5 days left, 2022 Qatar World Cup will officially start. This is the time when the World Cup returns to Asia again after twenty years. 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup , the host performed well, , the Japanese team reached the top 16, and the Korean team won the fourth place. This result can be said that no Asian team can break it within 50 years.
2010 World Cup, South Africa, as the host, ranked third in the group in the end and missed the opportunity to qualify, which also created the worst result for the host of the World Cup. Now, Qatar has set a new record for hosts: the first time participating in the World Cup was automatically shortlisted by the host's identity. Will Qatar be eliminated in the group stage like South Africa? This has also become the focus of many fans.
Because it is the host, Qatar team automatically becomes a seed team, but the lottery luck is not good. There are two strong teams in the second level, Germany and the Netherlands. Qatar team draws the Netherlands team. The other two opponents in the group stage are Senegal and Ecuador , which is very strong.
Just from the perspective of strength, the Dutch team stands out and will undoubtedly occupy a qualifying place. As the African Cup champion, Senegal eliminated the Egyptian team led by Salah in the World Cup qualifiers. Its strength is almost the first in Africa, but the injured team of Mane was too severe. Ecuador team is unknown, but it is not easy to qualify in South America. Overall, Ecuador team is still slightly stronger than Qatar team.
However, in the World Cup, off-court factors always exist. As a small country with a population of 3 million, Qatar can grab the right to host World Cup from the United States, which costs a lot of money.
Before 2002, the first matches were played by the defending champion of and another team. After the 2006 World Cup, the first match of the World Cup was changed to the host and another team. After the draw results of this World Cup were released, since the first round of Group A was Qatar VS Ecuador, the Netherlands VS Senegal, in order to increase attention, FIFA changed the first game to the Netherlands VS Senegal, but a few days later, because Qatar firmly opposed it, the first game was changed to Qatar VS Ecuador one day in advance. The game will start on November 20, Qatar time, and only this game was set on that day (local time).
From these signs, Qatar's energy this time is extremely powerful, just like the South Korean team in the 2002 World Cup. At that time, they had FIFA Vice Chairman Zheng Mengzhun . The cooperation of the referees is on the one hand, and on the other hand, Ecuador is a small country. If Qatar gives enough money, they don’t have much hope of qualifying anyway. They are very likely to lose to Qatar directly in the first game, and they may make moves against Senegal. Overall, Qatar is so powerful that it is very likely that the group stage will be upset and qualify at a thrilling pace.
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