2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

Group A: QATAR, ECUADOR, SENEGAL, NETHERLANDS - Qatar has a good chance to compete for second place. Netherlands first.

Group B: ENGLAND, IRAN, USA, SCOTLAND/UKRAINE/WALES - USA vs IRAN - will there be a repeat of the record of journalists' interest in this match? By the way, if Scotland gets here, there will be three English-speaking teams in the group.

Group C: ARGENTINA, SAUDI ARABIA, MEXICO, POLAND - An even group for three teams, the Saudis are outsiders.

Group D: FRANCE, UAE/AUSTRALIA/PERU, DENMARK, TUNISIA - I think France 1 Denmark 2

Group E: SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND/COSTA RICA, GERMANY, JAPAN - Germany vs Spain - two outdated teams will try to remember the past.

Group F: BELGIUM, CANADA, MOROCCO, CROATIA - Belgium and...?

Group G: BRAZIL, SERBIA, SWITZERLAND, CAMEROON - same

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience  

It's a nice list. Thanks.

Group A: Senegal and Netherlands.
Group B: It could be England and Scotland/Wales/Ukraine. I think European football is better.
Group C: Argentina is the clear favourite. There is a balance of power between the other teams.
Group D: France and Denmark.
Group E: Spain and Germany. It won't be a surprise.
Group F: Belgium and Croatia.
Group G: Difficult group. Like a witch's cauldron.
Group H: Portugal is my first favourite. Others are uncertain. They all have equal strength.

Groups G and H are worth following.

[mia_houston]

Group A: QATAR, ECUADOR, SENEGAL, NETHERLANDS - Qatar has a good chance to compete for second place. Netherlands first.

Group B: ENGLAND, IRAN, USA, SCOTLAND/UKRAINE/WALES - USA vs IRAN - will there be a repeat of the record of journalists' interest in this match? By the way, if Scotland gets here, there will be three English-speaking teams in the group.

Group C: ARGENTINA, SAUDI ARABIA, MEXICO, POLAND - An even group for three teams, the Saudis are outsiders.

Group D: FRANCE, UAE/AUSTRALIA/PERU, DENMARK, TUNISIA - I think France 1 Denmark 2

Group E: SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND/COSTA RICA, GERMANY, JAPAN - Germany vs Spain - two outdated teams will try to remember the past.

Group F: BELGIUM, CANADA, MOROCCO, CROATIA - Belgium and...?

Group G: BRAZIL, SERBIA, SWITZERLAND, CAMEROON - same

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience 

Before the drawing was done I actually had high expectations if we were to see a hell group would happen in this year world cup, but it turned out that my hopes were in vain, because I saw the results of the draw it turned out that many big teams were avoided to meet at least 2 other big teams In the group phase, it looks like in the last 16 later we will get a lot of balanced matches between the big teams, because each group is currently filled on average by 2 big teams and 2 non-seeded teams in my opinion.
But I'm quite grateful if England are in Group B which contains teams like Iran, USA and also Wales/Scotland/Ukraine which in my opinion is not a strong opponent for England

My prediction for the team that advances to the last 16:

Group A,
Group Winner: Netherlands
Runner Up : Senegal

Group B,
Group Winner: England
Runner Up : United States

Group C,
Group Winner: Argentina
Runner Up : Poland

Group D,
Group Winner: France
Runner Up : Denmark


Group E,
Group Winner: Germany
Runner Up : Spain

Group F,
Group Winner: Belgium
Runner Up : Croatia

Group G,
Group Winner: Brazil
Runner Up : Switzerland/Serbia

Group H,
Group Winner: Portugal
Runner Up : Uruguay

[coco23]

Before the drawing was done I actually had high expectations if we were to see a hell group would happen in this year world cup, but it turned out that my hopes were in vain, because I saw the results of the draw it turned out that many big teams were avoided to meet at least 2 other big teams In the group phase, it looks like in the last 16 later we will get a lot of balanced matches between the big teams, because each group is currently filled on average by 2 big teams and 2 non-seeded teams in my opinion.
But I'm quite grateful if England are in Group B which contains teams like Iran, USA and also Wales/Scotland/Ukraine which in my opinion is not a strong opponent for England

Big teams avoid to meet in the group stages due to the drawing procedure where teams are categorized into 4 tiers according to their strength

Here my thoughts:
A) Netherlands for sure, Senegal likely 2nd (unless they lose against Ecuador)
B) England for sure, USA or the missing Euroteam 2nd
C) Argentina 1st, then the 2nd is the almost equal fight between Poland and Mexico

Now the "boring" groups:
D) France and Denmark
E) Spain and Germany
F) Belgium and Croatia

and finally the rest:
G) Brazil without problems, the rest is open though
H) Portugal and Uruguay are the favorites, but I have the feeling that both Ghana and South Korea should not be underestimated here.

