Topic: ⚽ FIFA World Cup 2022: Qualifying Games For Qatar - page 9. (Read 6028 times)

In the first match, Germany underestimated the Japanese team, as it turned out, not only they did, but this mistake became fatal for them. In the match against Spain, everything was more difficult, but the draw was a fair result, well, in the last match they were good, but it was already too late. Germany was really not in the best shape, but they could reach the playoffs, if not for the selfless game of Japan, and perhaps if not for this scandalous out.

Belgium and Germany deserved on performances along to be sent home at the group stages. That Belgium golden generation was not so golden after all and as for Germany, it was inevitable because they simply were not good enough over the course of their games even though they won their final game comprehensively. 

Morocco will probably go all out in their game against Spain with attacking football, I am expecting Morocco to win.

I didn't say for sure that these are the reasons but I tried to give a logical sense to the release of the big names. However what you say is also true, the championship is changing geographically, now many top players come from countries that up until a few decades ago could never have participated in the world championships. But it's very strange to see Japan go through as first qualifier in such a competitive group.

I would not say that these are the reasons for the disastrous results of some favorites at this world championship, such as Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Uruguay etc.
The same weather conditions, and even worse, were at the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, and yet there were not as many unexpected results and surprises as now.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Italy failed to qualify for two consecutive World Cups, and Germany failed to qualify for the knockout stage of the World Cup twice in a row.
Also, has anyone noticed that we've never had more teams from Asia, Africa and North America and Australia in the knockout stages of a world cup competition?
I think that these results are not accidental or the result of weather conditions, but an indication of major changes on the football map of the world.

In my opinion we have to take various factors into consideration, for example a world championship has never been played in recent months, secondly some players come from cold countries and were sent to Qatar with high temperatures over 40° and go from one extreme to the other.  This is not a justification or criticism but I just want to point out that although we are talking about professional players accustomed to these changes, this time it probably didn't go like this.  Maybe someone couldn't handle the "jeetlag"... or probably had a physical drop and didn't perform well.

I have to say, Morocco stunned me.... This World Cup has featured some of the biggest upsets in history! ...and it totally messed with my multi bets... it's red all over for me.    Japan, topped the group with six points from their two upset games.   

So who do you think will cause some upsets in the knockout rounds, because I cannot afford to lose much more? Will the best teams in the world assert their dominance?

@JollyGood honestly Germany and Belgium player’s need to ask themselves are they even worthy enough to play for their respective countries, because their performances were terrible and if possible both countries should change their entire squad for the next World Cup. Furthermore Japan is one team that’s stunned me, and if they go on to win the World Cup then I’ll truly regret not wagering on them when the odds were insanely high.

This tournament is absurd, Germany out and Japan moving into first place.  Uruguay out, Argentina losing against Arabia in a nutshell an absurd world tournament.  And you want to tell me that Morocco will win with Spain?  Ok maybe when the Europeans play in the winter season it's possible that everything turns upside down otherwise I don't understand.

I still feel they over-celebrated and that was a mistake on their part.

Belgium, Denmark and Germany have all disappointed but Morocco I think will beat Spain, I think they will do it. Morocco and Senegal are the only African teams left in the tournament and they will go all out to win as they are knockout games. In an otherwise meeting Senegal would stand very little chance of beating England but this is the world cup and anything can happen. The same goes for Morocco, Japan and South Korea.

It would be great to see nations other than the regular successful ones going far in the tournament too.

Results from the games played:

Ghana 0-2 Uruguay
Korea Republic 2-1 Portugal
Cameroon 1-0 Brazil 
Serbia 2-3 Switzerland

From Group G, even though Cameroon beat Brazil today it was not enough because Switzerland beat Serbia to go through to the next stage. In Group H Portugal and South Korea are though whereas Uruguay and Ghana are knocked out.

Here are the final Group G and Group H tables:

No, you can't blame them for celebrating their first win in such a big way. It was a big game with a lot of media attention, and everyone thought Qatar would have an advantage because they were the hosts, but we all saw what happened. I guess the celebration was also because they broke the long-standing record of the hosting always winning the first game. But, to be honest, they deserve it be eliminated because they failed the other two difficult tests.


Morocco has been the most surprising team for me so far. I never trusted them because they were in a tough group and their chances of qualifying were slim. It's a feat that they went on to win Belgium and Canada and become the group leader; I'm sure no one saw that coming. Belgium is so unlucky to have Lukaku as their top striker; he had six sitters and missed them all in one of the country's' most important game; I can't believe we paid such a high price for him last season. He hasn't changed much. The team is, without a doubt, old, but he had the opportunity to send his country through but failed. So far, Belgium, Denmark, and German have been my biggest flops.

