On December 7, the draw for the qualifying tournament for the 2022 football championship will be held in Qatar. On the eve of this, MK-Sport is trying to calculate which options for the Russian national team can bring lots.

What will happen now: with whom the Russian team will play in the selection to the World Cup 2022

The Russian team completely failed 2020-six matches without victories in a row and a cool peak in the FIFA ranking led to the fact that our country fell from the top 20 in Europe. This is scary against the backdrop of the impending draw of the qualifying stage of the World Cup-2022, which will be held on December 7. In accordance with the FIFA rating – ten countries in each basket will be distributed in baskets. Thus, Russia lost its place in the second basket and hit the third. This means that in our qualifying group there will be more for one strong opponent.

Here's how, based on the new FIFA rating, baskets of draw will look like:

1 basket: Belgium, France, England, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands.

2 basket: Switzerland, Wales, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Ukraine, Serbia, Turkey, Slovakia, Romania

3 basket: Russia, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Scotland, Greece, Finland

4 basket: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Israel, Belarus, Georgia, Luxembourg

5 Basket: Armenia, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Andorra

6 basket: Malta, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, San Marino

We are in the third basket and will not be able to play with the countries from it. But in our group, teams will be guaranteed from the first, second, fourth, fifth, and maybe even from the sixth baskets. The worst thing is the first two. If in any case we could not avoid an opponent from the first basket, then a difficult enemy from the second basket was completely optional. It makes no sense to disassemble all rivals. Let's estimate the group of life and death for the Russian national team in this situation.

Life group

With all due respect to the vice-champions of the world from the first basket, Croatia, along with Denmark, look noticeably weaker in company with Spain and Belgium. If you choose these evils, then, perhaps, it is worth stopping at Denmark. The Danes only recently broke into the European ten, overtaking Switzerland, and the stars in the smaller team.

From the second basket, we are guaranteed to play with Ukraine – we have been bred for six years for a draw for non -football reasons. Of the rest, Romanians and Slovaks look foreign in this basket.Choosing, I would like to meet with Slovakia, especially against the background of their last match with the Czech Republic, lost by the fourthly.

The fourth basket contains strong teams and many of our old acquaintances like Georgia and Belarus. Obviously, yesterday’s football dwarf Luxembourg looks not in its place-it would be nice to see this team in the selection for the World Cup 2022.

In the fifth basket I don’t want to understand at all, so as not to run into comparisons that are not most pleasant for its inhabitants. Here you can poke your finger at any team and choose a comfortable opponent. Perhaps the players from Andorra are weaker than the rest, although they were able to get out of the sixth dozen European rating.

Everything is simple with the sixth basket-we take from there San Marino, whose players cry with happiness, playing two in a row of official matches in a draw-against Liechtenstein and Gibraltar.

As a result, we get such a group of life: Denmark, Slovakia, Russia, Luxembourg, Andorra, San Marino. More than passing – with three football dwarfs.

Death Group

Against the background of the latest matches and taking into account the history of meetings with the Russian team, it is dangerous for us to run into the first number of FIFA rating from the first basket – Belgium. Here you do not even need to explain for a long time.

From the second basket, as shown by games with Turkey and Serbia, not even the strongest teams are pose for us. But most of all, Wales and Poland should be afraid. Welsh looks great lately, especially when Gareth Bale He began to receive playing time in the new club. And Poland is not only Lewandovskybut the same KryhovykWhich in our championship is considered almost the best player. Nevertheless, the Poles look stronger.

From the fourth basket, the newcomer Barcelona and the captain of the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina are passed on to us. Miral Pyanich. He is a diamond in a very solid frame of football players of serious European championships. I would not want to get such a team in rivals.

On the fifth basket we have already walked – there is no particular difference in the class between the national teams. Misforter, perhaps, Armenia, winning even without Henry Mkhitaryan. And Rostovtsya began to play for this national team Khoren Bayramyan.

One could not remember about the sixth basket, if there were no dangerous, as it turned out, for Russia, an opponent – the Moldova national team. Really, who would have thought?

As a result, we get such a group of death: Belgium, Poland, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Moldova. Not the most formidable by names, but as dangerous as possible on the football field.