FIFA has completed the draw for the World Cup groupings, and although there are still a few countries that have not finished qualifying matches, only 3 places remain undecided, so it is now possible to start predicting the situation.
Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands
This group is the most heavenly group, because the host country Qatar has a guaranteed place here, Ecuador is only the fourth place in South America, so the Netherlands and Senegal are almost impossible to lose in this group, just these two teams compete for the first place in the group.
The Netherlands' opponent in the qualifiers this time is Turkey and Norway two not weak teams, in the end the Netherlands maintained a good performance line, now their defensive strength is good, the midfield is slightly thinner, the front line after several years, although there is no king, but Depay, Belvin and newcomer Arno Danjuma are also much better than in previous years, and Senegal's good players are quite a lot, after experiencing the baptism of the last World Cup, now several generals are very mature, whether it is Liverpool's Mane, Napoli's Koulibaly, Paris's Gaie, the current Performance in Europe are very good, and in recent years, the newly emerging Chelsea goalkeeper Eduardo Mendy and others have strengthened the team's combat effectiveness, although their elimination of Egypt is controversial, but Senegal is the first in Africa (ST Africa Cup of Nations champions).
The situation in this group between the Netherlands and Senegal is quite clear, but Senegal may have a chance to push the Netherlands to become the first place in the group, after all, the second place in the group is likely to meet England next door, and this duel will be quite good.
Group B: England, Iran, United States, (Ukraine or Wales or Scotland)
The last place in this group has not yet appeared, will be selected between Ukraine, Wales, Scotland, Ukraine this year will be the focus of the world, this team is actually not weak, many people will hope that they can survive the war to participate in the World Cup, and England in this group undoubtedly become the strongest, they also in the qualifiers with 8 wins 2 draws and 26 points to advance, leading Poland, the second in the group, reached 6 points, this time England's talent is still blowout and the players are in good shape, the key is how Southgate runs in, England has a large number of players to use a special article, there are many new players in the European Cup, and there is still an increase (such as the Gunners' goalkeeper Ramsdale), but the main centre-back Maguire is not in good shape this year, how to adjust a team before the Start of the World Cup can win the championship of England is very important, after all, the failure of the European Cup is too hurtful.
The U.S. team is very interesting this time, obviously many good players but only qualified in the third place in the qualifiers, let Canada and Mexico press past, and in the two legs of the match with Canada was a draw and a defeat, and finally accumulated 25 points almost squeezed by Costa Rica to the play-offs, the performance in the World Preliminaries is not good, but the old American players are not bad, Chelsea's Captain America Christian Pulisic, Barca's Dester, Dortmund's Rena, Juventus's Weston McKenney is currently a player in the top teams in Europe (and there are quite a few others), but the U.S. team is not doing as well as it gets.
And Ukraine, Wales, Scotland three teams to take out the promotion team, this group of the situation should be very fierce, because at present it seems that the strength of these three teams are between Bo Zhong, but in the European Cup to the quarterfinals for the farthest of the three teams ukraine in the war, their life and death battle with Scotland has also been postponed, but no matter which team enters the World Cup, the overall team is likely to surpass the United States team, and the players currently owned by the United States team are actually the biggest stars in these teams. But in this group I think they are likely to have no hope of qualifying.
Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland
Congratulations to Argentina, this time Argentina's performance in the World Preliminary Tournament in South America is the 4th highest points promotion in South American history (the top three are Brazil, Argentina itself in 2002, Brazil in 2018).
This time, the Argentine team promoted a large number of newcomers, in addition to Messi, Inter's Lautaro Martinez, Inter's Joaquin Correa and Atletico Madrid's Angel Correa have also had the opportunity to perform well, midfielder Leandro Paredes is sitting in the rear, Atletico's De Paul, Fiorentina's Nicolas Gonzalez, Sevilla's Lucas Ocampos, and the veteran Di Maria, the defensive line has Fiorentina's Lucas Martinez, Tottenham's Cristian Romero, Montil of Seville, Juan Voith of the Yellow Dive, which made the work of veteran Nicolas Otamendi much lighter,
In fact, this ticket is not particularly young, many people have been more than 25 years old or even 27 years old, are counted as the year of playing, but the previous Argentine player lineup is too fixed, these players have not had enough opportunities, this time in the predecessors have retired almost, Argentina this group of "not young" newcomers, after entering the national team to play a very good result, the running position and activity on the field are very high, they are actually many people in the European team are already the main players, now Argentina is equivalent to Messi and Di Maria and Nicolas Otamendi led a group of young people who were moderately old but not experienced enough for the national team, the consumption of the three was much lighter than before, and the physical work was also done, which allowed Argentina to play a good result in the South American World Preliminary Tournament.