[RapTarX]

many big teams were avoided to meet at least 2 other big teams

Like every world cup, we didn’t have a death group in this edition although if I were asked which group is the most competitive, I would say group G as we know from where Switzerland and Serbia have come. They sent Italy & Portugal respectively to the play off stage.
Nevertheless, I guess we will see a good competition from Latin America this time.

[onecall123]

Especially excited for group G, which is a low-key death group.
Swiss gave Brazil a lot of trouble in 2018. They eliminated World Champions France in the Euros. Cameroon is one of the best sides in Africa, but others are not going to be a fan of the team they'll face against them this time. Swiss-Serbian matches are always exciting.

Keep your fingers crossed and let's see what happens. Nevertheless, Brazil should be the group champions.

[Ebede]

Especially excited for group G, which is a low-key death group.
Swiss gave Brazil a lot of trouble in 2018. They eliminated World Champions France in the Euros. Cameroon is one of the best sides in Africa, but others are not going to be a fan of the team they'll face against them this time. Swiss-Serbian matches are always exciting.

Keep your fingers crossed and let's see what happens. Nevertheless, Brazil should be the group champions.

you are correct that group is the most competitive group, but if you look at group A, i seen that Senegal is one of the Strong team, but in soccer nothing like accurate assumptions or this team will defeat this team, what is matters is the squad of the team players

[KTChampions]

Group A: QATAR, ECUADOR, SENEGAL, NETHERLANDS - Qatar has a good chance to compete for second place. Netherlands first.

Group B: ENGLAND, IRAN, USA, SCOTLAND/UKRAINE/WALES - USA vs IRAN - will there be a repeat of the record of journalists' interest in this match? By the way, if Scotland gets here, there will be three English-speaking teams in the group.

Group C: ARGENTINA, SAUDI ARABIA, MEXICO, POLAND - An even group for three teams, the Saudis are outsiders.

Group D: FRANCE, UAE/AUSTRALIA/PERU, DENMARK, TUNISIA - I think France 1 Denmark 2

Group E: SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND/COSTA RICA, GERMANY, JAPAN - Germany vs Spain - two outdated teams will try to remember the past.

Group F: BELGIUM, CANADA, MOROCCO, CROATIA - Belgium and...?

Group G: BRAZIL, SERBIA, SWITZERLAND, CAMEROON - same

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience  

In the group H Portugal is the strongest among all and I believe they will be the winner, Ghana and SouthKorea  are of the same level of performance. I don't think if Ghana will be able to qualify in this round when we have team like Portugal and Uruguay,  this two teams makes the groups H to be so I interesting.

In first place in this World Cup, I will be rooting for Portugal, but I do not share your optimism that they are group favourites. Maybe on paper they are 5-10% stronger than other teams but in fact I doubt that this is a critical advantage that will give Portugal the first place. I think the final alignment in the group will be decided in the last round where every game will be important. That is why I mentioned the experience that Portugal has.

[Desmong]

Group A: QATAR, ECUADOR, SENEGAL, NETHERLANDS - Qatar has a good chance to compete for second place. Netherlands first.

Group B: ENGLAND, IRAN, USA, SCOTLAND/UKRAINE/WALES - USA vs IRAN - will there be a repeat of the record of journalists' interest in this match? By the way, if Scotland gets here, there will be three English-speaking teams in the group.

Group C: ARGENTINA, SAUDI ARABIA, MEXICO, POLAND - An even group for three teams, the Saudis are outsiders.

Group D: FRANCE, UAE/AUSTRALIA/PERU, DENMARK, TUNISIA - I think France 1 Denmark 2

Group E: SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND/COSTA RICA, GERMANY, JAPAN - Germany vs Spain - two outdated teams will try to remember the past.

Group F: BELGIUM, CANADA, MOROCCO, CROATIA - Belgium and...?

Group G: BRAZIL, SERBIA, SWITZERLAND, CAMEROON - same

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience  

Some of these groups are tough to predict what the outcome may be.

