Due to the configuration of the pots, it seemed complicated that this time the draw could bring too unbalanced clashes.
To top it off, the two perhaps strongest teams in the last two pots (Senegal and Ecuador) fell alongside the weakest of the top seeds, hosts Qatar.
Which left us with a very homogeneous draw, without the usual 'group of death' of other tournaments, whether for club or national team competitions.
Spain can consider itself relatively lucky.
First for the dates.
Neither does he debut from the first, which would require express preparation, nor from the latter, in which case the games would be compressed.
And also by rivals.
It is true that Germany was the one with the best record in the second pot but the last precedent is very favorable for us and their performance in the last major tournaments has been very poor.
Hansi Flick
does not currently have too many top-level players, if anything
Neuer
and
Kimmich
.
Withdrawn from the
Toni Kroos
national team , the others are talented footballers such as
Sané
,
Gnabry
,
Havertz
,
Werner
,
Goretzka
,
Gundogan
or
Rudiger
but who have not yet had a continuous performance.
In addition, his most promising youngster,
Florian Wirtz
, has just suffered a serious injury.
Although with fewer names, teams from that pot 2 such as Switzerland, Denmark or even the Netherlands have recently shown a higher level.
The other two rivals, Spain should overcome them without excessive problems.
Despite having many players in major European leagues such as the Premier and the Bundesliga, Japan has not finished evolving as expected, although in the recent Olympic Games our team had a hard time overcoming them.
The Costa Rica of
Keylor Navas
or the Australia of the giant
Chris Wood
they are also inferior on paper.
In the rest of the groups, the teams with the best ranking seem very favourites.
Clashes such as France-Denmark or Portugal-Uruguay stand out while Argentina could suffer with Mexico and Poland or Brazil against Sweden and Switzerland.
England will play a morbid clash against the United States and could play a very nice derby if Scotland make it through the play-offs.
And let's imagine a great that could suffer, eye to group F, precisely with which Spain would cross in the second round.
Belgium faces the last chance to do something great with its golden generation at the hands of Roberto Martinez although some of its heavyweights like
Eden Hazard
or
Romelu Lukaku
are not going through their best moment.
His rivals are dangerous:
Luka Modric 's Croatia
that was on the verge of eliminating Spain in the European Championship,
Alphonso Davies
's Canada that has swept the CONCACAF standings and Sevilla's Morocco, the most European African team, especially if
Hakim Ziyech
and the coach resolve their differences.
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