‘Avoid the Germans in the 2nd port!’
The group draw for the 2022 Qatar World Cup finals will be held in Doha, Qatar at 1 am (Korean time) on the 2nd.
In the World Cup, 32 teams are divided into 8 groups of 4 teams, and the top two teams in each group advance to the round of 16 tournament.
In Korea, where qualifying for the round of 16 is the most important task, the draw is an important event that will determine the fate of the World Cup.
The group draw will be held in eight countries, from port 1 to port 4, in the order of the FIFA rankings to be announced on the 31st, and Korea has confirmed the allocation of 3 pots.
In Port 1, world-class strong teams such as Qatar, the host country, Brazil, Belgium, France, Argentina, England, Spain, and Portugal are lined up.
Powerhouses from Europe, South America, and North and Central America are concentrated in Port 2 as well. Mexico, the United States, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Uruguay, Switzerland and Croatia are in port two.
According to ESPN, Senegal, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Serbia, Poland and Tunisia will be assigned to Port 3 along with Korea.
Tunisia was initially expected to be assigned to Port 4.
However, in the final match of the North and Central American qualifiers held on the 31st of the 31st, Canada, who was expected to enter port 3 as the last, lost to Panama 0-1 and fell to port 4, and Tunisia saw a return.
Pot 4 contains Canada, Cameroon, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia and Ghana, the top team in Group A of the European play-off (PO), and the two teams that win the intercontinental PO.
◇ ‘Are you confident of winning once more?’… If 2port Germany meets, ‘worst group’
Soccer experts agreed that in order for Korea to advance to the round of 16 with relative ease, the first thing to do is to avoid Germany, which has two ports.
According to the continental arrangement principle, Korea cannot be paired with Qatar, which has one pot. In the end, one of the seven strong teams in one pot must be formed into a group.
In the midst of this, if you are in a group with Germany, which boasts the strongest power among the two-port countries, it will be more difficult to advance to the round of 16.
Korea has good memories of winning once morest Germany, such as a miraculous 2-0 victory in the group stage match in Russia in 2018, but the reality is that it is difficult to expect another ‘event’.
In particular, it would be ‘worst group’ for Bentuho if they were in a group with Germany, Brazil with one pot, and the top team in Group A of Europe with four pots.
In addition, if Wales take first place in European PO Group A, it will be difficult for Korea to get one point.
Wales, where super striker Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) plays an active part, is showing good results in recent major tournaments, such as the semi-finals at the 2016 European Championships (Euro 2016) and reaching the round of 16 at Euro 2020 last year.
If Ukraine instead of Wales rise to the top of European PO Group A, it might make it more difficult to get through the group stage.
This is because Ukraine, which is at war with Russia, will go to the ground armed with strong mental power.
Commentator Park Moon-seong said, “If we belong to a group with 1 pot Brazil, 2 pots Germany or the Netherlands, and 4 pot Wales, it’s really a ‘group of death’. disappears,” he said.
◇ It’s better if it’s a 2-port US… “There is no ‘flower road’”
If so, what is the number of cases of walking the ‘flower road’ leading to the round of 16 following receiving the ‘best group formation’? In such a case, the common opinion of experts is that there is ‘no’.
Korea must be in a group with two strong teams in pots 1 and 2, and none of them seem to be easily overcome by Korea. No matter what team you are in, getting 2nd in the group is inevitably very difficult.
The best grouping would be to be in a group with the US in two pots.
The United States, which has rapidly entered the center of world football, has many good players that can fill all 23 entries in Europe alone.
However, if you look at the players face, it is evaluated that they lack experience and have a lot of ups and downs in their performance.
In the first port, Belgium, Portugal, and Spain are evaluated to be slightly easier to play once morest than Brazil, England, Spain and France. yunhap news
