The first 48-country World Cup is about to begin. The draw has just been made. How do you feel about that? Which is your group of death? Which match from the first round excites you the most?
Let's share in this topic our different points of view on what will be next summer's attraction!

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The France and England groups look the most complicated.

With all these manoeuvres consisting of reassigning this or that country to another group in the name of totally subjective rules, it's no longer a draw but a sorting of lots!
Why shouldn't 3 European teams and 2 African teams be in the same group?
What's more, the draw was made before all the qualifiers were known, with intercontinental play-offs.

Or else, if it's a geographical criterion that's been decided for obscure reasons, then it's a full draw without any level or index hat that should be made.

Even if this is probably not the case, the current system gives the impression of being a sham, with groups made 'to measure' for the 3 co-hosting countries.
Draws and sortings like that really lose all their 'magic'.

Personally, I'm not shocked, it's an opportunity to meet these continents that don't play each other very often, and the level isn't the same historically, apart from Brazil and Argentina, you only have top European teams.

So to end up with a 100% European group against a group made up of other small nations. The gaps would be bigger. In this case, the groups are more balanced.

That's my opinion, but I understand the others.

Another ecological aberration in 3 countries... After Qatar... And in the meantime, we have yellow and green bins etc...

Rull43: Perso cela ne me choque pas, l'occasion de croiser ces continents qui s'affrontent peu, puis le niveau n'est pas les mêmes historiquement à part brésil et Argentine, tu n'as que des equipes européennes au top.

Donc se retrouver avec un groupe 100% europe contre un groupe fait de petites nations autres. Les écarts seraient plus grands. Là les groupes sont plus équilibrés.

Mon avis, apres je comprends les autres.

Perhaps historically, but not today.
Morocco, Uruguay, Japan or Senegal do not strike me as fundamentally inferior to Austria or Scotland.

Completely, but I think it's nice to have a France-Senegal game rather than a Ghana-Senegal game.

After that, the best teams quickly find themselves in the finals.

myforsans: Avec toutes ces manips consistant au nom de règles totalement subjectives à réaffecter tel ou tel pays dans un autre groupe, ce n'est plus un tirage mais un triage au sort !
Au nom de quoi il n' y aurait pas 3 équipes européennes ou pas 2 africaines dans le même groupe ?
En plus un tirage-triage fait avant de connaître tous les qualifiés avec des barrages intercontinentaux, du grand n'importe quoi.

Ou alors sinon si c'est un critère géographique qui est décidé pour des raisons obscures alor...

For European teams, it's always been a maximum of 2 in a group and I think the rest have always been 1.
Otherwise you can have an African group, a South American group, an Asian group and several European groups if you want.
There are already a lot of rules that will change during this World Cup, not to mention the 3-minute drinks breaks I think they're going to put on.
It's going to be a strange world, personally I see France or Portugal.

27 hours to go – Portugal in the final 😁