Previous predictions have been made for the top half of the 2022 Qatar World Cup in groups A, B, C and D (2022 Qatar World Cup Group!). A, B, C, D Group Battle Situation Prediction"), this article will make predictions about the battle situation of Groups E, F, G and H in the second half!
Group E: Spain, Germany, Japan, (Costa Rica or New Zealand)
This group is definitely a death group for Japan, two European powers are in this group, Spain since last year's European Championship under the leadership of Enrique, these players seem to have a lot of confidence, from the World Cup qualifiers that began last September, Spain are small scores, and Enrique also selected a new vote to enter the national team to try their skills, but it is expected that the World Cup will still be the original face to play.
Now Spain's forward line is suddenly enriched, Ferran Torres is already in the barca field, although he does not score a lot of points (kick can not score), but obviously in the front of the transmission and running position has matured, he should be in Spain at the same time to achieve the main position, and the same "return" to Barca Adama Traore has also been selected for the national team last year when he was still in Wolves, plus the European Cup Dani Olmo, Pablo Zabia, Miquel Oyazavar, and Morata , In fact, Enrique has a lot of people available on his hands, and it feels like there are no superstars at the moment, but if he plays possession and infiltration, the manpower in the Spanish frontcourt is enough.
The midfield part is now clear, Pedri will become the absolute main force, this year he is in excellent form, and he has continued to make in the original Iniesta shooting and passing action at Barca, as if the Spanish team has a little white again, Enrique absolutely uses him as an attack midfielder, and recently Enrique has also continued to use Carlos Soler of Valencia, plus the original Busquets, Cork, Garvey, Rodri, Thiago, if you consider playing 433, other players do not need to.
The defensive line is still a relatively thin link, and Jose Gaya from Valencia and Inigo Martinez from Bilbao are likely to become the new forces of this year.
Overall, Spain is now stronger than it was at the European Championship, and this time it is also to compete for the first place in this group, and the first place in this group will meet the second place in Group F, which is expected to be Canada or Croatia, if it is the Lattice Army... That's about to continue the european championship.
Germany also qualified in the group first in this World Cup qualifier, even after a poor performance in the European Cup, they are still strong in the qualifiers, this year the German coach changed from Loew to Flick, he continued to use the previous 4231 tactics at Bayern, and began to rebuild the defensive line, this year Germany in addition to the center-back Antonio Rudiger has been changing, Nick Las Jules, Tilo Korel, Jonas Hoffmann is relatively stable, in addition to Klostermann, Chris Gaunt, David Raum, Matthias Gent, and others have all appeared.
And the German midfield actually has everything except the striker, the back is still Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka, the two wings of Sane and Serge Gnabry, which is basically Bayern all-inclusive, the attack midfield has Kay Havertz and Manchester City Gundogan, the original Thomas Müller has been topped many times to the forward, this is because Timo Werner is not good at all.
If you follow Flick's Bayern stream football, then it should be Bayern all on, Kay Havertz such a tough player to play the attack midfield, Gundogan may be placed at the back according to the situation, but in this case it will become Thomas Müller playing forward, and Bayern's forward is Levan, if you can co-exist Kay Havertz and Gundogan in the formation, it is obvious that Germany can be very strong, but from the perspective of the entire World Cup qualifiers, it is still these two people attacking the midfield in the round, regardless of the final choice, Germany's lack of good strikers at the moment could be a weakness.
However, in this group for Spain and Germany are easy, after all, the opponent is Japan and Costa Rica and New Zealand's winning team, the Japanese team is in an unstable situation this year, only one win and two losses in the first three rounds of the qualifiers, but then played six consecutive wins, but this time also fell into the second place in the group to advance, this time Japan is obviously defensively stronger than the attack, the offensive part is significantly weaker, very dependent on forward Junya Ito, but other attackers are not performing well, the defender line Fuan Kenyang is the most important highlight of this year, And Hiroki Sakai, Maya Yoshida, super veteran Yuto Nagatomo and others should also appear in the finals.
However, the Japanese team in this situation, let alone the promotion, I am afraid that it does not even have the ability to affect the promotion of Spain and Germany, and the German team is unlikely to lose to Japan again like the group game lost to South Korea four years ago.
Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia
Belgium's golden generation has come to an end, starting with the retirement of knife defender Vermalen, the golden generation's defensive line has aged, and now they have let Boyata and Denayer gradually take over, but Fertonghen has done well in Benfica and he should go to the World Cup.
The best form of the midfield is De Bruyne, and Hazard, I said Dortmund's Eden Hazard brother, as for Eden Hazard, now in Real Madrid has almost no chance to play, the state in the European Cup has been very bad, this year has not improved, and the front line Lukaku in Chelsea is also extremely depressed, although Lukaku will perform well every time he returns to the national team, but this year is really a very bad year in his career, and other people like Carrasco are mostly similar to the European Cup. But this group is actually a bit dangerous, and this is a bad luck group, after the promotion is to touch the first or second place of group E, that is not Spain or Germany, Belgium this time may stop in the top sixteen.
