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In the summer of 2018, the entire football world is waiting for the most massive, multinational and grandiose event - the World Cup. The Russian Federation will host the 2018 World Cup. The start of the championship is scheduled for June 14, the final match will take place on July 15.

Quite recently, the qualifying stage ended, where 31 tickets to the tournament were played. The agonizing wait of millions of fans who are worried with all their hearts for their home team in all corners of the world has come to an end - the participants of the 2018 FIFA World Cup have become known.

What stars will visit next summer Russian Federation? Who should pay special attention to? This will be discussed further.

Countries participating in the 2018 World Cupyear from Europe

The European continent always attracts the attention of millions of football fans. It is here that the most interesting and exciting confrontations are always observed. The games of the current qualifying round were no exception - all the teams tried to adequately present their flag.

Before the start of the qualifying round, it seemed that the baskets would not bring any surprises. However, the final results discouraged many. So, the Italian team, experienced, incredibly skilled and burnt through by international battles, for the first time since 1958, could not break into the Mundial.

The Dutch team made up a couple of “losers” for the Italians. The current composition of the Orange team cannot be called stellar, but a very eminent fusion of youth and experience failed to complete the task.

Member countries from the European Confederation:

• Russia;
• England;
• Belgium;
• Germany;
• Denmark;
• Iceland;
• Spain;
• Poland;
• Portugal;
• Serbia;
• France;
• Croatia;
• Switzerland;
• Sweden.

How many teamsrepresent other confederations?

It is worth recalling right away: 32 is the total number of teams in the main draw of the Mundial.

Let's note the relatively easy passage of the selection by the Brazilian team, which got a ticket in the first round of selection. The players of the Argentina national team really wanted to play at the 2018 World Cup, having obtained the right to travel to Russia only following the results of the final round of the group, beating the Ecuador national team with a score of 1-3 (a hat-trick on the account of the unsurpassed Leo Messi).

In addition to Selesao and Albiceleste, the South American continent on the Russian fields will be represented by Uruguay, Colombia and Peru.

It is worth noting the failure to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2018 USA. The Americans, who were leading more than half of the selection, at the end managed to lose the obtained point advantage.

From North and Central America, Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama will go to Russia.

Serious struggle accompanied the matches of the African qualifying round. The strongest team of the continent - Cameroon in its group was able to win only one match, demonstrating the weakest result in last years.

From Africa to the FIFA World Cup 2018 will go: Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt.

The confederation of Asia and Oceania will be defended by: Japan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Australia, South Korea.

On December 1, 2017, the draw for the final stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place. Who got into group A along with Russia? What are these teams and are they strong?

Now we will answer the main question last days from the fans: “Who will the Russian national football team play at the 2018 World Cup?”

Group A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay.

Matches of our team in the group stage:

• Russia - Saudi Arabia, Luzhniki (Moscow) June 14, 2018. This will be the opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
• Russia - Egypt, Krestovsky (St. Petersburg) June 19, 2018.
• Uruguay - Russia, Samara-Arena (Samara) June 25, 2018.

Rivals of the Russian national team in the group at the 2018 FIFA World Cup

First, let's say a few words about the Russian team. Based on the Fifa ranking as of November 23, 2017 (the latest at the time of writing this article), our team has the lowest place among all the participants in the final stage - 65th place. This is due to not very good (to put it mildly) results of recent matches and a small number of games for recent times- several friendly matches instead of a full-fledged selection for the 2018 World Cup.

Saudi Arabia.

Main star: Mohammad al-Sahlavi.

In the first stage of the group stage of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Asia, Saudi Arabia did not lose a single match and took first place in the group with the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Malaysia and East Timor. At the second stage, the group turned out to be more difficult - Japan, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Thailand and, of course, Saudi Arabia.

The team managed by van Marwijk took second place in the group, missing the Japanese team in first place. At this stage, the SA team won 6 matches, drew 1 (with Australia) and lost 3 (Japan, Australia and the United Arab Emirates).

Mohammad al-Sahlavi scored 16 goals in the qualifying stage (of which 4 from the penalty spot) in 14 matches and took second place among the scorers of the Asian selection.

Our guys have to win against the Saudi Arabian team.

Egypt.

Main star: Mohammed Salah.

Egypt started in the selection from the second preliminary stage, where they sensationally lost to Chad with a score of 1-0. The return game, however, ended with a confident victory for the Egyptians - 4:0.

In the group stage in Group E, Egypt finished first without any problems, losing only to Uganda, and drawing with Ghana. It is noteworthy that the main rival of Egypt in the fight for first place, the national team of Ghana, took only third place.

