The team was to leave for the tournament on July 13 but applied for visa just three days prior to their departure. Here’s how the nine qualifiers in Europe on Friday left the World Cup qualifying picture:GROUP. #8211; but it would be a bad sign if we were only to try hard here and not anywhere else. Before that, Schumacher won five consecutive titles from 2000-04. Even then, a win looked highly improbable until the last five minutes in which Bengal turned the game on its head. In a meeting with the sports ministry after the Games, the federation said Mestvirishvili had ‘outlived his usefulness’ and had to be replaced. The Spaniard, who largely operates as as central midfielder, can also play higher up the pitch just behind the striker. And if anything like last year happens, we will handle as and when the situation arises. What if the Bhaskar-Gambhir situation repeats this year. While playing for the Foxes, the pair had forged a strong midfield partnership that helped the minnows win an unprecedented Premier League title in 2015-16.