Kai Havertz prevented the most embarrassing scene last night... spoiled the party for Costa Rica

It is going to keep being an interesting world cup for sure, but at the end of the day do we really think that teams like France or Brazil would have a shocking result? Nobody considered Germany or Spain to be favourites, they believed that England would be, France would be and of course Brazil would be these are the high favourites and they are doing fine if you ask me, still some unexpected results by some of them, but they look good.

I believe one of those three will win the title and that is what matters. I am believing that we are going to end up with a good result in the long run and the winner will not be a team like Japan, that is not possible at all.

Results from the games played yesterday from Group E and Group F:

Canada 1-2 Morocco
Croatia 0-0 Belgium 
Costa Rica 2-4 Germany 
Japan 2-1 Spain

From Group E Japan and Spain have qualified. From Group F Morocco and Croatia have qualified. It means Belgium and Germany have both been knocked out in the group stages. Here is how the final tables for Group E and F look like.

For today's games:

Republic of Korea - Portugal

this is a game in which portugal is already in the other phase but they need to ensure that they are in first place in the group, because if ghana wins in the game against uruguay then portugal could have the risk of being in second place in this group because the ghana has the same number of goals as portugal, so portugal needs to win in this game against south korea, looking at the players scheduled for this game:



some portugal players are not playing, so i don't understand to what extent portugal will take this game seriously, but anyway it won't be an easy game for portugal because they don't have all their best players on the pitch

Ghana - Uruguay

I honestly don't understand why bookmakers are underestimating ghana so much? this odd of @4.30 for ghana is as if they were saying that ghana is not as strong as uruguay, in my opinion ghana will win this game, they play very well and so far they have been much better than uruguay, i bet on ghana to win in this game



if ghana manages to win in this game then they will be able to pass to another stage of the world cup, without a doubt that would be excellent news because we would have many african teams in the next stage of this world cup

Serbia - Switzerland

this is a very important game for switzerland they need to win this game to be able to move to another stage, if they can't win this game then they go home, but looking at serbia i would say that serbia doesn't have many chances to win in this game being so i believe that switzerland can win in this game

Cameroon - Brazil

brazil will play with gabriel jesus, rodrygo and other good players so i hope they create a lot of difficulties for the prawns, maybe they even manage to win this game, although for them it is not so important that they win this game, but in the case of prawns they need to win this game

In fact, all this looks suspicious. It is rather strange that after the first half, when Spain saw a "reliable" score in the game Costa Rica - Germany (0-1), then everything immediately turned upside down and Spain "suddenly" turned from a winning side into a losing side. Given that Spain only benefited from this turn of events, this looks suspicious. The ideal option would be if Costa Rica won and Japan and Costa Rica advanced to the next round.

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I appreciate the good showing from Morocco, but their fans need to learn how to behave. Especially when they are residing in some foreign nation. There was rioting and hooliganism by Moroccan fans in France, Belgium and Netherlands after their recent wins. The Japanese fans on the other hand, volunteered to clean the stadium of empty cans and thrash after their win against Germany. Asia and Africa represent the future of football. The most important thing here is not to antagonize people from other regions and stay within their limits.

With all due respect to Japan, Spain embarrassed me, especially in the second half. The first half was fine, but in the second we were overwhelmed and in the blink of an eye we were suffering because we were one goal away from elimination if Costa Rica scored another.

Congratulations to Japan, who were the surprise package, the revelation of the group. Those who bet on them will have made good money.

Spain Morocco will be interesting. There are a lot of Moroccans living in Spain, we'll see how this translates in terms of fan rivalry.

Well, against all the odds, Japan ended up doing it again, now against Spain.

They started losing 0 - 1 but then just like against Germany, they scored the equalizer and then the second goal.

It was an incredible match, at some point both Germany and Spain were about to be kicked out of the group of 16, when Costa Rica scored their 2 -1.

At the end of the day it was Germany the one that couldn't go through, and Japan ended up as number one.

Lucky for Spain, Costa Rica couldn't defeat Germany in the end.

What a finish for this group!

Well, they celebrated like crazy when they beat host nation Qatar in the opening game. If they had celebrated a win it would have been fine but for them to have over-celebrated akin to humiliating the host nation - for that a lot of people thought Ecuador unfortunately deserved to be knocked out.

I have to say, it is possible but the way they just about managed a win against Switzerland did not give me a lot of confidence in their display. They will be able to demonstrate their skills in their final group game and that might be enough to convince more people they are serious contenders to win the tournament.

Do you think Deschamps was being disrespectful to Tunisia by fielding an over the top weakened side or he was just resting some players and giving a chance to others? The Tunisians deserved their victory overall because the French did not play with a sense of urgency until it was too late. They were strolling and it was not impressive which allowed the Tunisians to play strongly and win. I think Deschamps did disrespect Tunisia by fielding that starting eleven. Even the Faroe Islands would have played better than France that game