France's history of losing the first World Cup is vividly remembered, and the curse of defending the title has been fulfilled 4 times in the past 5 times
Defending France will face world No. 38 in the world for the opening match of the 2022 World Cup. However, the World Cup has always had a curse of defending the title, and the four defending teams in the past five editions have all been out of the group stage, and the first game results are not satisfactory.
The Gallic Roosters are star-studded and seen as favourites, but bad news has come on for a long time – a pair of midfielders N'Golo Kante and Paul Pogba were unable to return due to injuries in the last tournament.
Fresh Ballon d'Or winner and goalscorer Benzema arrived in Qatar and retired from the team injured during practice, greatly reducing his strength
The outside world believes that France has fallen under the curse of defending the World Cup, but in fact, after stepping into 00 years, since the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the winning rate of the defending team in the first game of the World Cup has only been 20%.
In 2002, France shocked the world in the opener, losing 0:1 to Senegal; Italy drew only 1–1 with Paraguay in 2010. Four years later, Spain was overtaken by Van Persie and lost 1:5 to the Netherlands; Germany also lost 1–0 to Mexico last time, only to Brazil defeating Croatia by one goal in 2006.
If you count the last 10 World Cups, the defending teams have a 50% loss rate in the first game, with a record of 3 wins, 2 and 5 losses. Therefore, France faced Australia, ranked 34th in the world, and the data is not a stable win.
As for the entire group stage, the defending teams in the last five titles have been quite poor, losing as many as 7 of 15 games, with a win rate of only 33.33%.
Remember last year's Germany lost 2-0 to South Korea in the final group match, and ended at the bottom of the group, making it the first time in the team's history. In fact, together with Germany, the last five editions of Spain (2014), Italy (2010) and France (2002) have all stopped in the group stage, with a rate of 80%.
In addition, the last team to successfully defend the title was Brazil in 1962; The other was Italy in 1938. It can be seen that even if France can advance to the knockout round, it will still be difficult to defend the title.
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