“The best group stage in the history of the World Cup is coming to a close. It won’t happen again in the foreseeable future, because the current system of simultaneous final matches of the basic groups is coming to an end,” stressed the former England international and current BBC pundit Gary Lineker on Twitter.
FIFA is planning a drastic change for the league in 2026 in the United States, Mexico and Canada. 48 teams will compete for the tournament, which will be divided into sixteen groups of three. It is so logical that a choice “will always stand”.
Montage of the South Korea – Portugal World Cup matchvideo: Czech television
“I think it should be reconsidered. “Imagine how many groups will end up with a draw or some other suitable result in the last match,” Lineker emphasizes.
The World Cup in Qatar offered many positive and negative surprises in the basic rounds. Belgium or Germany finish, while Morocco or Japan move from first place to the round of 16. It will be hard to forget the intermediate results in Group E, where someone else has progressed every moment.
The balance is also confirmed by the fact that none of the 32 national teams managed to get the full number of nine points. The last time this happened was at the 1994 US Championship, when the format was still twenty-four teams divided into six groups of four.
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β Worlds Updates (@wc22updates) December 2, 2022