Croatia this time in the qualifiers some thrills, at the beginning they also lost to Slovenia, but also drew with Russia, the winning matches are 1-0, obviously the attack power is wrong, but after the end of the European Championship in the second half of 2021 qualifiers they rushed to catch up, in the latter part to ensure the promotion position, Russia fell to the second place (after being disqualified due to the Russo-Ukrainian war), Croatia's basic situation has not changed, in principle or 433 and 4231 deformation, Modric or the organization center (of course), Mateo Kovacic and Marcelo Brozovic are also fairly tough defensive midfielders, Ivan Perisic is in good form, the main striker André Kramaric, the young NicolaS Vlašic and Mario Pasaric should all be the main players in this World Cup.
Croatia's defensive line is being renewed, Vida is still the main central defender, Atletico's Vrsaliko is also the main player, Bayern's Stanic, Wanderer's Borna Barisic, Marseille's Duje Chaleta-Karl, Stuttgart's Sosa and other four are younger players, this time Croatia's defense should be younger.
In this group, the chances of Belgium and Croatia qualifying are generally certain, morocco has several stars who have been famous in recent years, such as Hakim Ziyeh (Chelsea), Adel Tarabut (Benfica), Hakimi (Paris), Romain Seth (Wolves), Munir (Sevilla), but to play against Belgium and Croatia this old qualification is still relatively young, Canada is the same situation, but anyway, The qualifiers in this group will face Spain and Germany directly on the other side, which is actually quite unhappy.
Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon
Needless to say, this group is very hellish, definitely the most hellish group of this World Cup, Brazil in this South American preliminary round to play the highest number of points in South American history through the preliminaries, the current Brazilian team is really overcrowded, the players can be grouped to play the World Cup, they are now a 433 formation, each position has two players in the giants as the main force, I simply listed it directly here.
Goalkeepers: Alisson (Liverpool), Edson (Manchester City)
Centre-backs: Makinhos (Paris), Thiago Silva (Chelsea), Militão (Real Madrid), Filipe (Atletico), Gabriel (Arsenal)
Full-backs: Danilo (Juve), Telles (Manchester United), Alves (Barca), Alex Sandro (Juve), Emerson (Tottenham), Renan Lodi (Atletico)
Midfielders: Casemiro (Real Madrid), Fred (Manchester United), Fabinho (Liverpool), Coutinho (Villa), Lucas Paqueta (Lyon)
Forwards: Neymar (Paris), Jesus (Manchester City), Vinicius Junière (Real Madrid), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool), Rodrigo Goss (Real Madrid), Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal), Richard Lisson (Everton), Everton (Benfica)
Seriously, what the hell is going on here? It will be very brain-burning for coach Tite, this Brazilian defense is quite good, in the South American World Preliminary Round, the attack scored 40 goals which is not surprising, but the defense only dropped 5 goals is quite terrible, such a strong Brazil, in this group may not be able to guarantee the promotion, because the other three teams are difficult to entangle.
Switzerland may be the favorite to qualify, their performance in last year's European Championship is obvious to everyone, in the sixteen finals to draw France to play penalty victory, the quarter-final battle and forceDpain to the penalty shootout, this time the World Cup qualifier is Switzerland squeezed Italy to the second place in the group, and finally Italy went to play the play-offs to lose and was eliminated, Switzerland has always been difficult in the European theater, even if it is the promotion process of the European Cup, they are all day long in the western European strong team, in contrast, the World Cup grouping due to the balance of the continents, It's better for them.
The Swiss team is still maintaining the structure of last year's European Championship, with captain Granit Xhaka leading the team, vice-captains Shaqiri, Remo Floyle and Steven Zubel all playing in midfield, and defenders Silvain Vidmel, Nico Elvedi, Akanji, Kevin Mbab, Ricardo Rodriguez and veteran Fabian Shar, this defensive line has shown its defensive ability in the European Cup and World Cup qualifiers, which is likely to be a strong defense in the top few in Europe.
Brel Embolo has a strong impact on the front line and will play the role of a hammer, while the young Okafor has risen, he will have the opportunity to perform this time when he plays at Red Bull Salzburg, the veteran Mario Gavlanovic and Vargas, Harris Sephirović, Fasnacht are also the role of the forward rotation, this Swiss team is integrated in attack and defense, very difficult, as a representative team of European play, their defense and counterattack are definitely the most formal and stable in this group, On the contrary, if Serbia and Cameroon meet Switzerland, it is difficult to defeat them by attacking them, compared to the Swiss team's ability to get points in this group is very high, it is in a state that is not easy to lose and easy to draw, but Brazil, although it has a big win, is likely to lose if it is not done well.
