Mexico to play: * 1 x High Ranking Team or Russia * 2 x Teams from (Middle East, Sub-saharan Africa, East Asia (incl. Australia), Scandinavia) On paper, all the strong teams are in pot 1 and pot 2. From the way the teams are seeded--looks like FIFA wants the favorites to cruise through the group stage. All the play off games will be intense. Thoughts? Who do you think Mexico will face?
The most difficult group Mexico can face would be: Germany, Denmark, Nigeria Easiest Rusia, Senegal/Tunisia, Saudi Arabia Based on personal opinion.
http://ultra.zone/2018-FIFA-World-Cup-Group-Stage-Draws Heres a tool to see how it plays out, Ive pulled Argentina, Mexico, Egypt, Nigeria a few times
I did the simulation a few times...................and man, i did not like the results that i saw for Mexico. No opponent is going to be easy, but this should get pretty interesting come December 1st.
Russia Mexico Tunisia Australia, Poland Mexico Costa rica Korea Portugal Mexico Egypt Panama All these simulations i did seem good to me, 4th one I did germany mexico sweden nigeria, that one looks more scary
Rather have a top 3 in our group so we don't have to face them in round of 16. Somos México y vamos a pasar a la siguiente ronda. Viva México carbones!
I made a spreadsheet to help with trip planning and to easily see where each team would play. Check it out! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymPLAIwuN9pzC5dQkodlfjI1oJ_Py-H4EA9DWTDx0-M/edit?usp=sharing
No, no two from same confederation except euro, same as before. I assume if they would pull it, they would put that team in next group and redraw for ours
The rehearsal was today and this was the result: I would have taken the group, but that Round of 16 Crossing would be absolutely mental.
All I want for Christmas is a group with Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. Hopefully no Scandinavian teams and no Nigeria or Senegal. The rest will be alright but please let us get Saudi Arabia.
Nigeria looked great against the Argies. Definitely wouldn't want to be the first team I would want to face with our defense I'm actually more intrigued to see which group we get paired up against in the knockout rounds, I feel with how the teams are distributed there's very little chance Mexico would get a group which they couldn't qualify out of
This, that is why I'd rather get a tougher #1 seed in our group so that eliminates playing them un round of 16.
Teams that have the highest probability to be in Mexico's Group Pot 1: Brazil - 20% Argentina 20% Pot 3: Sweden - 20% Iceland - 20% Denmark -20% Pot4: Serbia - 26%
I think this is so dumb, besides concacaf teams other nations in respective pots have the same probability. Unless they think the extra weight of the ink on balls with longer names makes a difference. It's not like the NBA lottery that based on records it determines how many balls you have this creating different probabilities
FIFA's WC Draw Rules eliminate some possibilities, which change up the probabilities. Both Brazil and Argentina cannot draw Peru, Columbia or Uruguay from Pot2. This gives both teams only 5 other teams to draw from Pot2 , which includes Mexico. If Mexico draws Brazil or Argentina from Pot1, then Mexico will forced to draw a Euro team from Pot3 (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland) or Serbia from Pot4 since there must be 1 Euro team in every group per FIFA rules.