Match Day Thread Wales - World Cup Campaign

It'll end up with no qualifiers necessary as all teams will already be there! Ludicrous.

Edit: It appears that the idea that no one should "lose" is permeating upward to an inevitable conclusion. Will the teams that get knocked out then play in a "didn't quite-win" secondary tournament play off and so on and so on until every team has a trophy? Sorry for the rant but it really annoys me!

Edit2: The other conclusion to draw is that it'll be a bigger money spinner. This is probably the real reason for more teams involved.

 

From a tournament perspective they reckon that the team that doesn't play in the opening group game is at a disadvantage. If there is a winner in the opening game then they know they only need a draw in the second game to go through which means that team's mindset (presumably park the bus) will have a big impact.

 

...anyway, let's concentrate on this one first.

Who's going to win it?

 

Denmark

 

Looking at the squads for France, Spain, Germany they seem to be in transition. There's a lot of players in there I don't know much (if anything) about.

Belgium have still got their core players from recent tournaments and could be a good shout.

Brazil and Argentina tend to do better when the tournament isn't held in Europe (so I've read). Argentina are on a 35 game unbeaten run.

Italy are missing and England had a bad Nations League showing and a weakened defence.

I'll go with Argentina beating Belgium in the final.

 

Very hard to call, even for a champion guesser predictor like me

 

Denmark are a decent team, should get out of the group - and it is the 30th anniversary of winning the Euros (without Michael Laudrup if I remember correctly) - so I’m going for them

 

As good a shout as any. Be nice if the South Americans turn up though, makes it more interesting.

 

My worry is I'll turn off after Wales go out (final? ) as the diving will have reached new depths. I'm getting very grumpy in my old age

 

No chance.

 

…. but more chance than Scotland

 

Wales' fixture schedule:

Group stages

• Wales v USA , Monday 21 November 2022, 19:00 (UK time) - Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
  
  
• Wales v Iran, Friday 25 November, 2022, 10:00 (UK time) - Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
  
  
• Wales v England, Tuesday 29 November, 2022, 19:00 (UK time) - Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
  

 

Come on Wales

 

Is it going to be on normal tv ? Itv, BBC etc

 

Yes. 4 games a day in the main.

 

The Wales v USA Group B match will kick-off at 7pm on Monday, 21 November.

It is being shown on ITV with coverage starting at 6:05pm - it will be shown free-to-air and you can also live stream it for free on the ITV website.

 

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We need to win the group. If we come second, we will likely play the Netherlands. If we win the group, we would have either Equador, Senegal or Qatar. That's quite a difference.