Serbia squeezed Portugal into the play-offs this time, they performed quite well, the veteran captain Dusan Thadic still performed well in Ajax, this time also led the team, many of the attacks in the front court were done by him, and Serbia also had a young striker Vlahović, who had just moved to Juventus in the winter, and was a rather anticipated goalscorer, while Fulham striker Aleksandr Mitrovic was also the main player of the team, and the defensive line was mainly Matia Nastasec, who had been at Manchester City before. Serbia played tough, and in this difficult group, they would finish the group stage in the form of a strong attack.
Group H: Portugal, Uruguay, Ghana, Republic of Korea
Portugal is certainly the team that everyone cares about most before the start of this World Cup, they were almost eliminated in the qualifiers, in the final play-offs against Turkey and North Macedonia won the second consecutive battle to be able to qualify, in this deathmatch sacrificed is Italy, Portugal actually has a lot of famous players, but it is still not unified, the defensive line has aged very badly, and gradually move towards personal ability defense, these factors have a very bad impact on Portugal's desire to play well in the World Cup.
Portugal is still led by Cristiano Ronaldo, Liverpool striker Diogo Jota has also secured a place, Manchester United's B fee and C Ronaldo are very tacit and are expected to start, Manchester City's Bernardo Silva is the same, the Portuguese frontcourt of the four big Kongs have almost arrived, it is difficult to allow others to enter, such as the immature João Felix and Rafael Leo who seems to be able to play the center forward work, it seems that they can only sit on the bench, and these four big Kongs will make the team stuck between 433 and 4231. Cristiano Ronaldo and B Fee are currently in a 4231 formation, Diogo Jota and Bernardo Silva are 433, and now Portugal can't play because of the conflict, and manager Fernando Santos must solve this problem.
Portugal's problem is that the organizational midfield is only the elder João Moutinho, the other defensive midfielders are only Danilo, Willem Carvalho is already a veteran, Ruben Neves and Renato Sanchez and others are of the Middle Age but do not seem to have the ability to dominate the game, and Ruben Díaz is the most important player on the defensive line, Pepe and Jose Fonte are over 37 years old, the full-backs are very abundant, Dalot, Rafael Guerrero, Nuno Mendes, Cancello, Cedric Suarez, Nellsson Semedo, and others are good, but they are almost all offensive full-backs except for Manchester City Canselo, and they can't help much with defense, so this defensive distribution work may be difficult to solve in this World Cup.
Uruguay are firmly in third place in this South American preliminary round, although they are not as good as Brazil and Argentina, which are in the form, but their performance is still alive, Diego Godin and Jose Gimenez in the defensive line are good central defenders, the young Ronald Araujo has secured the main position at Barca, and the young left-back Matthias Wiener has a good performance in Rome.
Uruguay's midfielder's current home is solid in European football, Spurs' Rodrigo Bentancour is now doing quite well, and Federico Valverde is now Real Madrid's most important universal tool man, likely to reach the top four with Real Madrid, Lucas Torreira and Matthias Besino are currently doing well in Serie A.
Uruguay's forward line is old but has new blood injected, in addition to Suarez in Atletico is still not old, physical strength and explosiveness although a lot of decline but the shooting is still very terrible, Cavani in Manchester United is still desperate, and Benfica striker Darwin is now in Europe has a lot of fame, he not only has the figure of a center and has the speed of a winger, has the physical ability to charge and can fight, playing is smart, with his joining is a strong supplement to the Uruguayan forward, this time the World Cup Uruguay should play these three strikers.
Although South Korea and Ghana are not bad, South Korea has Son Heung-min and Wolves Huang Hee-chan, Bordeaux's Huang Yisuke, Ghana has Arsenal's Thomas Partey, Leicester City's Daniel Amatei, Crystal Palace striker Jordan Ayo, followed by most of the players are younger, in this group they can only play hardcore football, but Portugal and Uruguay have been regulars in the top 16 for more than 10 years.
However, Uruguay Suarez in the 2010 World Cup in the quarterfinals, with a very bad volleyball player to beat Ghana's 119 points to finally win the goal, and finally in the penalty shootout to win Uruguay, in fact, it was Ghana that should reach the final four at that time, in the hearts of many people, Su Ya's most stinky behavior is not to bite people, but this complete disregard of football is kicked with the foot of The Thang Long Fist red handball, which was ghana's golden generation at the time, should also become the highest position in the history of Ghana and African teams in the World Cup, but was destroyed by Suarez's cheating This game is actually a chance for revenge, I will pay close attention to it, I guess the game in this group will be very intense and probably very violent.
This World Cup, in the lower half of the EFGH four groups is definitely more intense than the first half of the zone, the key matches are here, and the promotion of the sixteen finals of the battle route is also very scary, like the fierce competition friends can focus on these four groups of events.