For those of you pegging your dollars and hopes on CQ's ability to take us to the world cup without any sort of preparation, this will come to you as a surprise.
Look at the road ahead, 90% of our opponents will be ten times more difficult than South Korea. There will be no easy team and no easy group.
Just look at this below:
The Drawing Process
The 2018 WC in Russia will consist of 32 Teams split into 8 Groups of 4. There are 4 Pots to be drawn from. Each but the first consisting of 8 teams. Pot 1 will only have 7 Teams to be drawn as Russia as host is seeded as the head of Group A.
Pot 1 will consist of the seven highest ranked teams in FIFAs current Ranking plus Russia as hosts
Pot 2 will contain the rest of the CONMEBOL teams and all CAF teams. This Pot is short one member that will be drawn in there from Pot 4.
Pot 3 consists of all CONCACAF and AFC teams.
Pot 4 Consists of the rest of the UEFA teams.
These would be the Pots we would get. Notice that one UEFA Team will have to be drawn into Pot 2 because of the number of spots UEFA has for this tournament (14). In our case it is Iceland.
Pot 1: Russia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Chile
Pot 2: Uruguay, Columbia, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Tunisia, Cote Dvoire, Egypt, Iceland
Pot 3: Iran, Japan, SKorea, KSA, Mexico, Costa Rica, USA, Hondarus
Pot 4: Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Croatia, N.Ireland, England.
As you can see, probably the easiest group will be Russia, Burkina Faso, Iran, Northern Ireland.
The hardest group is: Germany, Uruguay, Iran, France.
Most likely we will get something like: Portugal, Ivory Coast, Iran, Serbia.
There is no easy path, and luck plays a small factor.... we need preparation and friendlies.
Forget Syria and forget whether the second goal was fixed or not... let's focus on the road ahead. I for one will be very excited to see what we can do against those kinds of teams.
Look at the road ahead, 90% of our opponents will be ten times more difficult than South Korea. There will be no easy team and no easy group.
Just look at this below:
The Drawing Process
The 2018 WC in Russia will consist of 32 Teams split into 8 Groups of 4. There are 4 Pots to be drawn from. Each but the first consisting of 8 teams. Pot 1 will only have 7 Teams to be drawn as Russia as host is seeded as the head of Group A.
Pot 1 will consist of the seven highest ranked teams in FIFAs current Ranking plus Russia as hosts
Pot 2 will contain the rest of the CONMEBOL teams and all CAF teams. This Pot is short one member that will be drawn in there from Pot 4.
Pot 3 consists of all CONCACAF and AFC teams.
Pot 4 Consists of the rest of the UEFA teams.
These would be the Pots we would get. Notice that one UEFA Team will have to be drawn into Pot 2 because of the number of spots UEFA has for this tournament (14). In our case it is Iceland.
Pot 1: Russia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Chile
Pot 2: Uruguay, Columbia, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Tunisia, Cote Dvoire, Egypt, Iceland
Pot 3: Iran, Japan, SKorea, KSA, Mexico, Costa Rica, USA, Hondarus
Pot 4: Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Croatia, N.Ireland, England.
As you can see, probably the easiest group will be Russia, Burkina Faso, Iran, Northern Ireland.
The hardest group is: Germany, Uruguay, Iran, France.
Most likely we will get something like: Portugal, Ivory Coast, Iran, Serbia.
There is no easy path, and luck plays a small factor.... we need preparation and friendlies.
Forget Syria and forget whether the second goal was fixed or not... let's focus on the road ahead. I for one will be very excited to see what we can do against those kinds of teams.
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