The best scorer of the national team in this selection is Mohammed Salah - 5 goals (2 of them from the penalty spot) in 5 matches. Mohammed took second place in the list of scorers in the African selection.

Our guys should win against the Egyptian team, but a draw is quite possible.

Uruguay.

Main stars: Fernando Muslera, Diego Godin, Maxi Pereira, Edinson Cavani, Luis Suarez.

The Uruguay national team took second place in the South American selection, only behind Brazil, but leaving behind Argentina. The national team of Uruguay lost to Brazil at home, and also lost 4 matches away: Argentina, Peru, Chile and Ecuador.

The best scorer of the national team in this selection is Edinson Cavani - 10 goals (including 1 from the penalty spot) in 15 matches. Edinson also became the top scorer in the selection in South America. Luis Suarez scored - 5 goals (of which 1 - from the penalty spot) in 13 matches.

The national team of Uruguay is a very strong team. A draw with Uruguay would be a worthy result for our team. In fact, a lot depends on the first two matches - it is extremely important to guarantee yourself a way out of the group even before the meeting with Uruguay, so as not to lean on validol in the end.

Forecast

We sincerely hope that our team will reach the 1/8 finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. We believe that our team will cope with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, but will lose to Uruguay.

After that, we should take second place in the group and get on the winner of group B, which will most likely be Spain (or Portugal). You can reach the 1/8 finals, and then we'll see. Anything is possible at the World Cup.

On the evening of Friday, December 1, the final draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place in Moscow. The ceremony took place at the Moscow State Kremlin Palace.

The Brazil team will open the World Cup games in Rostov. Group E game between the national teams of Brazil and Switzerland will take place on June 17 at 21:00.

In addition to this game, the Rostov-Arena stadium will host three more matches in the group stage of the tournament. Uruguay and Saudi Arabia will play in Rostov on June 20 at 18:00, South Korea and Mexico on June 23 at 21:00, and Iceland and Croatia on June 26 at 21:00.

In addition, Rostov will host one match of the 1/8 finals of the World Cup. This match will take place on 2 July and will feature the winner of Group G and the second team in Group H. Group G consists of Belgium, Panama, Tunisia and England. Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia and Japan.

Governor of the Rostov Region Vasily Golubev commented on the results of the final draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

“The lot loves Rostov! — wrote the head of the region on Twitter. - Brazil, Croatia, Switzerland, Mexico, Uruguay, Iceland, Korea and Saudi Arabia are coming to us. Brazil will play the opening match on June 17! This is great! We will meet every national team on our land with true Don hospitality.”

The Russian national football team, as the hostess of the championship, before the draw, got into the first basket, for the same reason a place in group A was booked for it.

During the draw, it became known that in the group stage the Russian team will play with the national teams of Uruguay (second pot), Egypt (third) and Saudi Arabia (fourth). And the opening match of the 2018 World Cup, which will be held on June 14 in the capital's Luzhniki, will be a confrontation between Russia and Saudi Arabia. On June 19, the Russians will play with Egypt in St. Petersburg, and on June 25 with Uruguay in Samara.

Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko commented on the results of the draw for the 2018 World Cup, calling the group of the Russian national team "quite even".

“The group gives chances to all four teams. Uruguay has a very strong team. She is in the world top. The Egyptians have several world-class players. We do not know Saudi Arabia so well, we will prepare for it. When Uruguay fell out, I thought: I’ll be “lucky” with other baskets, and I’ll have to prepare very seriously (laughs). As for the calendar, it's good, we always do better in the second and third matches. We start hard, but sometimes we end hard (laughs). But seriously, we have a good team now, and it's great that it will have the opportunity to gain strength during the tournament, ”Vitaly Mutko commented on the results of the draw.

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top scorers

, Ahmed Khalil, Mohammad Al-Sahlavi - 16 goals each
There are several of them. But let's single out Robert Lewandowski first of all. He shot 16 tackles in 10 games. More than Suarez, Ronaldo, Messi, Cavani and other top forwards. And this is with not the stars of European football as partners, but the middle-aged winger of Wolfsburg Blaszczykowski and the representative of the English leader Grositsky. Bravo, Robert!

Another 16 goals each from two representatives of the Asian confederation - UAE striker Ahmed Khalil and Saudi Arabia forward Mohammad Al-Sahlawi. However, both played much more matches (17 and 14, respectively), and their opponents were an order of magnitude weaker. Because Lewandowski is unbeatable in terms of coolness.