Group A: Netherlands and senegal
Group B: this group is somehow tough but I'm looking at England and any other.
Group C: Argentina is very good and maybe Poland.
Group D: France and Denmark.
Group E: Spain and Germany. Always confident in these teams.
Group F: Belgium and Croatia.
Group G: Brazil and Switzerland.
Group H: Portugal for Ronaldo, Uruguay.

[Asiska02]

Group A: QATAR, ECUADOR, SENEGAL, NETHERLANDS - Qatar has a good chance to compete for second place. Netherlands first.

Group B: ENGLAND, IRAN, USA, SCOTLAND/UKRAINE/WALES - USA vs IRAN - will there be a repeat of the record of journalists' interest in this match? By the way, if Scotland gets here, there will be three English-speaking teams in the group.

Group C: ARGENTINA, SAUDI ARABIA, MEXICO, POLAND - An even group for three teams, the Saudis are outsiders.

Group D: FRANCE, UAE/AUSTRALIA/PERU, DENMARK, TUNISIA - I think France 1 Denmark 2

Group E: SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND/COSTA RICA, GERMANY, JAPAN - Germany vs Spain - two outdated teams will try to remember the past.

Group F: BELGIUM, CANADA, MOROCCO, CROATIA - Belgium and...?

Group G: BRAZIL, SERBIA, SWITZERLAND, CAMEROON - same

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience  

My predictions after the group stage:

Group A: Netherlands 🇳🇱 and Senegal 🇸🇳
Group B: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and USA 🇺🇸
Group C: Argentina 🇦🇷 and Poland 🇵🇱
Group D: France 🇫🇷 and Denmark 🇩🇰
Group E: Spain 🇪🇸 and Germany 🇩🇪
Group F: Belgium 🇧🇪 and Morocco 🇲🇦
Group G: Brazil 🇧🇷 and Cameroon 🇨🇲
Group H: Portugal 🇵🇹 and Uruguay 🇺🇾

[Polkeins]

Especially excited for group G, which is a low-key death group.
Swiss gave Brazil a lot of trouble in 2018. They eliminated World Champions France in the Euros. Cameroon is one of the best sides in Africa, but others are not going to be a fan of the team they'll face against them this time. Swiss-Serbian matches are always exciting.

Keep your fingers crossed and let's see what happens. Nevertheless, Brazil should be the group champions.

you are correct that group is the most competitive group, but if you look at group A, i seen that Senegal is one of the Strong team, but in soccer nothing like accurate assumptions or this team will defeat this team, what is matters is the squad of the team players

It is clear that in Group A, the Netherlands should come out of first place, but I would also think about Qatar. After all, the host of the championship, and usually the hosts of the championship go to the 1 \ 8 finals. It seems only in South Africa in 2010 it was different.
But Ecuador can also present a surprise. In general, there will be an extremely interesting group and I would not relax even if you're Netherlands.

[bekti3]

Most likely it will be like that considering they will definitely be seeded in this group phase.
But of course I want a surprise from Japan here and now I am waiting for Costa Rica to be here now because there are indeed some pretty good players there and I hope names like Vargas and Navas can take part in the world cup even though it can be said as an underdog team

Japan really has low chances in this match no matter how much everyone wants an outsider in the group to go through to the next stage. Some really intrested groups in the upcoming world cup. Brazil , Switzerland and Serbia will play again like in the last world cup so that is wierd draw honestly

Yep their chances are really small but I just want to see them play now.
I just saw the group and it's true it's like the 2018 World Cup Deja Vu.
Is this really a coincidence or is it deliberately set like this lol
It's quite natural that you feel strange because it really looks like 3 clubs will fight each other again to get tickets to the next round

[Silberman]

I just read that the opening game will be Netherlands vs Senegal. I thought that the hosts always play the opening game, wasn't it like that so far? Did the rule change in this WC?
Qatar is playing Ecuador at the same day but a bit later.

WC is starting on November 21st and lasts almost a month - final game is scheduled on December 18th.

I do not know where you read that information but it is wrong, the host Qatar will open the world cup as it has been the tradition for a long time, and about the groups, I think with the exception of the group of Qatar which is the easiest one, the rest of the groups are well balanced and there is not one which I can say is the group of death, when the groups were being decided and Germany came up at the group of Spain it seemed group E could become the group of death but then they got two easy draws so it did not happened, honestly I am a little disappointed by it but still I am eager to watch the world cup.

