if they draw and Slovakia lose, Ireland would move up a spot in the seeded positions.
Ukraine are at home to Spain.
Worse still, Slovakia are away to Luxembourg.
So don't expect much change in that group anyway.
Ireland's last hope...
UEFA move Ireland up the rankings past either Denmark or Bosnia. But don't expect that to happen either.
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