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Simulation 1 – Wrong!! Scotland can't be in Germany's group. Both teams won their qualifying Uefa groups therefore can't be drawn in the same group.
Will one of Argentina, Spain, France, and England be placed in Group C due to FIFA rankings? How come these four teams don't meet until the semifinals? I want a explain
And yes if they still loose the first game against lesser team.lets make sure they win the next games by referee error. Like when South korea hosted and where basically helped through by refs. They beat both Italy and portugal in outrageously badly refereed games. FIfAis now a greedy corp. Not sport.
What does he mean you can’t “curate” a knockout draw?” FIFA has been doing that for decades. 😂
I stopped the video when the anchor asked "What do you mean by a Group of Death"
Spain will be knocked out sooner than expected
Very good!
This is the worst thing that could happend to the WC. If a team want to win the cup. they need to be best of the world in all fases of the cup…
“Morocco had the chance of not going against too many power houses” bro Morocco played Spain in Ro16, Portugal in QF and France in SF. Not to mention Belgium and Croatia in the group stages
The Vikings Are coming (Norway 🔥)
Hey look! With 48 teams EVERYONE gets in… what a joke.
There are always shock results in a tournament especially in the group stages, so I do expect at least 2 big countries come up against each other early in the knockout stages. Anyway, the one team I would like to avoid as long as possible is Norway.
Morroco defeated Portugal
Iraq cannot be in a group with Uruguay, Panama, Mexico or Colombia because they're in a playoff path with a CONCACAF team and a CONMEBOL team.
DR Congo cannot be in a group with the US for the same reason. If you're going to do a simulation, at least do it correctly, I thought that would be common sense for an established network.
Iraq MUST be in a group with 2 UEFA teams and 1 CAF team, one of the UEFA teams must be in pot 1 (because there are no pot 1 CAF teams)
Turkiye and Norway will be surprise from Europe for this World Cup
Its following a long standing Tennis structure for the grand slams… seems to work there
Lol 48 team tournament is horrible, its just another qualifying round
l hope usa korea meet group d stage
If you're unsatisfied with the lack of clear explanations of draw constraints, poor simulations (Mexico/USA can't have a IC Play-off team like Iraq/DRC), and the "group of death" comment…
Go check out IamNOTmrT's video. Great explanation and does a full draw simulation, explaining the constraints as he goes.
Let's save time and money; FIFA just tell everyone who the World Cup Winner is NOW!
It's GAME FIXING…it's FIFA CORRUPTION; AGAIN!
이 정도면 1승 1무 1패로 32강 진출이네…
I woulda put every from last world cup round of 16 in a single group
This is wrong as already pointed out in other comments, Scotland can not play Germany as both teams won their UEFA group and can't be drawn together. Do your research.
I feel like it should be completely randomized. It's not like the UCL where you don't want teams from the same country to meet. Just randomize all groups and the knockout stage as well. Might not be perfectly fair but it would sure be more interesting
01:44 “This is the end of The Group of Death” Perfect example of how to make a “shocking comment” without value. Either if he thought this was a great idea to present or he had a sudden inspiration, it proves he does not understand the dynamics of formation of a Group of Death vs the dynamics of playoff stages… and for other comments I read, this will be as far as I’ll go with the analysis of this presentation. Rubbish, indeed.
48 teams. insane
Messsi about to score 20 goals against Haiti
The World Cup top scorer record is dead now
So italy, sweden, denmark and turkey could very well be pot 4. Wild.
I don't know the answer, I hope I can get an answer.
It you have 12 groups, and four different paths, then one of the top four teams, Spain, Argentina, England, or France, must be in Group C. There's Mexico, Canada, and the US in Group's A, B, D, so you need one in Group C.
My question is, then there's Group E and F. If, For Example Spain is drawn after Argentina from Pot one, does it go into Group E, or Group F?
Also, you CAN get a group of Death in one of these groups, but it might work better with Argentina in Group C, as they could draw both Croatia and Norway into Group C. This could include Cabo Verde.
Watching these guys discuss the format of the world cup draw reminded me of the time when I was 10 and I had to do a spoken report on a book I never bothered to read 😂
These guys are clowns dont understand ranking and brackets.
Why have a draw at all if you want to manipulate it. Just set the games from rankings.
Keep the draw!!!!!
Well, an 48 teams final tournament is artificial anyway. 3 Concacaf top of seed teams is artificial anyway.
Think the seeding of the top four is brilliant. Semifinals of Argentina vs England and France vs Spain would be great.
BUT…
it won’t end up that way. The likes of Brazil, Norway, Mexico, Morocco, Japan and Senegal etc will have a helluva of a lot to say about that…
I suspect that only 2 of the top 4 seeds will make it to the semis. My money is on… 🤔
Protecting the players who bring more ads
Norway will get a reality check. Their squad depth is thin. I think they will bust out in the group stage.
The group of death factor hasnt been changed at all why do none of these guys do any research? Tha group draw rules literally hasnt changed at all😂 This is the least knowledgable football panel i have ever witnessed. Its like they just picked 4 randoms of the streets with a less than average knowledge on the sport. The 1st and 2nd ranked teams was literally a factor at the last world cup aswell😂
Hopefully Ghana and Uruguay meet each other again 😂😂
Group of Death
England – Morocco – Japan – Italy
Brazil – Morocco – Serbia – Italy
Argentina – Morocco – Nigeria – Italy
USA. AUTRALIA .TURKEY. ECOUDOR. they shuold come in a group I wish that
Review the draw constraints. This stuff is wrong
How denmark and Italy are already in WC? Is it so straight forward for them to qualify! After outsmarted in qualification already??
france's 2nd sim group is almost the same as 2022 lol
PIPA is trying to quickly finish the war in time for the so called funniest event in earth ..Russia has other ideas
PIPA weird cup must come once every 40 years…