Picture this – it’s a two-leg do-or-die WC Qualifiers tie, and the third-placed team in FIFA rankings (currently, England) is facing the fourth (currently, Belgium) in a thrilling battle packed with the most exquisite players possible like Bukayo Saka, Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Kevin de Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and others. It doesn’t get much better than that, does it?Well, now forget about it and turn that FIFA rankings table around, and that’s what you get: a battle between the current third and fourth-worst national teams in the world.As if it was already not good enough, the upcoming fixtures between those two laughing stocks could also be labelled as The Virgin Derby.Hold the fuck up ladsThe Virgin Derby is upon us pic.twitter.com/bJfiW2ocjQ— 𝙇𝙞𝙖𝙢🇧🇪 (@OfficialVizeh) March 19, 2024 The British Virgin Islands (207th) are facing the US Virgin Islands (208th) in two games to decide who will join the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers group stage for the CONCACAF region.The first leg is scheduled for March 22, with the US-attached side being the home team, with the return leg four days later at the ground of their rivals.To acknowledge how immaculate those two teams actually are, let’s take a closer look at their recent form.##NAJAVA_MECA_7968511##US Virgin Islands are on an eight-game-long winless run, with seven defeats and a single 2-2 draw in the match against Cayman Islands.On the other hand, their British counterparts are slightly better, losing ‘only’ the last fixture to Dominica 2-1 after two consecutive draws (2-2 vs Turks and Caicos Islands and 1-1 vs Dominica). Before that, they even managed to defeat Turks and Caicos 3-1 in September 2023. Their future rivals will have to look back to June 2022 for their last taste of victory, to the win against – who else than – Turks and Caicos (3-2).Regarding the FIFA WC Qualifiers, the stats are even crazier – they both have lost the last four games, conceding 34 goals altogether and not scoring a single goal in those eight games! The clash between each other is probably the best (and only possible) chance to see them actually finding the back of the net.(©FIFA Rankings)The British and the US Virgin Islands met only twice, in 2011. Both times, the US Virgin Islands celebrated victories, 2-1 and 2-0.So, ladies and gentlemen, if you’re, God forbid, fed up with the outstanding football and the incredible skills of De Bruyne, Bellingham and others, tune in for The Virgin Derby we’re about to witness in a few days.
