The 2022 Qatar World Cup Round of 32 has been confirmed 29 seats, and with the release of the latest FIFA World Rankings, the division of World Cup seedings is directly linked to the world rankings, and the Qatar World Cup grouping is also determined.
The five-star Brazilian team relied on its outstanding performance in the South American qualifiers to surpass the European Red Devils Belgium, which had previously occupied the first place for a long time, and became the top of the new FIFA rankings. Defending champions France are third, Copa America winner Argentina is fourth and European Championship runners-up England are fifth.
Sixth to eighth are Spain, Italy and Portugal. Qatar, as the host of this World Cup, automatically occupies a seeded team place, and due to the upset of the seventh-ranked Italian team, the remaining seven seeded teams just fell to the top eight teams in the world.
First gear: Qatar, Brazil, Belgium, France, Argentina, England, Spain, Portugal
At the same time, the grades of the remaining 24 teams are also released.
Second gear: Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, Croatia, USA, Mexico
Third gear: Iran, Japan, Morocco, Serbia, Poland, South Korea, Senegal, Tunisia
Fourth bracket: Canada, Cameroon, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Ghana and 3 play-off winners
So, as the group of deaths that the media and fans are most concerned about, will it appear?
With the expansion of the World Cup to 32 participating teams, the overall group stage showed a clear trend of strength and weakness, although there were also unpopularities, but overall the performance of traditional strong teams became more and more stable. In recent World Cups, it was considered to be the group of death before the game, and finally became a traditional drama of being strong and stable. FIFA has even deliberately changed the schedule to let the traditional giants play in advance to avoid the embarrassment of the last round of staging peace as precious and advancing hand in hand.
Now, FIFA directly uses the world ranking to determine the grouping level, which makes this "you die and I live" meaning a lot less. Therefore, the "death group" that the media and fans often talk about in the past is actually extinct in name only. Of course, there will definitely be cold doors.
However, due to the presence of Germany, the Netherlands and Croatia in the second gear, and the serbian, Japanese and Senegal teams in the third gear, there is still a possibility of a real death group in the group stage of the Qatar World Cup.
With the original intention of watching the hilarity, it is worth predicting the group of deaths that may appear. However, everything is based on speculation about the rules of the draw, and if there is a coincidence, it is not responsible.
A: Argentina, Germany, Senegal and Wales
If Wales can stand out in the last round of the Play-offs in the European Zone and are very lucky enough to be in this group, this group will be a veritable death group for this World Cup. Needless to say, Argentina and Germany will be the highlight of world football at any time. Senegal are the Africa Cup of Nations champions, Wales have the ability to stir up trouble, every game, every goal can decide the final outcome.
B: England, Netherlands, Japan and Ghana
England and the Netherlands meet in a narrow way, there will inevitably be a battle, the two finalists are on the rise, both gathered a group of stars who are in the current year, plus the Japanese team that already has the strength to compete with European teams, and the African traditional strong team Ghana, this group, can also meet the expectations of fans.
In fact, as long as the German team and the Netherlands team are not drawn to the host Qatar team, there is a great chance that there will be a fierce battle for the top spot in the group. Whether the results of this prediction can be seen or not, wait and see...