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Best Assistant

Joshua Kimmich - 9 assists
The most progressive player in German football, Lam's successor and future Bundesteam captain. Kimmich spent from call to call all the matches of the group stage, most often he played at the position of the right central defender, and at the same time, by some miracle, he managed to score two goals in 10 games and score 9 assists. The incredible productivity of a guy whose game is impossible not to fall in love with.

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Biggest win

Qatar - Bhutan - 15:0
Contemplating the mountains of Tibet for the Bhutanese is many times better than playing football. To concede 15 goals in one match is a must. Qatar did not hesitate and severely beat the football dwarf. Everyone who felt like scoring was scoring, so in the end the audience was probably tired of celebrating goals scored. It's even kind of cruel.

World Cup 2018 - Asia. Group C. 3rd round

1:0 – Musa – 8, 2:0 – Casola – 18, 3:0 - Assadalia - 20, 4:0 – Al Haidos – 26, 5:0 - Musa - 27, 6:0 – Muntari – 38, 7:0 – Muntari – 41, 8:0 – Assadalia – 45, 9:0 – Muntari – 48, 10:0 – Afif – 56, 11:0 – Huhi – 61, 12:0 - Assadalia - 63, 13:0 – Huhi – 69, 14:0 – Mohammed – 75, 15:0 – Al Haidos – 87

Missed the most

Bhutan - 52 goals
All the same poor people. Only careless Maldivians were able to score Bhutanese. But they missed from everyone and in many ways. 0:15, 0:12, 0:7. In total, accumulated 52 goals conceded in 8 games. You will not believe it, but in all the games the Bhutan national team really had a goalkeeper.

Most scored

Saudi Arabia and Japan - 44 goals each
Formally - Saudi Arabia and Japan (for the latter, by the way, Honda performed great, he scored 7 goals). But the fact is that in Asia the qualifying tournament consists of several stages. After the preliminary tournament for teams with a low rating, there are two group stages - the 12 best teams of the first get into the second. Thus, Japan and Saudi Arabia played a total of 18 games. But the representatives of Europe Germany and Belgium shot 43 goals in just 10 matches. More than four goals per meeting is some incredible indicator.

Least scored

Liechtenstein - 1 goal
So, even miniature football countries scored at least one goal in the selection. Attempts by the Liechtenstein team in the attack led to a goal only once - the Israeli defense blundered. By the way, at the group stage, the national teams of Mali and Cambodia scored one ball each, but both managed to score in the preliminary stages.

Least missed

England and Spain - 3 goals each
Amazing, right? Not Italy with eternal Buffon, Chiellini and Bonucci, not united Germany, but eternally criticized England with unstable Cahill, Jones and Smalling, and Spain with Piqué and Ramos who are not sinless at their gates. Well, both will have to prove the power of their defensive orders already in Russia - in a game with strong rivals. So far, it seems more like a coincidence. By the way, Japan and South Korea did not concede at all in the first group stage in Asia. But on the second one, we learned what it means to constantly play with teams stronger than Cambodia and Laos.

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Scandals

Where do without it? We would hardly have seen the Indonesian national team in Russia (only if the football federation considered that, against the background of this national team, our team would certainly show itself in friendly matches), but the Indonesians deprived themselves of all chances a year and a half ago - at the very beginning of the selection . In the summer of 2015, FIFA suspended Indonesia from participating in the qualifying tournaments for the World Cup and the Asian Cup in 2019 due to a conflict with the country's sports ministry, which were heavily influenced by the government.
The very moment when Mircea Lucescu really had a reason to complain about the refereeing. In the September match with the Ukrainian national team, referee David Fernandez Barbalan recorded two very controversial goals of the Ukrainian national team against the Turks. Turkey even asked to replay the meeting, but FIFA did not go forward.

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A few days later, FIFA forced the teams of South Africa and Senegal to replay their match. It was proven in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne that Ghanaian referee Joseph Lempti deliberately awarded a "left" penalty against Senegal to secure a 2-1 win for South Africa. Members of an illegal betting syndicate betted on this result. Lampty was banned for life, with a replay scheduled for November 6. True, the result will no longer matter - Senegal directly got to the World Cup, and South Africa will be able to leave the last place in the table at most.

Most Unexpected Member

Iceland
Yes, these guys lit up in 2016 in France, yes, their player was bought in the summer for 50 million euros. And yet, the very fact that the national team of a country with a population of 334 thousand people bypassed the teams of the multi-million dollar Croatia, Ukraine and Turkey does not fit into my head. Get ready to scream rhythmically and clap your hands over your head - the harsh Icelanders are going to Russia.

