Topic: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers - page 80. (Read 35002 times)

Each of the 6 teams you mentioned has the potential to be champions. And I guess any of these 6 teams will win the title. Germany, Belgium's gameplay is good enough. As a team they are able to play well. The Portuguese team is dependent on Ronaldo. If Ronaldo can play well, Portugal's chances of winning the title will increase. Argentina and Brazil teams are very strong. The team has a lot of star players. But I would say their match strategy is a bit weak.

It seems to me that Brazil has been much more convincing and better than Argentina lately, even in the South American qualifiers.
The Argentina team is still too dependent on Messi.
Germany is a very good team but in the last a few competitions they achieved poor results due to bad strikers.
Their biggest misfortune is that Lewandowski is not German and does not play for the German national team  
As for France, it seems to me that their biggest problem at the moment is bad relations in the team and the coach without authority.
However, I agree that all these national teams, regardless of the current problems, are among the favorites, and I would add Spain and the Netherlands.

I have two favourite teams for the World Cup title from South America (Brazil, Argentina) and two from Europe (France, Germany) now. There are some teams like Belgium and Portugal too but I feel like none of them will make it to the title. The reason why I see Germany ahead of the other big teams I mentioned is that they are improving themselves again to start performing like in the old times. I see a big potential in them in this tournament and I will see if I'm wrong about them.

I believe Argentina has learned from their mistakes in the qualify round because their defense and midfield was so poor from the starting that made many people to predicted that they will not qualify for the world cup competition. Now that Argentina is among the qualified teams for the world cup, I think it will be difficult for any team to defeat them in this season because they are well prepared to win the title. Based on the preparation of many teams, showed that this competition will not be easy for some team to demonstrate well, because many teams are preparing to use their talented players in this competition.

No doubt about how talented with Cristiano Ronaldo but I am not believing Portugal will reach potential result on 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, usually not only on club but also on national country should focus and try give chance for Cristiano Ronaldo scoring goals. I think that the problem faced if Portugal keep try to make Ronaldo as regular and important player, less contribution from other player like Diogo Jota, Rafael Leão and André Silva until Bernando Silva can show their best performance and skill with Portugal national country. I think football is unity team and not as individual skill and who ever got bigger chance for scoring goal should give them chance.

Hey guys,,, do you know any nice place to either buy/get the World Cup calendar poster with all possible ties, like the one @joker_josue shared? One of my friends saw it already in a local magazine but waste of money and poor quality.

Would be great to get a proper one from official source or even digital if can easily be shared.

Also I am surprised no NFT projects doing it yet that is famous.

Yes, I agree with you, in fact it surprises me because in all world championships they always start in June, to be more specific since June 14 always, this year it will start in November, which doesn't seem bad either, but I think that already we would be enjoying the World Cup at the moment, in addition there would be the best players in the world 100%, the problem of the leagues I think has been given more priority because they have not been able to monetize as it is, of course this is an issue that they do not say They will not say it, but it is not a lie that the soccer leagues have seen a lot of affectation by covid-19 and other causes such as war, among others, for me this has to do with it.

Well, thinking about it, he is a great inspiration for the entire Portuguese team, CR7 is usually a very charismatic person and that can help, besides this will be his last World Cup and despite everything Portugal had serious problems to qualify, so I don't think waste this golden opportunity for him.Literally Portugal is a team that can make history and CR7 pass as one of the best in history, it is up to him and his team to do it, they say that if you put your mind to something in life you can achieve it, and I think CR7 has a very high morale and can achieve it.

I do believe that Ronaldo inspires them, but he is also the reason not to wager on them because if he gets injured then the entire team may just crumble, hence unless Portugal shows that they can perform without him I won’t suggest to wager on them irrespective of the good odds you’ll see. Also their key player Bruno may not get much game time this season because he was terrible last season, and the new manager may use him as a super sub which will further effect Portugal going in this tournament.

When it comes to existing players, Portugal has a better line-up than the previous year. Where they are strengthened by players who have stable appearances this season.
But if I let Cristiano Ronaldo not join the national team I think it will be a problem, especially in terms of mentality. His leadership is still very much needed to motivate other players. Yes, it can't be denied.

Ronaldo is a class apart. He can't be compared with anyone else. Players such as Diogo Jota, Rafael Leão and André Silva are very talented, but none of them can replace Ronaldo if he is not there in the squad. Take out Ronaldo from the Portugal team, and I am sure that they will struggle to remain in the top-15 ranking. Players like Ronaldo makes life easier for the other players in his team. Because the opponents will be completely focused on him, and using this opportunity the other players can make attacking moves.