Of course, the results of South American teams are often not equal to the actual performance of the World Cup, but Argentina's signing luck is not bad, in this group, Saudi Arabia is certainly not an opponent, Mexico is a strong enemy, but also an old enemy, every time with Argentina often makes Argentina very painful, in the World Cup when Argentina can only barely win, but in fact Argentina will win, so against Mexico is a good test, not too strong nor weak but can win, How Argentina fights Mexico can see their strength this time.
And Poland is actually not a strong enemy, this promotion is quite unexpected, originally they were going to fight with Russia, the winning team will also compete with sweden and the Czech Republic of the winning team, all are a decisive victory, in this case Poland would not have any chance to qualify, but Russia was disqualified, Poland guaranteed promotion and then faced Sweden that has fought a vicious battle with the Czech Republic, the two sides originally stalemated, but because the Swedish team foul was sentenced to penalties to make the situation collapse, Poland can qualify, Ibrahimovic's last World Cup dream is gone.
Argentina is firmly in this group to advance to the first place, and at the same time facing the old enemies and European second-tier teams, there is enough time and number of games for the first time to participate in the players to get used to, this time their results should be very good, and Mexico and Poland will evolve into a life-and-death battle.
Group D: France, Denmark, Tunisia, (UAE or Australia or Peru)
The promotion situation of this group is also very clear, nine times out of ten is France and Denmark, because the European Championship was just held last year, so in fact, the lineup of these Continental Powers has basically not changed much, France is currently in the best state of Benzema in the front line, and then AC Milan veteran Giroud is still playing in Serie A, Mbappe is still the king, in the qualifiers Deschamps has tried to use Manchester United's Martial, but from the results, he is probably still a substitute, wingers Bayern's Kingsley Koeman is in good condition, Barca's Dembele has improved greatly after Xavi took charge in the second half of this year, and he thought he was going to be sold, but his performance came when he was about to renew his contract, no matter how Dembele can now shoot and control and pass, if he can extend this performance to the World Cup, it will be a good move for Deschamps on the wing.
The midfield part does not seem to have changed much, Kante, Pogba, Rabiot are likely to continue to be the main players, Thomas Lemar and Griezmann are also the same, the biggest change in France this time is the defender, this time the French defender group exploded. In addition to the original Varane and Kimpembe, Lucas Hernandez and Bunjaman Pavard are left and right defenders, and AC Milan's Theo Hernandez has been selected for the national team, he is lucas Hernandez's younger brother, the brothers are also left-backs, but the elder brother can now be transferred to the center-back (right-back has also played), there may be a picture of brothers appearing at the same time, Sevilla's Jules Conde is also in the French team list, this time also added Bayern's Dayo Guilla. Yu Palmecano and Leipzig's Nordi Mikillet, Barca's Clement Langley is also still there, Lyon's Leo Di Bois, West Ham's Kurt Zuma, Deschamps in order to supplement the heavy center-back, looking for Marseille's William Salibba,
From this year France continues to select new people on the defensive line has also invested more, but the midfield is mostly the old team, this time the World Cup France is very likely to highly strengthen the defender line, Deschamps may let the French defender in the 4-back and 5-back (3 center-backs and 2 full-backs) between the position of the change, and he has indeed tested 3 center-backs in the World Preliminary Round, although France's newly selected defenders over the years will often disappoint, but this time to find so many newcomers and have directly started in the national team game, And they are indeed mostly strong team mains in the professional league, there will always be one or two reliable bars, this time Deschamps is crucial to the update of the defensive line, if it is not done well, the defense will collapse, if it is done well, France will be very strong, pogba and Rabiot's two heavenly soldiers can also reduce the impact of the team's defense a lot, after all, they are still the same year, if they start together may be a disaster.
Denmark this year I think may be a bit of a fan, several of their main players, some of their professional teams have a poor record this year, some of them have no chance to play or are injured (captain Simon Kyle has only played 11 league games in AC Milan this year), there is a gap with last year's European Championship, of course, some people are still in good shape, such as Tottenham's Pierre Hoibel, and Danish football attaches great importance to teamwork, many players may return to the national team will have different performances, Their performance in the World Preliminaries is close to perfect, except for the last loss to Scotland, they are all wins ( 9 wins and 1 loss ) , and they are the highest goals (30) and the fewest goals conceded in the whole group (3), but Denmark is not strong in the group, especially the poor results of Austria and Israel make this group directly unsustainable, but how it will be in the World Cup will be known at the time.
Whether it is Tunisia or the remaining quota in this group (UAE, Australia, Peru), it seems that there is a gap in strength with France and Denmark, of course, the two teams want to grab the first promotion, because if the second group will be the first in group C, that is, there is no accident that it will be on Argentina, Argentina is not known how strong this year is, but it is definitely stronger than the last one, France and Denmark were in the same group in the last World Cup, when the last showdown because France has been promoted, Denmark as long as the draw, So that game was completely touching the fish, France also had a bunch of substitutes, but this time it was different, the two teams were playing on the second matchday, if they could win and really grab the first place in the group, this game would be very exciting.