Final stretch for Qatar 2022 World Cup. The Doha Exhibition and Congress Center will host this Friday, amid high hopes, the draw to determine the final stage of the tournament, which will be held from November 21 to December 19. The 29 teams have already qualified -with three more left to get their tickets- are eagerly waiting to find out which teams they will face in an initial stage with eight groups of four teams each and the possible crosses and confrontations they will have in the qualifiers.
Beginning at 6:00 pm, peninsular time, the draw will begin where the Spanish team will begin as seeded. Luis Enrique’s team avoided the play-offs and will form in pot 1 along with the teams with the best FIFA rankings; Brazil, Belgium, Argentina, England, Portugal and France, current world champions, in addition to host Qatar, will lead group A as the event organizer.
Germany and Croatia, the ‘coconuts’
The main threat to La Roja will come from pot 2, where powerful teams such as 2014 winner Germany, current world runner-up Croatia and the Netherlands, as well as Denmark, Mexico, the United States, Switzerland and Uruguay await. Cup 3 includes African champions Senegal, Dusan Vlahovic’s Serbia, Robert Lewandowski’s Poland, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Republic of Korea and Tunisia. In the final pot are Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia and Ghana, where the winners of the two intercontinental play-offs will be added (one between the United Arab Emirates and Peru and the other between New Zealand and Costa Rica) and the pending tie in Europe between Wales and the winner in Scotland-Ukraine, which was postponed to June due to the Russian invasion.
This will be the draw procedure
To determine the luck of each choice, proceed as follows. Initially, all balls from pot 1 will be drawn, first one with the names of the teams and then one from the group pot to assign each team to a group. The same procedure will be followed in pots 2, 3 and 4 until the eight groups of this final stage have been configured. The coincidence of teams from the same confederation in the same group is avoidable, except at UEFA. Its 13 representatives force five of the eight groups to have two European teams.
Once the 32 teams have been distributed, the elimination round between the first two of each group will be announced. The winner of group A will face the second of group B, the second of group A to win of B, and so on with the rest linking the CD, EF and GH groups.
RTVE and a Mediapro pay channel will oversee the television of its Qatar 2022 World Cup matches, while today’s draw can be followed on Teledeporte and on the Mundo Deportivo website.
Source: La Verdad
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