No joke for the Blues, especially on April 1st. The France team will be fixed on its three opponents in the group stage of the 2022 World Cup, which will take place in Qatar from November 21 to December 18, 2022. Didier Deschamps’ men benefit from a protected status as seeded, which will allow them will avoid meeting Brazil, England or Belgium, in particular. But the fact remains that tricky teams are legion. The draw is to follow on franceinfo.fr from 6 p.m.
A draw aimed at balancing the hens. The teams are divided into four pots, according to the FIFA rankings (with a few exceptions, Qatar, the host country, enjoys protected status in pot 1). Each pool is made up of four teams, each from a hat.
Fearsome opponents in the other hats. In hat 2 alone, we find the finalist of the last World Cup, Croatia, the always formidable Germany or the Netherlands, another stronghold of European football. The African champion, Senegal, only appears in hat 3. Although world champions, the Blues can quite well inherit a group of death. Here is a simulation of the worst and the best draw for the Habs.
Three qualifiers are not yet known. In the Europe zone, a team remains to be defined due to the war in Ukraine, which has delayed the holding of the play-offs, which concern, in addition to the Ukrainian team, Wales and Scotland. Other dams have not yet taken place, involving Peru, the United Arab Emirates and Australia on the one hand, and New Zealand and Costa Rica on the other.