2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Draw Thread

Draws are getting more and more complicated

 

Norway and Sweden will be the only teams I'm wary of

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/england-world-cup-draw-explainer-34299502
Mirror article about tomorrow’s draw.

 

Greece just gave us two hard games. Any team in Pot 2 should be respected at least.

 

But I would put Norway and Sweden ahead of the others due to their world class attackers

 

Tuchel is there in his FA suit.

 

I just don’t want to draw Sweden as it would cause all sorts of family drama…….

 

What happened when H Maguire scored that great header at WC 2018?

 

Group K it is. Five team group.

 

You have you wish. Sweden are in group B. With the top seed in that group being Switzerland.

 

Serbia in our group. Not the easiest team from that pot and again a team we have only just had,

 

Dull group so far

 

Albania the third team.


The Serbia vs Albania matches are going to be very intense for those two teams.

 

Im surprised that they can play each other

World Cup qualifying in general is a lot more dull now that 48 teams qualify.

 

Next up in Group K is Latvia.

 

It’s 16 UEFA teams. 16 UEFA team qualifying for 1996-2012 Euros wasn’t often dull.

 

And the final team is Andorra.

 

Should walk that group

 

If they don’t Tuchel will be finding it hard to get a big job anywhere again.

 

They had fewer groups, and the groups had 6/7 teams in which made it more interesting.

 

I thought travel came into it? We play the whole group basically in Eastern Europe

 

It’s not total travel but certain specific distances .