[perla]

Especially excited for group G, which is a low-key death group.
Swiss gave Brazil a lot of trouble in 2018. They eliminated World Champions France in the Euros. Cameroon is one of the best sides in Africa, but others are not going to be a fan of the team they'll face against them this time. Swiss-Serbian matches are always exciting.

Keep your fingers crossed and let's see what happens. Nevertheless, Brazil should be the group champions.

you are correct that group is the most competitive group, but if you look at group A, i seen that Senegal is one of the Strong team, but in soccer nothing like accurate assumptions or this team will defeat this team, what is matters is the squad of the team players

It is clear that in Group A, the Netherlands should come out of first place, but I would also think about Qatar. After all, the host of the championship, and usually the hosts of the championship go to the 1 \ 8 finals. It seems only in South Africa in 2010 it was different.
But Ecuador can also present a surprise. In general, there will be an extremely interesting group and I would not relax even if you're Netherlands.

In fact, it is a form of competition distortion that the host nation is always in Pot 1 in the draw. Because those are usually not strong countries. The rest of the group therefore has a significant advantage. It would be better to classify that country based on the ranking of the fifa list, that would be much fairer. I don't think there is any logical justification for giving the host country the highest status. Yet this has been done for a while? Yes, the Netherlands and Senegal are very lucky with this lottery system. Qatar cannot possibly play a significant role in this group. By the way, we should not underestimate Ecuador, finishing 4th in the group of South America is quite good.

[Sithara007]

I think those who will advance to the next round in Group A are the Netherlands as group winners and Senegal as second place in Group A. because Senegal is also a team of proven quality, they have just won the African champions, what Senegally needs to know is as the first position in the FIFA ranking list for the African region.
The star from Liverpool also comes from Senegal, namely Sadio Mane. Everyone knows the quality of Mane.

Sadio Mane alone can't take Senegal to the second round. And Senegal has been inconsistent in the past. I would still go with Ecuador. They are regularly playing against the best in the world (Brazil, Agrentina.etc), and have performed quite decently in the recent past. My guess is that Ecuador, along with the Netherlands will be able to qualify from Group A. One thing I have learnt from the previous editions of the world cup is not to underestimate any of the CONMEBOL teams. There are simply no weak teams from that confederation.

[Newlifebtc]

Group A: QATAR, ECUADOR, SENEGAL, NETHERLANDS - Qatar has a good chance to compete for second place. Netherlands first.

Group B: ENGLAND, IRAN, USA, SCOTLAND/UKRAINE/WALES - USA vs IRAN - will there be a repeat of the record of journalists' interest in this match? By the way, if Scotland gets here, there will be three English-speaking teams in the group.

Group C: ARGENTINA, SAUDI ARABIA, MEXICO, POLAND - An even group for three teams, the Saudis are outsiders.

Group D: FRANCE, UAE/AUSTRALIA/PERU, DENMARK, TUNISIA - I think France 1 Denmark 2

Group E: SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND/COSTA RICA, GERMANY, JAPAN - Germany vs Spain - two outdated teams will try to remember the past.

Group F: BELGIUM, CANADA, MOROCCO, CROATIA - Belgium and...?

Group G: BRAZIL, SERBIA, SWITZERLAND, CAMEROON - same

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience  

Netherlands to win their group, Senegal to qualify in group A.
England to win their group, United States to qualify in group B.
Argentina to win their group, Mexico to qualify in group C.
France to win group D, Denmark to qualify.
Portugal to win group H and to win the World Cup.
These countries will qualify.for the next level

[babygun]

Well, I think you can pretty much predict how the group stage will end:

Group A: Netherlands and Senegal for sure.
Group B: England and USA.
Group C: Argentina and Mexico/Poland whereas I would tend more to Mexico.
Group D: France and Denmark.
Group E: Spain and Germany.
Group F: Belgium and Croatia.
Group G: This group is the only one imho which is totally open. Brazil should be the favorite but all others can be reach the next round too.
Group H: Portugal and Uruguay.

Pretty good picks and I could almost relate to it 100%. For group C, I also tend more to Mexico than Poland. For group G, I think, besides Brazil, that Switzerland will go through. They have a pretty good team and defeated France in Euro 2020.
Chances that we will get some surprises are pretry high, but that makes it exciting!

[Shasha80]

I just read that the opening game will be Netherlands vs Senegal. I thought that the hosts always play the opening game, wasn't it like that so far? Did the rule change in this WC?
Qatar is playing Ecuador at the same day but a bit later.
.

