He World Cup enters its decisive stage. A beautiful, exciting group stage is behind us and with more games than ever. With goals, with disappointments, with all the stars shining… and with a final picture already drawn that leaves uneven paths and several questions that at MARCA we want you to answer.
The first thing is to question who is going to qualify in each of the 16 matches in the first qualifying round. We can divide the big picture of the World Cup into four blocksto define each of the four semifinalists who will reach the last dates of the tournament.
The World Cup draw.
Who is going to qualify for each round of the World Cup?
In the upper zone of the World Cup we have the highest concentration of favorites in the entire table. Germany, France, Netherlands and Morocco They will fight for a place in that penultimate round of the tournament. Next to nothing.
Then comes the qualifying section that concerns Spain. The fall of Portugal As second in the group, she sets fire to our path to the final.
Brazil He will not have a bed of roses towards the final rounds either. It will be measured at Japan in sixteenths and has on the horizon Norway and England.
And then the time comes Argentina. With a nicer picture… but with a Colombia who has already shown that he can stop anyone.
How far will Spain go?
Taking a look at the table we can get an idea of who has the easiest path and which has the most thorny one. The one from Spain, which looks like a Euro Cuphas Austria as its first stone and then Portugal or Croatia.
Looking at the table from afar, it may seem that there is an imbalance between the high and low areas in terms of difficulty for the favorites.
With the painting in hand, who is the favorite?
Now this question makes more sense than at the beginning of the tournament. We have seen the teams, we have seen their stars…and we know their possible path to the final.
It is being a World Cup of stars… but also of lesser-known players who are making themselves seen in the tournament and putting your name in the shop window for the near future. Who are you liking more?
There are three exciting weeks left in the World Cup. Three weeks to overcome four eliminatory rounds and reach a final that will concentrate all the spotlights and eyes on the planet. And there we want Spain to be, on July 19, another date to tattoo in our memory.