This is true but as long as it can be maximized well why not because even though there are some capable players when they are not very consistent this does not go well. Now actually the star player is just an icon in my opinion and his advantages are supported by several other players who will indeed become a good unit.
For example, let's take an example like Senegal, which is indeed iconic, for sure Mane is now but he is not alone because there are several other players even though they are not as big as Mane but their support is great which makes this good.

Yeah, that's why I think Brazil is in a really good position now to win the cup.

Every single Brazilian player is just solid at least, and some are extremely talented. It doesn't matter in which position they play, they are just good. There's no bad player there.

It's no surprise that Brazil has won the world cup five times already and they qualified for this World Cup without losing a single match.

That's just impressive, specially in such a competitive confederation.

It is such a hard and difficult thing to win World Cup that even with one amazing player, you will not be able to get it. Not at their age, not when they were younger neither, it is near impossible task. You need to have a lot of great players, look at France for example, they do have Mbappe but they have other great players as well.

So in order to win this cup, you need to have players on all positions and you need to win a lot. Without that, you are not going to be good and you are going to end up getting bad results while one player would be scoring. Becoming a team and having a great generation of players all at the same time matters the most.

Let me take a second and name a few: we have Ronaldo, Fernandes, Felix, Silva, Jota, Leao, and several other well established players in the top European leagues. I don't really see why Portugal shouldn't have a chance at all. It is not even all about Ronaldo anymore. That team can beat any team on a good day, but as you said they aren't the most stable team right now so they can also concede a couple of goals within a single game.

As I said before it really boils down to the form the teams will have at the World Cup, whether anyone gets a covid infection and can't play and so on and so forth. On paper right now I would say that Portugal might not be a favorite, but would you say that they are easy to beat?

It is very difficult to make predictions about the World Cup final. Ronaldo is Portugal's main striker, so we think the team is very strong. But Portugal as a team is not stable. Their defense is weak. Moreover France, Germany, Brazil and Argentina are very strong teams. And so before the start of the World Cup, it is not possible to predict which team will be the champions this time

I see interesting couples already in the first round of the playoffs. E1 - F2 and E2 - F1 (Spain/Germany vs. Belgium/Croatia), D1 - C2 (France vs. Mexico/Poland). Provided that the favorites do not fail, which cannot be completely ruled out - at least one team can surprise. But in general, as in any world championship, really deadly games will begin only from the 1/8 finals.

I wouldn't underestimate them. They are much more flexible and versatile than they used to be in the past. The offense is pretty strong in my opinion. If they are all available and fit I don't see a reason why they shouldn't be able to compete for the top 5 as well. I think when it comes to the semifinals and final, it is rarely the case that one team totally dominates the game. It is the little things that then decide it. On a good day we all know that Ronaldo can still score some crazy goals. Could become his tournament so to say.                                                                             

You've never seen them at the World Cup or on any other occasion, because there really hasn't been a game between them yet.
By the way, I'm lying, there was actually a friendly game in 2014, which Portugal won 1-0, in the last minute of the game.

But in official games, they never faced each other.

I was very lucky, most of my life played with only locals but there was about a 4/5 year period when I lived near a university with international students and foreign workers -- but mainly vocational and factory workers, and our pitches were terrible or we played a lot on cement if it was 5v5 -- so very very physical. Africans and South Americans have legs of steel, and a lot of dark arts haha.

Then in my late 20s I played semi-amateur in a city league with expats, then I got a taste of Middle Eastern, European, generally much much taller, better training, but also started playing better pitches, and there the skill levels really widened, but fitness makes up for it a lot (and those guys were white collar mainly so a lot less fit). Our captain and keeper was German actually, I was the only Southeast Asian in the team, also the shortest and smallest haha.

It's definitely a problem when you have to take 3 steps and they only take 2 long strides (so technically, they're slower than you, but move longer distances simply because of height hahaha).

Argentine professional footballer Lionel Messi is one the best players in the world and also recognized as one of the greatest players as well. He belongs to many records in the football history such as getting more Ballon d’Ors, European Golden Shoes etc. He led Argentina to the 2014 World Cup final and belonging the tournament's Most Valuable Player award. 2014 world cup Argentina played well but they lost in extra time.
Indeed, he played a key role in leading Argentina to the 2018 World Cup and qualifying for Qatar through 2022. The Qatar World Cup can be the last world cup for Lionel Messi.