The teams of Sweden, Greece, Georgia and Kosovo, will be the rivals of Spain, in Group B, European zone, qualifying for the final phase of the Qatar World Cup 2022, according to the draw held this Monday at the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich.
The qualifying phase will take place from March 24, 2021 (matchday 1) to November 16, 2021 (matchday 10).
The top ten of the group will qualify directly for Qatar 2022, and the second ten will meet in the play-off.
In addition to these ten group runners, the top two groups of the 2020-2021 UEFA Nations League with the highest overall ranking who have not directly qualified for the 2022 World Cup or are participating in the qualifiers will also participate in the qualifiers. the eliminatory ones like second of group.
The Portugal coach, Fernando Santos, assumed the favoritism of his team in group A of the qualifying phase for Qatar 2022 and said that for this reason they must finish first.
“It is evident, if we did not recognize it, what do we do? We have to be in first place,” he said in statements released by Portuguese Channel 11 when questioned about the favoritism of the “quinas”, who will face the Serbian teams, Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg and Azerbaijan.
The Italian team, four times world champion, will have Switzerland as the main threat that separates it from its return to the Qatar 2022 World Cup, after the failed qualification to Russia 2018, after being paired this Monday in group C along also with Northern Ireland, Bulgaria and Lithuania.
The Netherlands team faces a difficult group to qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, as they will be seen against the Norway of Erling Haaland and Turkey.
These three teams will likely compete for the first place that gives direct access to the World Cup event, in a group that is completed by Montenegro, Latvia and Gibraltar. The first of the group will qualify directly for the World Cup in Qatar 2022, while the second will access a repechage system.
The composition of the ten qualifying groups, European Zone, for the final phase of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, according to the draw held this Monday at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, is as follows:
– Group A: Portugal, Serbia, Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan.
– Group B: Spain, Sweden, Greece, Georgia, Kosovo.
– Group C: Italy, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Lithuania,
– Group D: France, Ukraine, Finland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kazakhstan.
– Group E: Belgium, Wales, Czech Rep., Belarus, Estonia.
– Group F: Denmark, Austria, Scotland, Israel, Faroe Islands, Moldova.
– Group G: Netherlands, Turkey, Norway, Montenegro, Latvia, Gibraltar.
– Group H: Croatia, Slovakia, Russia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta.
– Group I: England, Poland, Hungary, Albania, Andorra, San Marino.
– Group J: Germany, Romania, Iceland, North Macedonia, Armenia, Liechtenstein.
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