I'm also curious about this information. I thought it is the tradition that the host country play the first match in tournament   after the opening ceremony is done. I try to search for information concerning that but nothing is uploading about that for now. We need to know if there is a particular reason for that or it is just by chance that host nations play in opening matches.

It seems that many are surprised by the new history of the World Cup opening match, the Senegal vs Netherlands match being
the opening match of the 2022 World Cup. Because previously the host country has always been involved in the opening match of
the World Cup since 1938. But for the 2022 World Cup it's a little different, because Qatar will only play against Ecuador a few hours
after the Senegal vs Netherlands match. I also like you have been looking for the cause of this change in tradition, but have not received
a satisfactory answer. It seems that the change in the tradition of the opening match of the World Cup was a direct request from Qatar to FIFA,
maybe if Qatar play in the first match the pressure is too strong, this is just my guess. Hopefully in the future there will be an official
explanation from FIFA regarding this change in tradition.

[joker_josue]

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience  

AHAHAHAH

No more!!! I have no doubts that this is very likely to happen, they are experts at playing to draw. How can a team with such quality play like this... it's a shame, but that's it, they'll get away with it.

Portugal lost when they played against South Korea in 2002. And even one player was sent off - João Pinto. This player, today is part of the management team of the Portuguese federation, which is usually sitting on the bench. Will this be good or bad? We'll see.

[Polkeins]

Especially excited for group G, which is a low-key death group.
Swiss gave Brazil a lot of trouble in 2018. They eliminated World Champions France in the Euros. Cameroon is one of the best sides in Africa, but others are not going to be a fan of the team they'll face against them this time. Swiss-Serbian matches are always exciting.

Keep your fingers crossed and let's see what happens. Nevertheless, Brazil should be the group champions.

you are correct that group is the most competitive group, but if you look at group A, i seen that Senegal is one of the Strong team, but in soccer nothing like accurate assumptions or this team will defeat this team, what is matters is the squad of the team players

It is clear that in Group A, the Netherlands should come out of first place, but I would also think about Qatar. After all, the host of the championship, and usually the hosts of the championship go to the 1 \ 8 finals. It seems only in South Africa in 2010 it was different.
But Ecuador can also present a surprise. In general, there will be an extremely interesting group and I would not relax even if you're Netherlands.

In fact, it is a form of competition distortion that the host nation is always in Pot 1 in the draw. Because those are usually not strong countries. The rest of the group therefore has a significant advantage. It would be better to classify that country based on the ranking of the fifa list, that would be much fairer. I don't think there is any logical justification for giving the host country the highest status. Yet this has been done for a while? Yes, the Netherlands and Senegal are very lucky with this lottery system. Qatar cannot possibly play a significant role in this group. By the way, we should not underestimate Ecuador, finishing 4th in the group of South America is quite good.

Fifa always "plays along" a little with the hosts of the championship. Of course, I hope that it will not be like with South Korea and Spain in 2002, when the referee openly played for the hosts of the championship.
But in general, considering how much money Qatar has invested in the championship and in FIFA, it should not be surprising that this happened with the draw. Ecuador seems to me even more likely to have an exit than Senegal. The African national teams are strong, but very unstable.

[Polkeins]

Group H: PORTUGAL, GHANA, URUGUAY, SOUTH KOREA - a very even group, Portugal can advance to the next round after drawing all matches. They have experience  

AHAHAHAH

No more!!! I have no doubts that this is very likely to happen, they are experts at playing to draw. How can a team with such quality play like this... it's a shame, but that's it, they'll get away with it.

Portugal lost when they played against South Korea in 2002. And even one player was sent off - João Pinto. This player, today is part of the management team of the Portuguese federation, which is usually sitting on the bench. Will this be good or bad? We'll see.

I prefer Uruguay and South Korea to qualify for the next stage. I don't think Portugal will qualify, even they have to go through the play-offs to enter the world cup, even though in the Portugal squad there are big names but I doubt I choose Portugal to enter the next round.

I agree about Uruguay, but South Korea? Seriously? Even Ghana has a better chance of getting out. In general, Portugal and Uruguay should go to the next stage with 90 percent. Portugal always passes the qualifiers poorly, but then gradually plays out and almost always reaches the 1 \ 2 or 1\4 finals. Now they have an excellent and balanced national team and if Ronaldo is in shape, then they must definitely reach the 1 \ 4 finals.