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Debutant

Panama
In the CONCACAF zone, qualification ended dramatically. The United States conceded to the outsider Trinidad and Tobago, giving its place in the intercontinental junctions to Honduras, and the Panamanians snatched a direct ticket from the hands of Fortune, who defeated Costa Rica, who had left ahead of schedule. This will be the first World Cup for Panamanians. Check out their fan banner in Russian! The dream came true.

The main loser

Netherlands
Netherlands team. Although recently this status is no stranger to orange. The heydays of Robben, Sneijder, van Persie, van Nistelrooy and van der Wart are behind us. The golden era of Gullit, Rijkaard and van Basten is even further away. Because the Dutch once again fly past a major tournament. They could also be accompanied by the Argentines. But they have at least one genius in their lineup. Quincy Promes is not up to the mark yet.

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Who surprised

Thomas Meunier, Dusan Tadic, Gabriel Jesus
If Joshua Kimmich is already preparing to become a world star, then the performance of the Belgian Thomas Meunier, who has never really shined, is surprising. 5 goals and 7 assists in 8 games - some kind of cosmic indicator. With a height of 190 cm, Meunier from the krai often retrained as a central striker. Such a transformation would surprise even Guardiola with his false full-backs.

The fact that the Serbian national team, dying in European clubs, is miraculously transformed is already a rule. Dusan Tadic is the protagonist of the selection for the Muslin team. His game bordering on genius and gorgeous statistics (4 goals and 7 assists) helped Serbia, which failed to qualify for the Euro, even avoid joints.
Well, Gabriel Jesus continues to admire, who in six months has gone from another talented Brazilian to one of the main stars of the country and a full-fledged partner of Coutinho and Neymar. Looking forward to the continuation of the carnival in 2018.

Who disappointed

Here you can enter the entire attack of the Argentina national team. Are you aware that it has been almost 11 months since someone other than Messi has scored for Albiceleste in official matches? With an attack like that, it's just a crime. The game at the heart of the Boca Juniors forward Benedetto is a sign of the terrible state of the forwards of the national team. And okay, duplicating Messi and therefore rarely playing Dybala, okay even less often appearing on the Icardi field, okay even Higuain, he scored at least a ball in the selection. But zero goals in eight games away

With the approach of the Mundial draw, the question of who entered is becoming more and more relevant. As of the end of October, 23 national teams are known to have qualified for the final tournament. There were sensations: for the first time since 1986, the United States will not play in the championship of the best teams on the planet. Strong teams from Chile, Holland and Ukraine will not come to Russia next summer.

• Germany, Spain, Belgium, England, Iceland, Serbia, Poland, France, Portugal (Europe);
• Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina (South America);
• Nigeria, Egypt (Africa);
• Japan, Iran, South Korea, Saudi Arabia (Asia);
• Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama (CONCACAF).

Brazil easily passed its qualifying group, which has not happened to the Pentacampeons for a long time. Many associate the reasons for success with Dunga's coaching talent, who was able to instill discipline and flexible tactics in the team. Germany did not experience problems for its subgroup, which went over the rivals like a skating rink. At the disposal of Joachim Loew huge selection talented football players, and even the second part of the German team was able to win the Confiderations Cup without any visible problems. Serious competition in the fight for the title of the best team in the country will certainly be Argentina, Spain, England, so the topic of who will win the 2018 FIFA World Cup remains open.

Recall that the Russian team will play without selection as the host country of the tournament and will lead subgroup A. Three more tickets remained vacant from African continent. Here Senegal, Morocco and Tunisia have the greatest chances to break into the final part of the championship. The final matches in the African qualifying groups are scheduled for early November.

Play-offs

In the play-offs, 6 more tickets will be played for. The following teams will meet in Europe:

• Switzerland - Sweden;
• Italy - Denmark;
• Croatia - Ireland;
• Northern Ireland - Greece.

Peru - New Zealand, Australia - Honduras will meet in international junctions. All listed teams will play two games each (at the home stadium and on the opponent's field). In the event of a tie between the two matches, extra time is assigned, followed by a penalty shoot-out.

Experts are inclined that Italy, Croatia, Switzerland will win the last tickets to the 2018 World Cup. In the rest of the pairs, it is problematic to single out a favorite, since opponents of approximately equal strength gathered there. It will be all the more interesting to watch the confrontation between teams dreaming of participating in the World Cup and demonstrating their best qualities.

Thus, there is only a month left before the final draw of the 2018 World Cup, scheduled for December 1 in the Kremlin. Until that day, all 32 participants in the tournament will be known, who will be distributed into baskets depending on the current FIFA rating. All teams will be divided into 8 subgroups of 4 teams each. After the draw, they will be able to get acquainted with the schedule of matches, buy tickets for important matches and personally see all the spectacular moments of the game from the stadium.

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