With its teams ranked between ninth and 20th in the world, the 2022 Fifa World Cup’s Group B is not a group of death but is perhaps the tightest by far in Qatar.
England manager Gareth Southgate and striker Harry Kane during the Uefa Nations League League A Group 3 match against Italy at the San Siro in Milan on September 23 2022.With its teams ranked between ninth and 20th in the world, the 2022 Fifa World Cup’s Group B is not a group of death, but is perhaps the tightest by far in Qatar.
England have no wins in Uefa’s Nations League in six matches, and four goals scored, including last month’s flat 2-0 defeat to Germany at Wembley where centreback Harry Maguire was booed and made horrendous errors. But prioritising pragmatic over expressive football going into a World Cup, making sure the team is well organised, is not always a bad thing.South Africans will follow Iran with interest given the South African connection.
Queiroz’s squad has many combined years and caps, though the coach might worry it lacks youthful energy. Forward Mehdi Taremi, 30, was joint top-scorer Portuguese Primeira Liga in 2019-20 playing for Rio Aves, and for FC Porto was third-top scorer in 2020-21 and second in 2021-22.USA The US squeezed into the World Cup as the third-placed team behind Canada and Mexico, on goal difference from fourth-placed Costa Rica.
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