The groups for the qualifying stages for the 2022 FIFA World Cup had been announced on Monday.© AFP
Holders France had been handed an awkward draw in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup on Monday, with Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina standing in their way on the road to the finals in Qatar, whilst England will face Poland in their group. Gareth Southgate’s England, semi-finalists at the 2018 tournament in Russia, will also take on Hungary and Albania as nicely as two of the minnows of international football, Andorra and San Marino, in Group I. France will also face Finland — who lately beat Les Bleus in a friendly in Paris — in Group D, with Kazakhstan finishing the group that was drawn in a virtual ceremony at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Didier Deschamps They are in a group of just 5 teams mainly because they will be involved in the finals of the UEFA Nations League in Italy in October subsequent year.
The European qualifying competitors to attain the finals starts subsequent March, with a total of 13 nations from the continent going by means of.
Only the winners of every of the 10 groups will qualify automatically for the finals, which are to take location in November and December of 2022.
The 10 runners-up will go into play-offs alongside the two very best Nations League group winners who miss out on qualifying through the regular path.
Those play-offs will create 3 additional qualifiers in total, with Europe getting 13 spots out of the 32 at the finals.
Germany, whose coach Joachim Loew has been below extreme stress following a run of poor current final results for the 2014 World Cup winners, will be anticipated to come by means of a group in which Romania and Iceland seem their primary threats.
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Touche. Solid arguments. Keep up the good spirit.